[F87source]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

By gum Max goes into the 32's to seal pole, guess Ham's shocker valve wasn't all it was cracked up to be and Checo just couldn't make it a 1-2 but I'm happy with that.

Wow the RB looked fast! I wonder what upgrades they brought - can't wait to break down those new bits.

Or maybe they're just learning to setup their car better - again the importance of understanding a car.

[M5Rick]

MV

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by F87source

Wow the RB looked fast! I wonder what upgrades they brought - can't wait to break down those new bits.

Or maybe they're just learning to setup their car better - again the importance of understanding a car.

Yup I'll go with set up like you say and the saving antidote but most of all the best driver.

[F87source]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

MV

Loved that, but wished Perez got it instead.

Hope Perez gets it in Mexico though.

[BenDiem]

I hate to be critical, but is it just me or did Danica Patrick look like she gained a lot of weight? No longer a hottie! Her outfit sucked too.
Her interview skills were lacking too…

Back on topic, should be an entertaining race tomorrow!

[F87source]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Yup I'll go with set up like you say and the saving antidote but most of all the best driver.

Im saying setup, for the first time the RB looked planted in every corner.

Max is Max, super consistent all year and hasn't made any mistakes. So give him a fast car and he'll be fastest, pretty simple logic.

Finally RB have given Perez a car he can drive fast too and he's near in the top.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by F87source

Im saying setup, for the first time the RB looked planted in every corner.

Max is Max, super consistent all year and hasn't made any mistakes. So give him a fast car and he'll be fastest, pretty simple logic.

Finally RB have given Perez a car he can drive fast too and he's near in the top.

I'm happy with the line up.

[Richneerd]

Originally Posted by BenDiem

I hate to be critical, but is it just me or did Danica Patrick look like she gained a lot of weight? No longer a hottie! Her outfit sucked too.
Her interview skills were lacking too…

Back on topic, should be an entertaining race tomorrow!

Age does that to you, it sucks getting old!

[F87source]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

I'm happy with the line up.

Yeah I'm so glad they didn't sack perez for next year that would have been disappointing.

[Killed by Death]

Originally Posted by BenDiem

I hate to be critical, but is it just me or did Danica Patrick look like she gained a lot of weight? No longer a hottie! Her outfit sucked too.
Her interview skills were lacking too…

Back on topic, should be an entertaining race tomorrow!

Yep, the interviewing skills were lacking!!!

Didn't notice weight gain, still cute & poster worthy

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by F87source

Im saying setup, for the first time the RB looked planted in every corner.

Max is Max, super consistent all year and hasn't made any mistakes. So give him a fast car and he'll be fastest, pretty simple logic.

Finally RB have given Perez a car he can drive fast too and he's near in the top.

You should read my post in # 195 !

The 16B has a new floor . Checo ran it already in Turkey ...
That's why he could get into a fight with HAM .
Remember the pitlane incident where HAM pushed Checo into the pitlane !

Checo with the new floor, was the Red Bull's test mule in Turkey . Today MAX ran it too .
That's why the 16B looked so planted today for both , and the full potential of the HONDA PU can be used .
Checo got always the same machinery , but he struggled the whole season with the 16B's rear end .
The new floor is a great job from Newey !

Today Checo looked more confident with the new floor than MAX is ..
That's because Checo ran more km's and already 2 races with the new feeling and floor in the car .
MAX's addaption with a new feeling in a car is lightning fast anyway ..

Did you see the Wolf's face after the QF ?
To me it looked like a thunderstorm ...


And BTW : (finally) Congrats for Checo !

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

You should read my post in # 195 !

The 16B has a new floor . Checo ran it already in Turkey ...
That's why he could get into a fight with HAM .
Remember the pitlane incident where HAM pushed Checo into the pitlane !

Checo with the new floor, was the Red Bull's test mule in Turkey . Today MAX ran it too .
That's why the 16B looked so planted today for both , and the full potential of the HONDA PU can be used .
Checo got always the same machinery , but he struggled the whole season with the 16B's rear end .
The new floor is a great job from Newey !

Today Checo looked more confident with the new floor than MAX is ..
That's because Checo ran more km's and already 2 races with the new feeling and floor in the car .
MAX's addaption with a new feeling in a car is lightning fast anyway ..

Did you see the Wolf's face after the QF ?
To me it looked like a thunderstorm ...


And BTW : (finally) Congrats for Checo !

I like seing Wolf's face like thunder,it shows his true character

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Adrian Newey is back and HONDA turned the PU open !

Adrian worked really hard on the new floor , even when he was out by his accident .


AND .....

""MAX IS POLE" !!! P1

The Newey floor is spectacular and thank the Lord he wasn't injured more seriously, at his age injuries can take longer to heal.

[Bubbles]

Originally Posted by F87source

Wow the RB looked fast! I wonder what upgrades they brought - can't wait to break down those new bits.

Or maybe they're just learning to setup their car better - again the importance of understanding a car.

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Yup I'll go with set up like you say and the saving antidote but most of all the best driver.

Great drives by Max, Checo, Danny R and Hammy.

Merc has significant pace advantage on the straights and are hitting terminal velocity much quicker than the RBRs With a slipstream the Mercs could hit 350 kph during the race. Mercs struggle with cooling in the Texas Heat.

Post qualifying, Hammy said it will be a good race into Turn 1. Foreshadowing for a collision? Toto keeps referring to DNFs this week and the last time he repeated the DNF mantra was Silverstone.

I just put down flyer bet for a Bottas WDC.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

I like seing Wolf's face like thunder,it shows his true character

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[F87source]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

The Newey floor is spectacular and thank the Lord he wasn't injured more seriously, at his age injuries can take longer to heal.

I need to read more about it but there's nothing online yet.


Also I wouldn't label it the "newey" floor. Sure he's the technical lead, but one man doesn't get the job done. There's a bunch of super talented engineers that our the grunt work in to turn a sketch into reality. They have to turn the sketch into a CFD model, fix any errors with the design so it works better in real life and with the other bits on the car. Then the wind tunel guys have to test it and further refine it. So it's more team work than one person at the top.

It's also super demoralizing for the people who work on the car if you just give one person credit. It's a team game. So I'd call it the RBR floor, just like how no one calls it the Allison dampener or das etc.

[NickyC]

Originally Posted by BenDiem

I hate to be critical, but is it just me or did Danica Patrick look like she gained a lot of weight? No longer a hottie! Her outfit sucked too.
Her interview skills were lacking too…

Back on topic, should be an entertaining race tomorrow!

You mean she's aging just like every other human ever conceived?

UNFORGIVEABLE doesn't she know better? The weight thing can be controlled though I'll give you that.

[Bubbles]

Originally Posted by NickyC

You mean she's aging just like every other human ever conceived?

UNFORGIVEABLE doesn't she know better? The weight thing can be controlled though I'll give you that.

She has an interesting monotone vocal delivery. No inflection whatsoever, for comedy put her in the booth with Crofty.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by Crimson92

Where was max today ? Dork got spanked by his team mate.

Oh sorry. Can I not bad mouth the second coming of Jesus here ?

Either way. Go lando !!!!

[F87source]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

The real story is that ferrari is actually coming back and beating mclaren.

[Autobacs]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

I would never make this kind of predictions with either Verstappen or HAM. Even more so only after FP2!

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by F87source

I need to read more about it but there's nothing online yet.


Also I wouldn't label it the "newey" floor. Sure he's the technical lead, but one man doesn't get the job done. There's a bunch of super talented engineers that our the grunt work in to turn a sketch into reality. They have to turn the sketch into a CFD model, fix any errors with the design so it works better in real life and with the other bits on the car. Then the wind tunel guys have to test it and further refine it. So it's more team work than one person at the top.

It's also super demoralizing for the people who work on the car if you just give one person credit. It's a team game. So I'd call it the RBR floor, just like how no one calls it the Allison dampener or das etc.

The Newey floor (I like to call it that) and new chassis for Max appears to make a big difference, it shows what a brilliant brain can conceive then let the RBR team construct and shoehorn the creation into the car.