Hungarian GP 2020 Practices and Qualifying

[nani_s23]

Hope this is quali standings... we could see max vs Lec

[nani_s23]

it’s 4 Mercs cars vs rest of the grid

[killer]

So Racing Point have, over the winter break and through a pandemic, leap-frogged Renault, McLaren, Red Bull, and Ferrari and all is squeaky peaches? Even Brawn GP had the double diffuser.

[PURE PASSION]

Very good lap from Lec with mighty S3 !!!!!
Dont know if it's down to cars performance or just a super lap fron Lec (so he probably cant easily repeat such performance)

[nani_s23]

Very good lap from Lec with mighty S3 !!!!!
Dont know if it's down to cars performance or just a super lap fron Lec (so he probably cant easily repeat such performance)

Hope it’s not 1 mighty lap

[chinmay]

Both Vettel and Leclerc were neck to neck till the start of Sector 3 then for some reason Vettel lost half a second in last sector.

[nani_s23]

Both Vettel and Leclerc were neck to neck till the start of Sector 3 then for some reason Vettel lost half a second in last sector.

Vettel took different line in S3 compared to Lec. It was strange.
Anyways we had good S3

[tifosi1993]

Mercedes vs Perez vs Ferrari vs Verstappen

Sector 1:
Perez 27.454
Verstappen 27.492
Hamilton 27.633
Bottas 27.636
Leclerc 27.743
Vettel 27.854

Sector 2:
Hamilton 26.310
Bottas 26.393
Vettel 26.587
Perez 26.647
Leclerc 26.688
Verstappen 26.885

Sector 3:

Leclerc 21.343
Bottas 21.346
Hamilton 21.427
Perez 21.497
Verstappen 21.510
Vettel 21.910

[PURE PASSION]

So Racing Point have, over the winter break and through a pandemic, leap-frogged Renault, McLaren, Red Bull, and Ferrari and all is squeaky peaches? Even Brawn GP had the double diffuser.

Yeh exactly. It looks exactly the same as last years Merc ,it has the same performance as last years Merc and they want to tell us that they designed the car themselves from just some pictures they have taken from last year !!!!?????!!!!!!!!!
This is a total joke!!!!!!!!

[KimiBot]

Merc is mighty

Yeah.

[nani_s23]

Bottas-merc Not lifting at turn 11 shows how dominant car is

[KimiBot]

Yeah, Only Charles between those Mercs, 4 of 5 first Mercs.
Think about that, Force India Stroll, Seb only 0. 3-4 slower.

[330 p4]

Merc is mighty

Yeh exactly. It looks exactly the same as last years Merc ,it has the same performance as last years Merc and they want to tell us that they designed the car themselves from just some pictures they have taken from last year !!!!?????!!!!!!!!!
This is a total joke!!!!!!!!

If Racing point can copy from photos others can, not to race following year but as a base point to bridge the gap to Merc, have ready in CFD early as a base point and develop from there. If Ferrari turned up with a developed 2019 Merc clone Merc would be spitting fire and protesting like hell. Thing is it cannot be done because Racing Point and Merc have cheated by swapping the designs. Loads of teams would have done this if it was viable to copy a dominant car from photos. As for all the Smoke from Merc engines surely teams are looking at this and finding an angle to protest Merc. Merc do not want to be dragged into bad publicity so successful or not it would be great to drag the Merc name down onto controversy.

[tifosi1993]

Yeh exactly. It looks exactly the same as last years Merc ,it has the same performance as last years Merc and they want to tell us that they designed the car themselves from just some pictures they have taken from last year !!!!?????!!!!!!!!!
This is a total joke!!!!!!!!

It's last years Mercedes. I don't think anybody is buying their "we designed it by looking at the pictures" bs anymore, they got direct access to Mercedes's drawing and wind tunnel data.

It's time for Ferrari and Red Bull to lodge a protest as well.

[Ferrarichamp]

why didn't Ferrari, RB and Reno issue a joint protest to begin with?

[chinmay]

Christian Horner: Did they even take your name off now (off the jacket)?
Seb: Yeah Smiling face with open mouth and tightly-closed eyes
Christian Horner: That's a bit harsh!
Are you alright?
Seb: Yeah.

[tifosi1993]

"The Scuderia. Net", Not "Vettel-lovefest. Net". Take your Vettel-Horner-Red Bull love triangle elsewhere.

[chinmay]

Reports are coming in that a big upgrade for Ferrari is coming in Silverstone and it will take inspiration from Red Bull.

Ferrari is going to put those radiators and heat exchangers in a different place in the car. These will be a lot higher, to the concept of Red Bull Racing. The elements will be placed above the engine block to create more aerodynamic possibilities on the sides of the car. The airflow of the current Ferrari does not run well to the rear, because the radiators and heat exchangers are on the sides of the car.

[WS6TransAm01]

This sport is political, it always has been... what I want to know is what is Mercedes doing for this sport that permits them to keep this advantage when it was deemed bad for the sport when Ferrari was doing it...

I guess the German + British viewership tandem outweighs the Italian/German viewership benefits... but that's too simplistic... I'd really like to know what's going on behind the scenes....

I think it’s as simple as leadership. Leadership which is willing to fight tooth and nail for your team vs leadership which cuts tail and runs.

on that note, I found this little article quite interesting.

https://www.technocracy.news/masks-a...f-the-science/

What gets me the most about the mark crowd is; if your mask works, why do I need to wear one?

[Stormsearcher]

Lec 4th in FP3... thats not too bad. Maybe this race isnt lost completely.
Plus FP2 seb was 1st in wet conditions. So hoping we can salvage something from this race.

But the grid looks like it will be mixed. which should add to the fun.

[330 p4]

Reports are coming in that a big upgrade for Ferrari is coming in Silverstone and it will take inspiration from Red Bull.

Inspiration from a team that is showing balance issues and not taking inspiration from Merc who are at least half a second down the road from Red Bull. This year looks like one of Neweys off years, it's the curse of which stands in front of Merc as the main challenger, things just seem to not gel. If Racing Point really copied the Merc without Merc input would Ferrari not do the same but not build the car but develop the CAD copy? It's not an option I guess as most appreciate Merc gave them the design.

[FerrariF60]

Yeh exactly. It looks exactly the same as last years Merc ,it has the same performance as last years Merc and they want to tell us that they designed the car themselves from just some pictures they have taken from last year !!!!?????!!!!!!!!!
This is a total joke!!!!!!!!

No mate, that IS the 2019 Merc just painted pink
Merc were probably scared that Ferrari would build a good car for 2020 and decided to give the Pink panther their 2019 Merc car in order to have a cushion over us just in case we would have built a good car......little did they know that we can’t build crap as of late.....oh well looking forward to 2022 when rules will change

[Christopher]

90% Chance of Rain

[Lesky]

Good lord, half the internet thinks Ferrari actually have removed Vettels nameplate from his jacket to bully him....it was clearly a joke.

Video: https://twitter.com/FiftyBucksss/sta...44389209710593

[458 Italia]

Are the merc motors still smoking on qualifying?

[jgonzalesm6]

Are the merc motors still smoking on qualifying?

Not yet.....

[nani_s23]

Not yet.....

Yes they are

[nani_s23]

It’s very tight between McLaren/Renault/Ferrari/RB/Alfa

[nani_s23]

First 4 are Mercs cars...!!
Rest of the field it’s pretty tight

[tifosi1993]

Max Speed:

Stroll 311
Perez 309
Verstappen 309
Hamilton 304
Bottas 304


Leclerc 303
Vettel 302