Snap oversteer mid corner after the car refused to rotate on entry.
I hope to be proven wrong but I think there is some concern with the PU.dialtone wrote: ↑18 Mar 2023, 17:25Bit of everything imho in FP3, optimism, caution and whatnot:
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* Engine power is still way down, on finish line LEC closed at the same speed as last year FP3, despite being 10kph up at the start of the lap. The acceleration part of the curve is also not as steep as in Bahrain.
* T1 and T27 (despite the snap) were actually very good speed wise.
* T22 is a bit of a struggle for Ferrari, I don't know if it's just about taking risks but they've been slow there all weekend.
* T16 is like T22 but to a lesser extent.
* Braking performance of this car really is great.
It really all depends on T16 and T22, I think today Ferrari worked for the race trim trying to fix those 2 corners come race time since that's likely where they would start to run out of tires.
I think beating RBR would be a stretch but they easily have 0.8s+ of difference between these 2 laps from the engine alone, then they lose in T22 and T16, if they have more in the engine than that they could fight for pole, if they worked well on the tires they may even take the fight to race day.
It's like their throttle pedal signal is set at 95%, such slower acceleration. Ferrari can lose at least 2s by their Q3 laps, easy. Their FP3-Q lap difference in 2022 Bahrain was 2s, while this year it was almost 2.7s and probably could have been 2.8s with another fast lap, so they are definitely leaving a lot more margin than last year.
The top speed was unchanged for the onboards I saw. Still significantly slower than RB on the straights.
I knew you wouldn't concede anything.
Meh, I have no real horse here man, RBR is ahead fair and square. My point earlier was that the difference in time in FP3 where Ferrari was basically nowhere was down to engine mode and there were 0.8s difference easily from the engine in the lap in FP3, as I even wrote "if they have more in the engine than that they could fight for pole". All of that proved to be correct, in fact Ferrari qualified... checks notes... 2nd a full 0.3s in front of ALO, who as far as I read around is going through his 2nd coming.organic wrote: ↑18 Mar 2023, 20:08We didn't see where Max was and Perez didn't do a final lap. he backed out after setting 4 purple minisectors concurrently whilst leclerc got a final "on the limit" lap in. when the times were being set like for like the gap didn't shrink by 8 tenths. more like 4-5 tenths compared to fp
Feel free to believe what you wish, but the gap at the end isn't indicative of the true performance due to aforementioned factors IMO