Looks like Charles has felt confidence in the car after the updates and the bison mod is back, so far it's very impressive.Stunning.
This is something Imola didn't prepare me for.
Just said something on the radio about the tyres being absolutely gone because of the fast laps they did in the earlier part of the sessionSpace-heat wrote: ↑24 May 2024, 18:03Long run for Charles was poor. Lots of traffic and Perez backed everyone up. However, Charles was not happy after the flag so might be a set up issue rather than traffic. Carlos' pace looked good.
Charles was lifting/hitting the traffic in S3 on multiple laps. Look at the sector times, his S3 time fluctuatures a lot.Space-heat wrote: ↑24 May 2024, 18:03Long run for Charles was poor. Lots of traffic and Perez backed everyone up. However, Charles was not happy after the flag so might be a set up issue rather than traffic. Carlos' pace looked good.
I hope they dont change stuff in the wrong direction and kill some of this phenomenal 1-lap pace.Space-heat wrote: ↑24 May 2024, 18:03Long run for Charles was poor. Lots of traffic and Perez backed everyone up. However, Charles was not happy after the flag so might be a set up issue rather than traffic. Carlos' pace looked good.
Fair but his S1-S2 sector times weren't spectacular. He said disaster himself over the radio. Didn't over complain on traffic he seemed to think it was setup or tire issue.CouncilorIrissa wrote: ↑24 May 2024, 18:04Charles was lifting/hitting the traffic in S3 on multiple laps. Look at the sector times, his S3 time fluctuatures a lot.Space-heat wrote: ↑24 May 2024, 18:03Long run for Charles was poor. Lots of traffic and Perez backed everyone up. However, Charles was not happy after the flag so might be a set up issue rather than traffic. Carlos' pace looked good.
100% a tyre issue, I think this was the same tyre he did the fast laps at the beginning of the session with. Sainz didn't take as much out of the tyre in the fast laps and hit 15.1, not too worried tbhSpace-heat wrote: ↑24 May 2024, 18:06Fair but his S1-S2 sector times weren't spectacular. He said disaster himself over the radio. Didn't over complain on traffic he seemed to think it was setup or tire issue.CouncilorIrissa wrote: ↑24 May 2024, 18:04Charles was lifting/hitting the traffic in S3 on multiple laps. Look at the sector times, his S3 time fluctuatures a lot.Space-heat wrote: ↑24 May 2024, 18:03Long run for Charles was poor. Lots of traffic and Perez backed everyone up. However, Charles was not happy after the flag so might be a set up issue rather than traffic. Carlos' pace looked good.
Have to see what F1 tempo spits out, to really judge the sector times.
Heard that, added to the initial post. Hopefully he doesn't have to tune out his one lap pace for race pace.SoulPancake13 wrote: ↑24 May 2024, 18:04Just said something on the radio about the tyres being absolutely gone because of the fast laps they did in the earlier part of the sessionSpace-heat wrote: ↑24 May 2024, 18:03Long run for Charles was poor. Lots of traffic and Perez backed everyone up. However, Charles was not happy after the flag so might be a set up issue rather than traffic. Carlos' pace looked good.
Charles was very slow, it would put him into undercut range if that was at all representative
When you are ahead, you can pace yourself and have better tyre life when you need it.SoulPancake13 wrote: ↑24 May 2024, 18:09Charles was very slow, it would put him into undercut range if that was at all representative