pantherxxx wrote: ↑08 Nov 2025, 20:32
How a Team that dominated 2 years ago become this? Absolutely clueless about setup? Hundreds of engineers can't figure this out?
They've been hit and miss for 2 years now; their simulation tools do not correlate at the expected level of a top team. According to Paul Monaghan they've added and removed downforce throughout the year to find balance it the car, now they've tried to add more load with the Mexico floor and something is off again and they've got no clue how to fix it.
Look at MCL for comparison, every update gets tested a couple races prior to check their correlation and when they put it on the car it works, they've got a great hit rate with new updates.
For all the recent talk, bigging up Mekies about his improved processes for track correlation, the team has gone back again and is now worse than it's ever been under Horner these regs. Would have been smart to wait out and see improvements over a longer period.