A mixed Sunday for the Team in Monaco 🇲🇨
Both Drivers had issues after a promising start to the weekend. Isack fought hard and secured his first Podium with the Team 👏
#F1 || #MonacoGP 🇲🇨
Max Verstappen asked Who's the number 1 driver in the Mercedes team?
Toto said: Kimi Antonelli...
Max said: I thought it was Russell...
Toto replied: Who's Russell?
They both Laughed
I should have put a bet on knowing Max would benefit the most from the regs changes after his 'meeting' with Stefano....
Guy's been nowhere & suddenly he's P2 Qualifying, I wouldn't be surprised if he requested the specific changes they made 🤦🏼♀️ #F1xed
the concept of leaving your girlfriend with your newborn daughter who you already rarely take care of frl to do some shit you do basically 285 days a year…
There is nothing at all in motorsport fandom that makes me more uncomfortable than the frankly huge amount of fanfiction imagining relationships between racers. Weird and gross behaviour.
Mercedes and Red Bull engined teams are using a trick at the end of their fastest laps in qualifying
They shut off the MGU-K abruptly and not gradually (from 350 kW to zero in an instant), so they can keep it at full throttle for longer
The FIA allows it, an emergency shutdown, but it locks the MGU-K for 60 seconds, that's why it can only be used at the end of the lap
Even though it was not the intention for this to be used competitively, the FIA accepted it, but multiple issues for different cars at Suzuka alerted the FIA to a potential safety concern
The Race understands that Mercedes opted not to continue using this trick over the rest of the Japan weekend
📰 @wearetherace
The @aramco Power Rankings for Japan are in! 😮💨
Race-winner Kimi Antonelli leads from Oscar Piastri and Pierre Gasly in our judges' scores 👀
#F1#JapaneseGP
A lot of things are being put under the "deployment issue" umbrella, and it's unsurprising that not everyone understands how complicated the power demand rules are. This isn't an "issue" in the usual sense of the word, but rather oddities in the regulations being exposed by the near 50/50 power split.
Sometimes, the way the driver uses the throttle pedal induces "deployment issues." We already saw what happened when a moment that usually proves inconsequential ruined Leclerc's SQ3 lap in China.
In this case, Hadjar, who is lifting through 130R to manage tyres, is affected by the quirks of the power demand rules.
The MGU-K must give at least 200 kW of electrical power for 1 second when he goes from lifting to beyond 98% throttle. Throttle position >98% is defined as the power-limited pending period.
What accentuates the issues for Isack here, is that from 130R to Casio Triangle - where cars typically harvest when not attacking - instead of recovering energy, it spends an extra couple seconds deploying it. He is left completely exposed on the subsequent straight because it used energy when it was supposed to recover it.
It's easy to fix in this case. Don't lift on the next laps. Where it becomes tricky is when the driver uses the throttle in a way that doesn't necessarily help the "issue" due to their driving habits, or trying to push a little harder at some points.
It's precisely this thats frustrating so many drivers. Because they don't really know they're doing something "wrong." The reason its become such a prominent aspect is because of the need to have 100% optimal deployment all the time, the product of a 50/50 power split.
@Brightonfan@Motorsport Back then they were genuinely trying to push to the limit, but now it’s just the cars are being stupid because of the battery …