search wrote: ↑27 Oct 2024, 07:39
FittingMechanics wrote: ↑27 Oct 2024, 07:19
bananapeel23 wrote: ↑27 Oct 2024, 00:33
The Ferraris had a massive race pace delta in FP2 where fuel loads were mandated at a 20kg. They were also gapping the competition by 1 second in race pace in FP1.
This looks like it's going to be a snoozer where Ferrari absolutely dominates.
Didn't they have to use mandated tires? Ferrari was using mediums while Red Bull and McLaren were on softs.
Hard to have same pace on a non durable tire.
Fuel loads were fixed as well, 20kg for the short runs, 100kg for the long runs.
Exactly. So extrapolating any race pace from those sessions is bound to have huge margins of error. McLaren usually has a good read of their race pace and if they think they are similar to McLaren, I think we should trust them. Only caveat is that it may be that lower temperatures help Ferrari who seemed to overheat their tyres in earlier stages of qualifying.