They can probably ship the freight that has to go early regardless since thatâs the kind of thing thatâll either be consumables (tyres, fuel etc) or theyâve got multiple of (I think I read somewhere that F1/Liberty have at least 6 of everything they need to run a broadcast for example).
I donât think theyâll be too concerned about deciding anything until Japan in a couple of weeks time - thatâll be the crunch point⌠do the cars and early personell go home, or to the gulf states?
âThat vibration into the chassis is causing a few reliability problems, mirrors falling off, tail lights falling off, all that sort of thing, which we are having to address,â he said.
Is that bad? Feels like that might be bad
Honda, Newey, Alonso, billions in the bank, and the result is Life 2.0.
Days to go before the internet begins collapsing under the weight of Lance Stroll in The All New Andrea Moda memes.
Stroll has major hand/wrist issues too. This seems really bad
Is this an engine issue or a chassis or both?
Engine according to Honda and Newey, but the chassis isnât helping by being on the stiff side and lacking dampening.
Just seen the Newey briefing, bloke looks fucking haunted.
yeah he definitely wants to be on his yacht. absolutely cursed situation.
no holding back about anything. mirrors falling off, drivers canât drive more than 15-20 laps. absolutely bonkers situation
Youâve got to assume that this wonât be fixed until after Japan given the tight turnaround of the first 3 and at this moment in time Bahrain and Saudi Arabia arenât exactly guaranteed of happening no matter what officials are saying. Fix by Miami?
Iâve no idea. Even if they manage to resolve the mechanical issues and vibration, they are a million miles behind in terms of doing the testing and optimisation of the systems that govern harvesting/energy deployment etc. they canât do any of this without a running car, and they donât really have that.
Thereâs been some possibly fanciful talk of European races being parachuted in at places like Imola if/when those two are ruled out, given itâd mean going five weeks without a GP, so at least theyâd be nearer base.
Iâm intrigued to know how this came about. Surely the vibration would show up on the dyno.
It sounds like this is entirely an internal combustion engine problem which makes it only the more baffling. The hybrid gubbins might be brilliant if it werenât being shaken to piecesđŹ.
Probably the engine isnât mounted to the Dyno in the exact same way /the Dyno doesnât have the same physical damping attributes as the chassis.
One warning sign I do see with Neweyâs bullishness is he was the same about the MP4-18 with fingers being pointed at Merc for a while while he defended the carâs concept.
Not saying theyâre wrong to point the finger here, but thereâs a risk they take their eye off the ball on their own work too.
Aston really are fucked here arenât they. Already down to their last two batteries and 5 seconds off the pace.
I think theyâd probably withdraw from the race except they badly need some track time. Alonso just keeps finding himself in these awful spots somehow, will be such a shame to watch him get lapped twice and retire after about 20 laps, a dreadful outcome that somehow I think they would take right now.
The stories coming out about Honda are making them look incredibly bad, how Aston didnât realise until November is another thing entirely.
Itâs baffling that even Newey claims he didnât know until then - despite being embedded within Red Bull as Honda wound down very publicly and sold off some of the programme to Red Bull Powertrains.
I know Aston signed the deal way before he came onboard, but he surely knew that they had an uphill battle and had lost a lot of key people/knowledge.
No replacement for Saudi or Bahrain apparently.
Apparently the teams have two garages and understandably the ones from testing have been left set up in Bahrain. Seems like itâd be a logistical nightmare to rearrange at short notice