Mercedes’ ongoing troubles in F1’s new ground-effect period are the topic of GP Racing’s cowl story this month, written by Pat Symonds – previously Michael Schumacher’s race engineer and one of many consultants liable for F1’s new ruleset.
When Mercedes talks about its growth course being “a lifeless finish” and that “a brand new idea” is required, what does that really imply?
Maybe extra pressingly, can the required modifications be recognized and completed in an period of tight controls on growth assets and spending?
GP Racing columnists Mark Gallagher and Matt Kew be a part of editor Stuart Codling to debate this this and the personnel change on the high. Mercedes prides itself on selling a “no-blame” tradition however that is the primary time underneath the present regime that the workforce has needed to handle a failed mission slightly than operational errors.
Automotive design has been a scorching subject elsewhere on the grid as Aston Martin made a powerful begin to the season, main senior figures at Crimson Bull to assert the AMR23 automotive was a blatant copy of final 12 months’s championship-winning RB18.
Whereas this has been completely debunked within the newest situation of GP Racing, there’s a deeper Crimson Bull-related secret to Aston Martin’s successes this season…
And because the F1 circus regroups in Azerbaijan this weekend, yet one more change to the race weekend format is on its manner.
This 12 months Baku will host a dash race for the primary time however Saturday morning apply has been changed within the schedule by a qualifying session which is able to decide the grid for the dash. Friday’s qualifying session stays in place and can set the grid for Sunday’s grand prix.
The vast majority of the opponents appear to be in favour, since parc ferme situations rendered Saturday apply redundant on dash weekends. But when the purpose is to offer opponents an incentive to race more durable, why do it in Baku, the place the character of the circuit punishes driver errors extra severely?
