Jesus Christ, after all we went through after 2019, now this...First race of the season and already done and dusted.
Thank God Mattia is out, couldn't stand to look into his interviews after another debacle.
LM10 wrote: ↑05 Mar 2023, 22:14
This sums it up perfectly. The outcry on here is unbearable.
Everyone knew (or should have known, if they had paid attention) that the car is not ready yet and that they went for a compromized setup. The team has told that numerous times - it was readable between the lines. On top of the fact that they have not found an optimal setup, they were not able to use the rear wing they were planning to use.
Such big is the overall modification the car went through. Testing was not enough obviously.
The SF-23 with the skinniest rear wing and beam wing combination and an issue on the front end (which they will solve in the next few races) was the fastest car in certain corners. Leclerc was only a tenth slower than the fastest driver in S2 who was Max in the RB19 which is sorted out completely and working in it's optimal window.
It was the first race of the longest season in F1 ever and people are writing off everything already. Just ridiculous.
Car not ready, yet they have been preparing for this since May last year. Car not ready, yet Vigna promised "unprecedented" speed. 15 seasons without WDC and counting...
AR3-GP wrote: ↑05 Mar 2023, 22:58
In many ways, it feels like the transition from the launch spec SF75 to SF23 is like the transition from the SF71H to the SF90. I'm not convinced that Ferrari needed to chase aero efficiency as hard as they did. We can see that Red Bull actually went towards the SF75H characteristic wise.
I think they will be better served just slapping bigger wings on the car and using the PU to compensate since they seem to have a touch more power than the others.
They cant compensate anything, they are at most 5-10hp ahead on engine performance (if that). They are all relatively close, might just be that the concept that everyone is converging towards is the actually one to go.