CouncilorIrissa wrote: ↑23 Sep 2024, 00:41
All in all the outcome of the last two races is triggering me to no end. So annoying.
Indeed it is and it's very much car related in the end. Neither issue would be an issue with SF23 and it's not like that car was eating tyres like W15 often does, already in R2 in Jeddah it had a fairly stable race pace and after Barcelona updates it was also further improved on race pace and kept improving throughout the season. By the end of the year Leclerc had basically the same pace on Mediums and Hards as Verstappen, but often lacked a bit on the other compound in the same race.
It was clear since Japan SF24 is too gentle with tyres in Q and they over-corrected this feature of SF23, but it wasn't a frustrating issue as it didn't cost them any wins realistically. Right now an easy win and a good shot at the win were lost because of tyre warm up and it would completely change the outlook of this season and obviously the WCC fight.
And people were angry that Cardille was let go so easily and Serra was recruited in his place last year
ScuderiaLeo wrote: ↑23 Sep 2024, 01:01
Did the team talk about the front wing update and how it performed? I didn't see them mention it, only that they all talked about trying to fix the tire window for Austin and beyond.
Nothing to talk about honestly, it was tested in FP1 with Leclerc and both cars used it since FP2. They aren't going back to Imola spec for sure, this was a performance update and not circuit related