bananapeel23 wrote: ↑24 Oct 2024, 17:16
The crazy part is that he seems to be doing a lot of LiCo or is suffering from clipping in the 2024 reference lap and manages the massive improvement in spite of that. His speed is clearly dropping off before he hits the brakes.
Now surely the vast majority of the improvement is down to the resurfacing though? 1-2 seconds seems likely, but 4 seconds would be one of the most insane year on year improvements ever in a stable regulation set.
All laps are like that with typical clipping, it's not LiCo. 2023 lap was the one before Hamilton got him, so there's defensive ERS setting already.
Well, resurfacing was worth 1s in Monza at most. Track temp, tyre window, wind, there's lots of different aspects involved which is why I took Norris' laps and 2.8s improvement as another reference. Max was down the grid a bit in 23, so in dirty air and subsequent laps in Stints 2 and 3 can't be compared with 24 Hard laps directly because of how differently the two races went with tyre deg.