Davidson kept saying that from start of day 3. Then LEC put down an even faster race sim and somehow that’s still unchanged. I don’t get it.CouncilorIrissa wrote:Most of the media suggest that Merc are ahead of Ferrari in race trim, btw.
I don't either, but Allison seems to think so. Mercedes' pre-season antics is hard to get a read on.
Car said "no" or LEC backed offdeadhead wrote: ↑24 Feb 2024, 19:09RB20 +10kph through 5-6-7 despite being on harder tires
https://ibb.co/hKrQZtr
LEC tried to match it but car said not this time
https://ibb.co/MN9Drj6
More here:
I think fuel load is more important than tyre compound in the high speed.deadhead wrote: ↑24 Feb 2024, 19:09RB20 +10kph through 5-6-7 despite being on harder tires
https://ibb.co/hKrQZtr
LEC tried to match it but car said not this time
https://ibb.co/MN9Drj6
More here:
I believe that's as a result of Mercedes' own opinionCouncilorIrissa wrote: ↑24 Feb 2024, 17:21Most of the media suggest that Merc are ahead of Ferrari in race trim, btw.
I'm well aware, I'm not dismissing that. In fact, that's the only reason I'm bringing this up. Allison has a history of overselling his work a little (as opposed to what his team usually does), but not outright lying or bullshitting.organic wrote: ↑24 Feb 2024, 20:34I believe that's as a result of Mercedes' own opinionCouncilorIrissa wrote: ↑24 Feb 2024, 17:21Most of the media suggest that Merc are ahead of Ferrari in race trim, btw.
Allison stating that they believe they are ahead on race runs is not an insignificant data point. It's like Cardile saying the same: you'd believe that, no?
He could have just been saying this stuff to keep his job. It was well known that Ferrari had a succeed or sack culture at that time.ferkan wrote: ↑24 Feb 2024, 21:10I still remember SF15T and win in Malaysia when Allison was giving interview saying "We just need to put a bit more downforce on it, a bit more power" something like that...then rest of the year and 2016 turned to be rather wimpy.
There have been many times wrong predictions in paddock after winter testing, particularly with SF90 in 2019 when everyone thought its lights out and then Merc came and crushed the buildings.
Clearly failed at not getting sacked I suppose. I think the primary point is just that there’s a general lack of data to show any support of his claims here. Obviously one can trust his judgement but we’d be ridiculing Ferrari if they made those claims with this amount of data, or at least someone would try and dissect the data to find ways to validate the claim somehow.AR3-GP wrote:He could have just been saying this stuff to keep his job. It was well known that Ferrari had a succeed or sack culture at that time.ferkan wrote: ↑24 Feb 2024, 21:10I still remember SF15T and win in Malaysia when Allison was giving interview saying "We just need to put a bit more downforce on it, a bit more power" something like that...then rest of the year and 2016 turned to be rather wimpy.
There have been many times wrong predictions in paddock after winter testing, particularly with SF90 in 2019 when everyone thought its lights out and then Merc came and crushed the buildings.