Formula 1 2024 – WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS

Testing testing 1…2…3…Is this thing on?

Is it time for predictions again?

Read Nick’s post that I quoted

Ah yes. As you were….

The Red Bull secrets being revealed…

Oh Adrian Newey the man that you are…

[?: @AlbertFabrega] pic.twitter.com/c8NEKp11Qt

— RBR Daily (@RBR_Daily) February 21, 2024

That’s gotta sting at Mercedes If RB get that vertical sidepod design to work

It’s one ugly machine though – those side cannons are the sort of looks only a mother could love. Notice the intakes into them at the end of the halo…

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It’s one ugly machine though – those side cannons are the sort of looks only a mother could love. Notice the intakes into them at the end of the halo…

Love it. Closer pic of that detail…

Los conductos de la tapa motor tienen una entrada en la parte delantera justo allado de la cabeza del piloto y por encima del reposacabezas. #rb20 pic.twitter.com/Da1BLhY9CH

— Albert Fabrega (@AlbertFabrega) February 21, 2024

Track still looks quite green so can’t say anything about performance yet, but man that car is rumple fugly from above!

All I can see with those cannons…

So F1Tv – is it worth the £20/year?

If you can get F1TV it sounds good.

Thought it was more like £80 a year though.

If you’re in the UK you’ll need to add the cost of a VPN too and then hope F1TV don’t block your stream! 🙂

…looking at the times so far though – you may want to wait till 2026!* 😭

(*I know it’s only testing, but…)

It’s one ugly machine though – those side cannons are the sort of looks only a mother could love.

I’m imagining them as bulges to cover the cams on a wide V-12 😀

Isn’t the £20 F1TV just live timing?

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Isn’t the £20 F1TV just live timing?

I think it is, although if one were theoretically to procure the use of F1 TV Pro (including video streaming) using a VPN set to go via an Indian endpoint and purchase it using Google Pay, they may find it is cheaper than the regular pricing…

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Isn’t the £20 F1TV just live timing?

That’s gotta sting at Mercedes If RB get that vertical sidepod design to work

From what I understand the “zero pod” concept is all about chasing peak downforce, the design exposes more floor so it can potentially generate higher peak downforce. Mercedes couldn’t get it to work as they hadn’t really understood how this interacts with the mechanical platform and as a result they got lot of issues, the horrible porpoising being the most obvious one.

IF Redbull can use the concept to increase downforce while using their advantage when it come to understanding the overall package then it really doesn’t bode well for the competition.

I was about to post that all the cars look more compliant/no porpoising compared to last year, but then the merc was just shown on screen, either bouncing or porpoising horribly. Hope they’re just testing stuff and it’s not a sign of things to come for the W15…

then the merc was just shown on screen, either bouncing or porpoising horribly.

😬😬😬🤦‍♂️

3 hours in and I’m going to make the wildly predictable errr..prediction that this year will again be dominated by RB.

There, I said it, we can now all spend our Sundays more productively.

3 hours in and I’m going to make the wildly predictable errr..prediction that this year will again be dominated by RB.

I know it is only testing, but they do seem to have a huge advantage already.

They do seem to have made the leap that everyone was hoping that they wouldn’t be able to manage, and yet again left everyone trailing in their wake…

Unless every other team is sandbagging and the RB has just a thimble’s worth of fuel in it, and Max is ragging the arse of it.

It’s one ugly machine

As is the car Tsunoda is driving…that’s one properly gopping paint job

but then the merc was just shown on screen, either bouncing or porpoising horribly.

Defo Lewis drove that car in the sim – then thought **** this!! 🙂

So RB is already faster than last year’s benchmark, and .70 secs or so faster than the Ferrari after just three hours on day one.

That’s that then isn’t it?

I think it is, although if one were theoretically to procure the use of F1 TV Pro (including video streaming) using a VPN set to go via an Indian endpoint and purchase it using Google Pay, they may find it is cheaper than the regular pricing…

F1TV blocked the use of VPN’s to access the service earlier this year. Most annoying. If you purchase in a separate country and try to access without a VPN you’ll probably get kicked off too.

Disappointing on the RB front, guess it’ll be highlights only for me this year.

That’s that then isn’t it?

Unless Hornergate gets in the way it looks like it.  Adrian Newey eh, took one look at Mercedes last year and went “oh, interesting, let me get my pencil out…” and makes it work.

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F1TV blocked the use of VPN’s to access the service earlier this year. Most annoying.

Oh dear, that’s a shame.  Thanks for the correction though.

Oh no! Sargeant is out in the Williams – I predict 5 laps till he bins it! 🙂

Norris goes fastest after only 16 laps.

Still a glimmer of hope for some competition this season 😆

…as Max goes 8 tenths faster!😕

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…as Max goes 8 tenths faster!😕

Yep. That is pretty damning, I reckon.

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Oh no! Sargeant is out in the Williams – I predict 5 laps till he bins it! 🙂

Nearly!

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Oh no! Sargeant is out in the Williams – I predict 5 laps till he bins it! 🙂

Yep. That is pretty damning, I reckon.

The lap after Norris does the fastest time, Verstappen goes and puts nearly a second on him, after keeping Le Clerc to just over half a second in the morning, and you just know there’s more to come. Ditching the Sky sub has looked like a better and better move all day.

I think WEC will take up most of my time on the first race weekend – F1 will be on in the background!

🤩 🤩 🤩 ….

At what point do the other teams just say **** it and leave the sport. If it pans out like last season (or worse), what’s the point of making the effort?

I dunno – while they’re still making millions they’ll still come out to play – but it’s good to see that aero handicap hurting Red Bull hard!! 🤷‍♂️

If the season is like last season will F1 have anyone interested at all?  I am not at all sure I can cope with smug highlights on C4.

My discounted Sky package is due for renewal in April and they want £20 a month to keep watching.

The first few races will need to be phenomenally good to make it worth that.

Mercedes was back in 12th, sure they’re sandbagging.

Racing News have broken that Horner is leaving Red Bull on the 28th on Insta.

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Mercedes was back in 12th, sure they’re sandbagging.

Pole time last year was 1:29.7, even Max is currently 1.5s back from that so yeah they probably all are!

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Mercedes was back in 12th, sure they’re sandbagging.

From twitter:

There’s a claim that Viaplay Finland said today that Christian Horner will be sacked by Red Bull next week. This wasn’t stated in the broadcast in such terms (it was misinterpreted then spread) and Viaplay even corrected the claim on air. Process isn’t resolved either way yet.

F1TV blocked the use of VPN’s to access the service earlier this year. Most annoying. If you purchase in a separate country and try to access without a VPN you’ll probably get kicked off too.

Blocking VPNs is simply a game of whack-a-mole. I’ve been using VPNs for years to access geo-restricted content, and when the content provider has blocked a VPN, I’ve just raised a support ticket with the VPN provider and they tweak something* behind the scenes, the problem is fixed and I can watch the content again.

Granted, sometimes it might take a couple of days before the fix is put in place, so it’s not gonna work for “live” or time-critical events but the last time I watched F1 live was Abu Dhabi in 2021…

* Probably assign a different IP address