I do wonder if its specific to/affects Merc more. Shovlin talked yesterday about how they still havent fully fixed their issues with the rear tires of the car overheating and in this article about how theyre working on giving Lewis a more predictable car. Then you had Allison talking about it as well saying how the cars dont like being hustled and the tires are very fussyPlatinumZealot wrote: ↑20 Jul 2024, 02:42Sholvlin sort of confiirms what I suspected. George is gentler on the rear tyres in qualifying. A bit of Jenson-esque smoothness on the throttle perhaps.
https://www.racefans.net/2024/07/19/ham ... e-shovlin/
Yeah it was very noticeable in Canada, where he lost the car at the last corner, hungary last year as well, although it was pole, he loses it at the last corner. It seems by the end of the lap he often does not have any tire left.PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑20 Jul 2024, 02:42Sholvlin sort of confiirms what I suspected. George is gentler on the rear tyres in qualifying. A bit of Jenson-esque smoothness on the throttle perhaps.
https://www.racefans.net/2024/07/19/ham ... e-shovlin/
Lewis left because he wasn't offered a long term deal! Team's lack of form was an ingriedient in that decision making, but not the only reason.Jurgen von Diaz wrote: ↑20 Jul 2024, 10:51What do you think? Would Hamilton leave if he had to make the decision now?
Spot on mate, i was watching his qualy lap from last year and his rears are overheating on the way into the second to last corner. Anthony Davidson in Practice 2 yesterday said these tyres don't forget when there put under stress, they come back to bite again.Hammerfist wrote: ↑20 Jul 2024, 06:53Yeah it was very noticeable in Canada, where he lost the car at the last corner, hungary last year as well, although it was pole, he loses it at the last corner. It seems by the end of the lap he often does not have any tire left.PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑20 Jul 2024, 02:42Sholvlin sort of confiirms what I suspected. George is gentler on the rear tyres in qualifying. A bit of Jenson-esque smoothness on the throttle perhaps.
https://www.racefans.net/2024/07/19/ham ... e-shovlin/
This quote came from Russell.
Toto Wolff post FP3: “We have a little more we can add power-wise, but there is a gap. I don’t know how much it will be, at the moment it looks like two tenths, maybe. That’s what it is.”
“At the moment you can say that McLaren seems to have the upper hand by a little bit, but Max’s long run overlaid with Norris’. I think it’s gonna be very tight again.”
“We knew that it was going to be difficult for us here, with the rear surface overheating. It doesn’t really come as a surprise.”
We are getting very important news from Mercedes.
As you know, Mercedes have broke the curfew after the FP2 and had some work on their cars. Which as we know each team has 2 individual exceptions per year, which was the first one for Mercedes.
as announced previously they are getting upgrades for their cars in Hungary and Spa, the tests done in FP1 and FP2 were done on new mechanical parts and upgrades, which have been removed. it was already planned by the team and from the news that we have received the results were as expected.
New internal parts are being designed, mainly for the cooling system, which might give us some indication of either 4 possibilities,
1- better cooling system
2- internal air flow and better internal flow management
3- redesigned sidepods
4- weight distribution
keeping in mind that they have been very creative with the W13 cooling system and the zero pod design, where the radiators have been specially designed and positioned within the chassis.
we have also noticed a closed bulb in FP3 in contraire to an opened one in FP1-2, probably because of the high temperature on Friday, but mainly the front inlet is not used for car cooling but rather than driver cooling in some cases and probably front suspension element cooling in some rare cases, or probably some new elements in the front suspension.
Or he could go out in Q1