SINGAPORE GP - PRACTICE 2 | LONG RUNS:

🥇NOR (Softs)
🥈LEC +0.005s/lap (Mediums)
🥉HAM +0.125s/lap (Mediums)

Only PER tested the Hards: RedBull traditionally runs a more conservative engine mode in the long runs compared to the other teams, and often a heavier fuel load too.

BEST SECTORS

Norris was quickest in both Sectors 1 and 2, Mercedes in Sector 3 (the quickest one): their top speed was the highest (317km/h, +4km/h vs McL), which helped them there.

VER got the front row even though his sector times were unimpressive.

RACE PACE - Singapore GP

🥇🟠NOR
🥈🔵VER +0.41s/lap
🥉🟠PIA +0.68s/lap

A dominant performance by NOR and McL: much quicker than the 2nd quickest car (RedBull in terms of final gap, albeit stuck-in-traffic LEC was arguably at least as quick) and than his teammate (hit by traffic).

Ferrari's disastrous qualifying ruined their weekend by making them unable to express the car’s potential. 💡

Solid pace for ALO/HUL/TSU/COL! 👌

NOR now 52points behind VER (who did good damage-limitation).

Singapore GP - Gap to Race Winner:

Two drivers impressed the most: Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc:

In the first stint (Mediums), NOR increased his advantage on VER from 5s on lap 10 to 25s on lap 28: ~1.1s/lap quicker! 😳

LEC quickest in the last stint (Hards), even more than PIA who was on a 2L-fresher tyre. Leclerc could have gotten P2 had he started in a better spot. 🤕

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HUL (321km/h) and HAM (320) reached the highest top speeds in the race📈

VER (309km/h) and TSU (308) were slowest 📉

Not by chance, as the same happened in qualifying (everyone uses DRS, no close tows): Merc and Haas fastest, RedBull and RacingBulls slowest

That’s why Charles Leclerc couldn’t overtake RUS! 💡

Top speeds in qualifying (McL’s and William’s top speeds were low, too).

McL and RedBull were quickest in the fastest corner (best downforce), and slowest in the straights (most drag).

Fastest corner, time difference and min speed (Quali):
🟠McL Quickest, 215km/h
🔵RB +0.015s, 215
⚫️Merc: 0.023s, 211
🔴Ferrari: +0.033s. 213 (lost to Merc despite higher min. speed)

Top speeds:
⚫️Mercedes 317km/h
🔴Ferrari 316
🟠McL/🔵RB: 313

Ferrari’s numbers would have looked better had they not missed Q3.

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Among the top 4 teams, Mercedes had the worst season start (just 124 points in races 1 to 9), but RedBull the worst season end (174 points in races 10-18: less than 20 per race).

In the last 9 races, McLaren totalled 304 points, 3 more than RedBull's season-start streak.

Ferrari has scored over twice Mercedes' point in the first half of the season, yet they were outscored in the second half.

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McLaren did NOT maximise their downforce in Singapore: their aerodynamic load was high enough that they could afford to trade part of it to reduce drag.

In FP2, Medium-high load wing for NOR, vs Maximum load wing for PIA.

PIA lost ~3km/h on all straights (~3% more drag) but could maintain 3km/h more on the fastest corner (~3% more lateral acceleration, or ~0.15g).

In the end, they prioritised not increasing the car's already high drag... and they dominated the race.

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POINTS - 2024 vs 2023 (After 18 races)

McLaren: 242➡️516 (more than double!)
Ferrari has improved significantly (but '23 was underwhelming): 322➡️441 (+119)

Merc lost 15 points (344➡️329), yet form is strong

Red Bull lost 231 points: they had 706pts last year after 18 races!

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2023 vs 2024
MINIMUM SPEED AT TURN 18 (DOWNFORCE) AND TOP SPEED (DRAG)

🟢Mercedes got worse in T18 (-1km/h): less loaded wings➡️Tremendous top speed gain (+6km/h, worst to best)!

🔵RBR and 🟠McL gained downforce keeping drag the same, but McL's improvement was 5 times RBR's!

🔴Ferrari improved both downforce (+3km/h in T18) and drag (+1km) over SAI's '23 pole despite not setting a Q3 lap in '24.

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QUALI PERFORMANCE EVOLUTION 👀

🔵RBR's performance has changed drastically since Monaco: from 'almost guaranteed' poles to struggling for 2nd row

🟠McL was 5th fastest in the opening quali, and has steadily and quickly improved since.

🔴Has Ferrari's Canada-to-Zandvoort slump ended?

🟢Mercedes has been very inconsistent.
Aston has gotten progressively worse until Austria, but their single-lap pace has recently improved.

When will Red Bull's struggles end?
Will Aston fight for wins again next year?
And will Ferrari win again this season? 🤔

Will F1 ever match 2008's 'Aero-craziness'?

Most cars had a 'Bridge wing': an additional plane joining the endplates ABOVE the nose.

It produced additional downforce, albeit less efficiently than a wing closer to the road (no ground effect).

Tons of dirty air yet cool to watch!

As the rules raised the front wing from the ground starting from 2005, the downforce it produced was hampered.

Bridge wings are one of the ingenious ways engineers used to claw back the lost downforce.

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Verstappen is still the favourite for the championship - but Norris has more than 1/3 chance to win his first F1 championship! 💡

Probability (Oddschecker)
🥇🔵VER 57.8%
🥈🟠NOR 37.8%
🥉🔴LEC 2.7%

WCC:
🥇🟠McL 88.6%
🥈🔵RBR 7.9%
🥉🔴Ferrari 3.3%

What's your prediction?🤔