organic wrote: ↑26 Feb 2023, 20:32
jambuka wrote: ↑26 Feb 2023, 20:29
Wasn’t Sainz using the new floor as well in his last stint ? Just read that the new floor data looks promising, so maybe the comparison has other changes in terms of parts used as well along with time/temp differences. I don’t think we can compare or say anything conclusive about these two laps.
Yes he used the floor for his final stint according to Duchessa
Checking the footage that seems to be the case. The (half-ish) race sim was carried out with the stay in the higher position and the last run on higher fuel was with the stay in the lower position (there's a nice couple of shots around 12 minutes to the end).
Having said that, the floor change was fairly rapid, it seems weird they would move to a different floor design without any setup tuning and be instantly on it. I feel this might have only been a test on the different placement of the stay, as the supposedly new floor had already been tested in Fiorano. If that was indeed a new floor why would you run it in the shakedown and then put it aside for the 99% of your testing? It's easy for Duchessa to say "the changes were underneath" after he committed to that claim on day 1.
Anyways, the last run was faster then the earlier opening stint and I'm pretty sure it was on the same first stint-fuel so whatever they did it's gotta be working