In the round-up: Valtteri Bottas says the barrier he hit at the end of qualifying needs to be changed.
What they say
Bottas hit the wall at the exit of turn 16, then had a heavier impact with the start of a barrier further around the corner. He was asked whether the TecPro barrier should be adjusted:
Definitely I think we should try and avoid those kind of those kind of TecPro things – I’m sure it’s a good thing but how it starts, maybe it should start way a lot earlier or much later.
I don’t know, but it’s not ideal. You know, [I’d} be all fine and in no pain at all if we had could continued the wall like it was. For sure we’ll bring it up.
Quotes: Dieter Rencken
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Social media
Notable posts from Twitter, Instagram and more:
The stewards have ruled they will take no further action over the incident between @danielricciardo and @kvyatofficial. "[Ricciardo] did not have to take avoiding action, both drivers agreed that the situation was not significant." #F1 #MexicoGP #MexicanGP
— RaceFans (@racefansdotnet) October 26, 2019
The FIA have been telling some sections of the media that Verstappen will now be investigated as a result of his comments in the press conference.
Honestly, what a shambles. How hard can it be to have a coherent chain of communication?
— Ben Hunt (@benjhunt) October 26, 2019
Son goes to bed thinking some one is on pole, will wake up realising someone else is instead. F1 needs to sort this out.
— Matt Chatterley (@pubdaddy) October 26, 2019
He's going to be gutted when Verstappen gets a penalty and he ends up 'relegated' to pole…https://t.co/b7YhG3xY3A #F1 #MexicoGP #MexicanGP
— Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) October 26, 2019
One thing is certain in F1: Any incident, involving any driver or any car, at any circuit in any year, will prompt a bunch of people to scream WELL WHAT ABOUT LEWIS regardless of the facts surrounding it.
— Nate Saunders (@natesaundersF1) October 26, 2019
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Links
More motor racing links of interest:
Formel 1, Helmut Marko teilt gegen Regeln 2021 aus: Nicht sexy (Motorsport-magazin.com - German)
Helmut Marko doesn't like the look of F1's new cars for 2021, which he describes as an 'IndyCar' formula.
"No big surprise to me about this qualifying performance, I saw it coming, but that still doesn’t make it right. At this level of altitude, we just don’t carry enough downforce to let us do a decent run – nothing new."
Lewis to start from P3 in Mexico (Mercedes)
"Being half a second off pole is not great but nor is it something we can easily explain. There’s no particular corner that we are struggling with, it just looks like our tyres are not quite ready at the start of the lap and that they are done by the final sector."
Foundations laid in Mexico quali (Racing Point)
"I am very disappointed. We had looked competitive, but we were quicker in final practice on a damp track than in qualifying, so we need to look into what happened and understand where we missed out."
"It’s not been an easy day though as I haven’t been feeling great, but I’ll rest up tonight and feel as good as I can tomorrow. It’s going to be tricky to start on the Softer compound with Sergio right behind us on presumably the Prime, but we still have a chance to score some points tomorrow."
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Comment of the day
Pirelli don’t like F1’s new AWS-sponsored ‘tyre wear’ graphics – and neither does Neil:
I strongly disliked that graphic the second I saw it – over-simplified, most likely misleading and not something I want to see on my screen during a race. Hope it goes the way of mini-sectors, and I also hope the slightly less annoying, but still misleading ‘pit window open’ graphic joins it (‘pit window open’ implies, to a casual viewer, that there’s a mandated period of time in which drivers can stop).
Actually, i hope they dump most of the AWS stuff. The ‘projected time until driver catches opponent’ isn’t so bad, so I really don’t care if it stays or not… but I don’t think it’s accurate (especially the ‘overtake difficulty’ bar) and it can’t predict future lap times/traffic/tyre drop-off, so what’s the point it in being there? And I don’t strongly hate the pit stop gap projection, but I’d rather just watch the race myself, and retain some suspense, rather than have a computer whack a great big spoiler across the bottom of the screen.
They’ve done some great graphic stuff (integrating the info over the halo in onboard shots, for example – love that) but the AWS stuff just isn’t for me.
Neil (@Neilosjames)
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Carlos Medrano (@carlosmedrano)
27th October 2019, 2:22
Also why was the barrier sticking out of the wall like that, for sure there would have been less damage if there wasn’t a sudden barrier sticking out of the wall
Paul
27th October 2019, 12:23
What is also of concern is that after the impact with the second part of the barrier his car turned back onto the track which, if it happened in a race situation, could be extremely dangerous!
ColdFly (@)
27th October 2019, 14:05
Or imagine a following car doesn’t lift during quali when they’re driving on the limit.
Paul
27th October 2019, 17:20
Not as relevant in quali as in a race as in quali drivers hang back to get a decent tow without compromising downforce in corners. In a race situation following cars will get as close to the car in front as they could through the final sequence of corners to maximise the potential tow down the long start straight. As a consequence they, and those closely following, would have zero time to alter their line to avoid an accident.
DAllein (@)
27th October 2019, 5:40
Just LOL! Nate, that is awesome!! So true!
Nulla Pax (@nullapax)
27th October 2019, 8:03
@dallein
It made me smile as well :)
ian dearing
27th October 2019, 9:04
I can see variations of that tweet being used quite often from now on. Spot on!
Jere (@jerejj)
27th October 2019, 7:53
Regarding Matt Chatterley’s tweet: There’s nothing wrong with that, though. The final grid being different from the provisional one is something that occasionally happens for a reason.
I share the same views with the COTD: I don’t necessarily have a problem with those graphics, but at the same time, they aren’t necessary, so could as well go.
chris (@)
27th October 2019, 8:09
Re the comment of the day, all that AWS added value should be on A Free companion app where the sport fan can engage further with sport.
I just wish they’d permanently show what tyre each driver is on and either what lap it was put on or how many laps they’ve done. The tyre could be indicated by the drivers name, number or position being shown in the tyre colour so no need to take up any extra space.
Jeanrien (@jeanrien)
27th October 2019, 8:35
Think graphics could be improved. They have added imperial units next to metric everywhere now which make it more confusing than anything really. They should have a color code for speed, turning yellow at 200 kmh/124 mph and red at 300/186 mph, eventually following a smooth transition in between. Show the unit according to what the country they are racing in use, easy reading for new fans (locals) and the hard core fans will quickly adjust to the color scheme and be fine with it probably.
I am missing some extra information during qualifying. We only have like 3 times at the bottom of the screen. Would like to have like sector colors next to each drivers to have an idea who is doing well. Optional to have +/- delta at end of sector popping up before the sector square is added. Would be a lot of numbers blinking but might be the most interesting part for Q2…
Agree with Pirelli and CoTD, tire wear is not something I want to see.
jb
27th October 2019, 10:02
agree with everything except the mph/kph comment. Seriously in 2019?
ColdFly (@)
27th October 2019, 14:08
And what about girls in bikini’s holding up signs with the lap count like in boxing ;)
Mark in Florida
27th October 2019, 11:47
Good Helmut I’m glad they are more like Indy car. Maybe the cars will be more exciting to watch and passing will be possible without DRS. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Maybe you need to get checked out.
Johns
27th October 2019, 14:45
Exactly make them more like Indycars so there is passing and stuff. Maybe even the poorer teams will be competitive with fewer dollars needed to get out of the midfield?
When there is a paradigm shift, everyone starts fresh. Maybe the big teams are afraid all their research money over the last few years will no longer be relevent?
Yaru (@yaru)
27th October 2019, 15:05
Yea but a lot of fans also don’t want a spec series. I susoect if they go through with it they will be a lot of blowback.
anon
27th October 2019, 15:15
Mark in Florida, if your sole focus is solely on marketing the drivers and minimising the teams, then you might think so.
The thing is, IndyCar is still, in many ways, a shadow of what it used to be given that most of the heritage and diversity of the teams has disappeared – it’s now just another Dallara racing series.