Poll: Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2022, Baku - Race 8

[chrismscotland]

Max has wangled this race somehow

Wangled? By having a fast and reliable car?

 

[chrismscotland]

Have to give Red Bull credit - at the end of last year when they were focusing on the 2021 car no-one gave them a snowballs chance of having the best 2022 car

 

[chrismscotland]

1 hour and 20 minutes of Le Mans left to go now.

I'd love something to happen to the LMP2 leader to get Kubica the category win!

 

[chrismscotland]

Its in Merc's interest currently to play up the issue in the hope of forcing the FIA to intervene and force teams to run higher ride heights presumably with the idea it'll hurt other teams performance.
Zero sympathy for them, if other teams can work around it, then they should too, even if it costs them laptime

 

[chrismscotland]

But they can't work it out, most teams have similar problems. Do we wait until something safety related does happen ?

Why should everyone be impacted because one team has screwed up their car design and is too arrogant or pig headed to change it?

 

[chrismscotland]

As I said in my original post, it isn't just Mercedes ...

But they are currently the only ones loudly moaning about it, other teams are working around it fine.
4 weeks ago Merc were confident they had a handle on it and could work around it (Spain) - now they realise they don't they've started playing up the back issues

 

[chrismscotland]

Its not as if the teams couldn't see the porpoising coming, its nothing new with ground effect cars and I know a lot has been made of Adrian Newey having experience of it during his early career working in CART.
Surely someone like Pat Symonds (F1 Technical Officer) with his wealth of experience could have seen this too?

 

[chrismscotland]

Hes already said its up to teams to get their **** together.

Pat Symonds, Chief Technical Officer at F1, said, ‘F1 and the FIA don’t change rules. Anyone who’s worked in sportscars or worked in Formula 1 for a long while knows the phenomena. It’s fixable within the framework of the rules and the technology allowed on the cars now. As it always has been, the secret is to minimise the instability while keeping the performance.’

Completely agree with him