I agree that Charles doesn't seem as happy as he was last year this time around. I'm not so sure though, if he might have been instructed by Fred to be less talkative given Fred's secrecy when asked any performance questions. Or maybe the car is actually not to Charles' liking yet.organic wrote: ↑27 Feb 2023, 13:54The discussion so far in the thread was made under the assumption that what the article said was true. I don't necessarily believe it either, but Duchessa / formula1uno report this understeer as unexpected.
And to respond to your point in Charles: Leclerc doesn't seem very happy or confident in the car as he did this time last year. And I doubt he would have supported developing towards an understeering balance with his feedback.
Yup that's what I'm saying. A new FW for race 3 would have months of lead time; it cannot be a fix for any unexpected problem, so if the unexpected problem is true then that fw can't be counted upon.
As for the reported unexpected understeer - what Vanja has told in the car thread makes sense. Could be a deformation thing which could have only be seen on track.