ROUND 10: 🇪🇸 Spain


FORMULA 1 ARAMCO GRAN PREMIO DE ESPAÑA 2024


Circuit stats


  • First Grand Prix: 1991
  • Number of laps: 66
  • Circuit Length: 4.657 km
  • Race Distance: 307.236 km
  • Lap record: 1:16.330 Max Verstappen (2023)
  • 2023 winner: Max Verstappen

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  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    It’s closer than it has been, I’ll grant that. But, Max just walked away after regaining the lead. It takes a lot of development work to get those extra tenths out of those cars. I don’t anticipate things changing much through the year.

    • Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de
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      4 months ago

      Max just walked away after regaining the lead.

      What do you mean. Lando was only 2 seconds behind him. One slightly slower stop (2.9 seconds instead of the 1.9 second stop that he had at the 1st stop) and Lando would have been on him at the end. I understand that people are traumatized by Verstappen’s dominance but he did not walk away from anybody. Infact like in 2021, it could argued that both Red Bull and McLaren are so close now that the faster car varies from stint to stint

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        4 months ago

        2 seconds is a long time. Max was out of DRS range in a lap. Zack Brown even said the Red Bull was faster.

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          4 months ago

          If 2 seconds is a long time, then what is the 20+ second Verstappen was winning by earlier¿? 2 seconds over 66 laps is just 0.03 seconds a lap - a difference so small that wind, dirty air or track temp will have a larger effect.

          The gap that red Bull had was so marginal that I don’t think Verstappen could have overtaken Norris if he had been behind Lando after lap 1

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              4 months ago

              If that was true, Verstappen would have taken the fastest lap like he did last year. He was clearly pushing hard and couldn’t do that this year because he didn’t have the car under him

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                4 months ago

                He didn’t have to have fastest lap. He was winning the race. He was saving tires and running at a consistent pace.

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                  4 months ago

                  He didn’t have to have fastest lap. He was winning the race. He was saving tires and running at a consistent pace.

                  The entirety of this was true last year as well. Hell last year he also had a black and white flag shown for track limit violations which would have meant that any further track limit violation would result in a penalty and yet he went for a fastest lap and got it by beating a time set by Perez on new tyres with DRS. Verstappen no longer has the kind of car advantage (or even any discernible advantage based on the last 5 races) that he had last year. If you aren’t able to realise that, I can’t help you.

                  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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                    4 months ago

                    He doesn’t have as much of an advantage. But, he still has one. As the other cars get quicker so will Red Bull. So will he keep that advantage? Time will tell, but he’s running up the points meanwhile.