PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑16 Apr 2022, 17:57
I would say the RedBull had the edge in Jeddah. The RB was able to close quite easily compared to other cars. But then again, Max still had to make the pass work.
Jeddah was just about the same anomaly as Australia was. Binotto has said multiple times they misjudged track evolution and thought tyre deg was going to be more important than it ended up being. This was primarily due to both Ferrari drivers not doing any race sim in FP2 due to their wall encounters, missed out on 4-5 laps just like RBR missed out on extra 4-5 laps in Melbourne because they were busy figuring out their setup at the start of FP2.
Having quality time with your car is extremely critical this season, no one to show this better than Mercedes who held back on their aero package, at this point of the season, tallying every single lap from both cars in both testing, fp, quali, race in any condition they are still 20% less mileage on it than they could have been at and have to put sensors on cars during races.