Hard to know. This phenomenon of the car getting progressively slower as the race goes on has been with us forever. Spa and Zandvoort last year have been easily the first examples and the most egregious was Hungary last year where the first stint was super easy and then the car lost performance on the second stint...
Maybe as fuel load decreases, DWF decreases and just car doesn't get the traction.dialtone wrote: ↑19 Mar 2023, 21:05Hard to know. This phenomenon of the car getting progressively slower as the race goes on has been with us forever. Spa and Zandvoort last year have been easily the first examples and the most egregious was Hungary last year where the first stint was super easy and then the car lost performance on the second stint...
I don't know what causes that but it's still there.
Sainz wasn't going anywhere with mediums either, more than 4s behind Russel, when Lance pitted he still made no progress towards Russel despite this being the moment to push.
Sainz couldn't even clear Stroll on the same compounds on a track which was supposed to be stronger for Ferrari than AMR. That was a bummer. It seems like he is only concerned about being ahead of Charles.Sevach wrote: ↑19 Mar 2023, 21:08Sainz wasn't going anywhere with mediums either, more than 4s behind Russel, when Lance pitted he still made no progress towards Russel despite this being the moment to push.
Hard to judge Leclerc on softs, gap was rather stable after he cleared Hamilton, maybe the tires were going who knows.
This is bad...
meh, RBR wasn't really pushing at the end with all their problems. But SAI could hang with the Mercs and LEC was faster than them in the first stint, even at the end of his stint with softs. And then became much slower compared to the other teams that opened a gap to SAI.
Yeah i remember that in those races the car was getting slower compared to the competition the lower the fuel but here we were mid race and already the pace was just slow.dialtone wrote: ↑19 Mar 2023, 21:05Hard to know. This phenomenon of the car getting progressively slower as the race goes on has been with us forever. Spa and Zandvoort last year have been easily the first examples and the most egregious was Hungary last year where the first stint was super easy and then the car lost performance on the second stint...
I don't know what causes that but it's still there.