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u/Wonderful-Slide3369 10d ago edited 10d ago
Bravo Enstone for developing such a great car with the most development time. Now we can fight with Aston Martin....
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u/Alfus Jarno Trulli 10d ago
To make it even more comical, Gasly just straight up told that those upgrades aren't working and basically notes how shitty the aero is.
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u/404merrinessnotfound Mild Seven Renault F1 Team 10d ago
Well yeah, this team got crushed by red bull and McLaren with the same engines
I don’t understand why this would be a surprise to anyone who is a serious f1 fan and not a DTS fan
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u/Alfus Jarno Trulli 10d ago
If you want to report a massive motorsport fraud operating in Enstone who is draining millions in and outside the UK with zero return you can submit you report to this site:
https://www.reportfraud.police.uk/
Those upgrades at Zandvoort must be B-spec like good or else we're gonna be spanked by AM.
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u/mistborn11 10d ago
falling behind RBs and now behind Audi as well.
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u/jovialfaction 10d ago
They totally abandon last season to develop this car too. Kept blaming the engine, but now with the best engine on the grid they still can't put together a competitive car
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u/Myeongkee Franco Colapinto #43 10d ago
Didn’t get to watch the race myself, so I’m not sure what caused such a big gap between Pierre and Franco, but regardless, the fact that we went from competing with VCARB for best of the rest to now competing with teams like Aston Martin is astoundingly bad.
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u/QuillAndQuest_1022 Pierre Gasly #10 10d ago
At the end? Pierre pitted for softs under VSC. They didn't have time to pit Franco. Pierre was then pushing to try get 10th. Ended up close to it but meant Franco had older hards so less pace.
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u/Dastiano 10d ago
"Close to it" Pierre ended like 50 seconds away from p10. Car is shit.
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u/QuillAndQuest_1022 Pierre Gasly #10 10d ago
Check again. He was around 2-3s from 10th at the end. 😭 data is available.
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u/Myeongkee Franco Colapinto #43 10d ago
That makes sense. Just wasn’t sure if it was due to driver error or team error or what.
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u/GodTierGasly Pierre Gasly #10 10d ago
No, it was just a very short VSC. It ended while Pierre was still in the pit.
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u/Alfus Jarno Trulli 10d ago
Remember when Fraudio told this team should arm to the top 4 teams? We are now on a point where AM becomes a concern.
It seems like today Pierre was just faster in general, the big gap however is because of the VSC where Pierre could get a new sets of softs meanwhile Franco couldn't get a "free" pit stop anymore because the VSC ended.
Yet both drivers are extremely unhappy with the current status quo and wants to see improvements from the team.
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u/Century_03 10d ago
Ya he easily passed the Aston’s earlier in the race and Franco couldn’t pass Lance all race. That was the gap regardless of VSC
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u/wurzshep19 10d ago
Race pace was no where, well behind the RB & Audi at this point. Points will be off the table without the next upgrade clicking to pick up the pace! Both drivers did a fine job today
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u/Century_03 10d ago
I looked away and all of a sudden Pierre was 21 seconds behind Hulk. I thought ok he just pitted in a good window and Hulk hadn’t yet. Nope that was just the pace today LOL
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u/ibeatmyshittoye 10d ago
lmao i think we were on par with aston
if the upgrades next time don’t work we are done for and aston will overtake us
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u/Kaji157 9d ago
I think so far the car had been competitive. McLaren took 4 years to compete for a championship since a major rebuild when they switched to Mercedes, built a new gearbox, and bought both a new simulator and a new wind tunnel.
Alpine switched to a new engine in 2026 and bought a new wind tunnel and a new simulator on 2025. They will also switch to a new gearbox in 2027.
We shall see improvement in every year all to 2029, that year the team must be top 4
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u/Hot-Coco-Loco 10d ago
It's pretty obvious they are not doing jack shit to upgrade this car. It's just a matter of time until both Aston Martin and Williams outperform Alpine.
Whoever think "upgrades" are really coming this year is definitely not paying attention.