ringo wrote: ↑04 Jun 2024, 07:16
I am not convinced this car can race with Redbull at a normal track. Monaco was not a true representation of the car's progress. Imola, Ferrari could not hang, and Miami even worse. Canada may go the way of Redbull and McLaren.
I'm not sure what you mean by "could not hang". In both races, when Charles cleared the McLaren (or the McL drove away
), he had a very similar pace to Max.
In Miami, the gap to Max grew to 2,5s after restart and stayed that way to the end.
In Imola, after pitstop gap to Max was 10s, than it dropped to ~7s at the point of catching Norris and it grew to 7,5s by the end of the race.
In both races, the pace on hards was really similar between LEC and VER. Unfortunately mediums aren't comparable as in both cases Charles was driving behind Mclaren.
Verstappen stills seems to have some margin in quali, although it doesn't look that big.
Sure, RBR is still ahead, MCL might be there as well, but the gap is rather small and I have positive feelings. It definitely seems like there are some wins still to grab this season.