F1 2023

Which team will take constructors in 2023?

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lkpat said:
F1 is not even close to the dangerous sport it was in the past thanks to guys like Sir Jackie Stewart.
During the nine seasons that Jackie Stewart raced, drivers who stayed in the sport for five or more seasons had nearly 70 percent chance of being killed in a racing accident. Jackie once noted that he tried to count the friends he'd lost to the sport and stopped at 57 and wasn't likely finished.

Today - Two in the 90s, 0 in the 2000s and 1 in the 2010s.
Boxing is way more dangerous.
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Reminds me of a piece I saw on Jackie Stewart's famous win in the 1968 German GP. The race was run in atrociously wet conditions at the Nordschleife (Nurburgring) and after returning to the pits, the first thing he asked Ken Tyrrell (his team boss) was who had died, such was the accepted dangers of the sport.
 
lkpat said:
Lame-o.
Let's artificially make cars slower.
Or artificially improve performance.

Just allow DRS to be used everywhere at will and watch the fun.
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I'm in two minds about it.

On the one hand, it penalizes a team who have done a good job with their design and DRS specifically (Red Bull).

On the other hand, it maybe makes quali a bit more competitive. Red Bull will still dominate the race though, so it won't change the racing, except for possibly a few different starting orders with a Red Bull having to fight through the pack a bit more than they do now.

So it reinforces the fact that quali is the most exciting part of the weekend which is bleh.
 
UrBaN963 said:
I'm in two minds about it.

On the one hand, it penalizes a team who have done a good job with their design and DRS specifically (Red Bull).

On the other hand, it maybe makes quali a bit more competitive. Red Bull will still dominate the race though, so it won't change the racing, except for possibly a few different starting orders with a Red Bull having to fight through the pack a bit more than they do now.

So it reinforces the fact that quali is the most exciting part of the weekend which is bleh.
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It's still artificial IMO. If RB make their car faster, good for them, everyone else can catch up.
 
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Aston Martin’s F1 form dip: an upgrade side effect or flexi-wing fallout?

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Aston Martin has been one of the big talking points this year, thanks to both its stunning start to the Formula 1 campaign but also a recent dip in pace.​

With Fernando Alonso having helped breathe some excitement into the early races, as he emerged as the shock main challenger to Red Bull, the squad even came close to victory in the Monaco Grand Prix.

But after an impressive six podium finishes out of the first eight races, including seconds in Monaco and Canada, things became a bit more difficult.

Alonso’s best results since the Austrian GP have been fifth places, and it is McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari that have instead grabbed the podiums behind Red Bull.

The change in form has prompted a great deal of intrigue, with Alonso himself hinting that it could have been linked to the change of tyre construction that Pirelli introduced from the British GP.

Aston Martin’s senior management dismissed this theory though, and instead suggested that it was more related to an upgrade package it introduced at the Canadian Grand Prix triggering some characteristic changes that the team did not get on top of immediately.

These ‘side effects’, as team principal Mike Krack referred to recently, were not noticeable in Montreal because of the low downforce/drag nature of the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve – but did become more exposed when extra load was required at the subsequent races.

As performance director, Tom McCullough explained: “You always try to add base performance, but you very rarely can add it without any characteristic change. So, there's always that that you're trying to understand.”
But rivals in the paddock have suggested that there is another more intriguing answer as to why Aston Martin’s form changed – and it relates to a bit of a flexi-wing clampdown from the FIA.

Autosport has learned that the governing body has been paying particularly close attention to the construction of front wings this year to ensure that teams are not using clever solutions to benefit from flexible components.


The FIA and teams have long been aware that if a team can design a front wing that is strong enough when stationary to pass the pull-down tests conducted in the garage, but can flex down in a controlled manner at speed out on track, then a decent chunk of performance can be unleashed.

This has been a constant battleground between teams and the FIA, and an issue that is unlikely to ever go away as it is impossible to make wings that are 100% rigid.
 
depends on track.
Monza? Alonso in a williams.
Austria Yuki in a Ferrari.
any mixed track Logan in a Red bull.
Question is can Verstoppen score more points in the Alpha tauri than Yuki has?
 
I reckon it's Yuki every time.

That Williams just doesn't have the overall pace.
Max would do well but that car doesn't have it.
Sargeant would have the car but not sure he could manage it for the whole race.

But either way, Tsunoda or Sargeant win everything if they finish the race.
 
Alonso isn't winning in a much better car, there's no way he's doing it in a Williams.

Whoever is driving the RB will win. Ferrari will work against themselves as usual...
 
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