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During the vibrant chaos of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, Jeremy Clarkson, famed for his roles in "Clarkson's Farm" and "Top Gear," dropped what might be a substantial hint about Formula 1 engineer Adrian Newey’s future.

In a grid walk interview with Viaplay, Clarkson offered an "exclusive" of his former schoolmate:

"Do you want an exclusive? I know Adrian Newey is house hunting in Oxfordshire, not Maranello."
 
Yes I think many people here underestimate what age do. Even Stroll looks like he is starting to get faster than Alonso. So even if Alonso by some miracle gets a seat at a great team, his teammate will probably still beat him.
Also whatever team Newey goes too. You do not redesign a car in a few months. So whether too Ferrari or AM, its not going to be fast cars from the start.
Also RB Newey design car does not look that fast currently?

Yeah I agree. Newey tends to put in place a design that evolves much like the RB over the last 3-4 years. It only started becoming a dominant winning machine by mid 2022, 2023 was the full height of the design and 2024 sees the threshold of the design reached and other teams now basically on par or close to it.
 
'26 will be a very interesting year. Will people like Newey still make that much of a difference when there will be a much bigger emphasis on engine design and power?
 
i also hated him and also dont believe he is as good as schumacher ..but numbers tell a different story

Yeah it is sometimes so difficult to say where a driver of today would be compared to different generational drivers such as Senna and Schumacher.
 
Yeah it is sometimes so difficult to say where a driver of today would be compared to different generational drivers such as Senna and Schumacher.

i grew up with schumacher but also didnt follow every race

mnet and dstv was expensive lol

but the races i did see schumacher was brilliant
 
Yeah I agree. Newey tends to put in place a design that evolves much like the RB over the last 3-4 years. It only started becoming a dominant winning machine by mid 2022, 2023 was the full height of the design and 2024 sees the threshold of the design reached and other teams now basically on par or close to it.
Wasn't 2022 the new regulations, ground effect, which, had it not been for early non-related reliability issues, fuel pump extra with the change to higher octane, Redbull would've been on par with dominance in 2022 than they were in 2023? Seems more like the current Redbull hit the ground running rather than an evolution over time this time around?
 
who knows. if AM get Newey for 2025 and 2026 who knows what the the old master can do.

but if Newey goes to Ferrari with Lewis, there will not a win for Fernando, AM will not be able to compete with Merc, Meclaren, Ferrari and Red Bull.


my honest opinion is his shot to get that win was in the first half of 2023 and he missed it there.

but also, there is so much going on at the front now, who knows. merc gets DNF with cooling issues, Max and lando take each other out, Piastry and leClerc take each other out, Carlos has Ferrari strategy fail him one last time and Fernando might take a win.
Monaco 1996 happened for Panis so who knows how lucky Fernando might still get
I think 2025 might prove to be so wild that AM will be amongst the race winners there.
 
I think 2025 might prove to be so wild that AM will be amongst the race winners there.
I really hope so.

but I am not sure at all. the step forward for them is too large. the development direction they went in last year put them too far back. much like the direction that Ferrari took a few races ago that put them back and are now far behind. they can come back, but AM needs to do way too much
 
Wasn't 2022 the new regulations, ground effect, which, had it not been for early non-related reliability issues, fuel pump extra with the change to higher octane, Redbull would've been on par with dominance in 2022 than they were in 2023? Seems more like the current Redbull hit the ground running rather than an evolution over time this time around?

Yes I think you are correct, also the 2020 cars was used in 2021 due to covid so presumably the ground effect would have started in 2021 or even 2020, so that car could have been dominant from 2021. Also if the ground effect was introduced end of 2019 to the teams AM would have had a bit of time to work on a design for 2022 going forward, which is why I don't think he will just walk into another team and produce a winning car instantly
 
I just watched the race again.

it was a really good race. think Lando threw away 2nd with his tyre choice, but I can understand the choice to rather chase for a win than defend against third.
 
I just watched the race again.

it was a really good race. think Lando threw away 2nd with his tyre choice, but I can understand the choice to rather chase for a win than defend against third.
Mediums wouldve been chasing a win. The softs were a mistake period, Mclarens have been weaker on the tyre all season, he admitted the error of judgement copying Merc wasnt the right call for his car as saw with Oscar who was significantly quicker on mediums by comparison.
 
Yeah it is sometimes so difficult to say where a driver of today would be compared to different generational drivers such as Senna and Schumacher.

A big thing for me is how much ''livelier'' cars of 15-20+ years ago where. If you watch onboards from that period you can see how much twitchier and unstable they were, even a Ferrari or McLaren of the 90s/early 00s would be wanting to snap out from underneath Michael or Mika, so I'd say from a pure driving perspective those cars required more raw ability. Then rewind further and you have manual gearboxes and the art of heel-toe and rev matching, so you don't grenade the engine. Have any of the current drivers, especially the younger ones, ever driven a manual racing car as even junior formulae now have paddle shifts? The older drivers also raced without fancy telemetry, so they had to have a much deeper uncerstanding of how a car worked because the engineers could only rely on what they were saying. Would a modern driver even feel comfortable in the mobile coffins of yesteryear? Taking Eau Rouge flat in 2024 is not the same as taking it flat in 1994.

Conversely, modern drivers are basically racing a computer with the amount of button-mashing and knob-tweaking they have to do in a single lap. Could old-school racers handle this?

So yeah, you can't really make direct comparisons because they were products of different eras that required different styles, skills and mindsets.
 
A big thing for me is how much ''livelier'' cars of 15-20+ years ago where. If you watch onboards from that period you can see how much twitchier and unstable they were, even a Ferrari or McLaren of the 90s/early 00s would be wanting to snap out from underneath Michael or Mika, so I'd say from a pure driving perspective those cars required more raw ability. Then rewind further and you have manual gearboxes and the art of heel-toe and rev matching, so you don't grenade the engine. Have any of the current drivers, especially the younger ones, ever driven a manual racing car as even junior formulae now have paddle shifts? The older drivers also raced without fancy telemetry, so they had to have a much deeper uncerstanding of how a car worked because the engineers could only rely on what they were saying. Would a modern driver even feel comfortable in the mobile coffins of yesteryear? Taking Eau Rouge flat in 2024 is not the same as taking it flat in 1994.

Conversely, modern drivers are basically racing a computer with the amount of button-mashing and knob-tweaking they have to do in a single lap. Could old-school racers handle this?

So yeah, you can't really make direct comparisons because they were products of different eras that required different styles, skills and mindsets.

Yeah I agree, especially if you look at Senna and some of his Monaco races when there some on board footage. Crazy stuff.

But I do think there are a few drivers today that has that natural talent, feeling for the car and understanding of a car inside out.

Max being one of them, he built carts with his dad from ground up and was racing stick shift carts since like 5 years old or something. He would have been able to hang with those guys, I dont have any doubt of that.
 
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It was here in Slummies about a month ago. I couldn't believe how big it is - now I can relate when Max and co say they wish the cars were smaller and lighter. I remember looking at one of the earlier RB's with the blown diffuser - it was here at the beginning of the year. That thing was tiny compared the latest generation of cars!
 
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