The field is as close as ever. It's the reality. If you underperform, you underperform HARD.Fer.Fan wrote: ↑09 Jun 2024, 21:55It can not explain the fact Ferrari ware slower the mid teams. Not even top ten during the race. This was team set up disaster. Just look at Ferraris low DF rear wing, they put way to little DF on the car. Thats why they ware so slow. Just compare rear wings of RB, MB and Mclaren.CouncilorIrissa wrote: ↑09 Jun 2024, 21:46Everything 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.
This isn't 2019 anymore.