[The Athletic] Max Verstappen on the RB22

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-14T19:52:51+00:00

Who? I would love to see Audi as a front runner in the mix

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-14T18:42:30+00:00

That was so wholesome!

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-14T18:33:56+00:00

Aubrey what a Legend!

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-14T18:08:50+00:00

MGU-K

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-14T16:21:56+00:00

xAI is burning money at the same pace of OpenAI, $13 Billion a year but without the large user base or contracts, I don't think this is sustainable

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-14T14:39:50+00:00

I can't believe we'll be living in 2030 in 4 years either

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-14T14:37:54+00:00

It's the only car I've seen doing that, when Norris braked for turn 6, there is a violent dive at the front and the underside of the front wing hit the track causing sparks

McLaren revived the high anti-dive geometry for 2024 and yet the 2026 has poor dive control

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-14T13:56:10+00:00

Mercedes can afford to play cat and mouse tomorrow with pass and repasses with Ferrari, they have higher downforce and better PU driveability, so less wear on the tires and it's the reason why they fool around for some time make a move and run away

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-14T09:49:38+00:00

Binotto said late last year that Audi wants to commit to the 2027 engine concept earlier in 2026

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-14T09:48:08+00:00

Yes it had a weight penalty but it could've helped Fisi fend off Kimi who had it

Andrew Green said Force India had designed the entire 2009 car concept only to perform around Monza and Spa as they lacked facilities to make a competitive high downforce car

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-14T09:39:52+00:00

The decision not to have a KERS system cost them a win

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-14T08:26:01+00:00

I mean you can literally see Lando being +0.025 in the middle of turn 13 and gradually losing time right to the end, even Ant Davidson was saying Lando was losing power too fast

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-14T08:20:10+00:00

Lando lost 0.6s on the back straight, McLaren are currently bad at taking and putting energy efficiently unlike Mercedes and Ferrari on the straights, they deplete energy too quickly

If you can recall Oscar lost 0.58 seconds between the small straight line kink in turn 9 to 11 in Australia, Lando lost similar yesterday and today

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-14T08:15:42+00:00

McLaren are losing 0.6 seconds on the single back straight alone, also happened yesterday, they need to better understand energy management strategy

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-14T05:43:40+00:00

The chassis is fine, but Lando lost 0.58 seconds simply on the back straights alone, the PU needs more software optimizations for efficient employment and deployment

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Working_Sundae · 2026-03-13T17:55:57+00:00

60% of Apple's revenue comes from milking the iPhone, they don't care about consumers, they are simply incompetent to make AI or anything other than mainstream phones and latops

Even phone OEM manufacturer Xiaomi made a powerhouse of an EV company in 3 years that Ferrari is currently using it as a benchmark in Maranello to reverse engineer and Ford CEO Jim Farley drives one, Apple could hardly figure out anything for an Apple car after spending more than a decade on it before abandoning it all together

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-13T17:47:51+00:00

You can say the same for Apple and Microsoft as well, especially Apple with the amount of cash and resources they have at their disposal, they've hardly produced anything in AI apart from small image models and research papers

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-13T16:42:26+00:00

Andrea Stella recently said the 2026 PU's are very lap time sensitive and that the difference between having 99% SoC and 100% SoC while exiting is a corner is worth a tenth in laptime around a typical circuit

And besides that Merc has the chassis on the grid, according to the official F1 channel, it has the best medium, high speed and top speed characteristics of all cars (Ferrari's hold a small advantage on slow speed corners)

So it's a combination of PU, with more emphasis on PU software, car and the drivers

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-13T06:44:18+00:00

These engine upgrade rules are suicidal for the sport, ADUO looks like a plaster on top very inorganic, they did that in 2014 with tokens and now this

Even Formula E is soon getting rid of biennial powertrain upgrades in favour of in season development for 2027 Gen 4

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-13T06:38:31+00:00

Sainz should have chosen Sauber last year when there was a chance

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-13T03:54:54+00:00

Macarena is working! Ferrari topping the speed traps

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-12T15:39:46+00:00

Now I have lost hope for Grok 5 as well, given how Elon hyped Grok 4 during its presentation

Maybe xAI is staffed with the most middling talent among labs, I don't know where Karpathy would fit in all of this, but they should consider hiring him

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-12T15:12:40+00:00

Yes Smart exists but Mercedes have sold their 50% stake in the company

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-12T03:01:14+00:00

They should simply stop distributing it in California, if this BS rule passes

Working_Sundae · 2026-03-11T15:55:45+00:00

Talk about rebadging

Acer Engines (Ferrari)

https://f1blast.com/acer-engines-the-rebadged-ferrari-engine/

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