RoadRep wrote: ↑10 Jun 2024, 16:32
Waz wrote: ↑10 Jun 2024, 11:03
Solved a drag issue, but have no traction or front end. Watching Alonso vs Hamilton was quite painful. Those conditions are usually Alonso territory when he puts in his best drives and bags a podium from nowhere.
And fitting Hards?
Alonso said after Q that setup changes made after FP3 were no good. He was on the edge all the time and that made him lose time in a few corners, he was really upset on the radio at the end of Q3, I believe he felt the car was good enough to be comfortably on pole.
I think those changes made him feel unable to feel the limits during the race judging by his interactions with the engineer, asking where he was losing time. Turn 5, if I remember correctly, because of tire management that the engineer said was good and turn 10, too much lift and coast compared to others. But at least 3 times they told him he was one of the quickest on track. He had a couple of moments and clearly for the team it was a matter of bringing the car home at all costs after several bad races.
Hards were the only new set available.
As part of the tire allocation that started during covid, each driver only gets 2 sets of Hards, If you use one in FP, you'll only have 1 left. They had 2 sets of new Mediums(F1 tire allocations allocates 3 per team).
Note that if you're looking for stats on "new" tires, AMR always puts 1 lap on all their tires so they all show up as used.
I went back to listen to the drive back to pits by Alonso in Q3, after he set his last lap and they didn't talk about the setup changes not working. He just complained about the oversteer into turn 2, to which his Engineer responded," a gust of wind Fernando, the gusts of wind are strong today".