In the round-up: McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl is pleased with the changes the team has made to improve its pit stops following a series of problems last year:
What they say
Speaking after Sunday’s race, Seidl said he was pleased with the improvements McLaren have made to their pit stop routines:It was important simply, like we always have done, to analyse in detail after each each weekend what went wrong together with the team. We had issues so far this year. We were not always spot-on on the execution side, but also we had issues with the equipment. And that’s something that takes time to build up again.
We were quick last year, but we were not robust enough. We made good changes on the equipment side over winter in order to help the crew to make sure we don’t have these catastrophic pit stops but somehow lost the speed and the consistency, as you have seen in previous races.
We go into a lot of details when we do the analysis together with the guys to see also where we can help them. We did that after the last race at Silverstone and it was good to see actually [in Spain] that all the hard work the guys were putting in was paying off.
At the same time, there’s no reason to get carried away with that. We know we are not as consistent as we would like to be and as quick as we want to be. But it was a definitely good step.
Quotes: Dieter Rencken
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Notable posts from Twitter, Instagram and more:
Not a single UK based F1 team is now UK controlled. American, Bahraini, Austrian, German, Canadian, French #F1
— Mark Gallagher (@_markgallagher) August 21, 2020
— Lewis Hamilton (@LewisHamilton) August 21, 2020
As one fan just told me sitting outside the track…”I know I can’t see them. I just wanted to be here to hear them.”
Amen, friend. #CarbDay @WTHRcom @IMS @jdouglas4 @suzielliott @IndyCaronNBC @IndyCar @IndyAllison @calabro13sports @TaylorTannebaum pic.twitter.com/SJGAPu8OBN
— Matt Whisner (@WizIndy) August 21, 2020
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Links
More motor racing links of interest:
Vips joins DAMS foe next three F2 rounds, replacing injured Gelael (DAMS)
"The Indonesian is estimated to be out for six weeks but is expected to make a full recovery. For Vips, his first time in an F2 car will be during Friday’s practice session in Belgium at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, with DAMS looking to use the weekend to ensure the 2019 Macau Grand Prix podium-finisher gains good experience to be best prepared for the next two events."
Helmut Marko: 'WM-Chance von Verstappen ist intakt' (SpeedWeek - German)
Helmut Marko says Daniil Kvyat hasn't performed as well as expected so far this year.
100-plus signatories support call for F1 regulator to end tobacco Sponsorship (Expose Tobacco)
"There is a conflict between Mr. Todt’s role as President of the FIA, the governing body of a sport that is promoting tobacco industry interests, and his public health commitments as a UN representative. FIA’s claims about being ‘PurposeDriven’ ring hollow when you look at its resistance to ending tobacco industry involvement in the sport."
Is anyone listening? (Mercedes via YouTube)
Lewis Hamilton: "A lot of people think it is only happening in the states. Yes, there is the police brutality in the states but systemic racism is across the world."
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Comment of the day
@Maciek hopes for the best following the news of Williams’ sale:
Maybe this particular investment firm will turn out not to be a bunch of lecherous vampires sucking a company dry before discarding the remnants. As Murray Walker would say, ‘anything can happen in F1’.
But it’s very sad to see what was once a true racing team end on a vomit-ous corporate whimper of ‘delivering best outcomes for shareholders’.
@Maciek
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On this day in F1
- 50 years ago today John Surtees won the non-championship Gold Cup at Oulton Park in his own Surtees TS7. Jackie Stewart set the fastest lap in the Tyrrell 001 in the car’s first appearance at a race
t1redmonkey (@t1redmonkey)
22nd August 2020, 1:28
Well I guess that confirms Kvyat is out of the Red Bull stable by the end of the season then.
Jack
22nd August 2020, 2:52
That 4th seat hasn’t paid off for them for a few years – have they got any good up and comers or is it time for Marko to salt in a wise head (there’ll be at least two that would be a neat fit).
JohnH (@johnrkh)
22nd August 2020, 2:32
In regard to the Mark Gallagher tweet yes I understand the anxiety of the English having to watch a sport that they had so much to do with and so much control over drift away. But they can take some solice in the fact that at least for the foreseeable future it will remain physically based in England.
The COTD is a similar story with the cooperate take over of F1 in the 70s and the associated arms race and increase in costs. I’m surprised it took this long for the final independent team to fold/be taken over. F1 will probably never go back to what I think of except for the deaths as the golden years late 60s early 70s.
I wonder how people like Brabham, McLaren and Chapman would look upon current F1.
Balue (@balue)
22nd August 2020, 7:00
Interesting bits from the Marko article:
On the quali mode ban: “This not only affects qualifications, it also affects the in and out lap”
Correlation issues: “we still have certain disadvantages with our chassis, which is somehow unpredictable because data from the wind tunnel is not reflected on the track”
Basic car issue: “we know that we have the problem of the rear tires overheating”
Jere (@jerejj)
22nd August 2020, 7:56
Well, Red Bull should consider letting Kvyat go (again) should at least one of their academy-drivers in the lower categories attain the necessary amount of super license-points for next year.
Regarding LH’s tweet: Is that the one in the older Terminators who’s on his left?
Miani (@miani)
22nd August 2020, 16:45
Most likely Lawson and Tsunoda at the end of the year, maybe Vips. Right now only Sette Camara I think.