Sieper wrote: ↑22 Nov 2021, 18:16
Yeah, a read that a lot from a certain crowd.
So, do you think it is impossible for Max to still win this, or even highly unlikely. I still don’t, I still hope he can win like you just told the other person. So is that really the strategy?
That strategy is a theory.
There's always chance Max will win it. Next race could be chaotic. I mean if it resembles any of the Baku races, then we are in for a couple of SC's and maybe red flags and if there's debris, then you for sure know what carbonfibre particles can do to tires. It's all to play for!
We might even get a surprise in a maiden win in all the chaos.
But if Merc continues the pace it had for the past couple of races, then for sure I see them having a high chance winning it.
Sieper wrote: ↑22 Nov 2021, 18:16
More likely is, they went “all in” like Toto said. With a drs opening a tad too much, a beefed up engine with new mappings and a lower wing that seems to bend backwards and who knows what else all these teams are doing that we don’t know.
"All in" is pure marketing/PR stuff. That's what Toto would like you to think of perhaps.
If you beef up an engine then for sure the fuel flow needs to be worked out as well, because you can't exceed the amount of fuel. If the pace they have now is because they've opened up the engine more, because the PU is new and we only have a few more races to go with that engine, then that would mean it uses more fuel (that's what I think), but something tells me that engine isn't opened up, but is just upgraded as part of an update.