2025 Mercedes-AMG | Petronas F1 Team

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Lasssept wrote:
11 Apr 2025, 19:26
I think Imola will be the last major update for Mercedes, then they switch to 2026.
"Because the 2026 rules are such a tear-up from these ones, and these ones have just got 21 races left to go and then they're done. So we're trying to push as much as we can onto the car in this first quarter, third of the year."

While the German team may still bring certain parts after that, their focus will be on the future, as Allison emphasises the potential to find more lap time not via development alone. "Maybe we'll have some bits after that, but it's a lot of effort going into the future. Happily, even without changing the geometry of the car, there's still quite a lot of lap time just in fine setup."
https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/mercedes ... ent-on-w16
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The team needs to figure out what grey area Mclaren are exploiting with the tires. They’re doing something dubious…

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OverheatedTurbo wrote:
12 Apr 2025, 16:25
The team needs to figure out what grey area Mclaren are exploiting with the tires. They’re doing something dubious…
It's mainly the inner workings of the brake hub, pickup points on the suspension to coincide with how it's setup and how the tires interacts with the tarmac (Camber and Toe - Angle)

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OverheatedTurbo wrote:
12 Apr 2025, 16:25
The team needs to figure out what grey area Mclaren are exploiting with the tires. They’re doing something dubious…
fully mechanical steering angle sensed automatic DAS :D

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OverheatedTurbo wrote:
12 Apr 2025, 16:25
The team needs to figure out what grey area Mclaren are exploiting with the tires. They’re doing something dubious…
Credit where it's due, but they're doing something dodgy I reckon.
If it was as simple as suspension geometry or toe/camber, other teams would have figured something out.

I assume one or more of the other teams will go on a fishing expedition sooner or later.

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Lasssept wrote:
12 Apr 2025, 19:14
George should take the lead and make the race a bit more interesting :)
Call a spade, a spade.

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Hats off to Toto, Kimi proving he was the right choice, next year Merc might have the best driver line-up.

And George debunk all the 'experimental setup' excuses from the last years, he is and was probably the better driver in the last two years.

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Great job from both.

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Better than they could have hoped for.

Hopefully George can get a good launch and beat Oscar into T1. The McLaren isn't so good in dirty air.

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Just a fan's point of view

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CjC wrote:
12 Apr 2025, 20:36
Merc are under investigation:
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/merce ... /10712597/
Being first in the queue is a competitive advantage.
Nico Hulkenberg was heard to remark that he thought it was "dodgy", as his race engineer Steven Petrik told him to remain in the garage.
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AR3-GP wrote:
12 Apr 2025, 20:48
CjC wrote:
12 Apr 2025, 20:36
Merc are under investigation:
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/merce ... /10712597/
Being first in the queue is a competitive advantage.
Nico Hulkenberg was heard to remark that he thought it was "dodgy", as his race engineer Steven Petrik told him to remain in the garage.
you can jump to the queue with unsafe releases also, i recall they always give fines for that?