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[Lasssept]

I was wondering how much did it cost Mercedes team for Kimi Antonelli shunt in FP3?

[chrisc90]

Does anyone know why George took some new components already?

[Longley]

Does anyone know why George took some new components already?

Maybe the costs are related to the damaged frontwing caused by the incident in FP2 with Arvin Lindblad in the pit's fast lane.

[Badger]

Maybe it was missed but George had to take his 2nd and final ES already. Sainz too. Kimi is also on his 3rd PU ancillary components (of 6 available).

[chrisc90]

Maybe it was missed but George had to take his 2nd and final ES already. Sainz too. Kimi is also on his 3rd PU ancillary components (of 6 available).

I literally asked it 2 posts up

[upsidedowntoast]

Does anyone know why George took some new components already?

No one has any idea, but here's some gossip I heard so take it with a bag of salt.

Basically, once you take your new engine or battery or whatever, it's yours and you can keep using it for the rest of the year. And you can swap it in and out with whatever you like.

So it's possible Mercedes have decided to grab both battery/engine allocations now and swap them in/out all year.

By the way if you go over your engine allocation and take a third one (with the associated grid drop penalty) you once again can keep using that engine for the rest of the season or any of the prior two that you've already taken, whenever you want. Teams have strategically taken the third engine allocation on weekends where they've qualified poorly so that the penalty won't affect them as much anyway.

[f1Follower]

Does anyone know why George took some new components already?

No one has any idea, but here's some gossip I heard so take it with a bag of salt.

Basically, once you take your new engine or battery or whatever, it's yours and you can keep using it for the rest of the year. And you can swap it in and out with whatever you like.

So it's possible Mercedes have decided to grab both battery/engine allocations now and swap them in/out all year.

By the way if you go over your engine allocation and take a third one (with the associated grid drop penalty) you once again can keep using that engine for the rest of the season or any of the prior two that you've already taken, whenever you want. Teams have strategically taken the third engine allocation on weekends where they've qualified poorly so that the penalty won't affect them as much anyway.

Can there be the case where Mercedes has 2 engine with different engine mapping? One with aggressive engine and another with conservative one. This is to ensure when it's power centric circuit then it will be using aggressive engine map.

[erudite450]

Allocating only two ES is too small. The sport's overemphasis on reliability is not a good thing.

[upsidedowntoast]

Allocating only two ES is too small. The sport's overemphasis on reliability is not a good thing.

It's for cost reasons iirc. Back in the day they'd just have an engine blow up every other race. Which is funny and exciting but also adds up real quick.

[erudite450]

I was wondering how much did it cost Mercedes team for Kimi Antonelli shunt in FP3?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HC50qV_aoAA ... name=large

There's a guy on the F1 subreddit who used to prepare this destructor's championship. I think he signed off at the end of last season. I hope someone else takes up the thankless task.

[erudite450]

Allocating only two ES is too small. The sport's overemphasis on reliability is not a good thing.

It's for cost reasons iirc. Back in the day they'd just have an engine blow up every other race. Which is funny and exciting but also adds up real quick.

I understand but two is still too restrictive in my opinion. At the start of a new formula like now, I would give the teams more leeway to push the limits of technology and slowly limit the components after a year or two.

[f1Follower]

I was wondering how much did it cost Mercedes team for Kimi Antonelli shunt in FP3?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HC50qV_aoAA ... name=large

Respect to Audi on their engine and its reliability

[Badger]

Does anyone know why George took some new components already?

No one has any idea, but here's some gossip I heard so take it with a bag of salt.

Basically, once you take your new engine or battery or whatever, it's yours and you can keep using it for the rest of the year. And you can swap it in and out with whatever you like.

So it's possible Mercedes have decided to grab both battery/engine allocations now and swap them in/out all year.

By the way if you go over your engine allocation and take a third one (with the associated grid drop penalty) you once again can keep using that engine for the rest of the season or any of the prior two that you've already taken, whenever you want. Teams have strategically taken the third engine allocation on weekends where they've qualified poorly so that the penalty won't affect them as much anyway.

Well Kimi didn't do it so it seems unlikely to be strategic.

[Lasssept]

[OverheatedTurbo]

We are the second force in China this weekend. The 60 hp PU offset will be cancelled by the “Macarena” RW and Ferrari’s World Class Chassis. They built a car for combat.