[M5Rick]

Both Ferrari's are out on the track and Lec spins! His car looks a handful on the wet track it's all over the place.
Sainz and Ocon have had new PU's fitted.

[GuidoK]

It looks like the Ferrari's are fastest in pretty much every circumstance.

BTW the one odd thing the FIA changed in the sprint races, is that the outcome of the sprint race gives the grid positions for the GP race on sunday, except for the pole position.
The one who gets the fastest time in Q3, starts both the sprint race as the GP on sunday from pole.

Thoughts anyone?

Changing the points in the sprint race I can understand. It's quite a lot of risk for just starting grid order and max 3 points (and only 3 times per year)

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

So, no ones making a move yet and the underlying question is if to go for a dry or wet set up, the weather gurus are buried in their screens doing calculations.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Everyone complaining of no grip at Imola except Ferrari...

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Had to read that again my friend, HAM was not 7/10ths down but SEVEN seconds..oh my!

[M5Rick]

Pirelli Cinturato wets and inters hmm .. any secret tyre tests done with Ferrari beforehand??

[Bubbles]

Mercedes

Fin in front of the cooling inlet: A third element on the chassis side improves flow to the cooling inlet.

Rearview mirror housing: A new shape better separates the flow and optimizes the flow towards the rear of the car.

Tear-off edge on the underbody in front of the rear wheels: Improves the flow towards the diffuser and increases downforce at the rear.

Deflector end plate in the rear: more downforce on the diffuser roof inside the rear wheels.

RBR

New wing on the underbody keel, which is slimmer at the front: more downforce.

New rear brake vents: Better cooling for calipers and brake discs.

McLaren

New lower rear wing (Beam wing): More downforce, good timing for rain soaked tracks.

Alpine

New Underbody: geometry changes to improve downforce.

New lower rear wing (Beam wing)

Alpha Tauri

New Underbody: The front end of the floor has been changed in shape and height to make downforce more stable over different ground clearances. In addition, to avoid bouncing, a new slot was cut into the edges of the floor and the tear-off edge of the floor in front of the rear wheels was redesigned. Both to generate more contact pressure on the base plate.

Changes to the front diffuser vertical baffles.

Front Brake Vents: The inlet is now a "D" shape to better control the air turbulence from the front wheels.

Aston-Martin

Halo: Back to the first spec.

Rear view mirror bracket: Back to the first spec.

Floorplate Bracket: The cable that connects the floor to the gearbox has been moved further forward to prevent the floor from bending in this area and reduce bouncing.

Williams

Rear wing: Small changes to the flap for better efficiency and better use of the DRS effect.

Front Suspension: The wishbone fairing has been changed to give the pushrod more clearance and improve rearward flow.

Front Brake Vents

Alfa Romeo

New underbody: A new geometry of the floor and the vertical baffles in the front diffuser produce more downforce.

Wider fairing in the rear wheel area.

Rear brake vents: Improved cooling, small aerodynamic gains.

Haas

Wings on the edge of the base plate: The new geometry is intended to suppress the bouncing that had returned in Melbourne.

[Bubbles]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Everyone complaining of no grip at Imola except Ferrari...

5 spins from the Maranello team.

Not a fan of the sprint weekend, rain makes this even more of a circus.

Aston Martin is already using bits from the trash bin.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Lec was asked if Ferrari has any upgrades for Imola, he replied ''We ave noshing''

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by Bubbles

5 spins from the Maranello team.

Not a fan of the sprint weekend, rain makes this even more of a circus.

Aston Martin is already using bits from the trash bin.

Time for Max to out on softs and some of the others too no doubt after Albon's mess is cleared up.

[M5Rick]

It's battle between Lec and Max as they go into Q2, thank goodness it's dried up.

[M5Rick]

Sainz crashes! His tracking is out.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Sainz crashes! His tracking is out.

Just read that Sainz is crashed in the tyre wall ...Game over for Sainz .

The last 10 min. from QF-3 has started ...

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Just read that Sainz is crashed in the tyre wall ...Game over for Sainz .

The last 10 min. from QF-3 has started ...

Apparently he clipped a kerb too much, oh well the Bull got the matador

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

It's only 12c there and raining steadily now,Lec will never catch Max in this one.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Apparently he clipped a kerb too much, oh well the Bull got the matador

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Don't like the look of that rear tracking also, probably clobbered also for good measure.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Don't like the look of that rear tracking also, probably clobbered also for good measure.

Kmag in the gravel...

RED FLAG !!!

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Kmag in the gravel...

RED FLAG !!!

Mags did well to get of it unlike BOT earlier.

[///M Power-Belgium]

*****

[M5Rick]

Phew... BOT's got stuck again lol just as Max went top!

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Mags did well to get of it unlike BOT earlier.

MAX is P1 ...With 3 min. to go !