KimiRai wrote: ↑23 Aug 2024, 17:28According to The Race Newey is yet to formally accept the offer made by Stroll, no contract is believed to have been signed so far (so reports from Italy that he had already signed could be fake)
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Not sure what you're talking about.OnEcRiTiCaL wrote: ↑23 Aug 2024, 19:09Leclerc on medium still was faster than Aston on soft,so I wouldn't be sure about that.
SPA and Netherlands are both heading for Quali in the rain. Maybe that has something to do with it ?KimiRai wrote: ↑23 Aug 2024, 17:59https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVrYnt5XkAA ... =4096x4096
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Maybe it's not related, but interesting that since Spa top speed isn't as good as it used to be earlier in the season. More loaded setups perhaps, which could help with tyre wear?
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DLR said they wanted to know whether the Soft was a good tyre to start the race with. Considering it fell off quite a bit and then Fernando put on a set of Mediums and did race start practice with them at the end, perhaps that means they'll start on Mediums
Don't forget what I said though, they came out on USED softs for the long runs.KimiRai wrote: ↑23 Aug 2024, 21:22DLR said they wanted to know whether the Soft was a good tyre to start the race with. Considering it fell off quite a bit and then Fernando put on a set of Mediums and did race start practice with them at the end, perhaps that means they'll start on Mediums
I don't like when they start on softs. That's for cars with more pace that can use that early advantage. If you're an Aston and you qualify well, your race will be focusing behind not ahead. Overtaking one or two top cars (which they'll overtake you again in a few laps) just for the softs to wear off and ruin your race by stopping much earlier is useless. If they improved 4 tenths and were much closer to Ferrari and the other top teams, then softs could make sense, but not yet imo.
Don’t know why you want to line out that it was on used softs? If I am not mistaken and they had a third tyre available because of the shower in FP1, everybody was on used tyres…
I don't know that everyone was on used tires. Lots of mediums and hards too. Gonna effect the race pace data people will certainly look at.