2026 Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team

[basti313]

Old tricks are the best tricks and underrating again can be waved away easiest.

I think we only saw half of it in Monza. They unleashed the dragon only for some laps, once Ant was near P5 they already turned it down. The overtake on Piastri, who himself had some slipstream and overtake mode, was just a joke in terms of performance difference. He was faster than Rus while in traffic, with up to 1.5sec...
That Merc coasted to a 1-2 in Monza with a turned down engine tells us about Azer...

Baku will be like Monza. Easy 1-2 for Mercedes (unless Mclaren would go so much faster in the corners and brake zones from their new floor this weekend).

Yes. We will have the deployment of Silverstone within three corners. So everyone will be highly energy limited until turn 3. Everything will depend on pure ERS storrage and how much you can charge into T1. I think Merc will excell by far, very similar to Monza where they just dusted everyone who resisted into T1 afterwards in Curva Grande.

Now is a chance for Russell to force Antonellie into a DNF.

He might have the mouth, but not the skill for this.
Unfortunately the move of Ver to Merc did not happen. Now Rus will be a nice Nr2 and Ant will drive to 2-4 WDCs. Could have been awesome. I am happy for Ant, but there is no tension in WDC for at least another year.