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That was an awful year for F1.Worse happened in 1982
Poll: Official 2024 Singapore Grand Prix Race Thread - Marina Bay Street Circuit - Race 18/24
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Soldato
Was going to say the same thing. Red Bull desperately need that wind tunnel time back.
Yep.
I'm glad of it.
They got complacent keeping a mediocre driver probably assuming they were safe.
All the other top teams have better driver pairs.
Yeh.
The other three top teams have, apart from Alonso, all the rest of the best drivers on the grid in their line ups.
Red Bull have one of the best, and quite possibly one of the worst right now. I really think Perez has lost it, and even at his peak he was only slightly above average at best.
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Boggles my mind why they kept him for so long. They've gotten rid of people for much less. Many times.
Its good that complacency is being punished though. With a mid-top tier driver they'd probably be significantly ahead of mclaren now.
I could probably forgive a Williams, Haas or Sauber (pre-Audi) for taking the Mexican money that comes with Perez.
But on performance and pace he's nowhere.
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How is the wind tunnel time and cfd time policed by the FIA when the teams own their own wind tunnels?
Soldato
He's also proven himself as just not very good in this era of F1, aside from one outlier result.
Perez and Ricciardo both need to go.
Soldato
Yes, as they were using a suboptimal strategy hoping for a safety car - first time we've not have one at this track since, I can't even remember it was that long ago. Also a lot of the drivers were playing the same waiting game, the deg wasn't as apparent as other couldn't make progress either. When they started switching to the newer tyre regardless of compound the benefit was seen to be larger than expected.
Soldato
What exactly is wrong with the tyres? What is it that you want to see?
I feel Pirelli have done a pretty good job in recent years with the tyres,
Soldato
Probably records runtimes, probably something similar to a truck tachograph. That is purely an educated guess on my behalf.
Associate
RB / Toro Rosso, or whatever they're named, genuinely employ some of the worst strategies I've ever seen.
Ricciardo started on hards, did 10 laps, then swapped to mediums where he then did 36 laps. I completely understand that they're trying to do something different at times to get into the points but it's just mad to me that the team will sit in a room, look at all the data from Friday FP sessions and the Saturday sessions and then, post qualifying, think yeah we'll definitely do a 10 lap stint on hards to kick this race off.
Ricciardo started on hards, did 10 laps, then swapped to mediums where he then did 36 laps. I completely understand that they're trying to do something different at times to get into the points but it's just mad to me that the team will sit in a room, look at all the data from Friday FP sessions and the Saturday sessions and then, post qualifying, think yeah we'll definitely do a 10 lap stint on hards to kick this race off.
Maybe I'm just imagining it, but so many races this season have had 1 or 2 racing laps, and then everyone sets their cruise control to what the strategy teams deems reasonable to get to the pit window.
They should make the tyres more robust but mandate at least 1 pitstop.
Don
Even if you did - everyone's simulations would still converge on the same strategies.