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F1 2026


The Situation said:
Interestingly, bookies have Max and George as top two favourites at around 3/1.

Lando available at 11/2.
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Would be all over that. Unlike other Merc customer teams McLaren have a first look deal where they get an early look at the PU and can make suggestions which means they arent making changes to the car design to accomodate the PU. And tbh i'd back Rob Marshall and Peter Prodromou to build a better car than Mercedes.
 
Looks like Merc might have found something. Since these cars will be going back to quite a high rake this might be a way to seal the sides of it.

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Ferrari will shakedown their new car at Fiorano this morning, will be covered live on Sky Sports News.

No doubt Craig Slater clinging to a chicken wire fence on a bridge in the mist!
Big Jeff said:
Racing might be weird - more here
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I hope weird doesn't become a farcical and impenetrable lottery.

I'm usually of the opinion that the TV screen looking like AWS Insights has vomited all over it, is a bad thing, but they're going to have to help us as viewers to try to understand the meaning of actual sport underneath the supercomputer dodgems.

And I am dreading the level of comprehension David Croft will have of it all, he's already spectacularly bad at reading a race! He's only just got the hang of DRS and they've canned it!
 
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Beau Peep said:
Ferrari will shakedown their new car at Fiorano this morning, will be covered live on Sky Sports News.

No doubt Craig Slater clinging to a chicken wire fence on a bridge in the mist!

I hope weird doesn't become a farcical and impenetrable lottery.

I'm usually of the opinion that the TV screen looking like AWS Insights has vomited all over it, is a bad thing, but they're going to have to help us as viewers to try to understand the meaning of actual sport underneath the supercomputer dodgems.

And I am dreading the level of comprehension David Croft will have of it all, he's already spectacularly bad at reading a race! He's only just got the hang of DRS and they've canned it!
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McLaren are talking sbout overtaking where one car is significantly faster than another due to differing levels of battery charge.

BRING BACK THE V10s! Bloody batteries!
 
Big Jeff said:
McLaren are talking sbout overtaking where one car is significantly faster than another due to differing levels of battery charge.

BRING BACK THE V10s! Bloody batteries!
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That's the whole point of system though.
Better to manage your allocated power than to simply press a button that opens your wing and let's you breeze past.
Big Jeff said:
What time is the Ferrari breakdown, sorry, shakedown on Sky?
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I don't know what time Lewis meets his new Italian engineer, sorry.
 
It might just be me but F1 is so tightly regulated that all the cars look basically the same.

I wish we could give teams more freedom and get cars like the 6 wheeler and the fan car!

Tyrell and Brabham IIRC.
PTR said:
That's the whole point of system though.
Better to manage your allocated power than to simply press a button that opens your wing and let's you breeze past.

I don't know what time Lewis meets his new Italian engineer, sorry.
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I wonder if he’ll tell him to have a cup of tea!
 
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Here he is! Here comes Ted!

Hamilton has no race engineer appointed yet
Big Jeff said:
It might just be me but F1 is so tightly regulated that all the cars look basically the same.

I wish we could give teams more freedom and get cars like the 6 wheeler and the fan car!

Tyrell and Brabham IIRC.

I wonder if he’ll tell him to have a cup of tea!
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Supposed to happen at the start of the last regs but the variations in sidepod undercuts etc didn't last long. And the zero pod that made some of us on the F1 2022 thread give Merc the title in mid February :lol:
 
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