Kimi Antonelli: "FERRARI are the favorites in Monaco"
"The wing they have on the rear provides them with a lot of aerodynamic downforce".
Aerodynamical downforce wouldn't matter as much as mechanical grip though?
You cant have everything, the race was fun to watch, overall gap to the last car is outrageous.Hammerfist wrote: ↑25 May 2026, 06:27It’s so hard to pull away in these regs. When max passed Lewis he had trouble pulling away and when Lewis passed him he could not pull away either. And of course the Mercs could not pull away from each other either. Makes for a good watch but to me it feels artificial. In the drs days once you got in front you could get away quicker. Probably has to do with a lack of dirty air.
So another 4-5 tenths?Fred:
“We are pushing hard at the factory to increase the car's performance every weekend. I hope that Spain [upgrade] represents a big step forward.”
It was a mode switch for both Leclerc and Hamilton that didn't work.THOR06 wrote: ↑25 May 2026, 02:37. Nobody's talking about Hamilton's power loss at the start of the Grand Prix. He lost a second in sector 1 before shouting over the radio that he had a power problem. I don't know what the Ferrari engineers did, but strangely enough, the power came back afterwards.
I think he actually did really well this race with that, during the vsc when everyone pitted for mediums Ham lost time because of a slow Ferrari pit stop, 4.3secs, Leclerc had a slow stop too at 3.2secs. ham managed to close the gap to max after both vsc on lap 46 and lap 54, on lap 54 he was 1.8secs behind before the vsc then managed to get within 1sec at the last corner before they started lap 55PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑24 May 2026, 23:40Good race. It was like two different cars. Just not a Leclerc track I guess.
Lewis has a bad babit of giving away time during VSC and SCs. Lucky to catch back Verstappen with an amazing pass.
No one touches Ferrari at low speed and even medium speed performance. Closer to the front? Under normal circumstances Ferrari will be at the front.DJ Downforce wrote: ↑25 May 2026, 03:28Aerodynamical downforce wouldn't matter as much as mechanical grip though?
But I agree with Kimi either way that ferrari will certainly be closer to the front
Let's hope this is not just the feature of the current engine, but the rest of the car.