[…] I understand the other teams have also been affected in less ways. It’s unsure what effect this will have on the teams getting a car on track by Friday but my guess is it will involve a couple of very late nights.
If they have the parts they’ll have the cars together. These are the same mechanics that can take a scrap heap from FP3 and have it on track for quali a couple hours later.
Now I want to see former F1 mechanics do Scrapheap Challenge
More Illman, less Marko please
Strange how it only seems to affect the top teams.
Inside job by Ferrari?
That was my first thought, but if it was Ferrari, they’d have messed it up and only screwed up their own freight.
Looks like Pirelli is affected as well:
https://bsky.app/profile/fiadocs.bsky.social/post/3lkpbldggfv2j
Due to the logistical challenges for the official tyre supplier resulting from delays in freight arrival […] for this event only, the curfew period will be reduced by a period of five and a half (5.5) hours for a maximum of six (6) operational personnel for the sole purpose of tyre preparations post tyre fitting from the tyre supplier.
![[Kym Illman] Aircraft technical issues out of Australia have led to big delays in freight arriving into Shanghai for Red Bull, McLaren, Mercedes and Williams](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0e06611a-24e8-4f58-9aa8-bc9c84d5da6a.png){kind=link}