2021 Formula 1 Thread

[DLSTR]

Originally Posted by abm89

Ferrari made some upgrades with their power unit (electrical side) but they have a new V6 coming in 2022 i believe. that should be really interesting.

IIRC, mercedes upgraded their floor for Silverstone and that was about it. There was a new front wing planned but it failed a crash test. They used Zero tokens for the whole year. They did run into those issues with the V6 reliability so they ran through them until they found a fix. In that respect, they threw quite a bit of money into that.

As far as the car, they quite literally ran a 2020 merc with no DAS and a chopped floor.

After 2009, I won't place bets on who will be on top, but I think McLaren and Ferrari are the ones to watch. Alpine is a team where I'll believe it when I see it.

The top teams 'front loaded' the last 2 years of big budgets into the 2022 cars. Mercedes did an virtual no upgrade season and almost won or basically did. They swear they did not compromise on anything for the new car.

RedBull did not do this. Ferrari were also fully focused on 2022. Mclaren is the wild card. We may yet be surprised but unless RedBull did something amazing they essentially 'paid' to keep Max????????????

[ZCanadian]

Originally Posted by DLSTR

The top teams 'front loaded' the last 2 years of big budgets into the 2022 cars. Mercedes did an virtual no upgrade season and almost won or basically did. They swear they did not compromise on anything for the new car.

RedBull did not do this. Ferrari were also fully focused on 2022. Mclaren is the wild card. We may yet be surprised but unless RedBull did something amazing they essentially 'paid' to keep Max????????????

Yup, that's exactly what they did - paid to keep him, and paid even more to not have to go back to Renault for engines!

[Hotrodz]

Originally Posted by ZCanadian

Yup, that's exactly what they did - paid to keep him, and paid even more to not have to go back to Renault for engines!

The issue for RB is to keep him they have to stay competitive and they need to start thinking about next. They have let a couple of really talented drivers go. MB was in that same space with Ocon and they had to make a tough decision between him and Bottas. Luckily they had George in the wings as I doubt that he would have remained at Williams if there was an open seat somewhere else.

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