track is slower this year, should be noted
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Sergio Perez briefly lost the lead to Fernando Alonso at the start but soon recovered and led the remaining laps to easily win the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Max Verstappen recovered from 15th to 2nd. Fernando Alonso finished third despite a post-race penalty that was reversed later in the evening.
Thanks for that reminder.
Track still rubbering in. Guess the changes to the corners has made some difference but the cars are flying.
You should rewatch VER qualy laps in Bahrein in order to see that! Their car`s ride height was so low that it was the sparkiest car of all with AMR23 being the second one. What is interesting to see is that the car starts to scratch/was sparking in the acceleration phase out of the corner and further down the straight but it wasn`t at the braking area before the corner entry ... so they set up the rear suspension in conjunction with their ride height to give them the best traction, knowing this is a rear limited and a start-stop kind of track ...
Maybe it was because we never saw them after lap 1?atanatizante wrote: ↑17 Mar 2023, 22:14But what`s puzzling me is that like you I don`t figure out how the hell they suddenly weren`t sparky in the race once they were running with a car fully fueled.
LEC and VER had virtually same pace on race sims both on equally used tires, LEC on M and VER on S.atanatizante wrote:
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Now let`s get back to our business ...
1. Low deg on this track
2. Easy S-M one-stop race
3. VER easy win: he did 14 laps on a used set of soft tyres lapping at the start of the stint on low 1.35 then on mid 1.35 at the end of the stint. For sure his lap times were always done at a delta time. He got lots of speed in his pocket, running in a lower PU mode or just had a heavier car.
4. ALO was very impressive in his 14-lap sim race on old medium tyres. Like VER he was just running constantly at a low 1.35 than mid 1.35, maybe having a higher PU mode or a slightly lighter car. He also was very slow in the top speed trap and was the best driver in the first sector.
5. PER was the black horse for setting some interesting lap times and clearly was pushing hard at the end of the stint.
6. Alpine drivers had very good lap times on both tyres, maybe they were running with less fuel and higher PU modes.
7. Ferrari drivers are very hard to read. Seems that they were doing lots of testing further.
8. Merc drivers the same as above.
Why do you think the other cars (Alpine even) look closer this weekend?
It's an interesting question. Probably the answer is that nobody has much degradation and the primary factor is efficiency and they're all close in relation to that, especially when all the engines are within a few bhp.
Interesting. I wonder if something like this could be incorporated into F1's circuit planning strategy to reduce field spread. They've been attacking it from the regulations point of view for a very long time, but it's interesting to consider that the circuit design could do some of the work to make gaps smaller.
I have been wondering if the lower speed on full tanks, so lower downforce counteracts they increase in weight.atanatizante wrote: ↑17 Mar 2023, 22:14
But one question still remains unanswered: how are they able to run so low the car in qualy with only a few kilos of fuel and then nothing is broken in the race running with a heavy car?
Turn 22 is slower this year, if the telemetry is anything to go by. Lower minimum speed.
