Just to clarify, I don't think the info. I shared was trying to imply Ferrari was running their maximum PU setting while Merc were running Alpine Barcelona Test 1 levels of detuned.dialtone wrote: ↑11 Mar 2022, 06:05Yeah I don't think it says much more than speed, I just posted it to show that the Ferrari engine wasn't going in quali mode. Lots of stuff, like gear ratios, influence the overall final result and Merc was running slightly shorter gears.dans79 wrote: ↑11 Mar 2022, 05:53RPMs mean nothing because the temas can run whatever ratios they choose to. And they will, because they will choose ratios that best compliment their PU and aero philosophies.dialtone wrote: ↑11 Mar 2022, 05:09Just used fastf1 to create the RPM graph of the corresponding speed graph above and Ferrari RPM is lower overall.
https://i.imgur.com/OtuJznv.png
Doesn't look to me like Ferrari is running higher engine mode.
https://twitter.com/RacingTelemetry/sta ... uzIVEbRaXw
So overall it seems they both had the engine tuned about the same.
I was just pointing out that the speed traces strongly imply that the Ferrari was using a higher mode relative to Merc. Nothing more, nothing less. These speed traces are very similar to what we see during the FP sessions during the year when teams run different programs throughout the weekend. Furthermore, Ferrari historically run their engines a bit harder in practice/testing sessions.
I'm not saying anything about Ferrari's performance overall, either. Although the FOM data suggested that, despite trying to work through some balance issues on the brand new spec, Merc had quite a sizeable race pace advantage over both RBR and Ferrari.