Vanja #66 wrote: ↑09 Apr 2022, 12:40
Ashwinv16 wrote: ↑09 Apr 2022, 12:30
It's weight related. Which is why the car is fast in High speed corners but not in traction zones. RB can't add ballast to the front thus they have to run lower downforce due to balance.
It's not just weight (btw didnt they loose 6-7kg this weekend?), the car is limited with front downforce, the balance is to much to the rear due to overall aero concept. Juzh pointed this out very early in race threads, even after Bahrain FP1/2... Helmut Marko also mentioned their sidepods from solved a lot of understeer problems which launch spec had, and yet they still have understeer.
I'd say understeer was less apparent in melbourne than in previous races, so they must be doing something to solve it. Car also has very good peak downforce as verstappen is faster than leclerc in high speed T6 and T9-10 (220+ kmh corners), so the understeer can't be that bad, not at those speeds. Problems seems to be corners below 200 kmh and in general the car looks more and more like a boat the slower the corner gets. I don't believe any major weight loss occurred based on those observations. Marko did say they're shedding weight in Imola, but then some reporter said it's happening already in melbourne.. so mostly just rumours, nothing confirmed.