Ah, so that was an actual problem? Thought he was too conservative on purpose. Did he say anything specific?
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Ah, so that was an actual problem? Thought he was too conservative on purpose. Did he say anything specific?
Yeah he mentioned they went for a specific setup and the final result was not what he hoped for. Still the RB were way too quick according to him.
Cool, Vasseur definitely stamped the no-bs attitude all over the team. His statement is honest and good:
In other words - head down, we are behind and have catching up to do.When you have to do 40-42 laps on hard tires you have to pay attention to the tyres, and considering the fact that we did the first laps behind Piastri or Norris, damaging the tires a bit: I think it was the correct approach to be conservative at the start stint. The problem is that we are not magical in top speed , we lost position on Perez for this reason. It was then difficult to follow him. Red Bull clearly has an advantage, we have a performance gap compared to them, and we need to be clear with ourselves about this. We have already seen two opposite tracks with Sakhir and Gedda, and it was good to be competitive in both. Everyone will make the most of the car and improve in the next races, we took a step forward last season, like McLaren, and this means that we will always have to focus on ourselves to do a good job in Australia with the hope that Carlos returns to squad
Who’s 2nd?scuderiabrandon wrote:As for Australia, looking at how much the RB20 has improved in the traction zones compared to the RB19, one could actually say it's now the class of the field in that regard, it will be incredibly hard to beat them there. I personally feel if we continue to struggle that much in the traction zones we'd probably be closer to the 3rd quickest team than to Red Bull.
Ferrari ofcourse, I meant we'll be closer to team behind than to Red Bull IF the weak rear end is not remedied before then.dialtone wrote: ↑10 Mar 2024, 04:45Who’s 2nd?scuderiabrandon wrote:As for Australia, looking at how much the RB20 has improved in the traction zones compared to the RB19, one could actually say it's now the class of the field in that regard, it will be incredibly hard to beat them there. I personally feel if we continue to struggle that much in the traction zones we'd probably be closer to the 3rd quickest team than to Red Bull.
It looks like Ferrari has a driver. And the lewis hamilton contract might cost them this driver. Depending on how that 2nd or 3rd year is written. Will he wait around driving a backmarker if Red Bull is interested ? Highly unlikely.
Historically British F1 drivers don't really have great record with Ferrari.TeamKoolGreen wrote: ↑10 Mar 2024, 06:53It looks like Ferrari has a driver. And the lewis hamilton contract might cost them this driver. Depending on how that 2nd or 3rd year is written. Will he wait around driving a backmarker if Red Bull is interested ? Highly unlikely.