I agree your note about Max, but tomorrow Perez is in the morning and on Friday Perez has the whole day. So not fully accurate. I do think that Max is able to extract more from the car quicker. Another positive for him is that he did not switch seats today so it meant he could work on his setup and line the whole day. On the contrary, most other teams switched their drivers which meant setups had to be reworked and drivers had to learn the new cars as well.cliffgamerz wrote: ↑21 Feb 2024, 21:39All the people think RedBull will dominate because Max put in a time 1 sec ahead of everyone, the real reason he was 1 sec ahead of everyone was because today was the only day he gets to do a representative qualy lap at late evening since tomorrow Perez is driving whole day and Friday he gets the morning run, the conditions of qualifying was only possible for him today, tomorrow we an expect many drivers run qualy runs before doing Race runs like we always get. We will get McLaren qualy pace from Oscar tomorrow and that's vital for us to know where McLaren stands
Still it is very likely that Red Bull still have a decent cushion, but I would expect the gap to be much smaller then what the timing screen showed.
It will be very interesting to see if Perez is able to look as dominant as Verstappen.