2023 Japanese Grand Prix - Suzuka, Sep 22 - 24

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This feels made up, but here we are

Lenovo Creates World's 1st Kiss Activated F1 Trophy for the Japanese GP

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1s- ... /10523939/

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This feels made up, but here we are

Lenovo Creates World's 1st Kiss Activated F1 Trophy for the Japanese GP

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1s- ... /10523939/

Genuinely terrible. Some marketing departments really cannot be trusted.

I can't believe we're going from Monza's Typhoon trophy to this nonsense.

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apparently there will be a tailwind for the esses tomorrow (as opposed to current headwind) so deg might be even higher than in fp2 long runs

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Max in Spoon wasn’t so hooked up. McL really close.

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Max in Spoon wasn’t so hooked up. McL really close.

Yeah spoon was bad, bit of traffic in s1 and had some understeer in sector 1

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Max in Spoon wasn’t so hooked up. McL really close.

It's not hooked up but less understeer than yesterday to my eye. The hairpin was a bit better today as well. On Friday Verstappen was only able to set purple in sector 1. Today he purpled all 3 so it has definitely progressed compared to yesterday. Exit out of the final chicane is a bit more hooked up as well across the camber.

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Max in Spoon wasn’t so hooked up. McL really close.

It's not hooked up but less understeer than yesterday to my eye. The hairpin was a bit better today as well. On Friday Verstappen was only able to set purple in sector 1. Today he purpled all 3 so it has definitely progressed compared to yesterday. Exit out of the final chicane is a bit more hooked up as well across the camber.

yeah the final chicane is a lot better than yesterday. Maybe some sector 1 compromise to make the car okay in the hairpin/final chicane

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I would put money on a Mclaren on the front row.

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Seems like RB have gone with less load for Max? Or they're running with more fuel in the short run. The s1 performance in the high speed is a lot worse than yesterday



hmm just got a photo of Max's wing, it's the same as yesterday. They've just finally turned the engines up. Strange then that the performance in Sector 1 was so bad compared to friday.

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Seems like RB have gone with less load for Max? Or they're running with more fuel in the short run. The s1 performance in the high speed is a lot worse than yesterday



hmm just got a photo of Max's wing, it's the same as yesterday. They've just finally turned the engines up. Strange then that the performance in Sector 1 was so bad compared to friday.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6rcPQcWsAE ... name=small

It could just be more fuel, and as I said to our friend yesterday, RB would turn up the vtec considerably on Saturday.

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Seems like RB have gone with less load for Max? Or they're running with more fuel in the short run. The s1 performance in the high speed is a lot worse than yesterday



hmm just got a photo of Max's wing, it's the same as yesterday. They've just finally turned the engines up. Strange then that the performance in Sector 1 was so bad compared to friday.

You aren’t going to notice a few clicks more or less on the wings.

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Seems like RB have gone with less load for Max? Or they're running with more fuel in the short run. The s1 performance in the high speed is a lot worse than yesterday



hmm just got a photo of Max's wing, it's the same as yesterday. They've just finally turned the engines up. Strange then that the performance in Sector 1 was so bad compared to friday.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6rcPQcWsAE ... name=small

You aren’t going to notice a few clicks more or less on the wings.

Rear wings can't be "clicked"

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Rear wings can't be "clicked"

I'm just saying in general the differences in wings are tiny and result in a few kph difference in top speed.

For the rear wing you can't click but you can change the DRS wing component entirely, add or remove a nolder.

Front wing, while seemingly not that important actually has quite a significant impact to top speed.

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Interestingly, the Mclaren looks just as "bad" as the RB in the hairpin, yet they are topping the times. My observation may not be important. This is not an important part of the lap seemingly.

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Rear wings can't be "clicked"

I'm just saying in general the differences in wings are tiny and result in a few kph difference in top speed.

For the rear wing you can't click but you can change the DRS wing component entirely, add or remove a nolder.

Front wing, while seemingly not that important actually has quite a significant impact to top speed.

Rb didn't change the DRS component and you think RB took front wing out of Max's car?