It was joke pointing out his history of collecting other drivers in self inflicted crashes.

The mirrors part was. The reserve driver part needed clarification which I provided.

So will they take the mirrors off the car for the reserve driver to keep it consistent?

Which reserve driver? Stroll only realized after qualifying that he has pain since six weeks. His car is out of tomorrow’s GP.

Original AMR statement: https://xcancel.com/AstonMartinF1/status/1928907567234953247

Any driver who gets to Formula 1 is clearly very good

Good at paying off the second seat drivers in the junior series to back off the competition to help Lance.

The uncertainties around car provider Nissan surely didn’t help.

It’s only their second WEC race weekend, so no way they have the best setups figured out, yet.

Also, figuring out the BoP numbers for the sole non-hybrid hypercar is probably not the easiest task for ACO either.

They’re not having the best of weekends with their Valkyrie either:

Better 10 more bullshit US races.

I boycott all F1 GPs. Never attended a single one.

More importantly: Whose team shirt is the comfiest?

MBS only brought it up because his oil sheik friends welcome any anti EV/hybrid publicity.

As long as you’re not on an instance that blocks .ml, it’s just as accessible to .ml users as the existing community. The bigger issue is the fact that the sole mod is inactive since a year.

Kind of related but I’ve been thinking whether there is enough interest here to spin up a community about Sportscar Racing?

.ml may not be the hottest thing in town but !sportscarracing@lemmy.ml exists.

I thought Ferrari were very bullish about their 2026 engine. Why vote to throw away all that progress?

Confidence that they’d make the best V10 engine. Also: Pandering to backwards facing petrolheads who are their main customers.

Sauber

So 4 white Red Bull cars on track. Amazing.

I see you’re bad at math 856 - 605 = 251 which is nearly 300kg.

F1 cars weigh 800kg without fuel. Fully fueled, they’re heavier than FE cars.

If overtakes are your metric for a good car

Yes

I personally prefer fast light cars

Then follow one. F1 clearly isn’t for you then. Good bye.

Fan Boost

Long gone.

forced attack mode

Gen3 Attack Mode was stupid because it was a penalty, not an advantage. Gen3 Evo rules with all wheel drive under attack mode actually have the intended consequence to produce more attacks.

pit boost, etc.

Pit boost was fine. No more difficult to follow than WEC with its refueling. Pit boost’s major downside IMO is that mechanics must not repair the car while it’s charging, so cars with broken front wings or flat tire have little chance to catch up after the wing change with a lap down. Personally, I’d be in favor of battery swaps with solid state batteries in the side pods and mechanics would use pressure guns to bolt them off and on again, kinda similar to Nio EP9.

will get a good idea whose new PU for 26 is behind the competition.

Nobody has an idea who is behind who. At most, who is behind their own milestones.

1st 800kg is with the driver

OK, cool. Still not 300kg more than a FE car like you claimed. Seems your source is a donkey.

Was this where you got that claim.

My source is Mario Illien. If Mario misspoke, send a letter of complaint to:

Ilmor Engineering Ltd.

Quarry Road
Brixworth
Northamptonshire
NN6 9UB
UK

Anyhow: FE has no problem producing exciting races with actual overtakes in Monaco. So its means of propulsion is not the problem. If anything, in the same interview he criticized the F1 PU formula as too complicated and heavy and the type of hybrid system to be out of touch with road cars. His approach for a change this is fully electric propulsion with a very simple and much much lighter ICE as generator and relatively few battery cells. This is somewhat similar to the approach of Audi RS Q e-tron.

If you disagree with that approach, feel free to send another letter of complaint to the aforementioned address.