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That's 0.5s faster than Isaac, I know the deficit between Max and his teammates usually grows the harder they push but still. This formula won't allow Max to make up lap time on the corners as much, maybe he'll make up some time with better PU management. We'll see with race pace tomorrow and the next qualy.
If there are safety cars, then even P3 or P4 is possible.
It doesn't mean that Max would be 0.5s faster than Isack. They could have calculated internally that Isack didn't have an optimal lap. Isack's middle sector was yellow.euv2 wrote: ↑07 Mar 2026, 09:58
That's 0.5s faster than Isaac, I know the deficit between Max and his teammates usually grows the harder they push but still. This formula won't allow Max to make up lap time on the corners as much, maybe he'll make up some time with better PU management. We'll see with race pace tomorrow and the next qualy.
Watching the cars last season through fast corners was incredible, the speed, change of direction, the drivers pushing to the limits of adhesion and now we get this depressing super clipping, watching the cars slow down before corners is just sad, doesn't even feel like they are racing.Badger wrote: ↑07 Mar 2026, 09:51F1 has not been heading south for decades, it was in a great place only a few months ago, better than it ever has been I would argue. What has happened is they have made a massive mistake by abandoning the principles of racing in favour of pandering to politics with this new regulation. Car racing is inherently excessive and inefficient, that's what makes it entertaining to watch. Once you compromise that to make it into an "eco-formula" you've lost the plot. We don't watch Verstappen and Co. to see them drive like we drive our own cars.
Indeed I am not really excited for tomorrow, and thats the first time in my life I can say that, been watching it since 2001. And F1 was always a simulation in which a great driver could make the difference through their skills in the corners, now its like an arcade game in which nearly everything is already decided in the pits by battery management. A big joke…euv2 wrote: ↑07 Mar 2026, 10:04Watching the cars last season through fast corners was incredible, the speed, change of direction, the drivers pushing to the limits of adhesion and now we get this depressing super clipping, watching the cars slow down before corners is just sad, doesn't even feel like they are racing.Badger wrote: ↑07 Mar 2026, 09:51F1 has not been heading south for decades, it was in a great place only a few months ago, better than it ever has been I would argue. What has happened is they have made a massive mistake by abandoning the principles of racing in favour of pandering to politics with this new regulation. Car racing is inherently excessive and inefficient, that's what makes it entertaining to watch. Once you compromise that to make it into an "eco-formula" you've lost the plot. We don't watch Verstappen and Co. to see them drive like we drive our own cars.
No you can't because if you compare it to Mercedes themselves it looks almost as bad but from the other direction.avantman wrote: ↑07 Mar 2026, 10:12So, do you want to say that RBPT is apparently even better than Mercedes PU and is the outright best ?
Let’s be serious, we cannot take anything away from these graphs, we have always been outsiders looking at these homemade telemetry overlays, now we became complete outsiders. Waste of time.
You cannot say that it is more efficient either, let alone much more efficient. All you can say it looks less draggy, probably by [setup] choice which is not at all the same as more efficient, which is about drag to DF ratio.Emag wrote: ↑07 Mar 2026, 10:13No you can't because if you compare it to Mercedes themselves it looks almost as bad but from the other direction.avantman wrote: ↑07 Mar 2026, 10:12So, do you want to say that RBPT is apparently even better than Mercedes PU and is the outright best ?
Let’s be serious, we cannot take anything away from these graphs, we have always been outsiders looking at these homemade telemetry overlays, now we became complete outsiders. Waste of time.
All you can say from this graph is that RedBull has a much more efficient car than McLaren.
