It's odd, but also suggest they have a big upside ahead.
It's odd, but also suggest they have a big upside ahead.
According to Krack some upgrades that weren't sent for Monaco due to track characteristics will arrive in Spain.
With the amount of development time they’ve got after finishing 7th last year I would expect them to push a lot and bring a lot of upgrades until July when they’ll lose a lot of development time due to development restrictions!
The physical amount of upgrades is still limited by the budget cap. Therefore they can only afford roughly the same amount of "upgrade" packages throughout the season as the others. The difference will be that due to the additional windtunnel time that goes into each package, each package should have a bigger lap time improvement.AMG.Tzan wrote: ↑29 May 2023, 23:38With the amount of development time they’ve got after finishing 7th last year I would expect them to push a lot and bring a lot of upgrades until July when they’ll lose a lot of development time due to development restrictions!
So if they’re still 2nd they’ll go from 100% to 75% CFD resources for the rest of the year!
It was what it was....I questioned Alonso's insistence on pitting when he did while Max was soldiering on. One more lap and they would have no choice but to go on to wets. In retrospective he was right. That extra lap by Max almost put him into the wall and cost him the race.f1universe wrote: ↑29 May 2023, 06:25He was in doubt if you listen the radio and at the end of the day if the team tells him rain is going to be light or go away in a few laps, why should he question it?.
What difference does it make? Alonso was no better off on a new set of slicks than Verstappen on the old set of slicks so pitting 1 lap earlier had no purpose or benefit relative to Verstappen so I don't understand how it was "the right call".diffuser wrote: ↑30 May 2023, 03:09It was what it was....I questioned Alonso's insistence on pitting when he did while Max was soldiering on. One more lap and they would have no choice but to go on to wets. In retrospective he was right. That extra lap by Max almost put him into the wall and cost him the race.f1universe wrote: ↑29 May 2023, 06:25He was in doubt if you listen the radio and at the end of the day if the team tells him rain is going to be light or go away in a few laps, why should he question it?.
Its hard to find obvious and drastic upgrades when your baseline is already strong. Their efficiency/drag looked better in Miami. But you cant really judge their in-season development on the same timeline as others who had more obvious areas of improvement. It'll be very interesting to see how they do but probably wont be clear before the end of the season.
Disagree, other tops teams including RBR has brought way more upgrades/updates.peewon wrote: ↑30 May 2023, 05:09Its hard to find obvious and drastic upgrades when your baseline is already strong. Their efficiency/drag looked better in Miami. But you cant really judge their in-season development on the same timeline as others who had more obvious areas of improvement. It'll be very interesting to see how they do but probably wont be clear before the end of the season.
The call for pitting in that lap was right. The tyre choice was wrong.AR3-GP wrote: ↑30 May 2023, 04:23What difference does it make? Alonso was no better off on a new set of slicks than Verstappen on the old set of slicks so pitting 1 lap earlier had no purpose or benefit relative to Verstappen so I don't understand how it was "the right call".diffuser wrote: ↑30 May 2023, 03:09It was what it was....I questioned Alonso's insistence on pitting when he did while Max was soldiering on. One more lap and they would have no choice but to go on to wets. In retrospective he was right. That extra lap by Max almost put him into the wall and cost him the race.f1universe wrote: ↑29 May 2023, 06:25
He was in doubt if you listen the radio and at the end of the day if the team tells him rain is going to be light or go away in a few laps, why should he question it?.
It's more of a team mistake, than an Alonso mistake. Alonso wasn't sure of what to choose because he didn't knew the forecast and how the rain would develop. He told the team many times on the radio, that he doesn't know because it depends on the forecast.
My interpretation is this, which could be wrong obviously. Its not the first time only light rain happens for a while then it stops, and the forecast seemed to indicate that. Stroll had inters but his data didn't confirm it was the correct tyre yet, either because of his fault or that because it really wasn't. Right after Alo pit for mediums and coming out of the pits a huge shower came which was completely unexpected on the forecast and then it was obvious the pit was for inters, not before. If that hadn't happened the Alo stop for mediums would've been the perfect move as only a small part of the circuit was damp and the rest was not, and the extra grip offered by the new mediums would've been enough to survive that damp part. Also, if that shower had come 30 or so seconds earlier then they'd have seen it and changed for inters. It happened after, not before the stop. I doubt its this big mistake some people think it is, maybe too much overanalyzing.
Bisonas wrote: ↑30 May 2023, 08:39The call for pitting in that lap was right. The tyre choice was wrong.AR3-GP wrote: ↑30 May 2023, 04:23What difference does it make? Alonso was no better off on a new set of slicks than Verstappen on the old set of slicks so pitting 1 lap earlier had no purpose or benefit relative to Verstappen so I don't understand how it was "the right call".diffuser wrote: ↑30 May 2023, 03:09
It was what it was....I questioned Alonso's insistence on pitting when he did while Max was soldiering on. One more lap and they would have no choice but to go on to wets. In retrospective he was right. That extra lap by Max almost put him into the wall and cost him the race.
But IMO you cant accuse them for pitting in that lap. It was the right time to pit.
If they had also made the correct tyre choice they may had won the race, because as i pointed out, in hindsight and having all the data, and sector times, ALO would have been ahead, after VER pitstop.