ValeVida46 wrote: ↑16 Sep 2023, 14:49
AR3-GP wrote: ↑16 Sep 2023, 14:36
Be sure to remember that for all teams.
That's a bit of a stretch isn't it?
How is getting the back end of the car off to completely change set up = "the car is fine after FP3" to then "remember that for all teams".
If all was well as you suggest we wouldn't be seeing this.
Maybe they got the data to improve into qualifying which is why they are doing a set up change. We'll see.
It turned out just like I said. I have an F1TV subscription. I watch the onboards and review the telemetry before I comment. I don't just grab the "news". When I reviewed Verstappen's laps from FP3, it was good, but missing a touch in T13 and T14, but still good enough to match Sainz everywhere on the track except those two corners.
The so called "changes" they made after FP3 that you pointed out butchered a decent but not perfect setup (which one could see by watching onboards....), and then they were not competitive with Ferrari almost anywhere.
Confirmed by Verstappen:
His complaining at the end of FP3 is just the usual driver looking for perfection which is not obtainable. Something some other drivers are familiar with...the comments after the session were exxageration. The car was in a good place at the end of FP3, and then they fiddled with it and made it much worse.
"I think FP3 was not too bad, but then we tried a few more things on the car for qualifying where it tipped it over to the car being undriveable again, where car was massively bottoming out in the braking zones and every time I wanted to brake deep and hard, my front wheels were getting unloaded.
"So, like I said on the radio, it was just a shocking experience because also just trying to lean on the car in low speed, just constantly no speed, no traction. Just really difficult to drive."
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/verst ... for%20sure.
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