jambuka wrote: ↑23 Feb 2024, 19:48
Was there any change to PU mode on day 3? I don’t think anyone including Ferrari showed 100%.
Yes everyone was running at high 290s kph in their long runs barring Max on day 3. Leclerc in particular had very high Speextrap numbers on his long runs. In earlier days it was low 290s on race runs even for ferrari. Engines for sure got turned up in the evening
SoulPancake13 wrote: ↑23 Feb 2024, 19:48
Vanja #66 wrote: ↑23 Feb 2024, 19:26
Looks like Ferrari decided to do a full simulation without sandbags, I can only speculate the reason was to trully check the degradation and race pace capabilities under full load. They revealed what they can do and no other Top 5 team appeared to do so in testing.
It's good to see they are far better than they were a year ago. Roughly, start of the stint is 1s better and near the end of it laps are 2s better compared to R sims a year ago. On average 1.3-1.5s better pace than 23 testing, which was pretty much what the pace was in the race as well. Very good job by the team and we should draw the line at that. First race is only 8 days away and everything will be clear.
Hurts to know that Ferrari was capable of making 1.5 second gains over a year to be honest. The messed up development of the SF-23 cost us real chances of fighting for 3 titles potentially(
can someone compare Bahrain 22 vs Bahrain 23 for Red Bull?)
All that being said, extremely proud of the team for producing such a solid racecar. For all the talk a week or so ago about how Ferrari seemingly had the most basic car, their most basic car is at least as strong as the second forces. Development from here could hopefully make things exciting!
22->23 there were major floor edge and diffuser changes which nerfed downforce generation, so that had quite an effect on laptimes.
Additionally, teams had a lot of carryover from 22 into 23 which is another reason why there's such a large gain this winter. New clean slate like '22