Official 2024 Miami Grand Prix Thread ***SPOILERS***

They can always do something in advance of what they can officially do. They can try things on the current cars that might be useful come 2026.

If you can't win, learn.

They can't. The 26 cars are very different. Job one is try and recover for 25, 24 may still come good eventually on the correct track.

Not sure there will be much throwing down of headphones, they are too far away to be all that bothered.

Apart from being against the rules, the car shape, aero concept, powertrain design and many other areas is all different. 25 is likely a RB walk in the park too.

26 is a bigger reset than 22 was. I fear it's going to be st as they chase 50% battery power.

I obviously believe that with nothing else to fight for, there are ways that a team such as Merc can at least direct something towards the next big regs change. I find it impossible to imagine that no effort is being towards that goal.

As for the PU change, yes it's a big one. It's about to redefine how drivers and engineers use the power available. It's likely that one team could have a runaway success if they get it right straight out of the box.

Dissapointed in norris and mclaren

Thought they were likely to get pole should have kept the mediums on or atleast seen from data how the softs would be through practice or even q1

There should be a club for people like us. Or maybe just a thread.

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It would appear that McLaren is the car to beat according to this data chart, even allowing for the Q3 f@£% up. It's not optimal to introduce a rake of new upgrades during a sprint weekend, so the potential once Macca sort the set up issues out is pretty big.

Good to see!

I wonder if the McLaren either failed to fire up the softs or completely cooked them. Either way, on the harder race oriented compounds it seems they'll be up there, I just hope they manage to qualify well.

McLaren throwing so many upgrades at the car last season and this season and them immediately seeing an improvement just shows how they have a handle on what they're doing, it's great to see. Zack completely shut down any talks about going after Newey when asked and chose to give his own engineers a shout out instead, great leadership and vote of confidence.

By comparison it is clear that Mercedes are completely lost. I get the impression that there are still fundamental problems in the cars design and no amount of aero add ons are going to resolve it.