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Ferrari have now ended all links with Mick Schumacher.

 

I think he;s had a decent run at it, but Magnussen scored double the points he did, and that pretty much confirms he just wasn;t *that* good.

 

I suspect he'll be able to find a drive in Formula E or Sportscars though - there's a lot of factory LMP seats need filling for 2023.

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21 minutes ago, RFT said:

Ferrari have now ended all links with Mick Schumacher.

 

I think he;s had a decent run at it, but Magnussen scored double the points he did, and that pretty much confirms he just wasn;t *that* good.

 

I suspect he'll be able to find a drive in Formula E or Sportscars though - there's a lot of factory LMP seats need filling for 2023.


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3 hours ago, mexos said:

Yeah I am very happy about that. Nice one Toto. 

 

Give him some love and sim time and I think he'll turn out just fine to take on a Williams seat for 24. 

 

Nah, he'll never make the grade. Crazy, sentimental move by Toto. He said a few weeks ago he'd take care of Mick due to some loyalty he felt towards Michael. This is a token gesture. It's not like he'll ever drive a Merc' even if Lew or Geo are sick.

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He's not his dad for sure. But I still think in time he could make it in the midfield. He's getting breaks for sure because of his name and for sure any other driver would have been washed out by now but there you go. 

 

15 minutes ago, Blue said:

It's not like he'll ever drive a Merc' even if Lew or Geo are sick.

 

Then who? Ant? 

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Who was the spare at the back making the tea when Lewis got Covid and they hauled George out of the Williams and shoehorned him into the car?

I can't even remember who it was!. Micky would be better off calling up Porsche or Audi and getting in on he Le Mans program. then at least he'd have a shot at an F1 seat when they hit F1 in a few years.

Standing at the back is a fools game. 

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4 hours ago, Sidewaysbob said:

Who was the spare at the back making the tea when Lewis got Covid and they hauled George out of the Williams and shoehorned him into the car?

I can't even remember who it was!. Micky would be better off calling up Porsche or Audi and getting in on he Le Mans program. then at least he'd have a shot at an F1 seat when they hit F1 in a few years.

Standing at the back is a fools game. 

 

I don't want to call WEC a lower series but...

 

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If he goes to endurance he's done with F1 and not coming back. IMO a reserve at a top F1 team is hugely more relevant and valuable to him in his quest to get another F1 seat. Any experience he gets at Merc will also be of interest to another team. 

 

The reason Danny Ric won't do another series is for the same reason. You invite the thinking that you've 'moved on'. Staying as a reserve  - focussed only on that he's still 'in' F1.

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On the call with Neil Martin, ex-F1 strategist.

 

Went through the pit stops.  36 different processes.  Two people simply employed to push down on the sidepods to stabilise the car when it is jacked up.  Mechanics are chosen per wheel based on their dominant hand, as the idea is to minimise physical movements.  If a driver misses the box by 20cm, it is 0.4 seconds added.

 

The strategy stuff involves about 40 million calculations - he could predict the top 8 in order (barring unforeseen events like safety cars) by lap 10. They know what the other cars are capable of based on live and past data and predict what they are going to do and run various scenarios.

 

For USA 2012, they worked out that starting 6th (Massa) and 8th (Alonso) on the grid was worse than starting 7th and 9th.  But they noticed that deliberately giving Massa a penalty would give them a better chance of getting Alonso into the podium places.  They worked out that they needed Alonso to be 4th after turn 1.  They set the car up to maximise it's first 400 metres and for him to drive around the outside of the corner and he could get to 4th.  They don't deviate from strategy, they just run it so many times that everything is considered.

 

"Why are Ferrari so bad?"  The tools are very good, but its down to the humans in the background who are making the decisions.  Teams train to minimise mistakes, but it is all about pressure.  Ferrari has the most pressure (due to history, name etc) and that often overloads them.

 

Best driver in his experience - Alonso, but only if he feels loved.  If he feels that team isn't behind him, "he drives like I do".  Mika Hakkinen and Kimi Raikonnen were absolute geniuses.

 

How do teams get one up on each other? "It's about finding the holes in the rules."  Once you had chosen a solution (e.g. a longer wheelbase compared to others) then either it works and they dominate or they are screwed because you can't change.

 

A team at the back of the grid now would be the dominant team twenty years ago, purely down to the professionalism and training.

 

The top teams don't do "gut feel" - everything is planned, simulated and/or tested.

 

After Spygate, teams are self-policing on people moving between teams and taking information with them.

 

He get's 60 LinkedIn requests asking "how do I get into F1?".  Join Formula Student, work on STEM subject, find an edge in terms of working in racing so getting experience.

 

Interesting comment about F1 vs Formula E.  To watch F1 you have to go to a race, so people are interested in F1.  With Formula E, being in a city, then you can shut down a city and people in their apartments are getting exposed.  So you have a crowd of a couple of hundred thousand people in the middle of Hong Kong who would otherwise never get to see racing.  

 

Now we've spent an hour making cocktails, so I'm well on the way to getting pissed.

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I tried to remember off the top of my head what they all do in a pit stop. I make it 19 people, have I forgotten anyone?

 

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I guess they must have a few spare people in case someone falls over? What about spotters, people to clear debris out of brake ducts, that kind of thing?

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7 hours ago, kiroquai said:

Random trivia of the day: which F1 person is pictured here during a test day for British F3 in 1995? (They raced in the series in 1991)

 

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That’s pretty good - I had to use Google to figure it out. 
 

Spoiler

Zak Brown

 

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