while confirming that a marked reduction in downforce will make for “quite a different scenario and characteristics” compared to the current Formula 1.
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which would’ve been 16-6 had he not been disqualified from second place in Austin.
in that any result Verstappen achieves is taken out of the equation and wherever he finished.
Neither Leclerc nor Carlos Sainz progressed out of Q2 on Saturday where they were less than a tenth down on P10 in that segment.
with George Russell leading Lewis Hamilton – with Hamilton having shown excellent pace in FP3 earlier on Saturday.
We are prepared to have a driver line-up that I think is going to be one of the best on the grid if it’s achieved.
The reason being Esteban was losing performance with the suspected PU issue and the team had confidence for Pierre to attack Ricciardo with DRS (and Ricciardo without DRS).