bananapeel23 wrote: ↑02 Sep 2024, 10:05
I think this is recency bias. The Ferrari has been good, but rarely the best at tyre management all season. This was a rare instance of Ferrari and Leclerc doing very well. Remember that Ferrari looked marginally worse than the 3 other top teams in FP in terms of tyre wear as well.
Slightly better deg (in one or more stints) than RB in Bahrain, Jeddah, Australia, Japan, China, Spain, Hungary and Monza. Equal deg in Miami, Imola, Austria and Zandvoort. Other races were troublesome for one or both teams, so not much use in comparing them.
As for McLaren, slightly better deg for Ferrari in Bahrain, Jeddah, Australia, Japan (big difference), Monaco, Hungary and Zandvoort (McLaren quicker, but more deg in both races) and obviously Monza. Equal deg in China, Miami (different strategy for Norris), Imola, Spain, Austria and Spa (Leclerc slowed down in 3rd stint for bouncing, but no deg then). Other races same as for RB comparison.
Not a single race where deg was an issue for Ferrari and always at least as good as RB and McLaren. Ferrari had marginally better deg in many races and clearly better in a few - Japan, Monza, Zandvoort come to mind. This cost them a lot of trouble in Q, so I don't think it's a good feature overall, but at least they have used it very well whenever they had a real chance to do it.