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ADrunkTeddyBear said:
Id love to be at Monza and Spa

If im rich enough, then Monaco hopefully
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Monaco is actually one of the cheapest to go to!

You don't have to stay in Monaco itself as.its a short 10 mins train ride to Italy (Ventimigilia) or France (Nice/Cannes etc). So there's plenty of accommodation around if you go far enough on the train or train + drive. Even flights aren't normally that bad because you can fly to about 5 different airports within a few hours drive (3 X Milan, Genoa, Turin, nice, Cannes)

Reason Monaco is cheap is you can get tickets to the green just behind the pits. Think it was about €80 for race day there when I first went. It's a pain as no seat etc... But so what it's not a great race anyway. And you don't even have to do that if you don't want to watch the race live. On the Friday you can even drive the track in your own car (as it's a normal road). Did it in our rental fiat 500 when we went! Also after its possible to sneak into the area with the team areas (you are meant to have a pass, but security is only one side of the hill so of you know what your doing you can hang around near the drivers etc -- although at least when I was there you could get close but not on say the red bull boat...)
 
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richjdavies said:
Monaco is actually one of the cheapest to go to!

You don't have to stay in Monaco itself as.its a short 10 mins train ride to Italy (Ventimigilia) or France (Nice/Cannes etc). So there's plenty of accommodation around if you go far enough on the train or train + drive. Even flights aren't normally that bad because you can fly to about 5 different airports within a few hours drive (3 X Milan, Genoa, Turin, nice, Cannes)

Reason Monaco is cheap is you can get tickets to the green just behind the pits. Think it was about €80 for race day there when I first went. It's a pain as no seat etc... But so what it's not a great race anyway. And you don't even have to do that if you don't want to watch the race live. On the Friday you can even drive the track in your own car (as it's a normal road). Did it in our rental fiat 500 when we went! Also after its possible to sneak into the area with the team areas (you are meant to have a pass, but security is only one side of the hill so of you know what your doing you can hang around near the drivers etc -- although at least when I was there you could get close but not on say the red bull boat...)
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No, I want the proper experience.

Either on a yacht surrounded by some nekkid models, or standing on the balcony and watching them go past...
 
FlashSA said:
Could it be that Merc put too much time and money into last year's car that they are now paying the price this year? Remember how all of a sudden, Lewis was a rocket from Brazil onwards.....
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This is probably what happened, and they've been caught on the backfoot. It doesn't, however, explain why the other Merc customer engined cars are also doing poorly (McLaren, Williams - after looking decent in testing, and AMR - after looking decent in testing) are also doing poorly, unless it's a knock-on effect of their engine being down on power compared to the Alpine, RBR and Ferrari units.

Maybe RBR pulled a quick one on Merc by doing their development of the 2022 car in conjunction with keeping the 2021 car in the mix for the championship!
 
OhYeah84 said:
This is probably what happened, and they've been caught on the backfoot. It doesn't, however, explain why the other Merc customer engined cars are also doing poorly (McLaren, Williams - after looking decent in testing, and AMR - after looking decent in testing) are also doing poorly, unless it's a knock-on effect of their engine being down on power compared to the Alpine, RBR and Ferrari units.

Maybe RBR pulled a quick one on Merc by doing their development of the 2022 car in conjunction with keeping the 2021 car in the mix for the championship!
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There is definitely a power disadvantage with the Merc engines across the field as you say.

With regards to the porposing, Red Bull's swiss army knife, Adrian Newey, has vast experience from the past issues relating to this and I am sure this has helped design out the issue. Ferrari too have been around through previous similiar issues.

Could it be that Merc just don't have the past experience with this issue to overcome the problems quickly?
 
FlashSA said:
Could it be that Merc just don't have the past experience with this issue to overcome the problems quickly?
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Yep, might very well be this.
I personally thought AMR were on top of the porpoising, but then it turns out their car is an absolute pig to drive in a real race based on Stroll's complaints in the car.

Seb has his work cut out for him this weekend!
 
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