The rain and Alonso threatened Verstappen's dominance of F1 2023 in the Monaco GP, but the Dutchman tightened his hold on the championship lead with a decisive win. Here are 10 things we learned from the Monte Carlo weekend.
, however, pressed on with introducing the reworked W14 here, the package finally back with bigger sidepods and now featuring a new suspension system. The team believes that, even though upgrades are so hard to assess in Monaco, its new sidepods have delivered a downforce gain and its new suspension is aimed at creating a more stable platform with an anti-dive impact on braking and corner entry, which should make its floor more potent.
"The car was awful last year and this time around the drivers said it's not good. So, there's a step in description. But we really need to be careful. We've got to go to Barcelona, collect more data. It's a new baseline. [But] I don't expect us clearing Aston Martin and Ferrari there either.
It could yet still do that and until Hamilton signs a new Mercedes contract for 2024, nothing can be ruled out for sure. It would be foolish to do so.
"Everybody has more or less the same performance from the gearbox. But the cost for gearboxes is horrendous, especially if you compare it to other categories. Every team is just writing off $8-9 million a year for gearboxes where there is no performance difference at all."McLaren pulled out all the stops with its Triple Crown-themed liveryMcLaren's special 'Triple Crown' livery is a key part of its celebrations in its 60th year of history.
has Gulf sponsorship and last weekend launched a fan vote to run a similar design at the upcoming Singapore, Japanese and Qatar events – albeit with slight tweaks across all the four options. More of this, please!Alonso and Verstappen shared mutual respect after a thrilling conclusion to qualifyingAlthough the top three drivers in the race finished in the same places they started, this Monaco race was rather entertaining – thanks to the weather intervention.
Here though, with a similar system also used at certain corners at Zandvoort, the RB19 and W14 were respectively left dangling at great height for a long time above Sainte Devote and Mirabeau in Q1 and late in FP3. These developments revealed the full designs of their floors – the major aerodynamic performance differentiator on ground-effect cars.
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