2024 Japanese Grand Prix - Suzuka, April 05 - 07

[Luscion]

Long run pace of the different teams and tires, red = softs, yellow = mediums, black = hards

[vas_04614]

George Russel long run

[Tzk]

The FP3 laps of Russel and Hamilton are just as fast as their 2023 Q3 laps. Same for Perez. Max is still a bit slower than his Q3 lap from last year (28.8 vs 29.5). Let's see how much is left in the cars for Q.

Russels longrun looks quite strong.

[venkyhere]

Actual footage of Red Bull mechanics preparing the cars for long runs

https://media0.giphy.com/media/tO40BuKA ... y.gif&ct=g

It would be very surprising if they are sandbagging. They rarely ever do this on a race weekend and the lack of FP2 and an upgrade package makes it even less likely imho

There is no chance Ferrari is 1s/lap faster than RBR.


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Looks like engine-mode

[DoctorRadio]

It would be very surprising if they are sandbagging. They rarely ever do this on a race weekend and the lack of FP2 and an upgrade package makes it even less likely imho

There is no chance Ferrari is 1s/lap faster than RBR.


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Looks like engine-mode
https://i.imgur.com/MRoLAHd.png

Red Bull is using the same high downforce rear wing as in Bahrain and apart from the back straight where the difference is too much, Leclerc looks faster in most corners too.

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Tire update after FP3:

[AR3-GP]

[Vanja #66]

From team thread

Unlike FP1, in FP3 Leclerc was running higher PU mode until last 3 laps when he dialed it down, so it's not deg. Sainz didn't run the higher mode at all (as far as I saw) and both Ferraris were lighter than RBs. Deg looks good on both cars

As for Red Bull, seems both cars were running same, lower PU modes as they did in FP1.

Norris had no long runs, Piastri's on Softs was impressive to see so many laps, but deg was terrible.

Compared to Max, Alonso was on highee PU and lighter (good deg in any case) while Russell was on even higher PU and maybe even lighter than Alonso.

[maxxer]

Will there ever be a channel on f1 tv to not hear commentary , i really dont give a --- how long a go this or that happened or how the track changed or not just want to hear and watch the cars.
No Will buxton getting in the way of people who are doing their work.

[AR3-GP]

I give up trying to figure anything out.

[f1onions]

The 2024 cars are much faster in the low speed corners than last year's cars.
VER 2023 pole S3: 17.841
VER today: 17.667 (top speed in 130r is much lower than in 2023)

[f1onions]

Last year's pole time beaten

[chrisc90]

Russel unsafe release - investigating after session.


Monster lap from Max on the first run. Ferrari .65 and 1 second behind. .5 to piastri

[AR3-GP]

Russel unsafe release - investigating after session.

That's a slam dunk penalty really.

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looks like LEC needs a 2nd set for Q1. That's his day done already then, more or less.