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2024 AUSTRALIAN GP – PRACTICE REPORT:
"FROM A PERFORMANCE POINT OF VIEW, IT’S BEEN AN ENCOURAGING DAY"
Based on FP pace the expectation is to have Ferrari on pole, RB second and Aston 3rd fastest, in front of McLaren and Mercedes.
No. Williams are in unique situation where they couldn't produce spare chassis due to low production capacity, poor logistics management and a completely revamped 2024 car. McLaren like most teams will have a few spare chassis or fly one overnight if need be.SilviuAgo wrote: ↑22 Mar 2024, 15:22Looking at Williams decision to give Sargeant "car" to Albon, due to unfixable chassis, I was wondering if this is something related to "smaller teams" (and I have a pain in the heart saying this about Williams but '90s are so far away in the past) or this can happen also to McLaren, Ferrari or RB? If a chassis is not fixable, you have to race with only one car?
Thanks' mate! Sad to see a team like Williams in this situation (just saw on SkyF1 the '96 race where Williams, with P1 for Hill and P2 for Villeneuve won AusGP by more than a minute vs Schumacher P3 in a Ferrari. What a period for Williams, and where they are now )M840TR wrote: ↑22 Mar 2024, 15:31No. Williams are in unique situation where they couldn't produce spare chassis due to low production capacity, poor logistics management and a completely revamped 2024 car. McLaren like most teams will have a few spare chassis or fly one overnight if need be.SilviuAgo wrote: ↑22 Mar 2024, 15:22Looking at Williams decision to give Sargeant "car" to Albon, due to unfixable chassis, I was wondering if this is something related to "smaller teams" (and I have a pain in the heart saying this about Williams but '90s are so far away in the past) or this can happen also to McLaren, Ferrari or RB? If a chassis is not fixable, you have to race with only one car?
I’ve seen the analysis, someone even reckons Mclaren are the fastest in race trim looking at the FP2 running.SilviuAgo wrote: ↑22 Mar 2024, 14:59Based on FP pace the expectation is to have Ferrari on pole, RB second and Aston 3rd fastest, in front of McLaren and Mercedes. But also mwillems is saying, this (classic) Friday practice can be a wrong indicator on what Saturday quali will look. And, as Bahrain and Jeddah showed, even Aston si faster than McLaren in quali (or MCL faster than Mercedes), race (pace) can be another thing.
Quali prediction based on quali sim
race pace based on FP2 runs (not to mention the funny RB pace ) )