2023 Austrian Grand Prix - Race Thread

[stefa]

Only 5s behind Red Bull, gap is closed!!!

[PURE PASSION]

Good job today, best we could probably do, well ahead of the mighty Merc and AM.

This. Not happy, but ......

[tifosi1993]

Only 5s behind Red Bull, gap is closed!!!

Gap is indeed closed. From 40-50 seconds behind to now within the touching distance.

[FerrariF60]

Good job today, best we could probably do, well ahead of the mighty Merc and AM.

Yup second best we are now
We’ll see what happens next race when Merc will bring big updates
We’ll see if we can still be second in ranking

[jgonzalesm6]

Good points haul by the Scuderia. No mistakes.....again.......very nice.

Upgrades are working.

[killer]

Suppose Carlos only has himself to look at. That penalty cost a podium.

[PURE PASSION]

I really really want to end this Max domination!!!!! I know it's impossible this year but please don't let him get away with another 2-3 WDC !!!!

[FerrariF60]

Only 5s behind Red Bull, gap is closed!!!

Only cause maxipad wanted that fastest lap point
Their tire deg much better than ours

[tifosi1993]

RACE

[JPZ]

Team making progress, car has improved a lot, tyre degradation issue also seems have been dealt with.

[patrese86]

I'll take being second best today. Can't really do much about RB & Max. They are fast everywhere, can run more downforce and still be as quick as anyone in a straight line plus their DRS is the best so it makes quali difficult for everyone else (says something that we get it occasionally).

Be interesting to see how we do round Silverstone, very fast corners.

[Aviamata]

Good points haul by the Scuderia. No mistakes.....again.......very nice.

Upgrades are working.

Carlos could have gotten P3 if no penalty....

[tifosi1993]

We can definitely leapfrog the AM in the championship because of Stroll. But beating the Merc will be hard. A lot depends on the upcoming upgrades that are coming for both us and Mercedes.

[killer]

I hope this means better days come Monza.

[tifosi1993]

Team making progress, car has improved a lot, tyre degradation issue also seems have been dealt with.

Yup, degradation is no longer the issue. Now we need to find lap time gains.

[jgonzalesm6]

Carlos could have gotten P3 if no penalty....

I really don't think so.........would have been close though.

[PURE PASSION]

Race Pace order like ( For this race )

RB 0.0
Fer +0.4
MC +0.65
Aston +0.75
Merc +0.8

I mean we looked dreadful 2 months ago. It is nice to back on podium

My thoughts on this is ,AM found HUGE lap time from last year, McL found quite a bit in their updates. Can we found something extra??? I mean this 2 teams proved that you CAN find something really big even with in season updates. CAN WE ???!!!

[nani_s23]

I hope this means better days come Monza.

At Max we can get podium there …!!

[Kyss4k]

Good race

[nani_s23]

Great drive by Sainz & Leclerc. I guess we improved our tyre deg.

Now focus on lap time gains….!! Still a lot work to do

[nani_s23]

My thoughts on this is ,AM found HUGE lap time from last year, McL found quite a bit in their updates. Can we found something extra??? I mean this 2 teams proved that you CAN find something really big even with in season updates. CAN WE ???!!!

AM is straight copy of RB… hence gain is expected. Rest of the teams changing their design towards RB. Hence it will take time.

[Aviamata]

We can definitely leapfrog the AM in the championship because of Stroll. But beating the Merc will be hard. A lot depends on the upcoming upgrades that are coming for both us and Mercedes.

How many point left between us and Merc ?

[Aviamata]

My thoughts on this is ,AM found HUGE lap time from last year, McL found quite a bit in their updates. Can we found something extra??? I mean this 2 teams proved that you CAN find something really big even with in season updates. CAN WE ???!!!

That would made us comparable to RB . I hope that Fred can get the engineer department working more effective

[nani_s23]

Toto Wolff says Christian Horner is 'frightened' about F1's 2026 rules because Red Bull's engine project is behind the curve

"I think what frightens him more maybe is that his engine programme is not coming along, and then maybe he wants to kill it [the rules] that way."

This is where I feel ferrari need to be smart play the cards to their own strengths…!! Don’t give any chance or room to chip in.

[nani_s23]

Norris DOD…?? Wttttt

For me it’s Sainz..!!

[Hornet]

I think this was a great race for us all things considered.
Its really nice to see us taking P2 which is probably the best we can get this season.
And it was a straightforward race for Charles, finish more than 5 secs ahead of the rest so its not because he got lucky that others get penalty or anything like that.

Hopefully we will see more podium finishes like this

[nani_s23]

2 to 3 consistent podiums from here on would give the team good momentum & confidence in the factory for the engineers.
Great effort by them to bring these upgrades. They can do it.

[Aviamata]

Toto Wolff says Christian Horner is 'frightened' about F1's 2026 rules because Red Bull's engine project is behind the curve

"I think what frightens him more maybe is that his engine programme is not coming along, and then maybe he wants to kill it [the rules] that way."

This is where I feel ferrari need to be smart play the cards to their own strengths…!! Don’t give any chance or room to chip in.

Surely Fred's strategic target should be aiming at the technical department . Hope that next Technical Director will pull good result for us

[PURE PASSION]

I think this was a great race for us all things considered.
Its really nice to see us taking P2 which is probably the best we can get this season.
And it was a straightforward race for Charles, finish more than 5 secs ahead of the rest so its not because he got lucky that others get penalty or anything like that.

Hopefully we will see more podium finishes like this

The only thing we could say ,is that PER was starting 15th. If he was 1st-2nd row my guess is that he probably would have been 2nd, but not quite sure. Has hadn't Max pace but in times he was faster then Lec (with the same compound)
But yeh it was a solid 2nd for Lec !!!!

[PURE PASSION]

Leclerc (Ferrari): "In any case, it's still nice to get back on the podium after the last races which had been complicated. RB is still far away but we are working on it. We hope to be able to take advantage of the improvements made at Silverstone. "
Are we anticipate further upgrades for Silverstone??!!