Honda Porsche fan wrote: ↑30 Mar 2026, 04:00
GhostF1 wrote: ↑30 Mar 2026, 02:46
https://jp.motorsport.com/f1/news/aston ... /10809478/
Looks like they've found a fix. Proved it's efficacy in FP2 on Fernando's car, vibrations dropped significantly, almost erased, as reported by Fernando, but on "reliability grounds" the team chose not to run what this fix is during subsequent sessions and the race itself.
Krack believes it has been identified and will be completely solved by Miami and this conversation won't need to happen again.
What was the pace and lap times of the Aston/Honda car during FP2 when they supposedly solved the vibrations issue ? How far off from Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren were they during FP2 ?
Hard to make direct comparisons as they were obviously testing things and it was also his first session in the car, different fuel levels, modes etc. But his FP2 long run average laptime was 1:37.5 which was faster than Sainz and Bottas. During the race, his average laptime dropped to 1:38.2, where everyone else's average improved.
But as mentioned, we can't really look at this like for like. He may of had reduced vibrations and nothing else was altered so laptime differences would be marginal and could be explained solely from unknown fuel loads, strategy and look maybe even just comfort to increase consistency. More than likely though, we can't make a direct comparison at this stage, far too little data.
Regardless, still light years off the front runners.