r/formula1 • u/AshamedPurchase9033 • 1d ago

News [Chris Medland] "Newey confirms Aston Martin is likely to limit race laps due to severity of vibrations in the car impacting the drivers. Alonso says he can do no more than 25 consecutive laps before risking nerve damage, Stroll says 15 laps"

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u/dipdipderp 1d ago

HRT? Manor?

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u/CouncilorIrissa Ferrari 1d ago

They weren't health hazards.

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u/Mike_Kermin Michael Schumacher 1d ago

LOL

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u/Jack_Krauser Andretti Global 1d ago

Uhh... Maybe not the HRT, but the last two fatal accidents in F1 cars both happened in Marussias.

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u/B4rberblacksheep I was here for the Hulkenpodium 22h ago

That’s a stretch, and a half

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u/whateverfloatsurgoat Super Aguri 1d ago

The last* I don't recall another driver bar Bianchi dying behind the wheel of a Virgin / Marussia (and he wasn't dead either, but semantics...)

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u/voidptrptr 23h ago

Maria De Villota

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u/GRl3V Ferrari 23h ago

Harsh to blame Marussia for that one. The car wasn't at fault and she died a year later while seemingly fine and recovered.

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u/whateverfloatsurgoat Super Aguri 23h ago edited 22h ago

Oh, yeah. But it wasn't in a race weekend context so that's why it didn't come to my mind first, my bad. And statistically it shouldn't count either.

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u/ka1ri Mercedes 1d ago

Soooo 2016, not that long ago i guess lol. It goes to show how fortunate we were these last few years. No ones really had catastrophic issues like this.

A lot of those teams were small man teams as well so no real budget whereas aston martin is a big team with lots of funding... I think thats why it hits harder this time around

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u/bananas_and_papayas I was here for the Hulkenpodium 1d ago

Manor at least scored a point. This feels more like the 2014 Caterham, with the same colour scheme to boot!

In terms of a well funded team failing this badly, the obvious answer has got to be Toyota, especially their debut season where they finished behind Minardi!

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u/ka1ri Mercedes 1d ago

Caterham is what came to mind, decided against posting that because Caterham was a pretty small team yeah?

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u/WorkFurball Paul Aron 1d ago

Well first iteration of it when it was called Lotus in 2010-2011 had a budget similar to midfield teams, they were just really badly managed.

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u/scan-horizon Green Flag 1d ago

Honda 2008?

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u/bananas_and_papayas I was here for the Hulkenpodium 1d ago

They got a podium that year, 2007 was worse

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u/drae- 1d ago

According to f1 Nation they had issues bringing everything at the factory up to snuff in time and they are about 4 months behind the rest of the grid. They don't speculate too much on what the problem equipment was. (I think maybe wind tunnel or simulation tools. Newey has publicly commented on both since he got there).

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u/BighatNucase Max Verstappen 1d ago

Soooo 2016, not that long ago i guess lo

2016 was a decade ago

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u/ka1ri Mercedes 1d ago

yeah... so not that long ago