2024 Spanish Grand Prix- Practice & Qualifying Thread.

[racingbradley]

It's getting near that time again. Let's hope we have a great weekend with a good points haul.

[elnano14]

Sill early but (hopefully not) we can't improve our lap time on old Hard tyres like the others

[racingbradley]

Max appears to be back in form and Russell is looking racy.

[elnano14]

Leclerc: "The car is horrendous right now"
Great...

[elnano14]

I heard that Carlos had the full upgrade package while Charles did not, to see the difference between the two cars
Any one can confirm it ?

[racingbradley]

I wonder if Carlos got the full upgrade to help him win his home grand prix. Otherwise I cannot see why the team would not give it to Charles. He cannot afford to have another bad weekend. I know it's early days.

[elnano14]

I wonder if Carlos got the full upgrade to help him win his home grand prix. Otherwise I cannot see why the team would not give it to Charles. He cannot afford to have another bad weekend. I know it's early days.

Charles will have full upgrade package in FP2

[tifosi1993]

Yeah, I don't understand Ferrari's logic here. If they were really that desperate for a comparison, then it should've been Charles with the full upgrades. Who cares if it's Carlos's home GP?
Maybe I'm reading too much into it but I'm failing to follow their logic here.
And I'd be quite angry if Ferrari brought only one upgrade package here and giving it to the driver who's leaving, just cause it's his home grand prix. I really hope that's not the case.

[aroutis]

Yeah, I don't understand Ferrari's logic here. If they were really that desperate for a comparison, then it should've been Charles with the full upgrades. Who cares if it's Carlos's home GP?
Maybe I'm reading too much into it but I'm failing to follow their logic here.
And I'd be quite angry if Ferrari brought only one upgrade package here and giving it to the driver who's leaving, just cause it's his home grand prix. I really hope that's not the case.

Relax.
If Charles -is- having it from FP2 on, then they gave it to Carlos for a parade sort of speak.
If both are taking it - even better. In this case they wanted to check the performance in comparison to the EVO v1 which actually makes sense.
You should get mad only if they 're giving it to Carlos and Charles gets the EVO v1 and the new packages adds performance.
Then they'll be idiots. But that 's not something I expect from Vasseur, it's something Binotto's Ferrari would do.

[ferrari1.8t]

Yeah, I don't understand Ferrari's logic here. If they were really that desperate for a comparison, then it should've been Charles with the full upgrades. Who cares if it's Carlos's home GP?
Maybe I'm reading too much into it but I'm failing to follow their logic here.
And I'd be quite angry if Ferrari brought only one upgrade package here and giving it to the driver who's leaving, just cause it's his home grand prix. I really hope that's not the case.

The ghosts of Binotto past??

Joking aside, I completely agree with you. Your goal is to win races and championships, not to make the driver you fired feel better about himself at home. Lets hope Charles has the upgrades as well for FP2.

Side note, I read that Sainz got a new PU. I also read that he had issues saying "No Power" over the radio. That doesn't sound very promising.

[tifosi1993]

Relax.
If Charles -is- having it from FP2 on, then they gave it to Carlos for a parade sort of speak.
If both are taking it - even better. In this case they wanted to check the performance in comparison to the EVO v1 which actually makes sense.
You should get mad only if they 're giving it to Carlos and Charles gets the EVO v1 and the new packages adds performance.
Then they'll be idiots. But that 's not something I expect from Vasseur, it's something Binotto's Ferrari would do.

Oh, I'm quite relaxed. I just don't think it was a fruitful use of the time by wasting 60 minutes of running for Charles and giving new parts to a driver who's leaving the team. To you it was a parade, to me it was both rather odd and waste of time.
As I've said already, if really wanted to evaluate the new parts, they should've put them on no. 16's car.

[racingbradley]

I'm quite relaxed about it because maybe Charles was a better yardstick to measure the difference between what the car is capable of with the original setup and then in FP2 with the upgrades.

[FerrariF60]

Yeah, I don't understand Ferrari's logic here. If they were really that desperate for a comparison, then it should've been Charles with the full upgrades. Who cares if it's Carlos's home GP?
Maybe I'm reading too much into it but I'm failing to follow their logic here.
And I'd be quite angry if Ferrari brought only one upgrade package here and giving it to the driver who's leaving, just cause it's his home grand prix. I really hope that's not the case.

maybe they flipped a coin who gets the upgrades first for Fp1....and Carlos was the winner of that coin flip

[Schaun]

Lando looked significantly faster than anyone else on the long run during FP1.

[FerrariF60]

Lando looked significantly faster than anyone else on the long run during FP1.

i woudn't try and read too much into that, especially at this stage of the weekend....we'll see how FP2 adn FP3 will unveil

[gump1480]

Lando looked significantly faster than anyone else on the long run during FP1.

Given their recent form, I expect them to have both their cars in top 4. We may probably be on row-3 fighting the Mercs.

[FerrariF60]

so on the same tires as mclaren, we're HALF a second down??? that don't look good

[elnano14]

Upgrades don't look anything special

[nani_s23]

Onboard SF-24 car look unstable at the moment. Difficult to drive.

Not sure it’s due to upgrades or set up.

[FerrariF60]

so yeah, THIRD row for us, IF we're lucky looks about right

red bull, merc and mclaren ALL faster then us.....looks like our upgrades are really working right now....some may say that it's still early days though

[Aziz]

so on the same tires as mclaren, we're HALF a second down??? that don't look good

They are just faster, as simple as that.
We on the other hand are back to our, two decades long, mid season brain fart

[FerrariF60]

Upgrades don't look anything special

DOWNGRADES ring a bell from previous years

[elnano14]

3 tenths down in sector 2
Another 3 tenths down in sector 3
Either our tyres were dead after sector 1 or our slow-medium corners speed is very bad

[FerrariF60]

and to top it off, Sainz is faster then our # 1 driver

[FerrariF60]

3 tenths down in sector 2
Another 3 tenths down in sector 3
Either our tyres were dead after sector 1 or our slow-medium corners speed is very bad

slow and medium corner pace is VERY bad me thinks

[FerrariF60]

we'll see how we gonna do on the soft tire....

[FerrariF60]

so our departing driver STILL faster than our #1 driver on the soft tire

or maybe leclerc is still running the OLD spec car

[FerrariF60]

They are just faster, as simple as that.
We on the other hand are back to our, two decades long, mid season brain fart

i may have to agree with you on this one....we always seem to BOTCH the mid season updates

[elnano14]

so our departing driver STILL faster than our #1 driver on the soft tire

Relax with your obsession with Sainz, he had one more practice with the new upgrades than Leclerc who're still adjusting to the new updgrades

[FerrariF60]

Relax with your obsession with Sainz, he had one more practice with the new upgrades than Leclerc who're still adjusting to the new updgrades

dude, i'm NOT obsseseed with NOBODY....i ROOT for FERRARI first and foremost....i DONT have a preffered driver....i want both drivers to gather the MOST points during the weekend, as to me, WCC is valued more then anything else....PERIOD!!!