They will never slam any team since they can get boycotted

Yep, the rule has been around for years and is nothing new. If you run too low to gain advantage you run the risk of not being compliant. The increase in speed could well of been the reason for the pace increase of the disqualified cars. I am being polite and not saying cheating .

Toto Wolff is coming after Mercedes now for endangering their drivers.

Difference was they had more time to setup the car back then.

@@GloomGaiGar it was a new reg. in the aftermath of Senna's death at Imola earlier that year, to control min heights under car . That same year Schumacher was disqualified from British Grand Prix, along with a 2 race suspension for ignoring a Black flag. In spite of no points in 4 races, he still just manged to win his first championship. Not unlike Max & Red Bull's first championship in final race of 2021, it was also highly controversial.

Would really like for Jack Doohan to be an F1 driver purely just to say what's he Doohan when he makes a mistake or holds someone up.

​@@paulzammit3780lol

even better: if Lewis actually won the race and got DSQ'ed later I think the fallout would be larger than AD2021 :D

@@BuriedDutchman nothing will top max verstappen crashing 51g in silverstone 🤣🤣

Lewis was 2nd best during Schumacher/Rosberg/Alonso and now Max F Verstappen... Nahhh, not my champ 😂 Hello Br-UK-it

ohplease, you wanna go down that road? Nothing will top Verstappen winning THREE worldchampionships, while Hamilton is still waiting for ONE racewin...@@samie5073

@@samie5073 2021 Abu Dhabi

Could not agree more!

Not a fan of his vocal fry

I hope you watch his channel Cool content.

Very impressed with Blake and how he can very clearly and succinctly give amazing insight on something I thought I already kind of understood. Not just data for the sake of it

Just wish he could be impartial, seems impossible when he's paid by RBR

exactly. Remember Toto "I'm coming after you" Wolff last year?

Agree. It’s like they forgot he won by 9 seconds Saturday in 19 laps lol

But they didn't check other cars. Isn't that a bit unfair. If rules are rules they should apply to everyone and everyone should be checked. Otherwise what's stopping them from targetting certain teams for their own agenda

@@carlosplazas680they did check other cars. Red Bull and McLaren. They checked the top car from the top 4 teams so it was fair. They simply don’t have enough time to check every car at every race. A couple of races ago they only checked 2 cars. I think it was Singapore and only Max and Fernando’s car, who both passed. Nobody is complaining that wasn’t fair.

The teams only get 1 practice session to dial it in end of story. The FIA should allow on race weekends changes in Park fermey.

Nauseating if I must say so

You are not alone. Skycedes at its best

because they are. 😂

Sky Bull you mean? Funny how bias can squeeze an opinion

the irony in your post...@@ben437

Because we're now bored with Max winning?!

They are British. They are so supremacist that even 1930's/40's Germans took that as inspiration. They just failed to present it with a smile.

Exactly…

100%

If Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari are in a title battle for 2024, there will still be Sky and TeamLH saying, 'We need a FOUR team battle for the title!'

merc lowered hamilton on purpose. it's pretty obvious when he says that 1mm wouldnt made a difference while everybody else says otherwise.

Brits and their national sense of supremacy (that compensating for their inferiority) makes their crowd pretty toxic to non-Brits whenever a non-Brit does better than a Brit. It's just plain old racism.

Yes

Or if Hamilton did win and got DSQ after... They would want the head of the stewards again.

Exactly…. Imagine Toto’s words then, not using the words error, mistake then…

Blake got his channel BrakeF1 I think it is, very much on the data and analysis of it. Great channel if you like numbers.

Btw, Blake used to be a RB engineer.

Trademark.

You're onto something, here...

FANTASTIC idea and name!!

Exactly

half a sec sounds like a bit of a stretch but there was defo performance in there

He already talks like an experienced driver. Cool!

@@Franky46Boy and very very fast. He's been very fast but unlucky in F2 the last 2 years. But Alpine won't have a seat for him unfortunately.

How is that cheating?

@@shaikhanis3193 Armchair warriors throwing in the word "cheat" for anything nowadays. Red Bull nearly got caught in Spa for the same offence. That's why GP asked Max to lift in Eau Rouge. It's tiny margins and sometimes you get caught out and sometimes you don't.

1) only 4 cars were checked. 2) "more than 1 mm wear" can be 1.005mm wear 3) Sooner or later Mercedes will have caught up or passed Red Bull in design. It will be interesting to see how the narrative changes.

Yeah if you can ignore the word “potentially” every times he speaks. I’ve had to turn this off. I just couldn’t listen anymore 😢

Me too

yeah its good to have a superior car and team making the right calls

Yep Pro-Merc hopium because we are desperate to see an end this Red Bull borefest.😴😴

Toto admitted during his Sky interview that Mercedes had the fastest car this weekend. So Lewis had the fastest car, started 3 positions in front of Max, and Max had brake issues. He still beat Lewis.

Not to mention the performance gains Lewis had in the sprint race as well.

@@wcads623 bore fest was the 8 years; I repeat, 8 years of merc domination. now that was actually boring.

Than u must be a merc fan

@@stevie802 I’m a Formula 1 fan

ALL TEAMS have to deal with it. RBR and McLaren were able to stay legal….. ALL TEAMS could stay legal

Don't worry , Mercedes will get RB without the help of regulations. Can't wait for Mercedes to build a successor of W11. Remember the name " James Allison".

​@@sidharthtirkey44😂😂😂

yeah he would've won in your dream !!! 😂if the strategy and pit stop was right Lewis would've won with at least 3 to 4 sec gap , haha !!!

@@sidharthtirkey44good one. It’s good to smoke every now and then

@@soroushnek You're forgetting a legal Merc would of had a higher ride height losing .1s a lap at least and been more in line with McLaren's pace

To be fair, 37 mins was Doohan saying “potentially” 😂

Those 4 to 5 laps on the whole weekend didn’t make THE difference .

it was always like this. random checks. they just got caught.

​@@alexcepile1420And now they start complaining about it because they have nothing left to say

It is *never* a weekend format issue. Do you even know what rules and regulations are? The safety margin for the thickness of the plank is built in. The rules are clear that the onus is on the team/drivers to not wear the plank down. Cars have to have a minimal ride height. Pushing cars too low is part of what let to the development of the unsafe cars that got Ratzenberger and Senna killed. It's not there to be obtuse or anything. The plank is there as a simple, low-tech indication/record of all the times the cars failed to maintain the regulated ride height. Stewards visually examine if any cars are likely to have failed to obey the regulations and they measure those. Think for a few seconds, think how much regulations there are and how much time is need to check and double-check everything.

And you don’t think that there’s a coincidence between it being an extremely bumpy track and a sprint weekend where the teams run an extra 25% of laps, have limited setup time and can’t change the setup of the car after Friday? You don’t think that this might have caught some of the teams out considering the last time anyone was DQ was nearly 30 years ago, but on Sunday TWO cars were disqualified and were 50% of the cars tested? You don’t think it *might* be a format issue? Granted, the teams are ultimately liable, but I’d lean more to the side of the teams having to make impossible predictions with incredibly limited data, and ultimately some not getting it righ, rather than outright flagrantly breaking the rules.

​@@JJAdams86What they should have done is drive the car fully fueled in free practise. They failed it's as simple as that.

Exactly

LH felt it……ofc he did. He stepped out of the car hurting, slowly walking….

i dont think it was that big of an advantage mate these things are hoping for a tenth or 2 max not half a second like lewis had over max more at the end with the tire difference but on same tires they were pretty much the same pace sohe wouldnt have been behind at all if mercedez didnt throw away on strategy and pits all they had to do was copy red bull strategy and they win but like always they suck at strategy

No, dude. Sigh. Take the whole pile of F1 regulations for the cars (the formula where formula one comes from). How much time do you need to read it all? How many time do you need to check if a single car follows them all? For sure. How many time do you need to eliminate your false positives. What the stewards do with the planks is to visibly inspect them first. The plank is there to visually indicate whether or not a car was in breach of regulations (cheating on low ride height). Some races there is so little wear on all planks none of them are even measured. Why measure when you can see it's in order? So the stewards pick several to perform the exact measurements on if they do not look robust. After every race the stewards report on which tests were performed on which cars. Pérez's car had its whole aerodynamics package measured, for example. You can look all that stuff up. Instead of repeat what pundits blather on about. The whole shtick of the other cars whataboutism is to be able to claim that Hamilton was not the only one cheating next to Leclerc. Hamilton cheated, Hamilton got caught. It's that easy. And just because Leclerc cheated too, does not make Hamilton any less of a cheater. This also comes after Hamilton ramming out his teammate in the previous GP, and things like knocking Piastri out at Monza. Hamilton is not a clean driver.

Lol no Max and Lando were fine…. Too much damage on skid block is preventable!!! Every car could be legal………. merc and Ferrari risked it to get desperately a win….

@@FrancisFjordCupolawell said

Just scrolling down to see if anyone else noticed this. I’m turning off now as i can’t listen anymore 😢This was potentially a great podcast ARRGGHH 🫣

I think it's cause as a reserve driver he has to be very careful what he says. Like how press releases use "allegedly" to cover themselves legally. Jack speaks as a part of Alpine but without the security and authority of a driver seat.

He's young and maybe not as self aware as older more experienced drivers. Talking on a podcast like this is not easy without 'uming' and 'aring'. He will get better at it.

I think Daniel hates me. 😅

It would be funny if Ferrari fans complained. Imagine even driving the car illegally low to the ground and they still only managed to swap places with Verstappen (1st for 6th)?

Well said

With ground effect cars driving as low as possible gives HUGE GAINS……

Yes. Thank you!

Totally agree

Ride height is for performance. We've had the porpoising which is the car abruptly losing downforce (and then regaining it). And last year we even had a techincal directive which was about the cars being too low (and smashing into the ground) - that was a safety issue to avoid driver's backs being injured. But the skid wear was not enough to police that (also some of that was due to the rear suspension being limited, not just grounding).

The skid blocks are there to limit ride height and ground proximity, which in turn is a performance limiter. I didn't say anything about their tragic and unfortunate deaths. Have a good day.

What are you even talking about? I'm never a fan of Sky's usual Merc bias but this podcast didn't have that at all! I mean Blake was Max's performance engineer. He worked for RB for years! If he says Mercedes has improved it's not because of bias.

@@wildoranges Bro don't even bother. Every F1 podcast has a comment saying something to the effect of bias towards Mercedes or a British driver. You can't say a single positive thing about them without someone crying in the replies

Why feel hurt? Cheater got caught cheating. People who complied with the regulations, who played according to the rules got rewarded. Look at how much that helped Tsunoda. Or Logan Sargeant scoring his first points. It's super that Hamilton got thrown off the roster.

I would suggest that you temper your expectations. I don’t think Merc made a big step forward. I think they lowered the car, illegally, and gained an advantage. We thought Ferrari were the “ones who could challenge RB”, then Aston, now McLaren, and now you say Mercedes? Ok then.

​@FrancisFjordCupola yep. I'm certain I saw Hamilton filing down his "plank".

"we all can see and know mercedes are the only that can challenge max and redbull" You mean at one specific circuit? We've seen a Ferrari win his season, and multiple races where the McLaren was genuinely able to put pressure on Red Bull with both cars, not a sprint weekend where Verstappen had brake issues.

did you listen to the podcast? I wouldnt call it cheating, more so ride height oversight with less practice and running

The pre 2022 rb was suited for mexico last year mercedes was faster in mexico and brazil

​@@QuerientjeMax won by 15 secs last year at Mexico. As for Brazil, Mercedes put a new engine in and turned it up to 11, it's like they had an extra 200hp

So max won? Still mercedes was fastest wolf and russell even admitted that

@@QuerientjeWolff always says they were faster 😂😂😂 his ‘truth’ 😂😂😂

@@Querientje hope they can do well this week, i think if they get close to RB on that track, it will shows that they are back because that track has lots of high speed corners

Well they could acquire them locally? But I can't imagine any of the teams agreeing too it, to start off there's no way you're going to see for instance Ferrari drivers racing around in Mercedes or vice versa.

They could use 20 identical hybrid road cars; Ferrari, Honda, Merc, AM, Renault. I think that would be much more fun for fans and drivers than a nothing sprint that undermines the main race for a few points. They wouldn't even need to ship them, just arrange with the local dealership in each country.

Checo has less confidence with the car and his driving style.

Why would he need excuses? Last time i checked nobody on the current grid has proven they can beat lewis over a season in equal car without external help

​@steevemorellon3749 you must be joking, hamilton was dominant because mercedes had a dominant car before. Same as with max now.

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​@@enigma0876only difference is Hamilton always had better drivers in his team than max. Rb make it easy for max

@@steevemorellon3749- errrm last year, Russell beat Lewis on points and 5 podiums to 2 ?

A bad pitstop from RedBull is a normal pitstop for Mercedes. Not much lost there.

True

@@doicounttoo6861both had 3.6 and 3.5 pitstop

Read answers above. Its simply impossible, TIME

No advantage in a worn plank, it's the reason the plank got worn i.e. running the cars too low where the advantage is gained.

I don't think he needs me much, mate. But I appreciate you nonetheless!

Mercedes should have applied the right ride height. But oops... then they would not come close, just like in the sprint race. Cheaters got caught cheating, well deserved disqualification.

@@FrancisFjordCupola u miss the point. They should have stuck with strategy given VER in race remarks. No courage. Didn't cheat.

Max had brake issues from lap 1. His pace AND TYRE WEAR was very much influenced by the brake issues

@@mikeplaced3111you saw how Charles fell back. You saw how LH lost seconds in the last laps in the first stint on old tyres locking up in corners. No, 1 stop was AWFUL for all drivers. Wrong strategy. Period. All drivers and teams say so now

@@Redlingstein 1st stint VER had brake issues. Writing was on the wall. Ferrari can't manage a race. Charles consistently has issue wrt race management. Merc should have stuck to their guns, 1 stop. They planned the weekend race wrt 1 stop resulting in slower pace, less down force, less plank wear, no disqualification. Merc changed strategy and still failed and ultimately disqualified so 1 stop and courage of conviction was the right course.

FIA has sensors on the cars and stewards looking at all possible irregularities. it's not a coincidence that the went straight for ham and lec and then just controlling the podium as well. they knew those cars were too low. plus there's not much time to check all of them everytime especially when there's a race next weekend and the cars need to be dismantled asap.

TIME… All cars need to be packed for transport. FIA already tests all cars on so many other parts after each session. There are only 24hr in a day. It would be ideal…. And maybe on another weekend they will.

@@alexcepile1420 Hmm it would be interesting to know how those 4 were really selected (i.e. if they already knew something was up from sensors); still, it's quite rare to get 1 car let alone 2 that breach this reg, and constitute half of the cars tested. Surely, a more in-depth investigation should have been carried out in this instance?

@@0cnpgs0 maybe. maybe not as it was always random and they went straight to what the sensors and steward said.

@@0cnpgs0 if the sensors accused 44 and 16 they might have to checked the other 2 just in case? I don't see any problem in that.

Lando WAS battling LH. Lando knew Max was way faster in every 2nd part of the stints than him. So now you say DR and Lando needed to help LH. 😂

Gee, I don't know. Maybe because he was a Performance Engineer for Red Bull? What do you do?