CouncilorIrissa wrote: ↑09 Jun 2024, 21:46
Fer.Fan wrote: ↑09 Jun 2024, 21:41
dia6olo wrote: ↑09 Jun 2024, 21:34
Shocking weekend!
$hit happens and based on the season so far, for the most part that's all it is.
That said, car has got a big problem in both cool and changing conditions, I hope they get it sorted in double quick time because now the gaps have closed up it's becoming very costly!
Fans needs answer what in h… happend in Canada? It is complete meltdown of the team, strategi, pace of the car. Complete disaster. Something happend with pace of the car, it was soooo slowwww.
Everything that's happened is easily explained by what we know about the car's characteristics.
It was designed to put as little heat into the tyres as possible in order to fix the issues of its predecessor -- overheating that caused poor race pace. CGV as a circuit has no high-speed corners and a lot of straights, meaning that the cars that put less energy into the tyres suffer the most, as they simply can't keep the heat in the tyres. It's why the SF23 was good around this circuit and it's why the RB19 was vulnerable -- because of that very characteristic.
Now combine this with low temperatures, a chaotic weekend plagued by brake and PU issues you have the perfect storm for such a situation to happen. No strategy could've ever salvaged this.
Those are actually very good points.
I think in the heat of the moment we have a tendency to overreact and judge everything, car and team based on their last showing, everything that preceded it gets forgotten, for example for many Mercedes will now be back in the game just based on their showing today, personally I doubt it...
Today was very disappointing but I think that when you zoom out and look at the big picture, the Ferrari car and team are not in bad shape.
Regarding the cars shortcomings, I fully understand the apparent car design decisions they made surrounding how the car uses it's tyres after the tyre woes they had with the SF-23, and IMO all things considered they were probably the correct decision.
That said, it does appear they have played it a little to safe, I just hope it's something they can work on/tweak with the next upgrade.
I guess we should also not forget that we are also going to get hot races coming up over the next 2/3 months and that alone could change everything...