Nah, mostly porpoising and being able to not overdrive the car in the first few corners to make up the time, unlike what Ferrari needed to do to keep up. Ferrari was basically sliding in Villeneuve and Tamburello, Leclerc was taking them faster than RedBull at minimum speed to make up for the need to brake earlier due to porpoising. Eventually all of that sliding made them grain on saturday. Unfortunately there is no telemetry available for the sprint race or it would be easy to verify, like it's easy to verify for the race.Andi76 wrote: ↑24 Apr 2022, 19:26I was really surprised by the RB18s use of tyres in the sprint-race. RBR was said to have reduced the weight of the car. It seems they reduce it where it was really important, so they were able to lower the COG, which would affect tyre-wear. But maybe it was track-dependant only that the RB18 suddenly had less tyre degradation than the F1-75. Or maybe Leclerc just pushed to hard at the beginning. But it would be reasonable to reduce weight where you can lower the COG.
Look at min speed in the first 2 corners (much higher for LEC) but the braking point is 100m earlier, that's an eternity: 0.2s for each braking point.