I just picked at random based on position in the quali sims, yeah Perez laps were the best pace, as I recognized as well VER had a slight edge anyway.AR3-GP wrote: ↑18 Mar 2023, 02:46Do these happen to also be the "fastest" race sim of each team? That would be more instructive. Verstappen's stint was on the soft. Perez was actually quicker on the medium. Ignoring Perez flatters the others.
Perez dipped into the 1.34s (no one else did) and no one seems to be taking notice of what that means, and if Verstappen would be on the same tire...None of those mid 34s from Perez had DRS either.
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Piqued my interest though so I went to check a lap from LEC and PER (lap 17 for both of their tires, that's PER fastest lap of the sim against the slowest from LEC but still in line with the times (1.35.39 for LEC and 1.34.64 for PER):
All the gain from PER is in the back straight and straights in general. So then I compared the same between VER and PER:
And IMHO PER is running a higher engine mode because the gain graph looks the same as for LEC, in each straight lots of time gain for PER.
I don't think this is due to Softs/Mediums, neither tire is giving up IMHO, it's just engine mode.