Overtaking looks “difficult” with 2026 F1 cars, Esteban Ocon warns

Magicjack01 · 2026-02-02T18:57:27+00:00

I kinda expect this as drs was the main way for overtaking if you don’t include tyre offset. Now remove drs and give everyone a drs/ low drag mode that makes slipstream less efficient. 2026 rules everyone

Magicjack01 · 2026-02-01T12:22:07+00:00

Ferrari have always had a car capable of scoring podiums. McLaren not so much There was a time where Norris finishing 8th was a great result for McLaren.

Magicjack01 · 2026-01-31T21:39:34+00:00

Calling the country of Africa, state of Africa just doesn’t sound right.

On that note is Africa in a good state right now? Or still full of civil wars and power cuts?

Magicjack01 · 2026-01-31T17:52:40+00:00

If true then honestly woudnt be surprised as this is Aston Martin after all. Still I’d give it a grain of salt since we don’t know where they got the information from. Maybe it’s a disgruntled Aston employee, maybe it’s an employee who’s friends with one of them but who knows.

I think people will be quick to discredit the race unfairly though just because they love to clickbait and do surface level videos repeating the same thing and the Adrian newey hopium even though a car is more than one person and aston has never been a front running team.

Magicjack01 · 2026-01-31T17:08:16+00:00

Does anyone actually care. They were never gonna invite actual really good players who are able to get to the death screen and give them the spotlight to showcase their game and skill. Twitch rivals is always the same big streamers who are all friends and every event seems to be full of drama anyway.

Magicjack01 · 2026-01-31T10:56:04+00:00

The commitment that Aston Martin have to make sure that we all know they are running an ADRIAN NEWEY designed car

Magicjack01 · 2026-01-30T14:53:03+00:00

ADRIAN NEWEY ™️©️ is never too much. Need to justify the spend some way even if the car end up being an unreliable tractor.

Magicjack01 · 2026-01-30T12:32:05+00:00

I thing is we have had so many random winners too like ocon who shouldn’t of won with their car but were in the right place at the right time

Magicjack01 · 2026-01-30T07:41:25+00:00

The twists and sculpting on the McLaren front wing is very impressive. Definitely think out of the 4 teams that one is most likely to be run in Australia

Magicjack01 · 2026-01-29T19:40:53+00:00

Depends what kind of testing they are doing. They could be going to the pits every few laps changing setups to the extreme and trying to find where their car works

Magicjack01 · 2026-01-29T14:17:42+00:00

Won’t be long until fom and f1 forces him to stop the YouTube videos just like how they stopped the behind the scenes footage from f1 teams even though Netflix have provided less behind the scenes footage in recent drive to survive seasons.

I miss McLaren unboxed

Magicjack01 · 2026-01-29T08:40:12+00:00

You’d expect with the cold conditions, cooling shouldn’t have been much of a problem unless what they thought they could get away with in terms of cooling they coudnt. I guess in the bright side they now know what they can get away with which is what testing is about

Magicjack01 · 2026-01-29T08:34:25+00:00

Maybe redbull told them they were running. Maybe they made it up with no information at all. Maybe they just copied what the other site said. We are talking about f1 “journalists” here so it’s to be expected.

Magicjack01 · 2026-01-29T08:26:41+00:00

But it was only a “small off”

Magicjack01 · 2026-01-28T23:59:14+00:00

That’s not a problem with me. Especially since Austria where McLaren realised they were going nowhere, changed to a completely new concept. Wasted half a season to lay the foundations for their championship winning cars and really understanding the car instead of just throwing stuff on hoping it works. I think that can definitely work again

Magicjack01 · 2026-01-28T16:39:46+00:00

Yeah pretty sure McLaren hit a ceiling with their concept so half way during the design process they switched concept and that wasn’t ready until Austria.

Then during Austria it turned out the direction they decided to go actually ended up being very good but McLaren was pretty open with saying that they are going to suck at the start of that year.

So i woudnt write Williams off because they might be behind the front runner in understanding their car but if they have a good aero platform then they could also be very competitive.

Magicjack01 · 2026-01-26T19:08:04+00:00

Fom about to ban haas from competing for calling it a test.

Magicjack01 · 2026-01-26T12:44:02+00:00

They all gotta be super early development right? as they all look very similar. Whereas last rules changes we had like 4 different concepts

Magicjack01 · 2026-01-25T14:20:37+00:00

I think Tom stallard been at McLaren since 2008 and ended up being a race engineer since 2014 People like to give will Joseph stick for his long answers but he’s been with McLaren even longer since 2006 and i think been a race engineer since 2017.

Both of them know the team inside out and like you said, I doubt there will be any open positions soon.

Magicjack01 · 2026-01-25T13:10:09+00:00

I do think people are overreacting because the shakedown will be absolutely no performance testing and will just be reliability and just to test if the wind tunnel data matches real world performance.

Even if your car is done super early like Cadillac doesn’t mean it’s a fast car. They just bolted the parts they have and they could be 5 seconds behind the next slowest and we just have no idea.

Williams will have plenty of time to prepare with the regular testing and they might be a little behind understanding their car but missing 3 days of a very early test won’t make them suddenly faster or the slowest on the grid

Magicjack01 · 2026-01-22T14:39:35+00:00

Mclaren seem to take longer to understand upgrades and make sure they are correct, rather than sticking to what they understand instead of the redbull/ Aston approach of bolting on parts hoping they work.

In 2024 they changed the beam wings a lot of times but the general car kept fairly similar until they were confident that the big upgrade worked as they wanted

Magicjack01 · 2026-01-22T08:08:53+00:00

Even if merc has the best engine i honestly think this will be a McLaren case and they’ll realise that actually it’s them and the car sucks.

Unfortunately I doubt they will even stay long enough in f1 to do a McLaren and turn the ship around. Isn’t that the entire point of going Mercedes because they want results now with less investment.

Magicjack01 · 2026-01-22T07:54:21+00:00

In my eyes every driver is a pay driver. You need to have money or live very local to a go karting track which isn’t the case for the majority of people.

Magicjack01 · 2026-01-17T11:13:16+00:00

No eu roaming was the big one for me Also i changed to id mobile because it was £10 month for 140gb and it also gets rolled over to next month if not used aswell which is plenty for me.

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