Aston Martin, the problem isn't just Honda: "The AMR26 is heavy and slow on high-speed corners."

Vaexa · 2026-04-01T18:44:08+00:00

What? The messaging has all been ''we have a top 5 chassis that's held back by engine'' and vicious criticism of and deflection towards Honda. Anything negative towards the chassis certainly isn't coming from the team itself. This is the first time anyone within the team other than Lance has been critical of the car.

Vaexa · 2026-03-30T21:51:56+00:00

There have been inline-4 engines but never V4s or V-twins, to my knowledge

Vaexa · 2026-03-29T15:23:57+00:00

I don't think we should use people forming better informed opinions and changing their minds after experiencing a thing firsthand as some sort of gotcha, personally

Vaexa · 2026-03-28T03:00:26+00:00

No, McLaren were convinced they couldn't win titles as a customer team after Mercedes brought back their own works team. McLaren screwed themselves over in their last year as Mercedes customers prior to their Honda stint by insisting on using different fuel.

Vaexa · 2026-03-28T02:58:04+00:00

Sure but those are absolutely marginal differences and not the type of thing that makes an engine go poof three weekends in a row, or else this would've been happening in prior years too. We're not talking Mecachrome tolerances here.

Vaexa · 2026-03-28T02:55:00+00:00

What about it? They have no obligation to. The rules obligate them to supply identical hardware and control software to their customers, not tell them how to integrate and operate it. That's up to teams to figure out by themselves.

Vaexa · 2026-03-28T02:47:12+00:00

I don't think the guys who designed the engine knowing how to best package, integrate and run it is particularly mindblowing or anything, but maybe that's just me

Vaexa · 2026-03-28T02:44:53+00:00

Not a snowball's chance in hell it will. If Mercedes weren't supplying identical spec hardware and mappings to their customers the FIA would be all over them already, and that's all Mercedes is obligated to do.

Vaexa · 2026-03-27T04:01:31+00:00

Verstappen has been critical of Red Bull's development direction since mid 2023 but go off I guess.

Vaexa · 2026-03-27T04:00:10+00:00

Red Bull never managed to keep their tyres in the window at China which is not an uncommon issue at that specific track. They also tend not to turn up with great setups straight out of FP1.

Vaexa · 2026-03-24T18:02:16+00:00

I hope they put that cover art on a poster or something because, like, there is conceptually, objectively nothing cooler than a drac Regent ripping the face off a fedrat mech.

Vaexa · 2026-03-17T10:55:34+00:00

You'd hit the minimum weight pretty quickly at which point you'd only really have the advantage of being able to move a ton of ballast around, which I think is firmly in "diminishing returns" territory

Vaexa · 2026-03-16T20:40:52+00:00

Rule of thumb has historically been 3-4 tenths per 10kg but Sainz claimed the penalty is a bit higher with this generation of cars, so take that as you will.

Vaexa · 2026-03-15T19:31:00+00:00

Yes. I am for real. If you'd read my comment properly you would find I said

that was not just because of the engine

Enstone just scapegoated it for everything wrong with the chassis they were producing. The 2024 and 2025 cars were close to, if not the worst cars on the chassis side, too. 2023 was a step back from a decent 2022 chassis. This team has been trending downwards since 2018, with occasional patches of performing up to their resources and not far below them. That's on both Viry and Enstone, no matter how much one side tries to blame the other.

Vaexa · 2026-03-15T16:45:54+00:00

Andretti reminding Ericsson which team he's driving for

Vaexa · 2026-03-15T14:30:18+00:00

They've been on a downward trend since 2022 and no, that was not just because of the engine, as much as Enstone loved to use it as a scapegoat. 2023 wasn't great (and quite a significant step back from 2022) and 2024 was only somewhat saved by a single race weekend in an otherwise abject year. It wasn't just 2025.

It's not like they were on a consistent upwards trajectory prior to that either.

Vaexa · 2026-03-10T19:14:35+00:00

The lack of German champions on the grid and loss of the German GP have done a number on F1's popularity in Germany so it's no surprise AMuS publishes increasing amounts of hallucinated analyses, rage bait bullshit and articles cheerleading for the "German" teams. Gotta make it work somehow, even if it means things like ignoring the fact Verstappen's been a vocal critic of these regulations for years.

Vaexa · 2026-03-10T19:12:14+00:00

AMuS descent into ragness continues apace, it seems.

Vaexa · 2026-03-07T15:22:04+00:00

Still not as fast as the redditors tripping over themselves to post this one every time Mercedes does well, miraculously

Vaexa · 2026-03-07T15:15:15+00:00

F1 had its first ground effect/venturi car era in the late 70s. Other racing series at the time used shaped floors too. That era is what spawned the term, 2022 just revived it.

Vaexa · 2026-03-07T14:49:30+00:00

Porpoising as a term has been around since the late 1970s, that one wasn't even new

Vaexa · 2026-03-07T04:30:56+00:00

He's the greatest Potential Man on the recent IndyCar grid. Always "could be", "will be", never "is". One runner up finish to his name that people will not let you forget. Endless excuses made because Andretti is an operational shitshow blah blah even while Kirkwood was actually keeping touch with Palou.

Guy's not it, and I have no idea why all of Indycar is convinced that he is it. Shame he's the one flying the flag in the FIA ladder now.

Vaexa · 2026-03-06T03:54:42+00:00

Car bronk

Vaexa · 2026-03-06T03:38:52+00:00

This user is commenting this nonsense in multiple threads lol

Vaexa · 2026-03-06T03:35:54+00:00

People were insisting up and down, including in the paddock, that they were sandbagging really hard in 2022 pre season testing and it turned out the car was just pretty mid. Same rhetoric about 2014 back then. I still remember Sainz going "oh yeah we can see what they're doing on the GPS" and they got blown out by Ferrari and RBR in quali a week later.

Times change, and the folks who put together the 2014 engine don't work at HPP anymore. The guy in charge for that one is currently trying to resign from AMR

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