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      04-10-2023, 03:26 AM   #507
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It's a long gap to the Baku GP, but the four long weekends since Melbourne will be welcome by some drivers and their teams to lick their wounds especially Alpine who's both cars were written off requiring complete rebuilds with new tubs (chassis) after the worst happened to them in that Gasly and Ocon collided with each other then both ramming into an armco after the red flag re-start.
The four week gap to Baku is only due to the Chinese GP being cancelled midway due to covid concerns.
Ferrari is another team wanting to forget Melbourne after walking away with no points with luckless Leclerc tripping himself out on the first lap and Sainz losing out on any remaining points because of a time penalty, on top of that Leclerc's private address was somehow hacked and is now publicly known with people constantly ringing his front door bell which in all probability he has had disconnected now! At least he's had his stolen watch returned.
McLaren got some well needed points due to the chaos that befell other teams including Merc who lost one car with a PU failure.
With the very fast Baku circuit (highest top speed out of all on the straight) it looks like the blues will have the advantage again and the others can only kick themselves for failing in their pre season car preparations.

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