JordanMugen wrote:
Do you have Ricciardo's lap? I would be interested to compare.
It could be as simple as the McLaren being an "early braking" car, so Ricciardo needing to completely reverse his late braking driving style is proving very difficult?
From the above lap, Norris does seem to brake
very early, be already off the brake at the apex, and then be on the throttle very early. However I could just be saying that, as that is what I am expecting to see!
If Norris is indeed driving as the car requires, then Ricciardo trying to brake late and carry the brake to apex (and then be far too slow to get on the throttle) is understandably proving to be a disaster.
Could a simple change of differential improve this? Or is it an aerodynamic or suspension kinematics issue?
The car enjoys throttle while turning (and excels when you maximise getting on the throttle early while still turning), but strongly rejects braking while turning and requires straight-line braking only? As Rosberg explains in his track notes -- almost all the major braking zones at Monaco occur on (slight) curves, so that could be why Monaco is particularly disastrous for Ricciardo?
Again I crossed the line and I was like, 'Maybe I'm a tenth or two off,' but when I heard these gaps, that's when I was like, 'I don't have an answer guys, I'm sorry.'
But, just all weekend, even crossing the line, a lot of laps I felt good, I was like ‘that’s a good lap’, and I think at one point I was 1.2s slower than what Lando had just done. So… no answers at the moment.
Then again, even if I’m not optimising the car, I would still say like OK maybe I’m two tenths slower or three tenths slower. The whole, let’s say, call it a second, it seems a lot.
I’m not going to bury my head in the sands and be like ‘fix it, I’m the best’. I still want to definitely work at it, I’m sure there’s still things I can improve but this weekend’s been the biggest kind of anomaly of them all so far.
I'll certainly ask the question. I'm sure the team will do a dig and I don't want to say that's it or point the finger at the guys for not putting it together properly, but I'm sure we'll give it a proper look.
https://the-race.com/formula-1/i-refuse ... ricciardo/
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ricc ... s/6513649/