venkyhere wrote: ↑13 Oct 2025, 10:40
r85 wrote: ↑13 Oct 2025, 10:07
What do you think the pace delta is if you want to make an overtake here? Probably bigger than last year considering the convergence of the field.
No idea, but generally COTA is not a track where overtaking is difficult - the back straight is really long and even though the pit straight isn't lengthy, T1 is uphill and wide enough to offer different lines for a late-braking attack. So both T12 and T1 should see a lot of overtaking
I am moving this discussion to this thread as I think it does not make sense in the team thread.
I do not think one can tell this so easily. We saw last year, that Lec could simply pass Pia with about 1sec in his pocket (or more, might have been saving already). The same second that Russel and Norris showed after their pitstops and after the overtake, but they had real trouble overtaking the Bulls.
So you need above a second, still.
And the race last year was very split on overtakes: There were nearly no overtakes on equal age tires. I can only find one where Tsunodas tires gave up before his stop. But this should have influence on the pit strategy this year: RedBull pitted because of the McLaren approaching. But in the end everyone pitting early (except for Ferrari, too fast) rather lost positions. Going long was king.
As they went harder on the tires, it will be a tire saving festival if the C1 is usable. I hope it is useless.
