I think on lap 11 Charles pushed the tyres a bit harder - his lap was faster than any of the remaining laps any car put - which got him back into DRS zone but only briefly as from then on his pace rapidly deteriorated. He probably thought that, with only 5 laps remaining after that, he might as well give it a go, but trying to match / reel in the RB seemingly cost him race time rather than if he had purely managed to the finish.chrisc90 wrote: ↑29 Apr 2023, 21:05I think Charles had good pace today. Certainly was near enough up there with the RB's.
Only concern I think Ferrari will have is the tyres. Charles started on a shiny medium, whilst RB's were on a used medium, which I presume was from the sprint shoot out.
The fact the newer medium dropped off way before the used soft on the RB leads me to think that come tomorrow Ferrari will have to be super careful on the tyres if they want to have a chance of fighting with Red Bull.
In FP1 the Ferrari looked good in the hards - in contrast to the first few races - so that might also be helpful as seems like here it’s more a question of overheating vs not generating the temp and sliding. I’m not saying any of this puts them in the fight for the win btw - unless there’s a helpful SC or the RBs take each other out - but I can see a reason to believe that they may learn something from today and approach the race a little differently.
