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re: 2026 Formula 1 (F1) Season Thread
Posted on 3/5/26 at 11:27 pm to MississippiLebowski
Posted on 3/5/26 at 11:27 pm to MississippiLebowski
Window Licker is only 7 seconds back!
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Posted on 3/5/26 at 11:40 pm to TigerFanatic99
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Window Licker is only 7 seconds back!
Alonso is now 5.8s off. Just outside of 107%.
Regardless of what happens in qualy, a car can race "at the steward's discretion" if they show enough speed at some point during the weekend. So far, Aston Martin is not there yet. They may not be allowed to race, which would be quite the disaster. Sponsors will be pissed.
Update: Alonso is just inside 107%. Stroll is still outside 107%.
This post was edited on 3/5/26 at 11:42 pm
Posted on 3/5/26 at 11:44 pm to TouchedTheAxeIn82
Lindblad is a revelation so far.
Hamilton is revitalized. He must like this car a lot better than the last car.
Hadjar is about 0.6s behind Max at the moment. I'm really interested to see what the gap is going to be at the end of qualy.
Hamilton is revitalized. He must like this car a lot better than the last car.
Hadjar is about 0.6s behind Max at the moment. I'm really interested to see what the gap is going to be at the end of qualy.
Posted on 3/5/26 at 11:53 pm to TouchedTheAxeIn82
Silver Arrows look legit
Ferrari looks legit
Max looks washed
Ferrari looks legit
Max looks washed
Posted on 3/6/26 at 12:07 am to TigerFanatic99
Some guy on YouTube was saying that Albert Park is not a good place to introduce the 2026 cars, because it's a flowing track with not enough heavy braking zones. The backside of the track is curvy, but it's essentially a back straight with no braking (maybe they tap the brake briefly to enter the Turn 9-10 complex). Some of you may remember that Turn 6 used to be a hard braking zone to start the "back straight" section, but a couple of years ago they increased the radius of Turn 6 so the cars could launch onto the back straight with more speed.
If you watch a cockpit cam, you can literally hear the engines lose revs on the back straight because they are "super clipping" -- harvesting energy at full throttle. It sounds ridiculous, like they're just taking it easy instead of trying to go maximum speed. The drivers must hate it, but the fans at the track aren't going to notice, and if you watch the main cams, you're not going to notice.
If you watch a cockpit cam, you can literally hear the engines lose revs on the back straight because they are "super clipping" -- harvesting energy at full throttle. It sounds ridiculous, like they're just taking it easy instead of trying to go maximum speed. The drivers must hate it, but the fans at the track aren't going to notice, and if you watch the main cams, you're not going to notice.
This post was edited on 3/6/26 at 12:55 am
Posted on 3/6/26 at 2:12 am to TouchedTheAxeIn82
Aston Martin arrived in Melbourne with four batteries. After FP1, they revealed that they were down to two batteries, the ones installed in the cars, with no spares. Asked if they could fly in additional spares from Japan, they said that no spares existed. So it's possible after FP2, FP3, and Q1, they qualify for the race but destroy the remaining batteries and don't make it to the grid.
espn.com/f1/story/_/id/48118729/australian-grand-prix-aston-martin-participation-doubt-following-battery-issue
espn.com/f1/story/_/id/48118729/australian-grand-prix-aston-martin-participation-doubt-following-battery-issue
Posted on 3/6/26 at 4:36 am to TouchedTheAxeIn82
Aston Martin is in the place we all thought Cadillac would be
This post was edited on 3/6/26 at 5:12 am
Posted on 3/6/26 at 5:00 am to TouchedTheAxeIn82
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Aston Martin arrived in Melbourne with four batteries
I genuinely don't know, but how often are they normally replacing batteries?
Posted on 3/6/26 at 5:19 am to Lsut81
Also, just saw F1 say that Bahrain and Saudi Arabia would not be replaced on the schedule if they cancel them do to the bullshite with Iran.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 5:48 am to Gulf Coast Tiger
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Aston Martin is in the place we all thought Cadillac would be
I'm struggling to wrap my head around how an established team with money to throw around like AM is in this bad of a position, especially with Newey involved.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 6:00 am to TigerFanatic99
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I'm struggling to wrap my head around how an established team with money to throw around like AM is in this bad of a position, especially with Newey involved
One word- Honda
Honda shut down their power unit program, the employees for that program went to work for Red Bull. Honda then signed with AM and hired a bunch of inexperienced engineers and mechanics to build this power unit.
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