I expected the weekend to be bad for a long time and was writing as much. The ride height of the rb19 is very important. Almost like the W13 in that regard. It feels like RB borrowed merc's homework a bit but made it a lot better
Singapore was the perfect storm of bad situations for the car and seemingly the drivers but still in the end the pace was okay. Shame about the setup corrections from fp3 to quali not working. To be honest I don't care that they took the risk. Theres no constructors/wdc fight on the line; why shouldn't they take that opportunity to improve the car? With the fp3 setup, a win would've been very tricky anyway.
Hopefully the floor upgrade can be brought to Suzuka and the car works again. If not, we can start talking about TDs and their impacts on the car. But max said the car felt great again at Suzuka on the sim so I'm not that concerned.
The tyres just didn't seem to be in their window this weekend
As for the floor upgrade which hopefully goes on to work, it is almost a carbon copy of what they did at Baku. I find it interesting how the team did the Baku upgrade of widening + lowering the sidepod inlet opening to increase undercut and used a strake to increase the camber of the floor edge wing. Then in Hungary and now Singapore we have more extreme versions of the same idea. They are being very conservative with development and probably saving a lot of time doing this; in a more competitive season perhaps the team would jump straight from the launch spec to a Hungary-like design for instance.
As for upcoming tracks, Mexico and Qatar are the other tracks where the car may struggle due to kerbs.
Thankfully max got the 10 wins before Singapore