The car without upgrades was slower than the car with upgrades on FridayCouncilorIrissa wrote: ↑23 Jun 2024, 11:49Yeah, I thought of the same thing about lowering the floor roof, that in quest of finding more performance the team did a France 2022.LM10 wrote: ↑23 Jun 2024, 00:55As soon as I saw that the floor roof was lowered with the new upgrades I thought of the possibility of porpoising. I've not read what exactly Sainz said, but if he actually mentioned porpoising then of course it's the explanation for their huge lift compared to others in the high speed section. That's a big time loss.
But I'm not worried. The team just needs to find out the optimal setup to shut off the porpoising again. It's been a big upgrade package overall (Imola and Barcelona combined).
Another thing which Sainz said was the characteristics of the track which partly are similar to China and Suzuka and that it was not a surprise that they struggled (or something on those lines) because these type of corners are the weak point of the car. So I guess he means the long radius corners? If yes, I wonder how to solve that and whether they addressed these issues with the current upgrades already or it will happen later in the season.
The colder track didn't help either.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the upgrades have made the car worse. We obviously don't have enought data to conclude that, so that's more of a gut feeling than anything else.