The FIA is in the pocket of Toto Wolff.
Where to? At the moment, it would only make sense for Leclerc to leave for Mercedes, and Toto would only fire one of his drivers to have Verstappen on the team.
You're not alone in hanging onto that last bit of hope.Emag wrote: ↑07 Mar 2026, 09:44It's kind of funny how Leclerc says he was expecting 6 tenths not 8. I know that's a bit better, but it's not like it makes a huge difference, it's still a disaster lmao.
There's this last bit of hope I have that Melbourne will be a bit of a special case and we get some more "reasonable" gaps elsewhere, but it's not a strong hope.
Engine suppliers can provide inferior engines to their clients, there is no way to know as engines are not drawn. I´m sure Mercedes have a special engine just for them
Lewis : « Mercedes ? I think the obvious thing is that they haven't shown their engine power through any of the practices because there's talk about the compression ratio, and obviously they've done a really strong job on their engine, which we have too, but it will be interesting... I'm trying to understand why the gap is up to two-tenths or more just through power in each sector. And if it is to do with the compression, then I want to understand why the FIA hasn't done anything and what is being done to rectify that, but if not and it's just pure power, then we have to do a better job. »
They built a good chassis, no doubt. But I wouldn´t call it amazing, at least not as amazing as AM (imagine Newey´s car with Ferrari´s engine!)
well Newey's car with Ferrari engine would have imploded the team, he would have made it extremely skinny and then when engine issue shows up he points finger at Ferrari department and of course the british bais media would have came up with all kind of rumours and oh its the "Italian politics" blablabla and this would have created so much problem with in the team.. In a way glad he didn't join Ferrari.. Ferrari need to find there own newey/ brown etc.. they should have similar program to FDA to train young engineers do they have such programs??Artur Craft wrote: ↑07 Mar 2026, 10:04
They built a good chassis, no doubt. But I wouldn´t call it amazing, at least not as amazing as AM (imagine Newey´s car with Ferrari´s engine!)
Is that even a question?venkyhere wrote: ↑07 Mar 2026, 09:12The FIA is in the pocket of Toto Wolff.
I dont believe that the chassis-advantage of Mercedes is 0.6-0.7s (realistic number, if both NOR and PIA had optimized their laps) ahead on a power-critical track like Albert Park.
I have to go back to my favourite theory that Mercedes is sending all the right CAD files and other documents to all their customers and FIA, yet are still using 'a special soup' illegal version ICE for themselves.
