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HUNGARIAN GP - START ANALYSIS

Albon was quickest, right in front of his teammate. The Softs aided Williams' traction (SAI was quickest to 100km/h).

The two Haas cars were quickest among those who started on Mediums.

HAM was quickest on Hards.

RUS had to back off not to rear-end NOR. 😬

Same data, showing the compound used through colour.

As expected, 🟥Softs had the highest potential, then 🟨Mediums, then ⬜️Hards.

Performance gains in the ground-effect era have been wild:
~3% less drag, ~12% more high-speed acceleration 😳

📍 Ferrari in Hungary quali:
2022 ➡️2025
✅-2.195s laptime‼️
✅+3km/h top speed
✅+4km/h minimum speed
✅+13km/h in Turn 11‼️

Each year, laptime improved and top speed was higher or equal, but downforce improved the most.

Ferrari cut drag while massively boosting downforce:
- Increasing the top speed from 312 to 315km/h means a ~3% reduction in drag {(312/315)^3 - 1}.
- Increasing the minimum speed in T11 from 228 to 241km/h is a ~12% increase in lateral acceleration {(241/228)^2}, or ~0.5g more!

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What's the best looking F1 car ever? 🤔
Comment below!

I will start: McLaren MP4-20 🫠

Also:

https://x.com/FDataAnalysis/status/1956330445844459743

400+ beauties here! Check them out!

The most powerful naturally-aspirated #F1 engine ever was... Japanese, likely 🇯🇵

Peak power reached in 2005 (end of 3000cc, 'V10' era)!

Renault ~900hp
Cosworth 915hp
Mercedes ~930hp
Ferrari 920-940hp
Honda >965hp (Last power step in Suzuka)
Toyota >1000hp, detuned to ~960hp for reliability

The straight-line acceleration of these cars was insane, much higher than the current ones' (and did so 20 years ago)!

Compared to current cars:
- Similar peak power;
- Higher end-of-straight power (No ERS, always full power);
- 200kg lighter (600kg, including driver!);
- 20cm narrower track, reducing drag.

Crazy!

The pictures are inverted: Toyota produced ~1000hp but had to be detuned.

In 2014 in Barcelona, Caterham’s F1 car was SLOWER than their GP2 car! 🤯

- 1.30.3 for the F1 car.
- 1.29.8 for the GP2 car(0.5s faster)!

#F1 cars became terribly slow in ‘14, and Caterham’s car was terrible all-around!

I explain this strange result in this thread👇

F1 cars became terribly slow in 2014.

This was due to:
- New PU➡️Significantly increased mass (+49kg over 2013);
- Lower peak and mean power than the already weak V8s (Considering Caterham’s Renault PU: around 750hp+80hp of KERS for V8, around 600+160hp for V6s);
- Narrower front wing.

Caterham, in particular, suffered from the low power of the Renault PU and the very low aerodynamic efficiency (look at how wide, ‘boxy’ and simple their sidepods are. Moreover, the air intakes were HUGE).

They were 4s off the pole!

The GP2s, on the contrary, kept the same performance as the previous years' thanks to stable rules:
- They were, for the first time, lighter than F1 (-3kg, 688kg vs 691kg);
- The engine produced 612hp, around the same as the Combustion Engine of F1 cars (~600hp);
- Same track width.

The main advantages of F1 cars were:
- Better acceleration (thanks to better peak power due to the ERS system, which, however, was still inefficient in 2014 for most teams);
- DRS (that is worth several tenths in a fast, high-load track like Barcelona);
- Higher aero complexity.

Consequently, the GP2 pole was good enough to beat FOUR F1 cars!

And what is even more impressive is one team, such as Caterham, having a faster GP2 car than their F1 car. 🤯

Surely the GP2 team was grinning! 🤣

And don’t let all this tech talk distract you from the ‘14 Caterham F1 having an ‘interesting’ shape of the nose.

🤣

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DUTCH GP - WINGS 🛠

- Medium-high load track;
- Load levels have reduced slightly since ‘22 as the downforce produced by the floors has increased.

Among top teams:
🟠 McL has the deepest, yes narrowest spoon (centre part of the wing emphasised).
⚫️ McL has the most cambered lower plane.

Load levels are not radically diverse.

📸 @AlbertFabrega