Imola GP - Quali and Race Preview
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Any feedback is very appreciated; I hope you’ll enjoy the read! 😁
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IMOLA GP QUALI ANALYSIS 🏎
🟠 McLaren quickest overall, yet struggled on the main straight: they probably chose to deploy less energy there (8km/h deficit to RBR: huge!) as it was fine elsewhere.
🔵 RBR had a less loaded setup (excellent top speed, slow in the fastest corner). Yet VER could stay full-throttle more than others!
⚫️ Mercedes was efficient (high top speed, yet good high-speed cornering performance) and has sustainable deployment (was 6km/h quicker at lap end than at the beginning).
🟢 ALO got a brilliant P5; a better placement was impossible due to the car's terrible low-speed cornering performance (13km/h deficit to McL).
🟠 McLaren quickest overall, yet struggled on the main straight: they probably chose to deploy less energy there (8km/h deficit to RBR: huge!) as it was fine elsewhere.
🔵 RBR had a less loaded setup (excellent top speed, slow in the fastest corner). Yet VER could stay full-throttle more than others!
⚫️ Mercedes was efficient (high top speed, yet good high-speed cornering performance) and has sustainable deployment (was 6km/h quicker at lap end than at the beginning).
🟢 ALO got a brilliant P5; a better placement was impossible due to the car's terrible low-speed cornering performance (13km/h deficit to McL).
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Notes on Imola Race
🔵 FLAWLESS drive by VER, who won against most odds through a brilliant T1 overtake!
🔴 Ferrari recovered 13 places! LEC could be penalised, though. Ferrari is quick… under specific conditions
Should they have asked HAM to give DRS to LEC to defend from ALB?
🔵 Heavy points for Williams (14).
🟢 Aston didn’t capitalise.
YOUR take? 🤔
🔵 FLAWLESS drive by VER, who won against most odds through a brilliant T1 overtake!
🔴 Ferrari recovered 13 places! LEC could be penalised, though. Ferrari is quick… under specific conditions
Should they have asked HAM to give DRS to LEC to defend from ALB?
🔵 Heavy points for Williams (14).
🟢 Aston didn’t capitalise.
YOUR take? 🤔
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Formula Data Analysis
IMOLA GP - RACE PACE Main strategy: 1 set of mediums, 2 of hards. Gap (s/lap): 1) 🔵 RBR (VER) 2) 🟠 McL (NOR) +0.18 3) 🔴 Ferrari (LEC) +0.58 4) 🟢 Merc (RUS) +0.87 5) 🔵 Williams (ALB) +0.95 6) 🟡 RBs (HAD) +1.25 7) 🟣 Alpine (GAS) +1.29 8) ⚪️ Haas (BEA) 1.32…
Last year's race was much closer in pace: 3 teams within one tenth!
Surprisingly, RBR GAINED vs McL, while Ferrari and Mercedes experienced a big setback in pace.
Surprisingly, RBR GAINED vs McL, while Ferrari and Mercedes experienced a big setback in pace.
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IMOLA GP - TIME TO REACH 200 KM/H
Verstappen's launch was terrible: this makes his turn 1 overtake even crazier! 🤯
- ⚪️ BEA and 🔴 HAM were quickest to reach 200km/h;
- 🟠 PIA needed 0.4s more, and 🔵 VER 0.5s more;
- RUS overtook VER as he needed 0.3s less than him to reach 200km/h, but was then blocked by PIA.
The Hards were slightly QUICKER (-0.065s) than the Mediums on average.
Made via @JMP_software
Verstappen's launch was terrible: this makes his turn 1 overtake even crazier! 🤯
- ⚪️ BEA and 🔴 HAM were quickest to reach 200km/h;
- 🟠 PIA needed 0.4s more, and 🔵 VER 0.5s more;
- RUS overtook VER as he needed 0.3s less than him to reach 200km/h, but was then blocked by PIA.
The Hards were slightly QUICKER (-0.065s) than the Mediums on average.
Made via @JMP_software
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MONACO GP - PREVIEW:
A track made of extremes:
- 2 mandatory pits (!);
- Softest compounds (C4-C6);
- Traction is crucial. Cornering? Not so much.
- Max downforce: Teams will run very loaded wings to extract all the downforce they can, as the resulting drag penalty is tiny.
Ferrari is expected to run the same wing used last year, to save money and design time.
📸: @pirellisport
A track made of extremes:
- 2 mandatory pits (!);
- Softest compounds (C4-C6);
- Traction is crucial. Cornering? Not so much.
- Max downforce: Teams will run very loaded wings to extract all the downforce they can, as the resulting drag penalty is tiny.
Ferrari is expected to run the same wing used last year, to save money and design time.
📸: @pirellisport
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Formula Data Analysis
MONACO GP - PREVIEW: A track made of extremes: - 2 mandatory pits (!); - Softest compounds (C4-C6); - Traction is crucial. Cornering? Not so much. - Max downforce: Teams will run very loaded wings to extract all the downforce they can, as the resulting drag…
I will reach the Principate on Friday and analyse the sessions directly from there!
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This would not have been possible without you: thanks for appreciating my content for the past 3 years! ❤️
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MONACO GP - WING THURSDAY!
Ferrari is running last year's wing in Monaco: @Corriere anticipated this, and the images seem to confirm it! 🧐
This will save them design and production costs for an item that will only be used at a handful of high-downforce tracks (Monaco, Singapore, etc).
All teams will run maximum downforce wings:
- Very cambered planes;
- No spoon wings;
- Frequent gurney flaps;
- Double, loaded beam wings.
📸 @AlbertFabrega
Ferrari is running last year's wing in Monaco: @Corriere anticipated this, and the images seem to confirm it! 🧐
This will save them design and production costs for an item that will only be used at a handful of high-downforce tracks (Monaco, Singapore, etc).
All teams will run maximum downforce wings:
- Very cambered planes;
- No spoon wings;
- Frequent gurney flaps;
- Double, loaded beam wings.
📸 @AlbertFabrega
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And that was Day 1 ✅
Leclerc is looking good, and Alonso’s performance in the updated quali might not be just a Imola one-off! 👌
Analyses coming later in the evening once I get to my room! 📊🏎
And that was Day 1 ✅
Leclerc is looking good, and Alonso’s performance in the updated quali might not be just a Imola one-off! 👌
Analyses coming later in the evening once I get to my room! 📊🏎
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MONACO GP FP2 ANALYSIS 🏎📊
1) MINIMUM SPEEDS:
Will any team stay above FIFTY km/h in F1's slowest corner? 😛
🟠 PIA had the highest minimum speed (48), 🔴 LEC the lowest (43), as he tried to prioritise the exit. He still lost to PIA there, though.
2) BEST SECTORS:
🔴 Ferrari was quickest in Sectors 1 (LEC) and 3 (HAM)
🟠 McL in S2 (PIA)
Ferrari seems to have a complete package: Sector 1 requires good traction out of Saint-devote and good front-end and driver confidence for the turn-in at Massenet. Sector 3 requires good downforce and stability/agility in changes of direction
3) GAP VISUALISED:
It was a back-and-forth between 🔴 LEC and 🟠 PIA: LEC gained up to the T6 hairpin, but PIA gained there. PIA was almost 3 tenth in front at the chicane after the tunnel! LEC recovered and got in front in T17.
Qualifying will be tight and race-deciding! 😬
What's your prediction? 👀
1) MINIMUM SPEEDS:
Will any team stay above FIFTY km/h in F1's slowest corner? 😛
🟠 PIA had the highest minimum speed (48), 🔴 LEC the lowest (43), as he tried to prioritise the exit. He still lost to PIA there, though.
2) BEST SECTORS:
🔴 Ferrari was quickest in Sectors 1 (LEC) and 3 (HAM)
🟠 McL in S2 (PIA)
Ferrari seems to have a complete package: Sector 1 requires good traction out of Saint-devote and good front-end and driver confidence for the turn-in at Massenet. Sector 3 requires good downforce and stability/agility in changes of direction
3) GAP VISUALISED:
It was a back-and-forth between 🔴 LEC and 🟠 PIA: LEC gained up to the T6 hairpin, but PIA gained there. PIA was almost 3 tenth in front at the chicane after the tunnel! LEC recovered and got in front in T17.
Qualifying will be tight and race-deciding! 😬
What's your prediction? 👀
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MONACO GP - QUALIFYING
🟠 McLaren improved more than any other team in Monaco quali: almost half a second quicker than last year. ✅
🟢 Aston's Imola upgrades work: 2nd most-improved team in Monaco, and third row again for ALO! 👌
🟣 Alpine's best lap was over one SECOND slower than last year. 🚨
[Track conditions were slightly worse this year.]
🟠 McLaren improved more than any other team in Monaco quali: almost half a second quicker than last year. ✅
🟢 Aston's Imola upgrades work: 2nd most-improved team in Monaco, and third row again for ALO! 👌
🟣 Alpine's best lap was over one SECOND slower than last year. 🚨
[Track conditions were slightly worse this year.]
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MONACO GP - QUALIFYING | TRACK DOMINATION
Qualifying was very close: 🟠 NOR dominated ~30% of the lap, 🔴 LEC ~40%!
NOR lost little where he was slower than LEC, and gained significantly where he was quicker --> pole by 0.109s!
🔵 VER was very competitive in the Fairmont hairpin (T3) and at lap end (T12 to T18), but he lost significantly in the other sections --> gap over 7 tenths!
Qualifying was very close: 🟠 NOR dominated ~30% of the lap, 🔴 LEC ~40%!
NOR lost little where he was slower than LEC, and gained significantly where he was quicker --> pole by 0.109s!
🔵 VER was very competitive in the Fairmont hairpin (T3) and at lap end (T12 to T18), but he lost significantly in the other sections --> gap over 7 tenths!
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MONACO GP - RACE PACE ANALYSIS
The performance delta between the front runners and everyone else was INSANE: only the top 5 were not lapped! 🤯
- NOR, LEC, and PIA had a very similar pace, as overtaking was impossible. ❌
- HAD finished P6, yet he was lapped and over 2s/lap slower than NOR! 💡
- Nightmarish race for Mercedes: RUS and ANT were quickest by far once in free air (thanks to the fresh tyres), still ANT was over 3s/lap slower ON AVERAGE: that's the huge impact that the traffic had on their race! 🚨
- Two cars (Williams) got points despite being lapped TWICE!
Do you think that the second mandatory stop improved the GP? 👀
The performance delta between the front runners and everyone else was INSANE: only the top 5 were not lapped! 🤯
- NOR, LEC, and PIA had a very similar pace, as overtaking was impossible. ❌
- HAD finished P6, yet he was lapped and over 2s/lap slower than NOR! 💡
- Nightmarish race for Mercedes: RUS and ANT were quickest by far once in free air (thanks to the fresh tyres), still ANT was over 3s/lap slower ON AVERAGE: that's the huge impact that the traffic had on their race! 🚨
- Two cars (Williams) got points despite being lapped TWICE!
Do you think that the second mandatory stop improved the GP? 👀
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MONACO GP - TOP SPEED PER LAP
I've checked the data from all the sessions: no car ever reached 300km/h during the Monaco Weekend! 😳
The highest was 295km/h, by STR in the race. Highest in quali was lower (no slipstreams), 292km/h by OCO and ALB: that's lower than the minimum speed in Silverstone’s T1! 🗒
This is the only track where the highest speed is often reached WITHOUT DRS💡 (Out of the tunnel, as the longer full-throttle time and downhill gradient matter more than the main straight's DRS zone!)
I've checked the data from all the sessions: no car ever reached 300km/h during the Monaco Weekend! 😳
The highest was 295km/h, by STR in the race. Highest in quali was lower (no slipstreams), 292km/h by OCO and ALB: that's lower than the minimum speed in Silverstone’s T1! 🗒
This is the only track where the highest speed is often reached WITHOUT DRS💡 (Out of the tunnel, as the longer full-throttle time and downhill gradient matter more than the main straight's DRS zone!)
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Good news, fans of Imola: we could still race there next year, but I need your help for that!🙏
The Spokesman of Imola’s Mayor contacted me: the next 2 weeks will be crucial to show our interest and convince F1 to keep it
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The Spokesman of Imola’s Mayor contacted me: the next 2 weeks will be crucial to show our interest and convince F1 to keep it
32871 people have already signed the petition: I’m among them, let’s go!!! 🏎
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