Andi76 wrote: ↑01 Jun 2023, 18:44
I did an analysis of the tires last year, so I can't agree with you here about 2022 and the hard tires. Ferrari's dilemma began the moment they put the floor on the car that corresponded to TD039. The tires, and also the hard ones used on several occasions before (I'd have to check at which GPs exactly) worked very well and the degradation was not much worse than Red Bulls. Where later after 8-10 laps the tires broke down and the hard compound no longer worked, before that you could do over 20 laps and the ones on the hard compound were as fast or faster than Red Bull. It was the TD039 that threw both set-up and tires out the window.
Andi, I was talking about races where there wasn't much temperature shift during the weekend and especially during the race. Imola, Hungary, Japan - F1-75 suffered in varying conditions with different compounds. In Monaco, Charles was insanely fast in the wet and this obscured the problem. In Hungary, the Hard tyre choice in the second part of the race was completely illogical, so no one was even analysing the problem, but the car was much slower than any other on that tyre in those conditions.
Yes, TD was the breaking point and the consequences are still clear - F1-75 was designed and operated in a way that is no longer allowed and SF-23 seems to have been designed with certain compromises that do not work in practice. If the new bodywork is a clear step forward, Binotto's lack of reaction and allowing the TD to pass is an even bigger issue than previously considered. Oldest and most important team in F1 can't be pushed around by other entities in the sport like that, you simply can't allow that to happen. Just imagine if Spygate was ignored and allowed to pass!