2020 Styrian Grand Prix - Spielberg, 10-12 July

[Big Tea]

I wonder if anything was wrong with Albon's car. It's a given he isn't as fast as Verstappen, but I doubt he was that slow. That's a huge gap to his team mate.

Ted was saying on his notebook that Albon was not happy with the pace of the car.
He also repeated the claim dietrich mateschitz told Helmut /marco to 'bring Sebastian home', but said he denied it.

I like Albon very much, but he is on thin ice and todays performance was not good enough. The team will know if he has an excuse

[siskue2005]

I wonder if anything was wrong with Albon's car. It's a given he isn't as fast as Verstappen, but I doubt he was that slow. That's a huge gap to his team mate.

Ted was saying on his notebook that Albon was not happy with the pace of the car.
He also repeated the claim dietrich mateschitz told Helmut /marco to 'bring Sebastian home', but said he denied it.

I like Albon very much, but he is on thin ice and todays performance was not good enough. The team will know if he has an excuse

And he also had similar kind of accident from last week.. he was lucky to not spin like last week

[Sieper]

I wonder if anything was wrong with Albon's car. It's a given he isn't as fast as Verstappen, but I doubt he was that slow. That's a huge gap to his team mate.

I believe Albon is consistently around .4-.5 seconds per lap slower then Verstappen and would give you an gap from around 30-40 seconds on a GP distance.

It is 0.7 Or so I would say. Gasly was even further off and even Ricciardo was 0.6 slower on average in their last season together. Look up the data. Max was making the biggest gap to a teammate even with Ric. Only williams had a bigger gap (comparable) between drivers that year.

[Restomaniac]

SBINALLA should be good this week. If you know, you know.

[Morteza]

Today's strategies

[siskue2005]

Today's strategies
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcvUu0eWoAM ... name=large

The hard tyre didnot work at all compared to last week

I still dont understand why the tyres lat so long
Why cant they bring softer tyres ?

[Wynters]

I wonder if anything was wrong with Albon's car. It's a given he isn't as fast as Verstappen, but I doubt he was that slow. That's a huge gap to his team mate.

70 races of experience in that car?

Plus 'Different strategy', slower car (I believe Verstappen is still using Albon's front wing and, possibly, other parts), concerns about fragility of the car and RBR desperately needed some guaranteed points on the board?

[flynfrog]

OK no more posts about what is an isn't racists. This inst the place. We try to keep the forum politic free.

just repeating for those that missed. Issuing warnings and bans while deleting a ton of posts isn't how I wanted to spend my day.

[ENGINE TUNER]

Today's strategies
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcvUu0eWoAM ... name=large

The hard tyre didnot work at all compared to last week

I still dont understand why the tyres lat so long
Why cant they bring softer tyres ?

Pirelli probably thought the C1 would blister and possibly delaminate.

[Jolle]

Today's strategies
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcvUu0eWoAM ... name=large

The hard tyre didnot work at all compared to last week

I still dont understand why the tyres lat so long
Why cant they bring softer tyres ?

Hinesight is 20-20...

they had to make the choice a couple of months ago, trying to get a decent start of the season.

compared to other years, there are of course a few diffences:
- temps were down this weekend
- teams were overprepaired, cars dailed in, having done race (sims) last weekend
- qualifiing wasn't done on the starting tires, giving the softs much more life.

[Titchener]

OK no more posts about what is an isn't racists. This inst the place. We try to keep the forum politic free.

just repeating for those that missed. Issuing warnings and bans while deleting a ton of posts isn't how I wanted to spend my day.

Hopefully some of the earlier comments that hadn't gone have also been deleted.

[Wynters]

It is 0.7 Or so I would say. Gasly was even further off and even Ricciardo was 0.6 slower on average in their last season together. Look up the data. Max was making the biggest gap to a teammate even with Ric. Only williams had a bigger gap (comparable) between drivers that year.

Is this based on Qualifying times? I've looked at 2018 and, even excluding Ricciardo being used as Verstappen's guinea pig the minute he announced he was leaving to go to a competitor, if you adjust using FP2 times where reliability prevented participation in Qualifying, then Verstappen is ahead, but it's by just over 1/10th on average.

[Wynters]

Do we know why Verstappen didn't manage to beat Sainz's time? By the look of it he was more than half-a-second slower. Traffic? Reliability? No DRS?

[MtthsMlw]

Alleged breach of Art. 2.1, 3.2, Appendix 6 Paragraph 1, 2(a) and 2(c) of the FIA Formula One Sporting Regulations 2020

[JordanMugen]

I still dont understand why the tyres lat so long
Why cant they bring softer tyres ?

I don't see the issue with having tyres that last. People are always complaining that Pirelli tyres are too fragile! So isn't it better that the tyres are hard and durable, and don't need to be nursed?