Great! Finally Yuki finished ahead of Max in a timmed session today in FP1.
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Great! Finally Yuki finished ahead of Max in a timmed session today in FP1.
Yep, Max didn't complain about anything in particular, just the usual caveats with the limited running making the job a bit difficult. Only mentioned that they need to find a bit more, but who doesn't after 2 FP sessions with limited running.venkyhere wrote: ↑21 Nov 2025, 15:27With so many different PU modes, fuel loads and run plans in FP2, and the interrupted session, couldn't form any meaningful idea of the pecking order across teams, the only sensible comparison to do, in my mind, is Max's fastest run on S from FP1 v/s fastest run on M from FP2 :
- PU mode seemed same
- Achilles heel slow section 7-8-9 improved by ~0.2
- gain from entry/exit of T12 was worth ~0.15, and it's purely driver confidence (braking point was same, later off-throttle)
- gain from the mega straight from T12 to T14 was 7 hundredths or so.
- overall lap time gain is ~1s. Even if we are very pessimistic, we can attribute atmost 3/4 s to track evolution and the rest 1/4 s to car's performance improvement. It's noteworthy, considering that the slower time was on the softer compound and the faster time was done when the track temp dropped even lower (by 2 degrees).
- from the 'what the driver said' comments I was able to read, it seemed that both Redbull drivers were happy with the balance of the car (something significant, because quite often what Max says in his media snippet is worth more than all the amateur data analysis we do)
Its not suprising even in Mexico he was within 0.2 tenth of max on long runs on the medium,so on track were they are no high speed corners like Baku he can be closer to Max.but still we have to wait he still need to put every thing together the field is very close top 4 teams are on similar laptime.p8 worst case may seem like bad result but putting everything into context is not bad.
Yeah...was hoping for some cool theory...
A 1-2 with Ferrari and Mercedes right behind would be perfect. But perfect doesn't exist this year now does it
Eh, that was the 2nd biggest problem. It's been a trend since the first race in Australia. Intermediates overheat very quickly if the racing line becomes dry and MCL is the best at keeping them in check whereas, RBR and MERC started losing pace relative to them.
