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Betty Blackwell

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  1. 8 minutes ago, wood said:

    I don't think anyone is saying it's all down to the PU, but it sure seems to be playing a significant role. 

    At least one person is pretty set on it. 😂

     

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    Even Toto has said their problems are not all down to the car/aero.

    Yeah, listen to what they are saying and look at the telemetry too – they lift earlier than the others because the car is skipping around, to paraphrase what Russell has said. They put the power down later than the others because it's so unstable. They are losing time in and out of every corner.

    The floor doesn't work, and the sidepod concept doesn't work (apparently the center of gravity is too high, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), so you're porpoising and you stiffen the suspension to mitigate that, and now your car's way harder to drive. So you add more wing and top end is compromised.

    Like I said before, the entire package sucks. But engines, bro.

     

  2. 3 hours ago, NoName said:

    ...so to be clear, you are saying that the fact MB engines finished in the last SIX places for those who finished the race is all due to the clients and has nothing to do with the engines?

    Williams and Aston Martin finished exactly where you'd expect. McLaren's the outlier but it's well known that they had significant brake cooling issues. Kinda hard to be quick when your brakes don't work.

    But it's the engines, yeah. 😂

  3. 2 hours ago, Chewbacca said:

    Even Merc didn't have the straight line speed.  Those other cars definitely have other issues, but the PU might be one of them.  Gonna take McLaren forever to get their shit in one sack.  That car is a mess.

    Merc’s quali speed trap was right at the same level as Ferrari.
     

    Their package currently sucks (for Merc) — they’re running more wing than they’d like, haven’t got the floor figured out, their ride height is much higher than others, and the side pod solution wasn’t a magic bullet. The PU’s not the problem. 
     

    They’ll get that stuff figured out, and people will say they improved the PU. 🤷‍♂️ 

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  4. 6 hours ago, NoName said:

    woah, i didn't realize this. no wonder their clients are pissed

    McLaren has no downforce, temps out of control and can't brake.
    Aston Martin decided to abandon their aero package before the first race.
    Williams is still Williams.

    But the engine, that's the problem. 😂

  5. 3 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:

    The NFL will draft talent from anywhere, but as far as maximizing his draft potential this certainly hurts it.  You aren't going to be a top 10 pick without some time playing against other elite guys.  

    Carson Wentz and Trey Lance were top 3 picks. Lance basically only played a single season, nevermind the level of competition.

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  6. 4 minutes ago, Goofyboy said:


    Which rules were re-written or ignored? The decision to run laps behind a safety car and call it half points was not a re-writing or ignoring of rules. It was a shit show, sure.

    https://www.racefans.net/2021/08/30/f1-to-discuss-rules-changes-in-response-to-belgian-gp-controversy/

    They went over the 2 hour limit, and then there was that whole thing whether they’d actually run enough laps for it to count, the specifics of which elude me at the moment. 
     

    For me, choosing to award points without an actual race being run was a far more farcical event than what happened this week. 

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