Within the round-up: George Russell is assured Mercedes will likely be stronger at Monza following their hunch final weekend.
Briefly
Mercedes can reverse Zandvoort dip – Russell
Russell believes Mercedes perceive why they went from winners earlier than the summer season break at Spa-Francorchamps to behind their rivals final weekend in Zandvoort.
“Zandvoort was undoubtedly a troublesome one, but it surely’s been an excellent couple of days as a result of I believe we’ve actually type of understood the place the issues lied and what we have to do to enhance this weekend,” Russell advised the official F1 channel.
“There doesn’t appear to be any correlation, circuit-to-circuit. Zandvoort was excessive downforce, the identical as Montreal – each have been chilly. Montreal, we have been on pole. Zandvoort, we have been six tenths off. So it’s a bit complicated this sport typically, however we’re assured we discovered a purpose why we have been uncompetitive in Zandvoort. We’re going to be type of reversing on that change for this weekend.
“Nevertheless it’s all change once more – completely re-Tarmac-ed right here, so the Tarmac’s actually darkish – it’s going to retain an enormous quantity of warmth. We’ll in all probability see like 60 levels [Celsius] of observe temperature, so the tyres will likely be type of burning up as we’re driving. However simply excited and feeling assured inside myself to have a great weekend.”
New race engineer for Tsunoda
Yuki Tsunoda has a brand new race engineer from this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix.
His earlier engineer Mattia Spini – who additionally engineered for Pierre Gasly and Danil Kvyat on the staff – has moved to a extra senior position inside RB. RB has assigned Ernesto Desiderio to be Tsunoda’s new race engineer.
At the moment is not going to be the primary time Tsunoda and Desiderio work collectively, because the staff gave them the chance to take action in earlier first follow periods in preparation for the change.
Dry ice banned from junior collection
System 2 and System 3 staff are forbidden from utilizing dry ice to chill their automobiles previous to race periods as of this weekend.
Groups have been beforehand permitted to make use of dry ice in radiator ducts and the entrance of the radiator itself, however there have been a number of situations of groups reporting rivals to the stewards for dropping dry ice onto the circuit throughout races. Prema drivers Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Oliver Bearman will each take 5 place grid penalties for Saturday’s F2 dash race after the stewards from the Spa spherical enacted a suspended penalty from Silverstone for a number of breaches of the dry ice laws.
The revised guidelines ban “on-liquid cooling brokers which use latent warmth of evaporation, akin to dry-ice” from use in automobiles, however groups are as an alternative permitted to dry ice if they’re used with exterior cooling units hooked up to automobiles earlier than periods and eliminated earlier than working.
F1 Supervisor patch launched
A brand new patch for F1 Supervisor 24 has been launched on PC. The v1.6 patch rebalances AI staff automobile improvement races, mounted a number of bugs round negotiating employees contracts and provides Ferrari junior Tuukka Taponen and F1 Academy drivers Emely de Heus, Amna and Hamda Al Qubaisi to the sport, amongst many different adjustments.
The patch is predicted to reach for console variations over the approaching days.
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