2024 Spanish Grand Prix - Barcelona-Catalunya, June 21 - 23

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No Monaco big wings on cars at the moment (photos by Motorsport), curious

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Luscion wrote:
19 Jun 2024, 16:40
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19 Jun 2024, 03:54
It is going to be very strong for Mercedes. I put my hat in, Mercedes will be on pole. Which betting site must I use?
Interesting. For me, their strong performace in Montreal doesn't tell us much about how competitive they will be in Barcelona. The two tracks only have the long straight in common but nothing else; we don't yet know how the W15 will fair on high and medium speed corners.
I think Red Bull or Ferrari for pole, Merc potentially fighting for a podium
What makes you think that? Data reveals that McLaren has good tire wear, high top speed, and is as good or better than RB on medium and high speed corners, so I should think they'd be the favorties for pole/podium. What makes you think Mercedes is going to perform well?

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organic wrote:
20 Jun 2024, 18:59
So we won't know if Mercedes' good performance in Barcelona would be because of cool weather or really the car has improved. Have to wait another weekend. :)

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Dunlay wrote:
20 Jun 2024, 19:43
organic wrote:
20 Jun 2024, 18:59
So we won't know if Mercedes' good performance in Barcelona would be because of cool weather or really the car has improved. Have to wait another weekend. :)
what makes you think so, when that forecast basically says that it will be warm with likely no rain?

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AeMET is a spanish forecaster and usually more accurate ive found.

https://www.aemet.es/en/eltiempo/predic ... lo-id08135
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Dunlay wrote:
20 Jun 2024, 19:43
organic wrote:
20 Jun 2024, 18:59
So we won't know if Mercedes' good performance in Barcelona would be because of cool weather or really the car has improved. Have to wait another weekend. :)
Besides Miami, have we seen the upgraded McLaren in hot conditions? I guess Miami was a good testbut that track is kind of an outlier, so I'm curious to see how that car goes on a hot track.

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deadhead wrote:
20 Jun 2024, 20:39
Besides Miami, have we seen the upgraded McLaren in hot conditions? I guess Miami was a good testbut that track is kind of an outlier, so I'm curious to see how that car goes on a hot track.
Miami was not just quite warm, but also was supposed to expose Mclaren's previous biggest weakness - slow corners.

The fact that they excelled there was most of the evidence we needed to assume they're gonna be competitive everywhere, not that all the race weekends since haven't stacked that evidence quite well.

This weekend will demonstrate a lot. Mclaren themselves dont understand why their update was as successful as it was, so it's possible a certain combination of characteristics and conditions will dampen them, but I definitely wouldn't be putting money on it at this point.

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I don't hope it is just this :( :

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organic wrote:
21 Jun 2024, 10:14
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Here is accuweather with an hour to hour prediction on Sunday, also rain till 11 AM.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/es/barce ... 7297?day=3
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Nice but a bit unreliable as some teams call upgrades circuit specific or reliability when they're clearly not.. so a bit of obfuscation there
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