F1 2023 Season

Russel was about to reach or beat red bull's time so you can't read too much into these practices.
 
Damn, RB almost a second ahead of 3rd place car in FP3 and they are still sandbagging. Mental.
 
Honestly, we can moan about regulations all day and there is serious question marks over how FIA handle all of that. And debate all day how great Max is. But damn, the engineers at Red Bull should be incredibly, incredibly proud of the cars they’ve put out last year and this year. This year in particular, not only did they start with the fastest car from last year, it feels like they’ve somehow made the biggest stride forward too (with the exception of Aston perhaps, and that only because they’ve nabbed some of RBs engineers). They’ve just executed at a level far beyond any of the other teams. It’s a brilliant achievement.
 
Honestly, we can moan about regulations all day and there is serious question marks over how FIA handle all of that. And debate all day how great Max is. But damn, the engineers at Red Bull should be incredibly, incredibly proud of the cars they’ve put out last year and this year. This year in particular, not only did they start with the fastest car from last year, it feels like they’ve somehow made the biggest stride forward too (with the exception of Aston perhaps, and that only because they’ve nabbed some of RBs engineers). They’ve just executed at a level far beyond any of the other teams. It’s a brilliant achievement.
It's a combination of best driver, best engineering talent, fastest pit crew and best strategy team. Must be quite crushing for the rest of the contenders. That being said, both Merc And Ferrari should be way above where they are currently and that's entirely their fault.
 
Leclerc said they were not showing their full potential yet, on paper Ferrari should do better here. Will be strange if they are so far off pace
 
It's a combination of best driver, best engineering talent, fastest pit crew and best strategy team. Must be quite crushing for the rest of the contenders. That being said, both Merc And Ferrari should be way above where they are currently and that's entirely their fault.
I dont think driver wise it makes that much of a difference when your that far ahead. Put hamilton, alonso, leclerc in the RB, and they would achieve the same.

The biggest single difference is the floor, its simply the most important bit of the car now and RB are light years ahead of the rest on that front.

Yes ferrari and mercedes have made a mess of their own accord.
 
Norris probably out in Q1 now, why the feck did I put you in my top 10.
 
Sargeant has had a mare after the limits thing.

We will have couple of safety cars tomorrow surely.
 
Wow, max is out. He will still win tomorrow. Will be interesting to see the RB on full beans.

So not a snooze fest now for tomorrow.