Poll: Australian Grand Prix 2022, Melbourne - Race 3

Rate the 2022 Australian Grand Prix out of ten

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When was the track built?

The deal to host Formula 1 in Melbourne was done in 1993, with the decision taken to create a circuit using a mixture of the existing roads around the city’s Albert Park – mainly Aughtie Drive and Lakeside Drive if you fancy driving it yourself – with a little detour through the Lakeside Stadium’s car park.
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C4:
Saturday 9th April
AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX QUALIFYING HIGHLIGHTS at 11:00am

Sunday 10th
AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX RACE HIGHLIGHTS at 3:05pm


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Thanks @Shimmy for your effort in these in the past.
 
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Excellent job EVH.

Mercedes will apparently have a new floor for this race. Hopefully fix the bouncing and mean they can lower the car and turn the engine up.
 
Thanks for the thread EVH.

Vettel was great before he went to Red Bull and Ferrari. I guess the pressures of title battles change people, and when that pressure isn't on more of the true person comes out.

That pressure certainly changed him at Ferrari particularly, and while plenty of people didn't like him at Red Bull, I think it was more to do with people getting bored of him winning, with two of his WDC almost unchallenged. That and they thought Webber was often shafted (which he was a couple of times, to be fair, but ultimately Vettel just trounced him more and more as the years went by).

He's been a breath of fresh air since he left Ferrari, back to the fun guy he was at Toro Rosso, though more proactive on human rights and discrimination issues.


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I noticed that he ended up getting his prize for the most number of overtakes. It was indeed 1,000,000 jelly beans :D
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Unofficial estimates in the comments are around 1,500 to 2,000 jelly beans. And Youtube comments are always right. ;)
 
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He said this in the driver video reaction to the Las Vegas announcement that he was considering retiring but that he wouldn't now. Not sure if April Fool or not.
 
Considering the account is @F1Med1a, definitely.

It seems the handle exists, as that tweets is returned in the Google results, but the account itself has disappeared. I guess someone didn't appreciate that joke!
 
MissChief said:
Excellent job EVH.

Mercedes will apparently have a new floor for this race. Hopefully fix the bouncing and mean they can lower the car and turn the engine up.
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Do not believe there is anything left on the engine to turn up.

All engines are the same in the Factory mercs and customer cars.

If there was lots of excess power to be used in the engine, one of the customers would have shown it by now.
 
They’re free to develop the energy system / store until September 1st. That’s not to say they’ll find 0.7s mind :p
 
Entai said:
Do not believe there is anything left on the engine to turn up.

All engines are the same in the Factory mercs and customer cars.

If there was lots of excess power to be used in the engine, one of the customers would have shown it by now.
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I think they're purposely running a lower power map as the bouncing just gets worse the faster they go.
 
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I think they're purposely running a lower power map as the bouncing just gets worse the faster they go.
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If they had a noticeable amount of power to gain by running a better map, increase ride height by 2 or 3mm which would eliminate bouncing completely, and use the increase in power to gain back the lost lap time.

They do not have any noticeable extra power to use, all their lap time deficit is in aero and chsssis losses.
 
If the porpoising was the issue for limiting power then it would only be Mercedes which was slow in the speed traps. Instead all of the Mercedes-powered teams tend to be at the bottom, with only Williams occasionally in the mid-upper field on such lists (presumably slightly less draggy aero (and probably less downforce)). I'm only going off qualifying data as race data can be massively influenced by DRS and slipstreams.
 
There will be 4 DRS zones this year which cover 45% of the track length. Australia is usually a rubbish track for overtaking so hopefully they've got the balance right especially combined with the new track layout changes.

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