That's the funny thing, though. Leclerc has never been number 1 driver.CouncilorIrissa wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024, 20:39Any driver who's number 1 at Ferrari has a massive target on his back.
Happened to Vettel. Happened to Alonso.
That's the funny thing, though. Leclerc has never been number 1 driver.CouncilorIrissa wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024, 20:39Any driver who's number 1 at Ferrari has a massive target on his back.
Happened to Vettel. Happened to Alonso.
there was no assumption in there. There's always fuel left in the cars on Fridays, and usually it still takes around 5 minutesAR3-GP wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024, 20:33That would assume that the cars were "empty" when they were sent for the short runs, which is unlikely. So it sounds like they had quite a bit of fuel on board, probably more than others for short runs in that case, which could mean that they didn't need to spend as much time fueling for the long runs. Marko said Ferrari was a second a lap faster on the long runs so RB have some catching up to do but I doubt they will bridge a 1 second margin. Perhaps only rain would thwart Ferrari this weekend.search wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024, 20:28Sainz pitted for 2:30 only after his short run, Leclerc for 3:20. Usually the pit stop time in practice to fully fuel the car is close to 5 minutesSoulPancake13 wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024, 18:18
Generally speaking, whenever Marko is worried about Ferrari's pace, he means it. Mini race sim looks very strong. Of course who knows the fuel loads, but very promising indeed.
Maybe, but then Sargeant took 10-15 minutes away from the session. They could just work faster. I don't see why 5 minutes would be perfectly associated with filling of the tank as opposed to simply a matter of procedures involving other aspects.search wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024, 20:41there was no assumption in there. There's always fuel left in the cars on Fridays, and usually it still takes around 5 minutesAR3-GP wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024, 20:33That would assume that the cars were "empty" when they were sent for the short runs, which is unlikely. So it sounds like they had quite a bit of fuel on board, probably more than others for short runs in that case, which could mean that they didn't need to spend as much time fueling for the long runs. Marko said Ferrari was a second a lap faster on the long runs so RB have some catching up to do but I doubt they will bridge a 1 second margin. Perhaps only rain would thwart Ferrari this weekend.
yeah, but the situation was exactly the same for VER, and he spent 5:20 in the pits.AR3-GP wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024, 20:44Maybe, but then Sargeant took 10-15 minutes away from the session. They could just work faster. I don't see why 5 minutes would be perfectly associated with filling of the tank as opposed to simply a matter of procedures involving other aspects.search wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024, 20:41there was no assumption in there. There's always fuel left in the cars on Fridays, and usually it still takes around 5 minutesAR3-GP wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024, 20:33
That would assume that the cars were "empty" when they were sent for the short runs, which is unlikely. So it sounds like they had quite a bit of fuel on board, probably more than others for short runs in that case, which could mean that they didn't need to spend as much time fueling for the long runs. Marko said Ferrari was a second a lap faster on the long runs so RB have some catching up to do but I doubt they will bridge a 1 second margin. Perhaps only rain would thwart Ferrari this weekend.
The stop times don't really correlate to the lap times anyway. Leclerc had the longer stop by almost a full minute, but his long run was much faster than that of Sainz.
To be fair Ferrari have been running lower fuel and higher engine modes compared to red bull for a while nowLostInTranslation wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024, 22:12Marc Genè, a Ferrari employee and Sky Italia collaborator, a former driver who takes part in the briefings, declared that the Ferrari cars had the same fuel load that they have usually used for years on the Fridays of the GPs.
It’s not representative, even Ferrari have said it’s not a real gap, likelyhood is that redbull are 2 tenths faster in race trim which is still a big achievement for Ferrari over last yearAR3-GP wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024, 20:33That would assume that the cars were "empty" when they were sent for the short runs, which is unlikely. So it sounds like they had quite a bit of fuel on board, probably more than others for short runs in that case, which could mean that they didn't need to spend as much time fueling for the long runs. Marko said Ferrari was a second a lap faster on the long runs so RB have some catching up to do but I doubt they will bridge a 1 second margin. Perhaps only rain would thwart Ferrari this weekend.search wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024, 20:28Sainz pitted for 2:30 only after his short run, Leclerc for 3:20. Usually the pit stop time in practice to fully fuel the car is close to 5 minutesSoulPancake13 wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024, 18:18
Generally speaking, whenever Marko is worried about Ferrari's pace, he means it. Mini race sim looks very strong. Of course who knows the fuel loads, but very promising indeed.
Source: Marko?Joel709 wrote:To be fair Ferrari have been running lower fuel and higher engine modes compared to red bull for a while nowLostInTranslation wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024, 22:12Marc Genè, a Ferrari employee and Sky Italia collaborator, a former driver who takes part in the briefings, declared that the Ferrari cars had the same fuel load that they have usually used for years on the Fridays of the GPs.
It’s FP1, if we had an fp2 session or this happened in fp3 I’d be worried but this is what Ferrari in fp1.dialtone wrote: ↑06 Apr 2024, 00:18Source: Marko?Joel709 wrote:To be fair Ferrari have been running lower fuel and higher engine modes compared to red bull for a while nowLostInTranslation wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024, 22:12Marc Genè, a Ferrari employee and Sky Italia collaborator, a former driver who takes part in the briefings, declared that the Ferrari cars had the same fuel load that they have usually used for years on the Fridays of the GPs.
This is not true. Gaps between FP and quali have mostly been the same between Ferrari and RBR, at least this year. And as a matter of fact Ferrari has been running uber detuned engines in FP1-2 since ‘22 with all the failures they were having. If you look at older threads you’ll see people complaining that Ferrari not pushing in FP makes their FP not representative.
I’ve had threads here where I pointed out the obvious detuning only for RBR crew to come out and claim a 15kph difference was all thanks to RBR superior aero and magic DRS and some fairy dust, only for Ferrari to be on pole a day later, see LEC in Monza ‘22 where Max was 0.3s ahead of LEC in FP3 and then come quali LEC was 0.14 ahead.
Once again: Marko doesn’t analyse data, he talks more about the feeling they have before analysing data, which happens later after press interviews and such. This stuff than fuels nonsense takes from press and whatnot. Plus the zeropod meme with Marko saying “you’ll see” should tell you he’s a shitstirrer.
No what he is saying is more often than not Marko says things for the sake of saying it. Usually just a general feeling most of the time.Joel709 wrote: ↑06 Apr 2024, 01:00It’s FP1, if we had an fp2 session or this happened in fp3 I’d be worried but this is what Ferrari in fp1.dialtone wrote: ↑06 Apr 2024, 00:18Source: Marko?Joel709 wrote:
To be fair Ferrari have been running lower fuel and higher engine modes compared to red bull for a while now
This is not true. Gaps between FP and quali have mostly been the same between Ferrari and RBR, at least this year. And as a matter of fact Ferrari has been running uber detuned engines in FP1-2 since ‘22 with all the failures they were having. If you look at older threads you’ll see people complaining that Ferrari not pushing in FP makes their FP not representative.
I’ve had threads here where I pointed out the obvious detuning only for RBR crew to come out and claim a 15kph difference was all thanks to RBR superior aero and magic DRS and some fairy dust, only for Ferrari to be on pole a day later, see LEC in Monza ‘22 where Max was 0.3s ahead of LEC in FP3 and then come quali LEC was 0.14 ahead.
Once again: Marko doesn’t analyse data, he talks more about the feeling they have before analysing data, which happens later after press interviews and such. This stuff than fuels nonsense takes from press and whatnot. Plus the zeropod meme with Marko saying “you’ll see” should tell you he’s a shitstirrer.
They literally did it in Jeddah this year, max was doing mid 37s and 38s and leclerc was doing high 36s mid 37s and then once race day came about max had 4 tenths advantage.
FP3 will be the more serious measurement. If you believe that Ferrari are a second a lap quicker all of a sudden then I’ve got a bridge to sell ya.