Alpine A526

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bluechris
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Pics not showing for me either. Maybe if an image has high clicks, imgbb shows this and it's not region related.

Foryster
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So quiet here.

What do you think of FP1 / FP2 ?

Alpine looks bad in my opinion. There is no pace ;/

Or maybe they are still sandbagging (checking setups and energy recovery) before trying pace?

chlebekf1
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The Alpine releases the throttle very early before corners or on straights, even 200m earlier than Mercedes and Mclaren

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So we have it. A P8/P9 team. Half of the car comes from Mercedes and still such a pace. Aston will eat them as soon as they will get on the vibrations issue.

What a shame. What a disgrace.

After abandoning the car improvements in November 2024. After having best Mercedes hardware, most of time on the tunnel, new regulations. And still nothing.


OMG - what they have become. Clowns of f1.

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Foryster wrote:
07 Mar 2026, 14:14
So we have it. A P8/P9 team. Half of the car comes from Mercedes and still such a pace. Aston will eat them as soon as they will get on the vibrations issue.

What a shame. What a disgrace.

After abandoning the car improvements in November 2024. After having best Mercedes hardware, most of time on the tunnel, new regulations. And still nothing.


OMG - what they have become. Clowns of f1.
Lol, bit dramatic eh? They clearly don't have a handle on the energy-deployment equation like Mercedes does but none of the customer teams do. It's just a matter of time for them to figure it out since the machinery is obviously capable of great things! No reason why they can't be the 3rd fastest Merc-powered team since Williams have not been impressive either, and that should put them at the head of the mid-field in time.

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Monkey seat!

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Theeoo
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i saw this skecth, but do we have a picture of this mounted on the car ?

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Theeoo wrote:
26 Mar 2026, 19:54
i saw this skecth, but do we have a picture of this mounted on the car ?
Tes:

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Not only that, there appears to be something hanging off the back of it.
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Waz
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Any idea what the benefit here is?

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Waz wrote:
27 Mar 2026, 22:19
Any idea what the benefit here is?
Downforce, with cost of efficienc.

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SiLo
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Is this exploiting the same rule that Mercedes is using for the extra winglets on the top of the wing?
Felipe Baby!

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Gridlock
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I thought Ferrari had a unique advantage here because of the "bodywork within 75mm of the driveshaft line" (iirc) rule?
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