Poll: Canadian Grand Prix 2022, Montreal - Race 9

Rate the 2022 Canadian Grand Prix out of ten

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I thought about the cost cap last night and as it's capped in Dollars and with most teams being based in the UK, when paying staff and buying from sub contractors its obviously all done in £. With the current exchange rate their budgets should be going further or am I missing something.
 
Scam said:
Missed the practice but it sounds like the Mercs are a dud then. So basically all the FIA have done is make sure if a car that’s porpoising heavily already, they penalise them by forcing them to increase the ride height? Thus making a bad car even slower.

If you ignore my pro-Merc bias that’s no good for anyone, unless you’re RB right? :rolleyes: No good for the competition either.

I still maintain these ground effect cars are dumb as **** :o
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I rather tend to think that Mercedes are playing a game with the FIA and attempting to sway a rule change decision making by making the car worse...
 
Scam said:
Missed the practice but it sounds like the Mercs are a dud then. So basically all the FIA have done is make sure if a car that’s porpoising heavily already, they penalise them by forcing them to increase the ride height? Thus making a bad car even slower.

If you ignore my pro-Merc bias that’s no good for anyone, unless you’re RB right? :rolleyes: No good for the competition either.

I still maintain these ground effect cars are dumb as **** :o
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Plenty of competition on track. Let's be fair here Mercedes are the 3rd top team...its just not what people are used to.

Mercedes built a **** car. The drivers seemed to have accepted it but Toto of course wants to use his weight to force a rule change that would benefit pretty much just Mercedes.
 
Scam said:
If you ignore my pro-Merc bias that’s no good for anyone, unless you’re RB right? :rolleyes: No good for the competition either.
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Good for Alpine, Alfa Romeo, McLaren, Aston Martin and Williams.

What the FIA are stipulating is that teams can't ignore driver safety in their bid to go faster - as some clearly are. It's up to the teams to decide how to do that, and if they can't find a better way, then they'll have to do it in a way that costs them performance.

I noticed James Allison has been called back this weekend. I was expecting some personnel changes as a result of this.
 
Bug One said:
Good for Alpine, Alfa Romeo, McLaren, Aston Martin and Williams.

What the FIA are stipulating is that teams can't ignore driver safety in their bid to go faster - as some clearly are. It's up to the teams to decide how to do that, and if they can't find a better way, then they'll have to do it in a way that costs them performance.

I noticed James Allison has been called back this weekend. I was expecting some personnel changes as a result of this.
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Yeah, heads are going to roll.
 
Bug One said:
Good for Alpine, Alfa Romeo, McLaren, Aston Martin and Williams.
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I can’t keep track of every car but Ricciardo was complaining after Baku so they obviously have porpoising to some extent. They did better in Baku than previously so aren’t they potentially just going to fall back down the order as well? They seem to be in the same boat with more porpoising = faster car.

And don’t forget the Ferrari onboard. Even though they’re quick they might get stymied by this rule in which case the FIA may as well just hand it to RB and call the whole season off!
 
Scam said:
I can’t keep track of every car but Ricciardo was complaining after Baku so they obviously have porpoising to some extent. They did better in Baku than previously so aren’t they potentially just going to fall back down the order as well? They seem to be in the same boat with more porpoising = faster car.

And don’t forget the Ferrari onboard. Even though they’re quick they might get stymied by this rule in which case the FIA may as well just hand it to RB and call the whole season off!
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They've said there was something wrong with Ricciardos car that caused the porpoising in the last race.
 
EVH said:
This is definitely the end of Merc’s season. They need a different concept because this car looks like a dud and it doesn’t look like they know how to fix it.

Hamilton confirming in interviews that they tried a new floor between FP1 and FP2 and it didn’t work. They also tried a few different setups which were equally poor :(
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Yep. I think this concept is done. It's barely the third best car on the grid and looks to be stating that way.

They need to do an Aston and bring a B spec car in. It seems to be paying off for Aston (might just be because they copied Red Bull...)


Red Bull clearly have the best overall car.
 
Kautya said:
Safe to say all top teams do this. The bottom teams are more busy managing their budgets and sponsors. Had the zero side pod design really worked then it would have been someone else complaining about those.
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Why do people still keep going on about the no pod design?

It has NOTHING TO DO WITH PORPOISEING........

Mercs could swap back to the conventional side pods used in the Barcelona test in an instant, if that was the solution, or even a part of the solution.

They have not swapped back, because it makes absolutely no damn difference at all to the performance of the car.
 
Yep definitely one of my fav tracks too. Charles Leclerc hit with a grid penalty, but with new part hes going to be pushing hard to close the Gap to Max.
hmm qualiy; 1st Max, 2nd Lec, 3rd Sainz
 
Aaand its slightly soggy for FP3. :D

Would like it dry for Q1 and Q2, then downpour and steady rain for Q3 please. ;)

Oh thats chilly. 11°C air and 16°C track temp. So Hertfordshire is slightly warmer than Montreal. :D
 
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