2026 Australian Grand Prix - Melbourne, March 06 - 08

[djos]

Dam! Merc are over 1/2 a second faster than everyone else!

[djos]

How many races are till June 1st? Not that will change much but it's a hope.

They've built a better car than everyone else, it's not just the PU. McLaren have the same PU but a basic car due to restricted Wind tunnel and CFD time for winning the WCC in the last 2 years.

[Kiril Varbanov]

I am fairly impressed by the Ford engines in Red Bull. Merc have obvious 20+ km/h on the straights and the way they harvest and use energy. Not a bad job from Ferrari, with Hamilton failing to deliver again, unless he has a rocket start tomorrow.
Bottom line so far seems a good solid bases for development and clear advantage of Merc.

[venkyhere]

welcome to 2014.

[fourmula1]

Merc have obvious 20+ km/h on the straights

Do you have the data? They seem to just be faster everywhere.

[bananapeel23]

Merc have obvious 20+ km/h on the straights

Do you have the data? They seem to just be faster everywhere.

Literally the photo beneath that statement

[fourmula1]

Merc have obvious 20+ km/h on the straights

Do you have the data? They seem to just be faster everywhere.

Literally the photo beneath that statement

That's lItErAlLy Not Data.

[pantherxxx]

Max could still have been on pole. It's not out of place for him to be 8 tenths faster than teammate. So season is not over yet.

[avantman]

Seems a bit silly from Mercedes to run in full power. Now all eyes will be on their engine more than before.

Who told you they were running with full power? Would be completely against Mercedes base strategy where they run their PU very conservatively for first half of a season to make sure reliability is good. We saw that on multiple occasions from that team before.

[bluechris]

welcome to 2014.

The difference from 2014 is that they/we all know it now and yet as always they let it happen, kudos to everyone especially to the other teams..

[SB15]

I don't think Mercedes advantage is the engine, their recharge and deployment was indeed something that's needs the most attention.

[RonMexico]

Signing out.
Jokeshop.

[Badger]

Max could still have been on pole. It's not out of place for him to be 8 tenths faster than teammate. So season is not over yet.

sigh... stop the nonsense.

[djones]

Seems a bit silly from Mercedes to run in full power. Now all eyes will be on their engine more than before.

Who told you they were running with full power? Would be completely against Mercedes base strategy where they run their PU very conservatively for first half of a season to make sure reliability is good. We saw that on multiple occasions from that team before.

Ok, running more power than needed then.

The comments above about the same engine in the other cars. Hardware is the same but I believe calibration can be different. And is different.

[avantman]

Seems a bit silly from Mercedes to run in full power. Now all eyes will be on their engine more than before.

Who told you they were running with full power? Would be completely against Mercedes base strategy where they run their PU very conservatively for first half of a season to make sure reliability is good. We saw that on multiple occasions from that team before.

Ok, running more power than needed then.

The comments above about the same engine in the other cars. Hardware is the same but I believe calibration can be different. And is different.

How they know in advance how much is needed before they see the pace of the others? Probably they did not expect others to be that slow.