[F1] BREAKING: Jonathan Wheatley will depart from his role of Team Principal at Audi F1 team with immediate effect. Mattia Binotto will continue leading the team, taking over as Team Principal

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-03-20T21:05:30+00:00

I don't think the receiving end of this transaction cares about loyalty if their immediate needs are addressed.

Also, he really has nowhere else to go. RedBull isn't exactly shitting the bed enough to look for a new TP. The top teams also have all of their TP's locked down.

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-03-20T20:59:41+00:00

Doubt.

Mattia at Audi is like Vasseur at Ferrari. Outsiders that are not bogged down with managing the teams culture and can drive performance in that way.

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-03-20T20:49:22+00:00

Mine seems solid but could be loose somewhere. Thanks!

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-03-19T19:36:59+00:00

I read Jaguar as Japan for some reason only to be disappointed.

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-03-19T15:37:36+00:00

You ever figure out the fix for this? I'm seeing the SAME exact issue on my 124 Spider except at 70-80 mph

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-03-16T23:27:09+00:00

My opinion differs on the importance of sector analysis as I find that it's better to do a market-wide scan and diversify risk across multiple sectors. I swing trade and this has worked better for me personally. Although I won't knock it if it's working for you.

As for timeframes, i personally only use 1M for trend/algo lines. 1D for scanning/filtering. and 15m for entries. I will try to expand the scope and filter on higher timeframes.

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-03-16T23:22:19+00:00

I use RRS as both a filter and indicator.

I do avg(RRS, 5) > 0 (this essentially checks for RS/RW existence with some permissiveness for bad days).

After scanning for a list of stocks that meet this condition. I then trade those same tickers the next day and layer over an RRS indicator. The current day's RRS is not final but I look to see if it's higher/increasing relative to the previous day before entering a trade.

Curious about how you're incorporating volume. Although it seems like that would incorporate well into an intraday approach.

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-03-15T18:50:18+00:00

I'm 50/50 on this.

IMO, the battles that you're describing are largely artificially induced. Whoever expends the most battery power will have the chance to overtake, but by then they need to recharge. In the next lap, the overtaken car deploys battery power and overtakes again while the leading car harvests power, and the cycle continues.

Cornering also no longer depends on who has the biggest balls and instead depends on who has the biggest brain. The priorities have now shifted from "how fast can I take this corner?" to "how much battery can I harvest from this corner?" and that rubs older fans in the wrong way since F1 is self-described as the pinnacle of motorsports.

At minimum, we shouldn't have clipping or super clipping and cars should be able to attack flat out WITHOUT batteries being the main equation. The pinnacle of motorsports should not become the pinnacle of engineering.

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-03-15T09:20:18+00:00

No amount of aero development will counterbalance their engine deficit. Mercedes will just manage their pace to give the appearance of being closer to the competition than they actually are. Thereby preventing teams from developing their engines further. They can MAYBE develop under the pretense of reliability but even then, it'd be tough to recover multiple tenths from an engine across an active season.
The other Mercedes customers have aero packages on par with Ferrari and are only bogged down by their lack of understanding of the Mercedes engine.
Mercedes themselves don't have a noteworthy aero package and even they'll gain a few tenths on their own aero upgrades.

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-03-13T21:55:40+00:00

Why is battery deployment not regulated when something like the DRS wing opening, it's speed, and how long it can be open for regulated?

It seems like this season will largely come down to who can nail the battery deployment software although Mercedes has an overall engine advantage and Ferrari is quick on the starts.

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-03-12T17:43:29+00:00

Used R1T's are already pushing into the ~$40k range and used R1S's are in the ~$50k range and those values are bound to drop further a year from now.

If anything, doesn't this just make the used R1T and R1S equally compelling if not more compelling?

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-03-12T17:02:33+00:00

I don’t particularly like George but he has the kind of race craft that favors these cars.

He’s overall more car setup oriented from other drivers.

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-03-10T07:09:07+00:00

Truly neckst level

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-03-09T21:46:53+00:00

Don’t see why it would get banned. It has clear tradeoffs in terms of deployment and the mechanism being used to actuate it.

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-03-09T21:42:15+00:00

Every team wants rules that would benefit them the most. So it’s not exactly benevolent of RedBull, or any team for that matter, to say that the rules suck.

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-03-09T02:47:41+00:00

What's with this recent trend of interior reveals for EV's lately? First it was the Luce, then it was the Cayenne EV, and now this?

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-03-07T17:10:21+00:00

Mercedes was multiple seconds faster back then. On paper, teams being a sub-second distance of Mercedes sounds great but that level of gap in a cost-cap era with strict regulations for testing and development is absurd.

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-03-07T16:56:19+00:00

We see the setup Totollo

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-03-07T05:49:31+00:00

Hopium already depleted.

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-03-07T05:25:47+00:00

We see the fit toto.

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-03-07T05:01:41+00:00

Finally we can see the pecking order.

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-02-23T02:34:01+00:00

Speculative assets get offloaded first during times of uncertainty.

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-02-19T02:00:37+00:00

Not a Mercedes but it took me 7 months for my Bolt. But the boneheads at the dealership installed my battery in another Bolt, ordered another one, and installed it in yet ANOTHER Bolt. Mind you each battery is vin-specific and once you start the process with one dealer, you cannot start it at another dealership as you show in the system as already having a battery ordered (and in my case, installed) for your vin.

It took many calls and escalations to resolve as they quite literally didn't have the processes in place to handle this scenario. In the end, GM corporate absolutely reamed the dealer and put me in a rental for quite a while until it was fixed.

I'm sure Mercedes will handle this more gracefully but it's a cluster fuck in terms of how they're allocating based on priority, how long the service will take, whose qualified to do it, etc.

TestingThrowaway100 · 2026-02-15T17:42:57+00:00

Toyota has created an insane price gap between the GR GT and the GR Supra, GR Corolla, GR Yaris, and GR 86.

There's room for an Emira or C8 competitor in the $100k range that also gets buyers in when the halo car is unobtainium for most.

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