
Agree.
The differences were not minor. Teams made pretty big efforts to push their designs in 2021. They were not just some minor evolutions of the year before at all. That's the point. Overall laptimes/downforce numbers is not the point.Emag wrote: ↑18 Feb 2025, 22:09The source I think was corriere.it :Seanspeed wrote: ↑18 Feb 2025, 22:01How on earth are all of you just taking this 4 tenths claim as gospel, even without any source given at all?
Is media literacy genuinely just dead as a concept nowadays? It's like 99% of people online are just pure reactionaries.
Also no, 4 tenths would not be enough to take the lead. That'd be lucky to even remain competitive on some tracks. People are really underestimating the gains that will be made. 2020 was supposed to be the last year of those regulations, yet we get 2021 added onto that and teams made bigger progress than just 4 tenths.
Also, I believe you're missremembering. The 2021 cars were much slower on average than 2020 cars because of the regulations related to the floor cutout. In general, development was pretty minimal, with pretty much every single team carrying over their concept. The token system also limited development significantly so teams had to choose carefully what exactly to develop.Le indiscrezioni sulla Ferrari
(Giorgio Terruzzi) È cominciato da un pezzo, invece, lo show delle fantasie e delle indiscrezioni attorno alla nuova macchina. Le notizie più accreditabili parlano di un lavoro specifico sulle sospensioni, primo territorio di intervento per il direttore tecnico Loic Serra, la cui esperienza in tema scarico di potenza sulle gomme è data come proverbiale. Obiettivo: eliminare la difficoltà, emersa soprattutto in qualifica, nel portare rapidamente in temperatura gli pneumatici. I test al simulatore raccontano — pare — un incremento di prestazione di circa 4 decimi. Molti, in un universo che gioca sui millesimi. Ma qui siamo in alto mare: tra le previsioni invernali e i confronti in pista passano sempre distanze enormi. Piuttosto, lo stile di guida della coppia Hamilton-Leclerc, descritto come simile, sembra abbia portato elementi utili allo sviluppo.
So yeah, the 2021 cars had very minor differences compared to 2020. They got slower because the FIA cut off the floors and the pecking order changed primarily because the floor change benefited some concepts and hurt others. Also, Power Unit gains.