Doubt it will be a big problem in Saudi. It's higher speed and you only have two big braking zones. Worst case you just open up the cooling a bit more. As for Sainz, seems like he managed the issue well with some smart driving.Schippke wrote: ↑07 Mar 2024, 11:02Source: gpblog.com
So this brings up 2 points; Did Sainz manage a similar (or the same?) issue better than Leclerc did? And is this something we’ll have to worry about this weekend in Saudi? Later could be possible…During the Bahrain Grand Prix, both Ferrari drivers encountered a number of problems, according to Carlos Sainz, who stated that he experienced similar issues to his teammate Charles Leclerc. Despite these challenges, Sainz was able to secure a podium finish.
“Yes, (during) the first stint and the beginning of the second stint. Whenever we were in traffic, we were having a lot of brake vibrations and the pedal at one point started to go long.”
“So it was always a balancing act between do I go for it and try to get rid of the dirty air and overtake people? Or do I start saving my brakes because they're going to fail or something's going to happen? I started saving by moving a bit on the straight to cool the side that it was getting hotter and the vibration started to get better.”
And then I could start to make moves and move forward. But as I said, the start wasn't great. The brakes were still a bit of a limitation for a bit. Then once everything settled, I could do my pace, do my overtakes and go for the podium.”
“I don't know the level of severity he (Charles Leclerc) had but for me it was one point pretty bad too. It's something that you cannot discover in testing because in testing you never put yourself in 10 laps consecutive behind four cars getting all the hot air from the four cars in front and the brakes never cool down. I tried not to panic.”
“I tried to put the side that was more heated and I took a different line on the straights to cool them down. At one point the pedals started to go quite long and also a lot of brake vibrations which is changes your feeling on the braking quite a lot but yeah I kept it cool managed them and as soon as I got a bit of clean air it cleared and it became a lot better but it's something that we definitely maybe need to take a bit more margin going into an extra race.”