ringo wrote: ↑22 Jul 2017, 18:35
Will Ferrari have frankenstein engine setup for Monza?
I think they can have an advantage over mercedes here if they focus heavily on throwing caution to the wind here reliability wise.
Monza's interesting because I'm convinced that Mercedes still have a significant power advantage in top mode and they can use that mode in the race more than they used to.
So conventional wisdom would be that Mercedes have the advantage (although I do note Vettel made a fairly cryptic comment about getting some more power in Hungary - one wonders if they found a way round the oil trick).
But Monza's also different since we haven't yet seen the cars' wing levels completely trimmed out - Baku, for example, requires a good amount of df for the first two sectors and Montreal saw teams using 'spoon' wings to retain some df. So we haven't seen how the cars run with minimum wing and it's conceivable that a car which generates a lot of efficienct df (e.g. Through the diffuser) could go with more of a tea tray rear wing and claw back to speed - like RB in 2011.
X factor, of course, is what the teams will bring to the circuit; both will probably have a PU upgrade but it could well be decided by whose is better.