On a tiny brighter not. The YouTube video off LL Old J and daft.I.am cringy driver announcing at Miami has a few thousand likes compared to over 30k dislikes… However undeterred apparently the cringe fest will become a thing 😤
Guys, it's Monaco...with rain predicted 😁
Pollmaster @Cpayne32 You know the drill
@TotosHeadphones Already ahead of you. No im not sorry about the title 😂
https://strawpoll.com/polls/e7ZJGYq3Yy3
@mariohomohJust for you https://youtu.be/lFwGa-gKdr4 Podcast with guru Newey. I haven't watched it, will find the audio version but he mentions how the Ferrari design is broadly similar to the RB. I don't know the context but there should be some tidbits. I also picked up book in ebook version, will read that over holiday.
In other news GP2 engine manufacturer returns to F1 in 2026, supplying the team that is currently carrying this season;
https://www.crash.net/f1/news/1026730/1/aston-martin-ditch-mercedes-and-join-forces-honda-f1-2026
@TotosHeadphones indeed:
Don't leave us hanging, though! How did you came to spend a whole hour with Newey?
@mariohomohI'm lucky enough to occasionally do some interesting things in my job. On this occasion I had an opportunity to go to the factory in Milton Keynes and have Newey, Pierre Wache and Monaghan talk through the RB18 (in its mule guise). You can find the video online, I'm not sure if there's a video longer than 2 mins as I can't even remember who the final product was for, the joys of freelance life. I actually missed out because the previous day, my colleagues were doing some stuff with Verstappen and Checo. It was great through as I got to see all the various versions of the RedBull/Toro Rosso.
Anyway....
It appears that there's no undercut 🤔 Maybe they've split the intake to have a channel/tunnel that emerges just above the exposed top floor that accelerates the air to create the pressure needed for the floor downforce?
@TotosHeadphonesNo no no no no
No no no no no no no
You post that video and you post it good, mate! You can't be all half gossiping it like this! It does not surprise me in the slightest you British were in so many conflicts through history with that attitude! 😂
On a slightly different note, this week's Beyond The Grid with Sam Michael is well worth a listen.
Edit: and there's the anti-dive talking point too:
@mariohomohScrap that, I was expecting more Red Bull-esque sipepods with a very aggressive undercut but it looks like they aren't going for that. Good find on the anti-dive geometry. Are Ferrari introducing their new front suspension this weekend too?
Haha, the video is easy to find, no secrets. https://motorsport.tv/f1-updates/video/oracle-red-bull-racing-engineers-break-down-the-rb18/138154 I can't find the full edit which is annoying me as the chat was far longer and Wache and Newey really went into depth
@mariohomohIt appears that Newey is a man of taste; he went to his first interview on a Ducati 900SS and having owned it's baby sister as my first big bike, the 750SS, he owned a beauty of Italian machinery at it's finest... when it wasn't fouling the spark plugs that is...
Ahh, the Mercedes concept has nearly enough converged to the rest of the field...
Did anyone else get themselves mentally prepared for practice today to then be hit in the face with it being tomorrow instead? Could of sworn monaco practice 1 & 2 was on Thursday
