2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix - Baku, Sep 13-15

[Sevach]

McLaren got scared and gives Piastri a 2nd new set of softs for Q2. So he'll only have one shot in Q3.

Piastri aborted that run after S1.

Tires left for Q3:

https://i.imgur.com/3XH59QK.png

The tire situation. If Merc's comments are anything to go by, the hard tire is a bad tire.

Merc took the bet on having 2 mediums vs everyone with 2 hards.
Let's see if it pays off.

[BorisTheBlade]

So we'll have Hamilton joining Norris at the back, after a new PU was installed and suspension setup change. He will start from pitlane

What, were did you get that?

[Wouter]

So we'll have Hamilton joining Norris at the back, after a new PU was installed and suspension setup change. He will start from pitlane

What, were did you get that?

[BorisTheBlade]

Thanks, now F1 also has this on their site as well.

[venkyhere]

Almost all 'not top10' cars are running with skinny wings and lowDF. The probability to be behind them for entire lap, until the final straight is very high. The best pitstop strategy for the top4 teams, is one which completely avoids being on the tail of a midfield car, I think ; rather than looking at it in terms of under/over cut w.r.t competitors around them.We saw what happened in Spa & Monza. Traffic is the killer, rather than car characteristics.

Two guys will be under tremendous pressure, to avoid any contact with anyone and take any risks in the 90 bends - VER & NOR - a DNF will prove to be mega costly to them.

[chrisc90]

Someone over on Autosport said:

It's very breezy here in Baku today (just had my hat blown off!). Temps likely to be lower than yesterday, and potentially tricky for the drivers.

[search]

compared to yesterday, Marko has upped his expectations, and just said that he expects Red Bull to fight for the win.

[FittingMechanics]

compared to yesterday, Marko has upped his expectations, and just said that he expects Red Bull to fight for the win.

Let's keep this in mind and come back after the race.

[Matt2725]

compared to yesterday, Marko has upped his expectations, and just said that he expects Red Bull to fight for the win.

That's a bit optimistic I would argue.

[Vettel165]

Have a bad feeling about the start and my Red Bull and Max, wont watch this.... Maybe later, too scared, the stakes very high....

[Dunlay]

Track temperature is at 45C, which is probably the highest of the weekend.

[search]

Tsunoda lost his V, thanks to Stroll. There's a big hole in the chassis on the right side.

[Sevach]

Charles managed to break the tow.

[Hoffman900]

Charles managed to break the tow.

There is strategy here for the trailing driver. If they don’t think they can pass soon, they’ll drop out of the DRS range because most tracks you’re in dirty air if you’re within 1-1.2s.

So if you go into management mode, you almost always drop out of DRS range intentially, unless you’re activtely going to attack, and you only have a couple laps of that before you shoot yourself in the foot tire management wise.

[Luscion]

a lot of drivers on the mediums complaining about no grip