Bill wrote: ↑24 Jul 2023, 11:40
organic wrote: ↑24 Jul 2023, 09:14
Daniel was faster with much older tyres. He was better in qualifying and better in the race than Yuki who has driven this AT for 2 seasons. This is Daniel's first weekend with the car and lost fp1 and had reduced sets to get up to speed in other fp sessions
I think if Daniel was going to struggle a lot to beat tsunoda, he wouldn't have dominated on his first time driving the car
Daniel was 0.4 tenth behind yuki going into the last phase quali yuki didnt improve his time probably due to traffic i dont know.as for the race Yuki didn't get a proper pitstop and they left him hang for dry on worn tires why .regardless of daniel performance give the other guy a legitimate chance and see were he end on merit.yuki should have finished around p11 were usually does ,everything else is just noise
Yuki didn't improve in qualifying because he didn't improve, not due to traffic. Don't just guess to fit your narrative
Yuki had a legitimate chance to show his pace every lap and his race pace was significantly slower than Ricciardio at phases of the race when the two had comparable situations. Daniel lapped faster on 40 lap old mediums than Yuki on significantly fresher tyres.
I'm a staunch advocate of Yuki's and have been since his days in F2.. but his performance this weekend isn't the hill to die on