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skwdenyer said:
Tyre Smoke said:
Meanwhile in Montreal...
Situation normal. Mobile roadblocks.
Latifi behind Russell in FP1 by much the same amount as Kubica was in FP2 in the same car. Tells us little except that he didn’t shade Kubica.Situation normal. Mobile roadblocks.
They’re busy making another Netflix episode; no time to fuss about making the cars quicker.......
Petrus1983 said:
Top 17 drivers separated by 1.4secs - RK 3.1 and GR isn’t massively quicker 
In racing terms they’re so far off the pace I don’t know how they could ever recover the car for this season.
Quite right. In quali 4-6 seconds behind so far. If they managed the biggest and most effective update of the entire grid this season they would maybe average 2-4 seconds off the pace. In racing terms they’re so far off the pace I don’t know how they could ever recover the car for this season.
For such cars to become competitive is unthinkable.
Edited by TheDeuce on Saturday 8th June 07:02
They must know this though - everyone in the factory must know it too - in general I imagine you end up working at an F1 team because you genuinely love the sport. Unless everyone there knows full well they’re working on 2020’s car it must be pretty soul destroying to ‘pretend’ you’re trying to sort 2019’s challenger.
Petrus1983 said:
They must know this though - everyone in the factory must know it too - in general I imagine you end up working at an F1 team because you genuinely love the sport. Unless everyone there knows full well they’re working on 2020’s car it must be pretty soul destroying to ‘pretend’ you’re trying to sort 2019’s challenger.
Soul destroying indeed... Reminds me of Damon Hill, after he won the F1 World Championship in a Williams and the next race, was doing his utmost best to qualify...Damon Hill (Arrows A18) qualifying runs - 1997 Australian Grand Prix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlfcHdJyUs
Fortitude said:
Petrus1983 said:
They must know this though - everyone in the factory must know it too - in general I imagine you end up working at an F1 team because you genuinely love the sport. Unless everyone there knows full well they’re working on 2020’s car it must be pretty soul destroying to ‘pretend’ you’re trying to sort 2019’s challenger.
Soul destroying indeed... Reminds me of Damon Hill, after he won the F1 World Championship in a Williams and the next race, was doing his utmost best to qualify...Damon Hill (Arrows A18) qualifying runs - 1997 Australian Grand Prix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlfcHdJyUs
Fortitude said:
Petrus1983 said:
They must know this though - everyone in the factory must know it too - in general I imagine you end up working at an F1 team because you genuinely love the sport. Unless everyone there knows full well they’re working on 2020’s car it must be pretty soul destroying to ‘pretend’ you’re trying to sort 2019’s challenger.
Soul destroying indeed... Reminds me of Damon Hill, after he won the F1 World Championship in a Williams and the next race, was doing his utmost best to qualify...Damon Hill (Arrows A18) qualifying runs - 1997 Australian Grand Prix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlfcHdJyUs
Fortitude said:
Soul destroying indeed... Reminds me of Damon Hill, after he won the F1 World Championship in a Williams and the next race, was doing his utmost best to qualify...
Damon Hill (Arrows A18) qualifying runs - 1997 Australian Grand Prix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlfcHdJyUs
Different times; at that race, only 3 cars qualified writhing 3 seconds of Villeneuve on pole!Damon Hill (Arrows A18) qualifying runs - 1997 Australian Grand Prix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlfcHdJyUs
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