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Who am I? New to F1 - 2021 Watched every race (and nearly every session) McLaren my boys Love the sport Here to waffle about wheel and have horrendous takes #WafflinWheel

@brakeboosted Can you clarifying something for me? Lando said sometimes you don’t want to deploy the battery but the vehicle still does it? How much control do they actually have on how much they deploy and when they deploy? It push it a button and it only stops when it runs out?

A lot of things are being put under the "deployment issue" umbrella, and it's unsurprising that not everyone understands how complicated the power demand rules are. This isn't an "issue" in the usual sense of the word, but rather oddities in the regulations being exposed by the near 50/50 power split. Sometimes, the way the driver uses the throttle pedal induces "deployment issues." We already saw what happened when a moment that usually proves inconsequential ruined Leclerc's SQ3 lap in China. In this case, Hadjar, who is lifting through 130R to manage tyres, is affected by the quirks of the power demand rules. The MGU-K must give at least 200 kW of electrical power for 1 second when he goes from lifting to beyond 98% throttle. Throttle position >98% is defined as the power-limited pending period. What accentuates the issues for Isack here, is that from 130R to Casio Triangle - where cars typically harvest when not attacking - instead of recovering energy, it spends an extra couple seconds deploying it. He is left completely exposed on the subsequent straight because it used energy when it was supposed to recover it. It's easy to fix in this case. Don't lift on the next laps. Where it becomes tricky is when the driver uses the throttle in a way that doesn't necessarily help the "issue" due to their driving habits, or trying to push a little harder at some points. It's precisely this thats frustrating so many drivers. Because they don't really know they're doing something "wrong." The reason its become such a prominent aspect is because of the need to have 100% optimal deployment all the time, the product of a 50/50 power split.

So realistically can Ferrari have catch merc in the engine department or is it wraps??

@brakeboosted Early stages, but who is worse McLaren or Mercedes dominating?

That Ollie Bearman crash is the exact kind of incident drivers have been warning us all about with these regulations. Different closing speeds cause that one.

the bearman crash is actually what many were considered about in terms of driving

damn Kimi just got given the win

so obvious George purposely not passing, they trying to put on a show

what a move by lando on the start

bro the merc is just too fast, this sucks so much ass

bro Kimi man

Are they behind schedule? I swear they usually do all this pre show before this

Can’t believe McLaren fall for us being in the fight. Mercedes just playing with their food

@the_zb_ its like pulling up to a light, they basically coasting into the final chicane

Watching these cars from 130R to the last chicane… no bueno. 🤦🏻‍♂️ This has to get fixed, I refuse to believe that this is somehow an acceptable norm for Formula 1. 🙅🏻‍♂️

bro did lando sell his soul for the world championship, bro surely not got another problem

You get this feeling this is the case, sure hope McLaren are considering other options, but seems like merc wants us gone bc they don’t want the competition

I understand Max's position, but truthfully that isn't my problem with these regs, it's qualifying. No pushing all out is the worst possible thing. Like truly no words on that and solution is needed immediately

"for some reason at the same time" Merc im looking at you

Charles and max w2w is amazing

Lewis playing with George again Good to see him back

@boostedbrakes if the issue is fixed can they run?

mclarens are out of the race btw