Leclerc still complains about understeer, but overall the car has good grip here i would say.
It doesn't look too reassuring...:
Ok.mzso wrote: ↑17 Mar 2023, 20:18It doesn't look too reassuring...:
https://abload.de/img/lec-puvyefo.png
One race (4.5% progress) to go to 67% (or more) of PU components use for major parts. At this rat by the end of the third race they will be in the red in every category but exhaust...
My expectations for Ferrari wasn't to rosy after the first race, but seeing this, their positions in the two FP-s, and Leclerc constantly experiencing PU issues, I'd be surprised if they were in win contention anywhere but 1-2 places where the circuit particularly suits the car.
Ferrari is not RB, so I don't expect some great comeback either. More like last year, falling back after a while.
Great stuff man! As always! I've been looking at a few laps between them, Max was about 3-4kmh faster on straights than Leclerc on average. In Bahrain they were about equal during FP2 race sim and in the race Ferrari was +10kmh on main straight and RB about +8kmh (in the last stint, when they weren't saving the gearbox), so judging on that alone we can assume Ferrari will be at RB level on top speed or slightly bellow. The new front wing was rumoured to be track-specific, but it doesn't look like it is so they didn't lose any drag on it, so it would make sense if RB step-up on top speed vs Bahrain.
They didn't say they dialed down the engine. It's just assumed. It might be that RB is still better at high speeds and/or they dialed down their engines even more.
I feel like Alfa Romeo had them last year but they are not exactly at the forefront of my mind so I can't recall the race.
You do realize the same thing happened in Bahrain right? On friday they were losing in the straights and saturday they were gaining in the straights. You also realize that HUL had 7-8kph advantage over LEC in FP2 and we've already seen from Bahrain that the Ferrari is a better car than the Haas. We've also seen the race sims are pretty even across a number of teams.
Do these happen to also be the "fastest" race sim of each team? That would be more instructive. Verstappen's stint was on the soft. Perez was actually quicker on the medium. Ignoring Perez flatters the others.