AR3-GP wrote: ↑29 Nov 2025, 21:42
It will take divine intervention to win a race this year. Charles Leclerc really likes Abu Dhabi, so let's see.
Forget winning a race, it will take divine intervention to finish in points tomorrow.
A high speed track with lots of downforce required, and in such a way that the average downforce acting on the car over one lap is highest of any track on the calendar. That condition, simply exposed the terrible aerodynamics+kinetics weakness prevalent on the car. That's the reason why the changes they did to the car, left-right-and-center, both post FP and post sprint - nothing seems to work. It isn't a setup issue, it's a fundamental design issue. Just that it took such a track, where the downforce demand is highest on the calendar, to expose fundamental issues bare, like how it takes a hurricane to blow even the best designed wig from the wearer's head. It's simply LeClerc's talent to handle unstable cars that has put him in Q3. The #blessed car showed where the car actually belongs.