To not hit the Factory team a teething problem. Exactly what RB did with TR before 2021.
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No, if they give the customers a newer spec or themselves use it earlier it is totally ok. There is no rule that the spec must be equal in all pool engines.
May have to deal up the front DF a bit more to avoid graining the front left, with all the force they put in those tyres in T10-11. However their engine was very down on power today so while there's no guarantee they'd be ahead, it's just not representative of actual pace.
I suspect that if it actually needs, it can easily be stiffened.
Strategy mistakes for Leclerc = 29 points in the fight against Max.dialtone wrote: ↑23 Jul 2022, 08:17Just here to point out a few things:
It has been a whole season of "Ferrari will lose the development race" (here's one of those https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/109279/m ... speed.html) from EVERYONE, including many Ferrari supporters, and yet here we are, the car is as fast as every other car, updates are coming in and are working, while just about every other team has had at least one bad update, or in Merc's case a lot of them.
Sainz, while this year probably not deserving the driver #1 place, is showing growth.
Strategy mistakes overall have so far only cost Charles less than 20 points in the season, and less than that for Sainz, so overall have been blown out of proportion, so far.
Reliability is the real achilles' heel, losing Charles easily 50+ points, however everyone supporting Ferrari would have signed their first child off to get a fast even if unreliable engine, and nobody dared to dream of having the fastest engine in whatever state.
It's barely half season, and not even the summer break yet, but damn it feels good to have a season like this after 2020 and 2021.
Great job to the team.
Agreed. Reliability is the biggest issue way more than strategy or development. Credit to the technical/aero team they deserve nonstop praise, though I do think the way the car doesn't translate its superiority in the corners into excellent race pace is odd. Barring the races where Red Bull had clear issues (Austria, Australia, Bahrain) the only time I'd say the car had great race pace was Spain, until reliability struck.dialtone wrote: ↑23 Jul 2022, 08:17Just here to point out a few things:
It has been a whole season of "Ferrari will lose the development race" (here's one of those https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/109279/m ... speed.html) from EVERYONE, including many Ferrari supporters, and yet here we are, the car is as fast as every other car, updates are coming in and are working, while just about every other team has had at least one bad update, or in Merc's case a lot of them.
Strategy mistakes overall have so far only cost Charles less than 20 points in the season, and less than that for Sainz, so overall have been blown out of proportion, so far.
Reliability is the real achilles' heel, losing Charles easily 50+ points, however everyone supporting Ferrari would have signed their first child off to get a fast even if unreliable engine, and nobody dared to dream of having the fastest engine in whatever state.
It's barely half season, and not even the summer break yet, but damn it feels good to have a season like this after 2020 and 2021.
Great job to the team.
I was sleeping for FP3 but from telemetry it didn't look like that:
