ollandos wrote: ↑11 Apr 2018, 22:24
Nuvolari wrote: ↑11 Apr 2018, 19:23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWPFxgP2SVE
I looked at this lap, and Alonso was around 0.35s behind Hulk upto T10 apex in Bahrain. He suddenly dropped half a second in the run to T11, lost another tenth in turns 12, 13 & 14. The remaining time loss happened between T14 apex to finish line. I'm not sure where he improved in his next lap in Q2 (where he found a couple of tenths). Were they overheating the tyres towards the end of the lap? Seemed to take a hammering in the braking zones after T10.
mclaren run with very different gear ratio ..use higher revs and one gear up from renault transmision set up ..and look like its slower ...renault make less gear changes ...and have same speed with lower gear and lower revs ...
Gearbox ratios are fixed for the whole season. They cant change it when ever they want. Now engine mode, yes its possible.
But for me it is just Mclaren having more wheelspin accelerating out of slow corners. Thus it revs faster and change gear sooner but at lower speed. And if that is true, which we don't know for sure, that is happening because the rears are not on optimal temp.
Edit: Watching it again i saw that on start finish line, Mclaren also revs higher in did. On other straights though they reach the same revs before upshifts. I guess regardless if there is wheelspin or not, the engine mode and map can not be exactly the same.