dialtone wrote: ↑22 Feb 2024, 21:12
Cs98 wrote: ↑22 Feb 2024, 21:10
dialtone wrote: ↑22 Feb 2024, 21:03
My post contained errors, I updated it after posting.
Yeah... your math is wrong. Think about this logically. If Ferrari improved by 1,46s and RB improved by 2,5s, they would be 1s faster
provided Ferrari and RB were equal in 2023. They obviously weren't equal in 2023, RB was much faster, probably by a whole second in Bahrain.
Let me copy my edited post here:
SF-24 appears to be 0.6s faster than Max's race, on trimmed down Ferrari engine. So it would need to be a 1.6s improvement to be ahead of Ferrari by 1s. Still seems a lot.
That is mathematically sound provided those data points are indeed correct, which I have my doubts about. Ferrari probably had some engine mode reserves as you say, but I also know Max was driving to a delta. I think SF24 is faster than RB19, maybe 0,5s is a sound expectation, but not much more.