These are very small differences, one car might have just a bit more downforce and just a bit less drag. More downforce doesn't have to mean more drag when things are this close. Running the CFD of Ferrari, Merc and Red Bull style sidepods on the same car showed Ferrari might be lowering rear tyre drag with wide sidepods. Combined with smaller rear wing and smaller airbox than Red Bull and Merc, I am sure they have the least drag of the 3 launch cars and RB hasn't changed that much since then.Juzh wrote: ↑19 Mar 2022, 19:50Honestly, I disagree. It's the other way around, but 10 HP tops. Red bull is clearly running with less downforce, either by choice or not and that's making them look better. Ferrari is better in medium speed turn in and early acceleration up to around ~250-260 kmh, especially when laterally loaded (T11-T13). I've been watching mini sectors trough the qualifying and ferrari was consistently posting purples on most straights. This was the case in fp2 already. People were speculating then that red bull is holding back on power, but in reality they haven't (as I was suspecting).
Anyway, thanks for your lap-time videos, great work!