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ESPN/ABC/Disney wrote:The Spanish Grand Prix schedule (all times Eastern):
· Friday, May 11
Practice 1 - 4.55am-6.30am - ESPNU
Practice 2 - 8.55am-10.30am - ESPNU
· Saturday, May 12
Practice 3 - 5.55am-7.00am - ESPN2
Qualifying - 8.55am-10am - ESPN2
· Sunday, May 13
Qualifying (Encore) - 7.00am-8.30am - ESPN2
On The Grid - 8.30am-9.05am - ESPN2
Race - 9.05am-11am - ESPN2
Encore - 7.30pm-10pm - ESPN2
Encore - 10.pm-12.30am - ESPNEWS
· All race, practice sessions and qualifying programs also will continue to be available for live viewing and replays on the ESPN App.
Christian Horner wrote:Of course, the Red Bull team were at the same time telling Verstappen to be patient and drive clean.So it was like, okay we are likely to ingest a whole bunch of shrapnel from the MGU-K so we should stop the engine, but I said no let's keep running and if it stops it stops, we are leading the Monaco Grand Prix. I discussed it with Adrian and he was in total agreement that we go until it smokes.
jihadjoe wrote:The funny thing is that Ricciardo was pretty much on-pace despite the broken car. I guess Monaco turned out to be more about preserving those ultra/hyper-soft tires than outright engine power. Maybe he was even helped a bit by the broken hybrid power unit. It'll be a lot easier to not apply too much power and destroy your rear tires (like Vettel and Hamilton did) if the car isn't giving that much power in the first place.
Mikael33 wrote:jihadjoe wrote:The funny thing is that Ricciardo was pretty much on-pace despite the broken car. I guess Monaco turned out to be more about preserving those ultra/hyper-soft tires than outright engine power. Maybe he was even helped a bit by the broken hybrid power unit. It'll be a lot easier to not apply too much power and destroy your rear tires (like Vettel and Hamilton did) if the car isn't giving that much power in the first place.
That's because passing is ... difficult at Monaco, so Ricciardo got a bit of break, if passing was easier around there Vettel could have easily passed him, he had more than enough pace to do so, not to say that Ricciardo didn't do a superb job down nearly 200hp.
“I saw [Ricciardo’s] issue and I was also told by radio and that’s when I started to push. But as soon as I got too close, or closer, then I struggled to stay there and never got in range, especially at the exit of the tunnel.
“Obviously if you get closer it doesn't help with your tyres. In some corners you don't really need power and Ricciardo was quicker than us. He was always able to open the gap and I was never really there. He could keep his pace and I think that perhaps it could have been worse for us if he hadn't had some issues.
“Mercedes were in a similar position to us, even though they were on the harder, supposed-to-be-more-robust tyre, and Daniel said he had no problems at all. So obviously, it made it difficult in the low-speed corners where you don’t need power, you need grip to stay with him and then benefit from the more power that we had clearly in the straights, but we couldn’t.”
Zak Brown wrote:I think we have identified the areas in which we have a problem, or problems. It's in aerodynamics. It's something that doesn't show up in the wind tunnel. Therefore, we can't try to solve it in the wind tunnel because we can't replicate the issue or issues. It's not a wind tunnel issue. What we've identified as the areas of weakness just simply doesn't show up in a wind tunnel. Unfortunately we're having to test and experiment at the race track.
Anonymous internet commenter wrote:With people starving in the world it's unreal how much money McLaren are spending to be so bad.