2021 Alpine F1 Team

[PowerandtheGlory]

Has it been confirmed that Alonso's deployment issue was not caused by the overheating brakes?

Or more importantly did they need to change anything on the engine? I would ecpect thr brakes to fry if engine harvesting had failed.
Think Danny Ricc in monaco..

[GoranF1]

The question is WHEN did problems started? Before entire field overtook Alonso or when he was in P7.

[nacho]

There was a sandwich wrapping stuck in the brake cooling duct.

[diffuser]

“After his first stop we had a small issue that forced us to reduce the performance of the car, then after the second stop, a sandwich wrap paper got stuck inside the rear brake duct of Fernando’s car, which led to high temperatures and caused some damage to the brake system, so we retired him for safety reasons.

https://www.thecheckeredflag.co.uk/2021 ... ed+Flag%29

[RedNEO]

It’s all sandwich wrappers under bridge as far as I’m concerned!

Let’s get them next time!

[FW17]

How many days are alpine doing with their 19 car on 18inch tyres

I hope they do a lot more private tests with Alonso with some 18inch Michelin or Dunlop so that the suspension is well sorted for next year.

[FW17]

I hope they test the 19 car with next year's suspension for like everyday like in the testing era.

They really need some innovation in the mechanical grip area for next year.

[diffuser]

It’s all sandwich wrappers under bridge as far as I’m concerned!

Let’s get them next time!

I thought it was important to re-note to a few people that they had 2 issues.

[GoranF1]

AMuS says Alpine wears tyres fast..

[Ground Effect]

I hope they test the 19 car with next year's suspension for like everyday like in the testing era.

They really need some innovation in the mechanical grip area for next year.

Not sure you can test development parts, like you can’t run next years engine in the ‘19 car.

[diffuser]

I like looking at the the top speed at the finish line and at the speed trap on tracks like Bahrain where the Speed trap is at the end of the start finish straight. This track is less interesting cause that straight isn't that long. You can still who's running more DF cause of the higher speeds at the finish line.


From that I can see that the Ferraris are still struggling for power. They have low DF and still low top speed at the speed trap. Look at Vettel, that car is off the charts ...to bad it doesn't have a good driver. That car looks to be running lots of DF and still hits the high top speed, so little drag. Same with AT...still it is only 1 type of corner, they maybe struggling on other types of corners....

[diffuser]

I hope they test the 19 car with next year's suspension for like everyday like in the testing era.

They really need some innovation in the mechanical grip area for next year.

Not sure you can test development parts, like you can’t run next years engine in the ‘19 car.

Yeah, it has to be the 2019 car, plain and simple.

[FW17]

Last year Alonso was running the 18 car, in the past stroll was running an old williams in private tests, don't think there is any restrictions on what you run in an old car.

[Juzh]

I like looking at the the top speed at the finish line and at the speed trap on tracks like Bahrain where the Speed trap is at the end of the start finish straight. This track is less interesting cause that straight isn't that long. You can still who's running more DF cause of the higher speeds at the finish line.


From that I can see that the Ferraris are still struggling for power. They have low DF and still low top speed at the speed trap. Look at Vettel, that car is off the charts ...to bad it doesn't have a good driver. That car looks to be running lots of DF and still hits the high top speed, so little drag. Same with AT...still it is only 1 type of corner, they maybe struggling on other types of corners....



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Vettel and Stroll are too far apart in speed traps. This means Vettel had a slipstream at some point. I checked in F1TV and he was very close to bottas on his last Q1 Lap down the main straight, at less than 1s gap. Stroll's top speed is a proper representation, Vettel's is not.
Same story with Mazepin, he's 10 kmh faster than Schumacher, which is obviously not possible. He had a big slipstream behind Latifi because for whatever reason he just followed him too close for their first Q1 runs. Probably not realising how much space you need to not get affected by dirty air.

[Ground Effect]

Last year Alonso was running the 18 car, in the past stroll was running an old williams in private tests, don't think there is any restrictions on what you run in an old car.

Testing of Previous Cars (TPC) shall be defined as any track running time, not part of an Event, in which a Competitor entered in the Championship participates (or in which a third party participates on behalf of a Competitor or a supplier of a homologated power unit), using cars which were designed and built in order to comply with the Formula One Technical Regulations of any of the three calendar years falling immediately prior to the calendar year preceding the Championship. No Competitor may sell or make available any such car to any third party without the prior authorisation of the FIA.
TPC may only be carried out with cars built to the specification of the period and only tyres manufactured specifically for this purpose may be used.