Absolutely, the Mclaren setup for Lando was low DF and will compromise these times from Silverstone, not to mention how much we are set up to attach kerbs etc.AR3-GP wrote: ↑19 Jul 2023, 18:01mwillems wrote: ↑19 Jul 2023, 17:58And on a par with AM and Ferrari in the slow speed, given that Lando was running less DF this is very interesting.
Often it is dangerous to look at a single corner as we have been doing in this thread because it can sometimes be affected by how drivers attack the bends, with gains in one corner offset by losses in another due to the drivers own styles.
I'm cautiously optimistic that this weekend will demonstrate that these corners at Hungary are nothing to be scared of for Mclaren.
The trends are also impacted by how the teams are choosing to compromise for the best laptime.
As Hungary is exclusively low and medium speed, a different order may reveal itself, nevertheless I do expect Mclaren to mix it up with Ferrari, Mercedes, and Aston. Driver execution will likely be the biggest factor with cars so close together. A 1 tenth driving error in qualifying can be the difference between P3 and P9.
I still think Top 8 but I also think we will be much closer. Last year we may have been 7th but also 70 seconds away from 1st... I expect that gap to be much smaller and to see some close racing, who knows where the chips will land.
One thing I have seen over the years is a lot of armchair experts saying what the car is good at and bad at, and then at the next race the opposite happens. And the reason for this is it isn't as simple as many on here want to reduce it to. The temps, wind speed, wind direction, affect on the tyres in long and short corners, setup, the time of day, alignment of the moons and Donald Trumps buttocks are just some of the complex things that can affect the cars performance.
Almost universally over the past few years predictions for what would happen in the next race were wrong, on some occasions right for the wrong reasons and a few occasions just right. But the real smart people round here are the ones who realise they don't know the true profile of the cars performance and talk on what is possible, and not that the facts they have available provide the definitive answer, they don't, not even close.
Edit: Sorry, Donald Trumps buttocks and mandated Tyre pressures.