Perez has the same top speeds near the end of the race as Leclerc. All 311-312 km/h. It's because both of them had a car ahead of them within 3-4 seconds on the back straight. Their datasets are corrupted by slip streams (but equally so, ironically).dialtone wrote: ↑21 Apr 2024, 22:02I’m excluding plenty of laps, any lap with DRS is out and most of laps in which LEC was near another car he was in DRS. There’s maybe 20-25 laps total for LEC. In both the stretches you mentioned the speed of LEC has the same distribution and top speed.AR3-GP wrote:delete, okay I understand the point below.
What is so hard to believe in having the smallest wing and best top speed? Are you not satisfied unless RBR has the top of everything, even useless stuff like this? Your motivation to always be contrarian is very tiring.
CS98 suggested to look at Sainz-Verstappen. Neither had a car ahead for the 2nd half of the race. Verstappen was race leader and Sainz was 10 full seconds behind Leclerc. You reach the same conclusion which varies from indistinguishable difference to 1 km/h edge to Verstappen. VErstappen tended to 309-310km/h. Sainz tended about 1km/h less.
Ferrari did have a smaller rear wing than Red Bull, but that doesn't mean Ferrari would be comfortably quicker on the straight. The Red Bull is more efficient as has been the case for 3 years.
If this conclusion grates, then of course it would be proper and more thorough to discuss the fact that we are ignoring beam wings and engine modes in this conversation so none of us are correct about anything.