To be fair, the RB was probably 15kg overweight and understeering.Vanja #66 wrote: ↑25 Feb 2023, 19:02They needed the bigger wing for testing and proper setup today, but track-specific setup can and will come next weekend. If they manage to race even with that new medium load wing it will be a huge achievement, since last year they won with 2nd biggest wing they had in 2022.
Taking the fight to Merc? You reckon that Merc are the top team going into Bahrain?PhillipM wrote: ↑25 Feb 2023, 19:16Honestly I've never been a Ferrari fan at the best of times - but seeing what they put in today with a car that was overheating the rears and a bit squirrely - if they have a higher DF wing ready for next week then I think they're the ones going to be taking the fight to Merc.
A lot of pundits are sleeping on the fact that the tyre deg over stints was always the rears going away and it feels pretty deliberate from Ferrari to me right now.
But why do they do that? Isn't it better to bring more wings to Bahrain and test all options with high/medium df wings and beam wings combinations.PhillipM wrote: ↑25 Feb 2023, 19:16Honestly I've never been a Ferrari fan at the best of times - but seeing what they put in today with a car that was overheating the rears and a bit squirrely - if they have a higher DF wing ready for next week then I think they're the ones going to be taking the fight to Merc.
A lot of pundits are sleeping on the fact that the tyre deg over stints was always the rears going away and it feels pretty deliberate from Ferrari to me right now.
I'm surprised they stuck with their "efficient" wing throughout the whole 3 days, it is a radical departure in setup, makes me think the plan for the GP is simply fixing the DRS of the single pylon version.Vanja #66 wrote: ↑25 Feb 2023, 19:02They needed the bigger wing for testing and proper setup today, but track-specific setup can and will come next weekend. If they manage to race even with that new medium load wing it will be a huge achievement, since last year they won with 2nd biggest wing they had in 2022.
dialtone wrote: ↑25 Feb 2023, 19:33RUS v LEC in the morning
https://i.imgur.com/mv6RnFr.jpeg
* LEC gained in the fast 5-6-7 corners and in every straight, particularly the backstraight, stability out of T8 and T10 was superior to that of the RUS.
* Aside from T1, RUS was worse in every other corner, particularly the slower ones.
PER v LEC, hard to compare one was morning the other evening:
https://i.imgur.com/aNwjIbg.jpeg
* LEC loses all the time in the slow corners T1, T4, T8 and T10, particularly braking performance from PER is better
* Both seem to have driven the car about as hard looking at shifting
SAI v HAM
https://i.imgur.com/abiCEFi.jpeg
* Similarly to LEC v RUS, SAI makes up lots of ground on the straights
* This time however HAM isn't losing a lot in the corners, including T1
* Judging from the floored throttle performance in 5-6-7 from HAM, he wasn't taking it easy at all.
Long stints, RBR did none:
https://i.imgur.com/KLxRpe8.png
* LEC last stint on softs looks pretty good actually
* SAI race sim looks good too in terms of deg, especially that second stint on mediums
Hard to understand if Ferrari botched the car honestly, they had the wrong wing on but even then the tire deg doesn't look that bad in those last few stints.