scuderiabrandon wrote:I go back to something I said yesterday in this thread.
The chronic understeer is costing us more than it has proven beneficial.
Dialling back oversteer is easier than dialling in oversteer. ARB settings, Brake Bias settings and backing off FW angles can dial out oversteer without making big compromises to the overall performance. Trying to improve mid corner rotation usally requires higher rake angles, which costs floor performance, increase in flap angles, which slightly increase drag and extremely limited in how much they can do here. Understeer tends to be less kind on the front tyres aswell
Sainz comlaining about the front tyres being gone at a rear limited circuit tells you what you need to know.
Tells you he was going slow AF.
Ferrari was pretty good this race overall as a car, they had better pace than everyone else in 1st stint. Could it have been better? Yeah but let's be realistic.
Folks just to set things clear: race sims were in 1:38s, race was half at 1:40s. And other half at 1:39s till VSC that spiced things up. A typical 2 stopper turned into a 1 stopper Soft-Hard. It was slow, so slow the soft on LEC, which had 2 more laps than the mediums, was going to go past 25 laps without SC, almost half distance while gapping Russell.
Don't evaluate this race like the others, this is more like Monaco with slightly better passing chances.