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Before we start pointing finger at the substation and make tinfoil hats, I collected what I could find in AGL ranks over the years for the 9ers.

2024: 32nd
2023: 4th
2022: 24th
2021: 29th
2020: 32nd
2019: 27th
2018: 26th
2017: 22nd
2016: 24th
2015: 27th
2014: 28th (< substation expanded)
2013: 23rd

sources:
https://x.com/_noahfurtado/status/1970234276554907778
https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/6a095l/a_4_year_look_at_adjusted_games_lost_football/

Except for 2023, every single season before or

Is it just me or it's basically not spawning right now? Over tried both reloading the terminal overload and doing patrols for an hour and not even once it spawned.

Top 10 lap chart

top 4 race pace

Max had a fairly straightforward race, was P3 after what seemed like 3 corners, never used DRS after the first couple of laps and never really had to fight LEC because of the VSC pit stop. After FP2 he had better race pace and overall ended up winning with that same pace difference of roughly 0.2-0.3s/lap.

First race in this second half of the season where Ferrari tire degradation is inferior just

Well this was a surprise, after FP2 I thought VER had this in the bag, and what do you know... Ferrari must have found something in FP3 because despite the lower DF they went with, the traction out of corners is actually not bad at all.

LEC v VER

1. Duchessa talked about higher engine mode in FP for Ferrari. I think in FP it was more VER taking a more relaxed approach to upshifts. Here however the RPM of the Ferrari engine is just slightly higher under DRS on 8th gear at the same speed. It's possible Ferrari is not running the engine as protected as they have

SAI v VER

1. Top speed very similar between the 2 cars, just 4kph into T1, SAI had no tow, neither did VER, 4kph difference which is smaller than FP1 although Ferrari appears to be running more DF in FP2.
2. Traction out of T2 still is an issue for Ferrari
3. RBR is lower RPM and lower speed here, the reason is that VER had 2 cars on the outside of the right hander and couldn't use the whole track properly
4. This top speed deficit here is due to traction out of the Lesmo corners
5. Once again out of Ascari Ferrari is paying their rigidity on exit since cars he

LEC v RUS

1. This is the only straight where RUS matches LEC in top speed, and for some reason it's the worst straight for LEC. LEC didn't have traffic but loses some RPMs and speed before the braking zone, doesn't do this in the other straights.
2. All the other straights, MER loses speed at the end of the straight. Drag is probably overcoming engine power.
3. In the 2 Lesmos RUS has pretty good performance.
4. Variante della Roggia is where RUS basically loses all of the time in his lap, in particular under braking, RUS complained about it in T1 as well.

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Ferrari got progressively slower than the rest as the car got lighter, no matter what the compound was. Luckily in the Dutch GP we had 2 stints that were very comparable on soft tires, the first stint and the last stint between LEC and VER.

Here's lap 5:

LEC v VER lap 5 Dutch GP

Heavy car here, and a decent lap from both LEC and VER, although soon after this lap VER managed to carve an edge.

1 and 2 show that Ferrari was faster in the medium and high speed corners by a lot, however if you do this with a car that slides, you grain or degrade your front tires.

Top 10 race gap

Fairly nice race graph today, one thing is very visible here to me: Ferrari got progressively slower as the race went on and the car got lighter pace wise, and the Mercedes had a good chance at winning the race without shenanigans.

Let's look at the Ferrari statement first and split the race in 4 chunks to look at race pace:

race laps top 6, first 14 laps

LEC and VER actually had pretty decent pace, SAI just coul

VER v LEC

1. Big speed difference between the cars: 9kph in T1, they chose very different aerodynamic packages, while both cars are obviously high DF, RB has gone for less DF than Ferrari and Mercedes. They'll be hard to pass come race day.
2. Little error from Verstappen here in T1, struggled a bit to turn the car and had some understeer.
3. Little error from Charles at the exit of banked hairpin, just let the car lose speed a bit too much, but overall not a big factor.
4. In T7 we start to see the higher DF from Ferrari really play a role, the 9kph that RedBu

FP2 telemetry seems to be totally busted so this is just FP1.

RUS v SAI

I've tried something new here by marking in the picture what I find the interesting bits of the lap:

1. Little mistake for SAI in exit of T1, forced him to get off the throttle, and because the following T2 and T3 are also messed up I would say that in all likelihood SAI tires weren't in the window yet at that point which compromised that part of the lap. In general SAI had similar exit stability issues in S1, RUS had better traction out of the corners and able to put down power more conf

top 10 race gap graph

• Verstappen won starting from 14th and was first after 10 laps and again after 17.
• This gap graph shows pretty clearly that he was on another level compared to everyone. The car was also on its own level here in Spa.
• Ferrari underperformed, perhaps the floor TD impacted Ferrari more than they expected, S2 was the big struggle for them through the race and possibly it's due to suspensions having to be harder to avoid big vertical accelerations for porpoising. Ferrari simply couldn't turn on the tires, and while the soft was a good tire

Top 10 race gap chart

• Verstappen won starting from 14th and was first after 10 laps and again after 17.
• This gap graph shows pretty clearly that he was on another level compared to everyone. The car was also on its own level here in Spa.
• Ferrari underperformed, perhaps the floor TD impacted Ferrari more than they expected, S2 was the big struggle for them through the race and possibly it's due to suspensions having to be harder to avoid big vertical accelerations for porpoising. Ferrari simply couldn't turn on the tires, and while the soft was a good tire

Let's start with the alien guy first:

VER v SAI

• Top speed is clearly not where VER got pole here, in fact in S1 SAI, thanks to the tow, managed to gain about 0.1s on VER.
• As in FP2, T7-10 is where RBR really builds their gap with 0.4s just in those 4 corners.
• In the back straight, without a tow for Ferrari, RBR is still gaining about 0.1s, however this time the advantage here is due to the exit from T16 where RBR can accelerate faster and that advantage builds up to the end.
• I think Ferrari with these colder temperatures simply can't turn on the tires