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[f1isgood]

Thats the gap in Albert Park. 3 tenths would be a more normal gap on a more normal track. I think that's the gap McLaren had to Red Bull last year early on in race pace and thats comfortably domination territory.

It might be easier to make up the gap because its earlier in the regulations but everyone will find easy time. I think they need something special. Lets see.

[Valeo]

From what I've seen the second session was pretty much a write off for Max?
Let's see if old habbits persist and they gain more than the competition from Friday's data.
Hope for row 2 tomorow, if it's 3rd or 4th it would be underwhelming

[f1isgood]

From what I've seen the second session was pretty much a write off for Max?
Let's see if old habbits persist and they gain more than the competition from Friday's data.
Hope for row 2 tomorow, if it's 3rd or 4th it would be underwhelming

I think third row is a good result. Ferrari and Mercedes are clearly a step ahead. Third row would mean we beat one or two McLaren cars who might also be there/ahead.

[organic]

So it's more of a chassis issue. Just a bit slow, probably due to extra development last year. Max said not much could go better they are in a decent spot just not fast enough. I'm beyond satisfied with that

[Cassius]

So it's more of a chassis issue. Just a bit slow, probably due to extra development last year. Max said not much could go better they are in a decent spot just not fast enough. I'm beyond satisfied with that

Wache said the chassis was a bit below expectations. This suggests it is not due to extra development as that would ghave already been taken into account in terms of expectations.

They just underperformed a bit. Max has said during testing they know where they need to find performance.

[Wouter]

Laura Mueller and Hannah Schmitz receive special Albert Park plaques after becoming the first women
to have an F1 circuit corner named after them

[f1isgood]

So it's more of a chassis issue. Just a bit slow, probably due to extra development last year. Max said not much could go better they are in a decent spot just not fast enough. I'm beyond satisfied with that

Wache said the chassis was a bit below expectations. This suggests it is not due to extra development as that would ghave already been taken into account in terms of expectations.

They just underperformed a bit. Max has said during testing they know where they need to find performance.

It's the correlation issues. They haven't got a full hold of it. I am sure their targets were high enough.

[Cassius]

There's more to come on the single lap in terms of deployment. Still lacking some cornering speed to the others in the top 4. Can't judge race pace really because of Max's off but it should be lacking some.https://i.postimg.cc/Y9gBNKFL/speed.png I wonder if this is just part of their normal Friday routine, saving PU life and not revealing all the pace.

It probably is. If you look at Lindblad's deployment on his fastest fp2 lap, it looks quite similar to Max. However, Max loses 3 tenths to everyone including Lindblad on the last straight, similar to his fastest testing lap in Bahrain.

This would mean he was 3 tenths behind to Piastri which is not that bad given they are still overweight and had some issues during the session.

[venkyhere]

I didn't watch FP2.
How bad is the floor damage ? saw lots of carbon fiber chunks flying off in the slow-motion replays. Hope they have a spare floor.

[AR3-GP]

I didn't watch FP2.
How bad is the floor damage ? saw lots of carbon fiber chunks flying off in the slow-motion replays. Hope they have a spare floor.

That floor was a complete write off. Monaghan said it's no issue to replace.

[AR3-GP]

Paul Monaghan after FP2
'"As it is all new, we are consistently gaining knowledge: it is easy to get things wrong and difficult to be perfect, so we will take lessons into tomorrow and make sure we are ready for qualifying. The balance was good and there were a couple of issues in FP2.”

"The electronic control box played up in the pit lane on car 3. We got it back and then couldn’t get it out of gear but we sorted it and then sent the car out again. Max also had a moment running into the gravel, however it is all repairable and we will be ready in plenty of time for FP3 tomorrow morning."

https://news.verstappen.com/en/article/13938

[lio007]

I didn't watch FP2.
How bad is the floor damage ? saw lots of carbon fiber chunks flying off in the slow-motion replays. Hope they have a spare floor.

That floor was a complete write off. Monaghan said it's no issue to replace.

At least floors are cheaper this year.

[Vettel165]

There's more to come on the single lap in terms of deployment. Still lacking some cornering speed to the others in the top 4. Can't judge race pace really because of Max's off but it should be lacking some.https://i.postimg.cc/Y9gBNKFL/speed.png I wonder if this is just part of their normal Friday routine, saving PU life and not revealing all the pace.

It probably is. If you look at Lindblad's deployment on his fastest fp2 lap, it looks quite similar to Max. However, Max loses 3 tenths to everyone including Lindblad on the last straight, similar to his fastest testing lap in Bahrain.

This would mean he was 3 tenths behind to Piastri which is not that bad given they are still overweight and had some issues during the session.

Indeed with a few more updates and weight reduction, we could fight. In reality I expected a Aston Martin situation with the new engine, I think we can say the engine is solid. Hoping for the best. Race will be a big chaos I think.

[Badger]

There's more to come on the single lap in terms of deployment. Still lacking some cornering speed to the others in the top 4. Can't judge race pace really because of Max's off but it should be lacking some.https://i.postimg.cc/Y9gBNKFL/speed.png I wonder if this is just part of their normal Friday routine, saving PU life and not revealing all the pace.

It probably is. If you look at Lindblad's deployment on his fastest fp2 lap, it looks quite similar to Max. However, Max loses 3 tenths to everyone including Lindblad on the last straight, similar to his fastest testing lap in Bahrain.

This would mean he was 3 tenths behind to Piastri which is not that bad given they are still overweight and had some issues during the session.

[avantman]

And given it is Max and Piastri the real gap would be 5 tenths ….at least, which is not particularly positive given the fact McLaren is overweighted as well allegedly.
All this is completely useless speculations still until we see what the real gaps are corrected for drivers mistakes inQ3(hopefully) based on data from both cars of each team.