Holy_Moly
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I don’t blame Ant at all. After all, he’s just a 19-year-old teenager who still needs Bono to tell him over the team radio the difference between a single yellow and a double yellow, and even when to hit the brakes. The fact that he could say something like that so naturally makes me think Mercedes must regularly shift the blame onto GR in internal meetings—pinning mistakes on him before they’ve even investigated what actually happened. If that’s what he hears all the time, it’s no surprise those words came out so easily. The irony is that last year, when Ant was struggling through the European races and facing heavy criticism, it was GR—at this very same Hungarian Grand Prix—who publicly defended him in interviews, even putting himself down to take some of the pressure off Ant. And this year, GR has continued to show him nothing but respect. In the end, it’s just another version of The Farmer and the Snake.
Holy_Moly431,508 views • 15 days ago
🚨 Russell’s engineer Marcus lied to him, claiming that the penalty had already been cleared, causing him to miss a second opportunity to serve it. Was this instruction coming from Mercedes? 🚨 After Leclerc hit the wall, a red flag wasn't immediately shown. Under yellow flags, drivers still had to pit and navigate around the final corner as before. Russell voluntarily offered to serve a stop-and-go penalty in the pits to clear his time. He was 12 seconds ahead of Gasly when he pitted, so even after serving it, he wouldn't lose position. Marcus told him the penalty had been cleared and to wait for Race Control to update.
Holy_Moly364,378 views • 2 months ago
🎤:“What will you be asking of your team?” GR🗣️:“Obviously, all I want is the same as the other car. I’m not asking for anything better—just the same. That’s what we’re trying to achieve.” GR explained that he considered the collision with Lewis to be just a racing incident. He also said that having no power on the straights was dangerous. An Italian journalist implied that GR himself believed it was a PU issue and asked why it wasn’t replaced. (However, he doesn’t seem to have ever explicitly stated that in any interview, so the journalist may have been leading the question.)
Holy_Moly92,831 views • 22 days ago
【Wouldn’t Having a Performance Engineer from Formula E Bring an Advantage?】 Sky Germany asked Toto whether Ant had an advantage because his side of the garage has a Performance Engineer with a Formula E background. Toto dismissed the idea, saying both sides have complete access to each other’s data and tools. But while data and tools can be shared, can experience, judgment, and modeling expertise really be shared as well? That engineer is Stéphane Folio, who previously worked as a Performance Engineer in Nissan Formula E, specializing in energy management, chassis control strategy, vehicle control strategy, the Driver-in-the-Loop simulator, and vehicle dynamics. He joined Mercedes F1 in 2025—the same year as Ant. Why is Formula E experience so valuable under the 2026 regulations? Because after the first ten races, we have already seen that a significant part of a car’s performance is determined by when energy is harvested, when it is deployed, how the state of charge is managed, and how the software calculates and controls that deployment. This may also explain why the gaps between some teammates who were far apart last season have narrowed significantly this year—or even been reversed. Formula E uses a spec battery and several standardized core components, meaning teams cannot rely on hardware alone to create a major advantage. As a result, performance is heavily centered on powertrain efficiency, energy management, control strategies, and software calibration. Engineers spend years optimizing exactly how much energy to recover in each corner, how much to deploy on every straight, and how to recalculate the entire energy strategy after safety cars, slipstreaming, or changes in race position. In many ways, Formula E is a championship where performance is heavily defined by software and energy strategy—experience that overlaps remarkably well with the key technical challenges of the 2026 F1 regulations. Mercedes itself also competed as a factory team in Formula E, winning two Drivers’ Championships, one Teams’ Championship, and one Teams’ runners-up finish. So wouldn’t assigning an engineer with exactly this kind of background to Ant’s side of the garage be a resource advantage in itself? Toto says both sides can see the same data. But seeing the same data does not mean having the same people, the same experience, or the ability to reach equally fast and equally accurate conclusions. Meanwhile, in nine of the first ten races this season, GR has suffered different software or hardware-related issues.
Holy_Moly55,499 views • 17 days ago
2026 Hungarian Grand Prix – Team Representatives’ Press Conference Quick Summary 🎤Have the deployment/software issues been fixed? Simon: We found a software bug. There were already signs of it at Silverstone, it became much more evident at Spa, and we believe we fixed it before Budapest. 🎤Did Kimi have the same issue? Simon: The software issue affected Kimi as well, but it impacted George more. Kimi was also running a fresher PU. 🎤How important was George’s feedback? Simon: George kept challenging the team and clearly highlighted the issues. His feedback helped us identify the root cause and put the fix in place for this race. 🎤Why have the Mercedes works team and McLaren had more PU issues than the customer teams? Simon: I haven’t counted them, but there were a lot of issues across the fleet early in the season. Reliability has improved after a lot of work from HPP.
Holy_Moly28,974 views • 13 days ago
Bradley🗣️: “Fans get really invested in their driver’s success, so we’re often on the receiving end of lots of comments.” Bradley🗣️: “Marcus, if you’re suddenly being made responsible for everything that’s gone wrong with a race weekend, even though you’ve probably not been directly involved with a good chunk of it?” Marcus🗣️: “It's not something that really features. And I just let this sort of stuff wash over me. And I know what I need to do. I know what I need to do with George. So I just carry on with the job.” So Mercedes PR seems to think the problem is fans blaming them because the team made mistakes and mistreated one of their drivers?After making errors of different scales almost every race weekend, instead of reflecting on their own actions, they choose to criticize fans for supporting the driver.
Holy_Moly53,507 views • 1 month ago
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