2018 Scuderia Toro Rosso F1 Team - Honda

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Marti_EF3 wrote:
27 Apr 2018, 08:00
Someone noticed if there are any upgrades on the aero?? Or they will be available at Spain?
They had hinted it would be in Baku a couple of weeks back. I'm intrigued as to the scope of upgrades if they do bring them here and whether they'll also follow through with further upgrades in Barcelona.
Anyway, I'm expecting them to be strong and competitive on this circuit, even if they don't bring the upgrades.
Q: (Stefano Mancini – La Stampa) Kimi, will you help Vettel to win his championship this year?
Kimi Raikkonen: I can only drive one car, obviously. 
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I believe Tost said last week that he wanted to bring small updates / improvements to every race instead of big upgrade packages, so that big update in April mentioned by Hartley must have been the rear end reworking introduced at Bahrain.

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Tricky weekend for TR Honda. I do not see any improvement

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HPD wrote:
27 Apr 2018, 15:56
Tricky weekend for TR Honda. I do not see any improvement
Can't say I know why, but if I had to hazard a guess, I'd say tyres. Let's see the how they go with the long runs.
Q: (Stefano Mancini – La Stampa) Kimi, will you help Vettel to win his championship this year?
Kimi Raikkonen: I can only drive one car, obviously. 
@2018 Singapore Grand Prix drivers press conference.

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US strikes again. Clearly TR dont know how to make this tires work

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They may have taken too much wing off and are struggling to keep tyre temperature - if so it might not be as bad tommorow as the track rubbers in a bit more.

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anyone have the long run pace of TR boys

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just had a look top 3 cant be touch, renaults then force india and gasly. thats the order right now

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techman wrote:
27 Apr 2018, 17:06
just had a look top 3 cant be touch, renaults then force india and gasly. thats the order right now
situation is much more grimmer after FP2.
Never Give up.

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They just need to stay away from problems and watch to opportunities.

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etusch wrote:
27 Apr 2018, 18:05
They just need to stay away from problems and watch to opportunities.
I totally agree with that, as long as they can keep it clean, you never know, points could be possible. Last year was pretty mental, Mclaren scored their first points and I believe Wherlin scored for Sauber as well.
Q: (Stefano Mancini – La Stampa) Kimi, will you help Vettel to win his championship this year?
Kimi Raikkonen: I can only drive one car, obviously. 
@2018 Singapore Grand Prix drivers press conference.

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Ground Effect wrote:
27 Apr 2018, 16:16
HPD wrote:
27 Apr 2018, 15:56
Tricky weekend for TR Honda. I do not see any improvement
Can't say I know why, but if I had to hazard a guess, I'd say tyres. Let's see the how they go with the long runs.
Gasly set his best time on 8 laps stint. For sure can go faster, compare to Alonso for example(not comparing these teams or anything like that, just saying) Also Gasly had better race pace compare again to Alonso but i don't know which tire compounds they used or fuel loads. I guess what i'm trying to say it's just still too early to judge.

EDIT: nice drag race against HAAS. TR-Honda has ok straight line speed
https://twitter.com/F1/status/989896112352849920?s=19

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The guys need to really understand the US tyres, Gasly saying he lost grip in FP2 compared tp FP1. Every team advanced with more grip but TR obviously cant exploit it. Fingers crossed they figure it out but dont thinl that will happen.

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Pierre Gasly: "The first day in Baku - it's a street circuit so it's quite challenging. It was pretty tricky on my side because we only had four or five good laps in FP1. We had a couple of issues, so I didn't run much but I'm pretty happy with the car as we ended the session P9. It was a good beginning to the weekend even with the track being very dirty. The track then improved in the afternoon but I struggled a bit more. We're fighting with the balance and the grip and at the moment it doesn't feel so great. We have some work to do tonight to try and understand how we can improve. It's so tight between everyone in the midfield, so we'll have to give it all in FP3 to be ready and get a good result in Qualifying tomorrow.

Brendon Hartley: "Today was a pretty clean day! It was a new track for me and I had some good fun learning it. I feel like I got up to speed very quickly and I very much enjoyed driving the Baku City Circuit. At some times we looked promising - we were in and around the top 10 - but at the end of the day we were towards the rear end of the field. We have some time to find, which means we'll be working hard tonight to extract the extra tenths out of the car that we need to hopefully make it a few places up the grid."

Jonathan Eddolls (Chief Race Engineer): "This track has quite different requirements compared to the ones that we've been to before, mainly aerodynamically with a straight of 2km, so we brought some new aero components suitable for the circuit. This morning it was very dirty, dusty and generally had very low grip so it made it very difficult to get the lap time early on. Actually, you could see the problems were for all drivers with many finding it easy to lock the fronts and go off. In addition to the difficult conditions, we had a couple of issues on Pierre's car. His power unit required a few minor changes and we also tried some different aerodynamic tests. These minor setbacks didn't allow us to get the best out of his FP1 session which, unfortunately, at a street circuit like this was quite a compromise for him.

"On the other side of the garage, Brendon had a clean day. We managed to get some mechanical tests completed in FP1, which allowed us to make some further aerodynamic changes going into FP2. The track temperature also came down so we had to look to re-optimise where the tyres were working. FP2 went pretty much to plan with no significant issues other than the pace isn't where we expected it to be - particularly in the long runs. This means there's quite a bit of work to go through tonight to look to understand how we can improve for tomorrow, as we think we should be a little bit further up on the time sheet. A tow is very important around this track, there's four or five tenths to be gained at least out of the last corner, some cars got those on their quickest laps but our laps were set without a tow. It's quite difficult to engineer a tow in qualifying, but something to consider. There's plenty for us to look at tonight."

Toyoharu Tanabe (Honda F1 Technical Director): "Like all street circuits, the Baku track is a bit green and dirty on a Friday, but the situation improved throughout the two sessions. In the morning, Pierre had to spend a bit more time than expected in the garage as we had to make some minor adjustments to his PU. Apart from that, it was a trouble-free day for us and we managed to work through almost all the PU programme."