Watto wrote: ↑09 May 2022, 02:46
dialtone wrote: ↑09 May 2022, 01:48
Can you please explain why the telemetry doesn't show any loss?
I don't care what any team says when the data shows something else.
Perhaps after the safety car, Perez was on new mediums, Sainz was on fairly old hards, Perez was able to close in on Sainz but not pass; it was very simular to when they were on nearly identical tyre conditions, it takes out a human element to things too; when you're on the tail of an opponent are you driving a little different i.e. try and setup an overtake in a few laps, or in a few corners rather then push for pure pace if you knew your over taking opportunity was within a certain section of the track. Data can lie, seen it in other sports where pure data won't really translate well to a result. By all means perhaps there wasn't an issue, or RB may have been over stating it but data can be misrepresented IMO.
I gain nothing overall so I'm happy to give the benefit of the doubt here, I think a power loss of 30hp would be very evident in acceleration and traction out of 17, and if battery deployment was impacted you would see increase in recovery and other anomalies, but who knows... Ferrari's 2019 engine had maybe a 30-35 hp advantage and it was enough to be faster in Monza without DRS against Merc. IMHO the engine overheated behind Sainz for 17 laps and when Perez was on his own it cooled off and it went back to normal. Checo was losing most of the time in the corners in S1 and wasn't gaining anything in T11-17 in most of his last 10 laps against Sainz, he attempted the pass in T1 because that gave him 2 consecutive straights to get closer with superior traction from RBR.
For what it's worth I think Perez had better pace than Sainz on both compounds even before lap 17. And Sainz was very lucky that the off-line part of the track wasn't rubbered in or Checo would have passed and gapped rather than finishing long. According to Verstappen RedBull had issues heating tyres after SC here, reason why Leclerc was better on Hards at the beginning of restart, but once Max tyres went to temp he was able to make a gap. It's possible the same applies to Checo v Sainz too somehow.
These are 4 laps overlapped from SAI and PER around when PER had engine issue. Very recognizable what laps are before and after. Of course it's easy to see the specific lap with the issue, 19, and the laps immediately after he had trouble with speed above 280kph.
I don't see the same difficulty scaling above 280kph in laps 47-51.
This is a lap from Perez before (green) and after (red) with the same distance from Sainz in front (to try and normalize for wake, in both cases it's just about 1s behind Sainz without DRS), both cases medium tyre with about the same age, only difference is fuel load and that's easy to see in S1 and technical section and in braking.
The very top end above 300kph maybe is missing a smidge on the straight to T11, but traction and acceleration up to 300kph seems identical and on the 2 straights to T17 and finish line it seems identical to me...
I still may be misinterpreting data I suppose. Anyway, good race, great drive, great car, RB-18 looks 0.2s ahead of F1-75 right now. Deserved win for Max. Have a nice week.
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