SoulPancake13 wrote: ↑19 Sep 2023, 18:17
JPower wrote: ↑19 Sep 2023, 15:59
Question for everyone, what are your odds on Ferrari catching and passing Mercedes for 2nd by the end of the year?
They are currently 24 points away.
Might come down to track type more than anything else.
They will really need to maximize the results of the next 3 races if they want to get second. Mexico, Las Vegas, and Abu Dhabi should suit Ferrari more, Brazil I'm not sure, Japan, Qatar, and COTA seem to be more Merc tracks given the current limitations of the SF 23. Let's see what the new floor achieves.
I still don’t necessarily think it’s the best thing if they do. Financially is the extra prize money for 2nd especially important for them? Probably not. And in F1 where they do everything for any kind of advantage (no matter how small), surely the extra wind tunnel/CFD time is worth a quantifiably significant amount of lap time (at least theoretically when calculating development rate)?
I suspect managers (inc Fred) do have incentives to achieve a higher championship - whether contractually or in press releases (to show the progress they’re making), or even for something as mundane as performance reviews - but as a fan I kinda hope they don’t get 2nd to give them an increased opportunity with how they develop next year’s car.