Was it any worse than what we saw of the same driver in Monaco? Is Monaco safer than Saudi?
Wasn't the case literally. We knew they had issues with tire deg and setup in Bahrain prior to the race. Doesn't mean this will be a story of the season ahead.
Juzh wrote: ↑13 Mar 2023, 14:42meh, crash in above picture was down to incompetent driving. Track was fine, first one in ages that offered some thrills watching cars negotiating those barriers. Apparently they straightened out some kinks, which will make it more boring and lose some character. Imagine changing tracks because maldonano crashed in every corner on every track, it's what they've done now with schumacher. Dude couldn't turn a wheel without crashing into something.
Wouldn't they not be penalized until they've used ALL of their allotted components, and had to take on additional components? They'll definitely face penalties at some point this season, but I don't believe that would be here.
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Just look how many people here complain about sausage kerbs in the middle of a parking lot (you also?) that may launch a car into the air. Here we had steel kerbs already launching two cars (also Sainz lost it on these kerbs, but in 2021 you still could save it) in a high speed section with walls around. With the current cars, these kerbs at this spot are just nonsense, nothing to do with Schumacher.
I expect Alonso in P3 chasing down Telemex driver towards end.
It's pretty simple, the areas where Ferrari is strong Red Bull can match them, whic unfortunately doesn't work in reverse.avantman wrote: ↑13 Mar 2023, 14:21Why not enough? The two cars were literally equally fast over a single lap in Bahrain. Ferrari clearly have slight engine power advantage again this year, which will be even bigger factor in Jeddah likely. Drag isn't an issue for them anymore. Can't see any reason they won't compete at least, especially with Aston Martin potentially somewhere in the mix as well. All these people who expect to see the same race as in Bahrain are hopeless pessimists.Sevach wrote: ↑13 Mar 2023, 14:14I think Ferrari will be closer here, and probably better than Aston.
Rear degradation much less of a factor, the SF23 has good straight line speed and high speed corner performance.
But not enough to truly trouble Red Bull, their car seems to have no cracks in their armor.
Disagree. I think the teams are more than capable of getting on with it. The ground effects cars have so much high speed downforce as well.Sieper wrote: ↑14 Mar 2023, 00:38Imho Jeddah should be later on the calendar. When the teams/drivers know their cars better. Sainz f.e. Lost it quite hard in Bahrein a few times in FP. In Jeddah that could be an incredible hard crash. 3 test days, 1 track so far. And imho Jeddah is, as discussed already, one of the more dangerous tracks, the combination of very high speeds, blind corners and walls directly next to the track.