In the weekend of change everything comes the same. After many suspicions, poisoned darts and cross accusations, the caravan of the Formula 1 World Cup was presented in Montmeló with the commissioners of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) with new powers. In it Circuit A new technical guideline related to the flexibility of the front wings, an issue that has served as a throwing weapon of several teams against McLaren, a great dominator of this season, entered into the scene. The previous analyzes of the specialists predicted a change of third in the dynamics of the championship. A shake that never arrived: the Woking team (Great Britain) will monopolize the first line of the Spanish Grand Prize (15.00 hours, Dazn), in which the papaya cars have all to win. Thanks to a last kidney blow in the last fast back attempt, his workshop neighbor and his most immediate persecutor in the points table.
The Australian turn was perfect; So much, the greatest advantage over the second as far as the calendar. This is the fourth time that the Melbourne corridor will come out without traffic, in a path to advance is complicated beyond the traffic lights. “It’s a fantastic weekend so far. The car has behaved very well,” summarized the pilot aussiepractically without flinching and with the coldness that characterizes him. “Simply, Oscar has piloted very well,” Norris just recognized. Fernando Alonso got into the third consecutive evidence in the third screen of the chronometer (Q3) and the tenth will begin, while Carlos Sainz could not pass the first (Q1) and will do it on the 18th. “We must not forget where we come from,” Alonso reflected, very satisfied with the performance on track. “In Miami [tres grandes premios atrás] We were the last speed team, so we have taken several steps in the right direction, ”summarized the Asturian.
In a discipline in which engineers send, the crux of any issue is in the machinery. Therefore, surely, pilots and shields aligned to distrust McLaren. More specifically, of the flexibility levels of the front of the car. Specifically, from the spoiler. The control of this parameter can allow to reduce the resistance to the progress (drag) of the prototype. After introducing high resolution cameras to try to control that flexion, the FIA introduced in Montmeló a modification in the measurement protocol. Until now, the ailerons could flect up to 15 mm once applied on their sides a load of 1000 N pressure. That margin is reduced to only 10 mm from the appointment in Montmeló. That has caused several teams to reinforce their ailerons. However, little seems to matter to McLaren this new procedure, since both Piastri and Norris continue ahead of the rest, and they demonstrated in all the training sessions disputed.
“Everything feels the same, and I think the car is more or less equally competitive as in recent weeks. So I don’t think [el nuevo método de medición] Have a great impact, “Alonso thought.” If we look at the classification, it doesn’t have much effect. But, from my point of view, it was already what I expected, ”
