How is the ability to catch up minimal? McLaren and AMR have proven huge leaps can be made. It's just that in '23 RB's closest rivals in Merc/Ferrari dropped the ball and fell backwardsdialtone wrote: ↑16 Feb 2024, 22:18I agree with you but realistically the next 2 years are set for RBR. And with budget caps and no testing the ability to catch up is minimal.Sieper wrote:The goal is spectacle, tragedy, conversation. 2 cars stopping on track just before race end, even more when they are front runners, perfect!
All these sprint races towards end season this year. If there is no big gap in points, will keep the title race alive (for longer).everything is aimed at that.
The trade off of having a couple of reliability issues at beginning of season is not worth it.
I wouldn’t confuse the possibility of catching up on occasion with sustainability of that performance or repeatability of seeing others catch up.organic wrote:How is the ability to catch up minimal? McLaren and AMR have proven huge leaps can be made. It's just that in '23 RB's closest rivals in Merc/Ferrari dropped the ball and fell backwardsdialtone wrote: ↑16 Feb 2024, 22:18I agree with you but realistically the next 2 years are set for RBR. And with budget caps and no testing the ability to catch up is minimal.Sieper wrote:The goal is spectacle, tragedy, conversation. 2 cars stopping on track just before race end, even more when they are front runners, perfect!
All these sprint races towards end season this year. If there is no big gap in points, will keep the title race alive (for longer).everything is aimed at that.
The trade off of having a couple of reliability issues at beginning of season is not worth it.
There were 6 days in 22 testing and plenty of chance for RB to spot fuel pump issues had they trully pushed the car to the limit. That's the issue with excessive sandbagging, it tends to leave you speechless in those first races
Ferrari was sandbagging too . They suddenly had power unit issues a few races into the year.
Exactly.
Like I said, excessive sandbagging is the problem. As we all saw last year, they didn't repeat that mistake.
My guess is a wild 1.5s per lap.. I think most teams were operating on 2 year cycles and this is their chance to make improvements at architecture level. So I think there will be a bigger step this winter than any other time in the reg set
Merc, AMR, Ferrari, are spending a large part of those architectural improvements merely converging on where RB was conceptually. 1,5s from last year would essentially mean those cars are a second faster than RB19, I don't see that.
I wasn't suggesting every team improves by 1.5sCs98 wrote: ↑17 Feb 2024, 10:37Merc, AMR, Ferrari, are spending a large part of those architectural improvements merely converging on where RB was conceptually. 1,5s from last year would essentially mean those cars are a second faster than RB19, I don't see that.
No I get that, but I would contend even one team getting 1,5s would be insane.organic wrote: ↑17 Feb 2024, 10:38I wasn't suggesting every team improves by 1.5s