Maybe, or it could be a simple case of someone fresh out of school, expecting the F1 workplace to be all timid and politically correct like their college campus. I see it all the time here at Toyota; being an engineer at the factory vs. engineers that work on the corporate side. I know by just talking to them they wouldn’t last 5 seconds on the floor because they don’t know how to handle stress.
But, then again these are all just rumors so we’ll see what happens
All cars a black with their own team colour highlights. Yikes.
Like the pink highlights tho
The cars are so hard to identify quickly on the broadcasts. The worst angle is from the rear. They are all mostly black with white text at first glance.
I miss the days of actually interesting liveries. I wish some of the one off liveries just became the teams standard. Like the Alpha Tauri livery from Vegas and Abu Dhabi was amazing. Alpine’s pink livery was great. The silver McLaren livery from Silverstone or their monaco one were fantastic. William’s gulf was another banger as was the italian flag Alpha Romeo livery from the Italian GP.
I think Alpine will do a special one-off pink camo livery.
While the bare carbon with color pops looks cool individually, it is a bit annoying to have the whole grid look so similar.
I swear if they could they’d all run pure black with only driver number on the car
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English schools aren’t like North American schools (talking universities here). In NA, Engineers are paid better, treated well, and taught to believe they know everything and are the best. In the UK they are taught they’ll be treated like crap, are paid poorly and that they know almost nothing.
It creates a totally different end product, and like you, I’ve had to deal with “gods gift to engineering” engineers coming out of universities here who just don’t know how to deal with stress or not knowing something.
Anyway with the Horner thing, I’ve read various theories, that he sent pictures to a female colleague, that he has created a hostile environment. If its the first one he’s likely going to be out, if its the second he’ll probably just be slapped on the wrist.
But we should find out today.
I forgot about this.
good montage
The way he destroyed Perez’s psychological state after Miami must be studied.
From winning a race on pure pace to being out of Q3 for 5 consecutive races, to underperforming horribly in both qualifying and races in general and being awful in wheel to wheel situations.
You may already be aware, but the High Performance Podcast has a really good episode where they interview Alex Albon, and there’s a bit where they ask him what it’s like to be Max Verstappen’s teammate.
He claims redbull doesn’t “design a car for Max” but he definitely prefers it to be really grippy and snappy up front and equates it to playing a PC game with the sensitivity turned all the way up. So as they progress through the year and make improvements, it gets harder for his teammates to keep the pace, therefore they start to take more risks, put more pressure on themselves, and that leads to more mistakes. It was super interesting to hear it from that perspective.
Doesn’t surprise me how Max is untouchable (and unbothered all the time) with how hard his Dad was on him growing up haha
Dominant drivers like Lewis and Max are robotic in their consistency, because they have such a high skill threshold, they aren’t straining as much to perform. So say Perez has to drive at 110% of his potential to match 90% of Verstappen’s skill level. That means Max can drive relatively comfortably every session where Perez has to be over his limit constantly, leading to mistakes and misjudgments and then ultimately mental defeat when they realize they can’t keep up that level all season. Max and Lewis stay strong the whole year because they are so good they are never having to drive mentally exhausted from the effort.
Bottas had the same issue against Lewis. When A/B tier drivers like that can string together a full weekend at 110% effort, they are a match for the S tier guys. But you simply can’t put a weekend like that together 20+ times in a row. That’s why guys in top cars can win some races but it still takes a master to win the title, even in good cars.
So first day of testing in the bag. Of course not much can be read from the times but Max picking up where he left off.
I really do hope there is a closer fight at the front this year. If not for Redbull last year it would have been an exciting season. I am not a Redbull fan but kudos to them for producing a beast of a car last year and of course their top tier driver.
The order should shake out a bit clearer this year since we’ve had some time with these new cars and convergence is starting to happen.
But as usual until Q1 we don’t know anything.
The Merc looked difficult today but George said it felt better. Will be interesting to see if RB moves up with the increased Red Bull influence. They looked comfortable today.
Only really sure thing was Williams had struggles today with mechanical problems.
@tjkoyen I think it was you or maybe @KartingIsLife that said some time ago the best metric to watch in testing to determine who will have the pace come race day is number of laps. I’ve followed that the last few years, certainly rings true.
Not a lot of laps from Merc, it is a bit worrying for them. Lets see how Ferrari v Mclaren ends up
Yuki has real talent, Logan not so. Yuki could survive without financial backing
You forget to mention Fernando , with the right car…
