LionsHeart wrote: ↑17 Jul 2023, 07:48
So. For the weekend in Hungary on Friday they promise +31 degrees Celsius , on Saturday +34, on Sunday +37 degrees. There will be heat. Who has any thoughts on this? Will everyone go to hard? Shoot Aston? Will McLaren fail?
Its certainly going to be interesting, especially to observe if McL can carry over their significant progress from last two races.
Tyres of more resistant structure SHOULD give more protection from overheating the whole tyre in the way it accumilates temperature, track temp likely seen more in compound choice they run.
Quick laps showing ultimate pace, but notice the teams all watch very closely the long run pace as that gives true indication of chassis potential.
Teams really have to be acutely on the ball to respond in setup to maximise long run pace and avoid tragic degradation effect that'll see them go backwards. All the wheel's angles etc have to be right on point to get into the sweet zone of tyre performance.
This iteration of McL appears to be giving competitive load to get the various compound working effectively, the period at end of Silverstone with slower warmup of hard while holding off overtakes, then to see pace rise as full temp arrived, that looked quite promising.
It showed signs of entering the Goldilocks paradigm of chassis tyre performance.
A big test here nevertheless, and likely to give a very good view of updates in a wider condition sense to better judge overall effectiveness.
Very interesting weekend ahead.