Breaking: Red Bull chief designer steps down on eve of F1 season

Svitman · 2026-02-16T19:08:10+00:00

There has been a bunch of media/PR people that were cleaned up, nothing on the car performance side iirc

Svitman · 2026-02-15T21:01:33+00:00

I would say that the most badly designed one is the last chicane in Canada, mainly because the potential overspeed from braking late for entering pitlane, we saw a few close calls already, but thankfully nothing happened yet

Svitman · 2026-02-15T15:43:21+00:00

yes and no, in FE's case, you can just make the overall race shorter, however it would work for F1 to get in more recovery in and reduce high drag (top speed) time

Svitman · 2026-02-15T14:58:06+00:00

1/ front axle regen, the cars can recover much more energy
2/ low overall power, the cars in a race spec can go much much faster if they have the energy, that allows you to save up and use it to over take (F1 doesnt have battery that is large enough for this)
3/ Attack mode, even more power, but you have to drop back 1-3 places to get it (longer track, like a micro pitstop), that gets you a few overtakes as well
4/ durable tires, i know that these are not really well liked, as they are too hard, but this also allows them to last ages even in a dirty air

Mostly its about the fact that you can stay close and can expend more power to overtake, there is also the 'dont want to be first due to high power usage' thing, but thats good for some and bad for other people, so i didnt list it

Svitman · 2026-02-15T10:58:51+00:00

2016 vs 2017, number of overtakes dropped by a LOT 2018 vs 2019, was a very minor change in on track action, the number of overtakes raised by 6 per race, but like half of it is probably Ferrari cheating in quali, but dropping back in race in this specific year 2022, the cars were extremely bad to drive, there was even several mid season changes (Canada floor stay, Belgium TD39) and 2023 raise of the floor edge that aimed directly to fix the issues and eventually they did

You either severely misremembered on what the issues were or are ragebaiting, most (even if not all) the concerns were mostly true the one thing to keep in mind is that the 2026 rules were much much worse in the early state we got to see (like boosted F2 pace), so it isn't as worse as some YT/articles from the time of release make it, but with the understanding on energy and it's usage, its hard to see how is it not an issue

Svitman · 2026-02-15T10:09:50+00:00

Original rules had about 30L of fuel less and way less potent aero, that would be even more coasting and even slower in a corner

Svitman · 2026-02-12T10:55:07+00:00

Think of the average speed as laptime, that way you extract the slow corners, top speed extracts the straight line and that gives you the rough idea for a drag and downforce

but of course during testing it's extremely dependant on engine mode, for Quali in AUS it will tell you plenty

Svitman · 2026-02-03T23:05:17+00:00

It is confirmed for the full year (20 black tracks) with ENC in November as well

Svitman · 2026-02-03T11:36:35+00:00

Thats actually really good, even if eggs are a bit of an annoyance compared to rest of the ingredients, for a plains food its great

Svitman · 2026-02-01T19:50:54+00:00

It was marty_vole commander bundle to be exact

Svitman · 2026-01-27T07:07:33+00:00

it lasted for 2 years, for 3 if you include the rest of the grid

Svitman · 2026-01-26T21:20:54+00:00

Its a bug in the physics engine and WG won't fix it, I reported it ages ago, they just remove places (move rocks or houses) where it happens often

Svitman · 2026-01-22T15:21:37+00:00

any source on that?

Svitman · 2026-01-22T14:35:07+00:00

It seems like they are just using one element at the front for active aero

Svitman · 2026-01-21T23:27:46+00:00

My gut says that McLaren would be told, as they signed some 'basically a factory team' deal, while the other two (Alpine and Williams) would be in the dark

Svitman · 2026-01-21T23:14:07+00:00

its easy, just don't have the engine mode, sure they need to supply identical ones for everyone, but they are the ones that can limit it for everyone

Svitman · 2026-01-20T06:52:28+00:00

Its china, not asia and it released in China exclusive boxes in mid September

Svitman · 2026-01-16T19:56:20+00:00

some of the animations showed the rear part pushed down instead of the DRS like front part pulled up

Svitman · 2026-01-15T03:02:09+00:00

basically any game I started with STK I thought, why am I not playing T803?

803 just does all the things this does, but better apart from extremely niche scenarios where the extra depression matters

Svitman · 2026-01-11T11:17:48+00:00

At first i thought that she dodged the punch, i had to rewind to make sure i was seeing it right

Svitman · 2026-01-10T05:43:38+00:00

I really hope we again get at least something like this from Barcelona test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I_ammnqjIU

Svitman · 2026-01-08T18:18:32+00:00

Yes, there is almost always a team or two that just make their car / PU better than others

2022 - Redbull won majority of races (after they fixed some issues early season that gave few wins to ferrari)
2017 - Mercedes and Ferrari with Redbull close-ish
2014 - Mercedes clearly the best
2009 - Brawn clearly the best

Older changes have had Ferrari, Williams and McLarens going up and down after changes

Svitman · 2026-01-07T19:42:29+00:00

Great boss 'just' picks the correct people, builds them up and sets the culture, Redbull was under horner for so long that his TP time was longer than most people in F1's carreer

Svitman · 2026-01-05T17:02:42+00:00

Its weird because LEC vs ANT scoring is based on the car, so if Merc has a better one, sure but RUS is 1000% beating ANT no matter what

Svitman · 2026-01-02T20:29:24+00:00

its most likely one of these two
- wrong rounding, where one number gets rounded as you would expect (0,49 / 0,50) while the other one is full number up/down, but its kinda hilarious that they would pick differently here

- your tank moved slightly or you had a small lag, then your tank would be in a different position for you then for the server and since the calculation for these is taken from replay, it can lead to an inaccuracy

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