2024 Japanese Grand Prix - Suzuka, April 05 - 07

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I'm waiting for a collision on these outlaps. This is a bit aggressive for no reason.
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The F is going on in outlaps in this FP?

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A bit of a strange run for Norris. He had already done a first sector push and making his way through S2 just as Sargeant crashed so I don't think his set of tires was new like the rest.
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Huge gap between the softs and the mediums-hard.
Good performance for Sainz.

1.30.0 is impressive for FP1, pole was 28.8 last year.
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AR3-GP wrote:
05 Apr 2024, 05:17
A bit of a strange run for Norris. He had already done a first sector push and making his way through S2 just as Sargeant crashed so I don't think his set of tires was new like the rest.
Dunno whether he had new or used tires, didn't see it ..
The 1.1s off of the top is not really what they'd imagined I think.
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Sevach wrote:
05 Apr 2024, 05:31
Huge gap between the softs and the mediums-hard.
Good performance for Sainz.
Yeah, Ver had about 1.4s between H & S.
S is dying very quickly here ...
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langedweil wrote:
05 Apr 2024, 05:33
AR3-GP wrote:
05 Apr 2024, 05:17
A bit of a strange run for Norris. He had already done a first sector push and making his way through S2 just as Sargeant crashed so I don't think his set of tires was new like the rest.
Dunno whether he had new or used tires, didn't see it ..
The 1.1s off of the top is not really what they'd imagined I think.
Norris went purple in S1 before Sargeant crashed.

edit: Stella says the soft tire doesn't last so can't get a second run out of them. He didn't seem worried. Said everything went to plan.
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Re: 2024 Japanese Grand Prix - Suzuka, April 05 - 07

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FP1 2023 1:31:647 quite a leap forward

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Supposedly it is raining currently at the circuit.
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I don't anticipate as much running in FP2.
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didn't they get an additional set of intermediates for practice this time?

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C1 C2 C3 here in Suzuka, and C3 C4 C5 two weeks ago in Australia.
RedBulls (can we not use RB moniker please, as there is another RB) ran H in FP1 sandwiching soft runs, McLarens ran M in FP1 sandwiching the soft runs. So Redbull reckon M is the race tyre and McLaren think H is the race tyre.

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Watto wrote:
05 Apr 2024, 05:04
Sargent into the wall. Poor chassis.
He came in wide and just like other Sargent crashes , he could have finessed the car down to speed a bit. But it looks like he just keeps it pinned and hoping to power out of it.

Watch and listen. There's a window where he could have backed off and made the crash less worse



His F1 career has to be close to done.

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TeamKoolGreen wrote:
05 Apr 2024, 09:24
He came in wide and just like other Sargent crashes , he could have finessed the car down to speed a bit. But it looks like he just keeps it pinned and hoping to power out of it.

Watch and listen. There's a window where he could have backed off and made the crash less worse



His F1 career has to be close to done.
Usually when F1 cars put their outside two wheels in the grass, the drivers know that it's going to oversteer, and back off the A pedal and turn the steering "into the slide", ie, away from the corner, to prevent a massive 180 degree rotation oversteer; and increase their chances of stopping before hitting the barriers. If we watch the Sergeant onboard, he is still turning the wheel into the corner, even after his outside wheels are in the grass, and it's not until the rear has started rotating, that he attempts to do opposite lock on the steering, by which time, it's too late. I've seen this not just once, but many times last season. I was surprised why Vowles renewed him for this year. Clearly he is not an F1 driver, he is a 'pure reactive' driver. An F1 driver should be 'manipulative' of the car, not just react to the car like road car drivers.

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Seems the good vibes of F1 fans in Japan chased the clouds away, most of the websites forecast cloudy Saturday and sunny Sunday
And they call it a stall. A STALL!

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