Alexf1 wrote: ↑25 Jun 2023, 10:05
organic wrote: ↑25 Jun 2023, 02:26
Alexf1 wrote: ↑24 Jun 2023, 22:26
Albon about himself. How objecive would that be.. Ricciardo did a 100% better job with an oversteering RB than Albon.
Albon drove as teammate of leclerc in junior formula and Alex said he was always going for more oversteer than Charles, who himself you would say errs on the side of oversteer when he can
Then he has not been able to take that trade with him into F1 cause his stint at RB showed nothing of that
Max is the extremest of extreme in terms of being able to cope with a loose rear or other similar limitation. All his teammates have said so, those who work with him in sim racing, and staff members like Waché have echoed this too.
Evaluating Albon's ability to feel comfortable with a "loose rear" is difficult when the only real reference is the rb16 which took that to such an extent that it kneecapped their car development for an entire season..
Losing confidence in a car is often a very dichotomous thing. Once the driver cannot be sure of what the car will do and whether they will be able to live with it.. they can't find the limit and hemorrhage laptime, tenths at a time. Even if you're close to being able to cope, that loss of confidence will hit almost as hard. So I don't think Perez and Albon's gap being similar is representative of albon being similarly preferential towards understeer as Perez (someone who's somewhat an extreme case on the grid)
I think more representative would be his experience compared to other teammates outside of such an extreme car and driver combination of the rb16 and max. It would likely be far more useful data
