2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix - Baku, Sep 13-15

[AR3-GP]

Some serious long run pace by Red Bull. Piastri was matching the pace for a while into the stint but seemed to drop of in the end in all sectors, even though he looked to be in clear air. Still a lot to come of course with them being way off last years qualifying pace, but it should be the same for all.

Piastri had the best long run I thought? 48.5s consistently before the pace dropped.

[GrizzleBoy]

Toto Wolff said that Russell's long run on hards was much worse than expected. They expected steady lap times, but this wasn't he case at all. So they aren't quite sure yet what the tire situation will be like this weekend.

Im not sure if it was supposed to be a joke but i laughed anyway.

Edit: Just seen that Lewis' long runs looked comparable to everyone else's.

Were Merc still running split setups in P2?

[Tvetovnato]

Some serious long run pace by Red Bull. Piastri was matching the pace for a while into the stint but seemed to drop of in the end in all sectors, even though he looked to be in clear air. Still a lot to come of course with them being way off last years qualifying pace, but it should be the same for all.

Piastri had the best long run I thought? 48.5s consistently before the pace dropped.

I was mostly looking at S1 and 2 as S3 can be quite influenced by tow, even from far back. And it seemed to me that Max got quicker and quicker, dipping into the 43s in S2 on the final laps while Piastri was well above the 44 mark… So it indicates they have found something, which is not the first time this year when a team removes upgrades that turned out to be downgrades..

[AR3-GP]

I was mostly looking at S1 and 2 as S3 can be quite influenced by tow, even from far back. And it seemed to me that Max got quicker and quicker, dipping into the 43s in S2 on the final laps while Piastri was well above the 44 mark… So it indicates they have found something, which is not the first time this year when a team removes upgrades that turned out to be downgrades..

I think that is an unfair analysis because if Red bull set the car up for S1 and S2, then it will favor them in the data but if others wanted to be faster on the straight, this data is disregarded.

[Luscion]

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Norris didn't sandbag, but aborted his lap after running into Gasly, which obviously explains the difference to Piastri.He never did a S3 on softs.

[AR3-GP]

That twitter channel drives me crazy with the dramatization.

[Sevach]

Decent day for Bearman.

[Luscion]

Simone Berra from Pirelli

We noticed some graining on the tyres over a long run, but not to a particularly high degree and we believe that, as the track rubbers in, its incidence will decrease. In terms of strategy, this is usually a race run in two parts, featuring the Medium and the Hard tyres, while the Soft is clearly a qualifying tyre. Therefore, that explains why eight of the ten teams kept both their sets of Hards, not so much because they are considering a two-stop, but to cover any eventual neutralisation and thus make the most of the tyre that’s the most competitive over a long distance.

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Things look like they'll be tight. McLaren again don't look super

[dialtone]

How do you judge a 5kph terminal speed difference with the ERS was turned down and HUGE sandbagging?
If they have a bit more front wing you lose a lot more top speed than 5kph, if you have more wing the acceleration past 240kph is going to suffer a lot until the DRS is opened and that will likely hurt you more than 5kph unless your engine is turned up.

You have to look at the whole curve of acceleration and compare it to past races or qualifying or the team mate hoping the team mate had the same wing setup, but you still need to anyway compare the full curve.

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How do you judge a 5kph terminal speed difference with the ERS was turned down and HUGE sandbagging?
If they have a bit more front wing you lose a lot more top speed than 5kph, if you have more wing the acceleration past 240kph is going to suffer a lot until the DRS is opened and that will likely hurt you more than 5kph unless your engine is turned up.

You have to look at the whole curve of acceleration and compare it to past races or qualifying or the team mate hoping the team mate had the same wing setup, but you still need to anyway compare the full curve.

Yea that account imo is not good info generally. Very hit and miss

[Vanja #66]

So far, Norris not happy, Wolff not happy, Hamilton seems positive, Red Bull and Ferrari both seem positive. Another very close Q session seems very likely

[Luscion]

How do you judge a 5kph terminal speed difference with the ERS was turned down and HUGE sandbagging?
If they have a bit more front wing you lose a lot more top speed than 5kph, if you have more wing the acceleration past 240kph is going to suffer a lot until the DRS is opened and that will likely hurt you more than 5kph unless your engine is turned up.

You have to look at the whole curve of acceleration and compare it to past races or qualifying or the team mate hoping the team mate had the same wing setup, but you still need to anyway compare the full curve.

Yea that account imo is not good info generally. Very hit and miss

yea i'll probably stop posting his stuff

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According to the AMuS FP2 analysis (quoting Marko), Red Bull used two different kind of floors today. The one Perez had resulted in a more predictable car behaviour.