2024 Australian Grand Prix - Melbourne, March 22 - 24

[Cs98]

https://www.planetf1.com/news/alex-albo ... grand-prix
BREAKING: Alex Albon in, Logan Sargeant out for Australian Grand Prix

What a joke.

[Elite]

While it is likely that Albon could perform better in the car overall, he crashed and destroyed his car. That's sports. Logan should be the one driving his car. Lost a wee bit of respect for Williams here.

[Dunlay]

While it is likely that Albon could perform better in the car overall, he crashed and destroyed his car. That's sports. Logan should be the one driving his car. Lost a wee bit of respect for Williams here.

Can't blame Williams for the decision. They are fighting to get a solitary point, which is so essential for their existence.

[Wouter]

[Cs98]

While it is likely that Albon could perform better in the car overall, he crashed and destroyed his car. That's sports. Logan should be the one driving his car. Lost a wee bit of respect for Williams here.

Can't blame Williams for the decision. They are fighting to get a solitary point, which is so essential for their existence.

Yes you can. Alex crashed here last year, he crashed here this year, he missed most of practice. Now you are putting him in the car with the added pressure of knowing he has displaced his teammate from the competition. This is not a recipe for a good performance, he's not going to be pushing to the limit because he knows that if he bins it again or makes a mistake he (and the team) is going to look like a moron.

[Juzh]

leclerc fp2 lap 1:17.277

https://streamable.com/grr05l

[dialtone]

FP2
my takes:
RB is weak in sub-200 kmh corners, and even in ~220 kmh (red squares). We see it again in melbourne after we've seen in bahrain and saudi.

Ferrari's higher engine mode could be seen in non-drs zones (marked in green). We'se also seen this pattern in bahrain and saudi - RB is using lower power relative in to others in practice.

Only advantage RB seem to hold is in super high speed ~250 kmh (orange), again consistent with past races.

4 tenths is not a small difference, even with usual variables factored in. I predict a game of tenths if not hundredths between LEC/VER come Q3 . Fight for 3rd best is between mclaren/aston/merc. As it stands I'd put mclaren on top of that group.

https://i.imgur.com/VfhT3We.jpeg

I'm not sure the green boxes are higher engine mode, you'd see it in the other straights too. Even in 2023 quali Ferrari looks stronger in those 2 straights in the lap, although slightly. The immediately following straight to the 2nd green box Ferrari has slower climb speed compared to RedBull. It looks like deployment to me, and in particular it seems like RBR is wasting a lot of deployment energy due to poor cornering performance and Ferrari deploys that energy in those 2 straights.

EDIT: Ferrari has also run very conservative engine modes in FP1 and FP2 for the past 2 years basically, I don't see why they would flip this for this race.

[Waz]

While it is likely that Albon could perform better in the car overall, he crashed and destroyed his car. That's sports. Logan should be the one driving his car. Lost a wee bit of respect for Williams here.

Can't blame Williams for the decision. They are fighting to get a solitary point, which is so essential for their existence.

Albon doesn't have a great record here. Wasn't it last year that he brought out a Safety Car after crashing from a really good position?

It's more of an issue really about WHY they don't have a spare chassis? Especially with at least 1 driver prone to crashes regularly, although the other is not THAT much better.

[Sieper]

Well, he IS that much better and they don’t have a spare chassis as they can’t AFFORD it. They have 24 tries to get one point and this race has the potential of chaos.

[Formula 1 fan]

I cannot really believe what is going on with Mercedes team, but I really can't believe that for the third year in a row Mercedes can't create a decent car.

[chrisc90]

Is there any videos of the Albon crash?

Need to catch up and practice tonight after work.

[CHT]

https://www.planetf1.com/news/alex-albo ... grand-prix
BREAKING: Alex Albon in, Logan Sargeant out for Australian Grand Prix

What a joke.

Alex better not crash in FP3. Else the entire team can start packing before qualifying

[Sieper]

Same place as max and Alonso had a moment. If you loose it at that curb and can’t immediately catch it you end up in the wall across the corner. Very easy to get wrong.

[Sevach]

https://www.planetf1.com/news/alex-albo ... grand-prix
BREAKING: Alex Albon in, Logan Sargeant out for Australian Grand Prix

What a joke.

Alex better not crash in FP3. Else the entire team can start packing before qualifying

It would be quite something if he writes another chassis off in FP3 or qualy...

Same place as max and Alonso had a moment. If you loose it at that curb and can’t immediately catch it you end up in the wall across the corner. Very easy to get wrong.

I think that's where Albon himself brought the red flags last year.
If you see you are going in the astroturf, lift Alex.

[Sevach]

I don’t know about this higher engine mode Marko is on about… doesn’t seem to show in the data?

https://x.com/f1debrief/status/1771061901855727825?s=46

(Sorry I don’t know how to make the tweet show up in the thread? I’m officially a boomer)

Replace the "x" in the x dot com with 'twitter'

They are equal on the straights, Charles is gaining on corners.
Charles should probably rethink his aggressive strategy in to 9-10(it looks awesome), he loses a lot on the following straight.