F1 Engineer Analyses 2023 Canada GP Qualifying

Its so difficult being a Ferrari fan, I mean their WEC team just win the freaking 24h Le Mans race! their F1 team however..

About Hulk's penalty: He was confused by a beeping noise/accoustic signal on his ear, which usually means during out and in laps that you're going too slowly as you must not fall below a minimum lap time to avoid blocking other cars. However, as it was a red flag, this time the same beeping noise meant he was going to fast, so he went even faster. Of course he should be more familiar with the red flag procedures, which the stewards even wrote in the penalty report. But as you said, his race engeneer also didn't do a great job. Going too fast under red flag is usually a 10 place grid penalty, and it's usually a black and white thing, so there is no room for just giving three places. However, they did anyway, which is in itself interesting how they circumvent the rulebook. They declared mitigating circumstances as he was confused and as he only was a little too fast and only for the beginning of the lap and not in the danger zone where Piastri's car was.

I watched the Quali live in Montreal. It was more than raining, it was a borderline storm lol. It’s impressive how these drivers can do what they do in that weather!

This came across my feed late but define need to look you for you video next weekend 👀

15:20 The engineer told Hulk clearly to keep the delta positive. However Hulk was confused and told him they are going way too slow, thought the delta should be negative and started to speed up on his own. They debated it a couple times again but he was almost at T10 by the time the engineer firmly confirmed again that he has to slow down.

Unfortunate but seeing their race-pace it did not change much in terms of his finishing spot.

As always, great content, thank you very much !

always love watching these breakdowns

As a mechanic and a technical nerd On how things work i love your videos! How you break things down and how you formulate the data is amazing ! Keep it up👍👍

Damn with the Dallas Terry Blacks cap too haha. Thanks for reppin our city man

Hopefully the race breakdown doesn’t take to long to be uploaded

I agree, Ferrari is not to blame for Leclerc's failure to get into Q3, Sainz came in behind Leclerc for softs and put in 2 good laps, both of which were good enough for Q3. Leclerc was just not good enough. Similar thing happened in Spain and he was out in Q1. On the other hand, If Leclerc had got his wish and still not delivered, the same people would have turned around and blamed Ferrari strategy, for not asking him to put in a banker lap on inters.

Great video! Where can we access the same data as you?

I’d like to know more about Control / Performance / Race engineers’ work details. As you mentioned in the video, they need to work together… I’m curious about what their main focus in the race? and how they cooperate? And the procedure difference between Red Bull and Ferrari?

Thank you!

The reason the Leclerc situation is not understandable is that they tell him they expect rain in 6-7 minutes and they expect him to do a timed lap on inters. This basically means that they deny him the chance of doing any proper lap on the slicks. I would not say it was a big blunder because slower cars went through doing the same strat but still illogical - a strategy of playing not to lose instead of playing to win. Btw the rain came after 5:30min just as Leclerc was ending his out lap on the softs.

Their luck was that only Albon and Norris went for softs very quick. Otherwise, if more people rush the softs what you say does not stand anymore and Leclerc would have dropped out anyways. I mean still without the botched last sector you mentioned Leclerc would have been at around 1:20.4 right where Hamilton and Ocon was just barely going through.

Brrake Blake vs Podcast Blake is the meme where the dude is dressed in a suit vs in his PJs

I want to say about Albon since I was at the track after Q1 it stopped raining and it was kind of obvious that whoever goes out first in Q2 with softs will get the best lap time. That was the only shot available so I was surprised to see teams with inters and not risking it with slicks. Mega job by Albon and Williams.

Love watching these when I can't make the streams

It hurts to see Checo's confidence just SHATTERED within the last couple of rounds. I would not be surprised that the cracks formed back in Australia when he was not finding grip, but really came to head when he lost grip and slammed into the wall in Q1 at Monaco. After Monaco, we have not seen Checo in Q3 and he has been playing the catch up game the entire time. He's able to over take on the tracks, but I think the issue is that with his confidence gone, Max will run away with it and the only thing that he can do it put his head down and get that confidence fixed ASAP. I don't like seeing Checo like this. I wanted to see a fight between Max and Checo, because they seem to give each other respect even when they drive each other hard. We do still have 14 races left, but at this point its just all Max and a slime chance for Checo.

You have a great mind, I hope we could do race analysis instead of qualifying analysis though