Fred: “It has been three intense days of work for everyone in the team. We have scanned a number of items on the car and ticked many of the boxes of our programme, without worrying about lap times or what the others have been doing, simply focusing on ourselves,” said Vasseur.
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Whenever we managed to put everything together the performance seemed to be there, but we are clearly still in the process of getting to know the car so it’s too early to say anything.
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Leclerc: “We have three very intensive days of testing behind us. The first day was all about running big scans and trying to understand how well our data matches what we predicted at the factory. What we learned is that there is quite a good correlation.
The big sign is that they didn't use a higher df setup all test. More df will alleviate issues in terms of long run pace and higher tyre degShal_Leg16 wrote: ↑26 Feb 2023, 05:59Too much tech stuff here which actually confusing me so let me make it simple - two issues which are imo interlinked
1. Higher tyre deg.
2. Long run pace.
Is there any tiny sign of resolving this ?
A car that slides overheats the tires, and balance can shift from tire overheating. I think more downforce will stabilize the car leading to more consistent tire temperature, which could translate to a better balance.organic wrote: ↑26 Feb 2023, 06:00The big sign is that they didn't use a higher df setup all test. More df will alleviate issues in terms of long run pace and higher tyre degShal_Leg16 wrote: ↑26 Feb 2023, 05:59Too much tech stuff here which actually confusing me so let me make it simple - two issues which are imo interlinked
1. Higher tyre deg.
2. Long run pace.
Is there any tiny sign of resolving this ?
To me the worst thing about the car is balance. Seems harder to find a happy place for the car than last year which seemed to work immediately, and it seems less consistent. More df won't necessarily make this better
AR3-GP wrote: ↑26 Feb 2023, 06:17A car that slides overheats the tires, and balance can shift from tire overheating. I think more downforce will stabilize the car leading to more consistent tire temperature, which could translate to a better balance.organic wrote: ↑26 Feb 2023, 06:00The big sign is that they didn't use a higher df setup all test. More df will alleviate issues in terms of long run pace and higher tyre degShal_Leg16 wrote: ↑26 Feb 2023, 05:59Too much tech stuff here which actually confusing me so let me make it simple - two issues which are imo interlinked
1. Higher tyre deg.
2. Long run pace.
Is there any tiny sign of resolving this ?
To me the worst thing about the car is balance. Seems harder to find a happy place for the car than last year which seemed to work immediately, and it seems less consistent. More df won't necessarily make this better
Contrary to what others think, I really think Ferrari had a normal test. You have items to get through and you problem solve. It's just that Red Bull's very dialed in test makes the others look out of place but it's RB's test which is the exception, not the norm.
“The most important was to scan every kind of setting on the car, because you know that the feature of today [at the test] is completely different to the picture of next week.
More in“Overall, I think that we can be happy with the test that we did,”
So you’ve gone from testing to extrapolating performance of these cars by Baku?Xyz22 wrote: ↑26 Feb 2023, 12:28
Hopefully they are not right like previous years.
If this is true coming Baku Ferrari will be behind Mercedes as they have already a major upgrade package in the pipeline (if it works of course).
Ferrari has always been incapable of recovering performance compared to the competition during the season. Hopefully it's not true.