I think that's a massive exaggeration, while you can certainly argue that, that was the case with numbers, without context you can use numbers to paint any story...organic wrote: ↑05 Nov 2024, 19:43McLaren, alpine, mercedes, red bull were all faster than Ferrari. Leclerc's brilliant restart kept the car in good scoring positions but 5th fastest car in the wet was reality. A big weakness of the carSeanspeed wrote: ↑05 Nov 2024, 17:14It wasn't 'really bad' unless you were expecting them to fight for top podium spots.
Considering where they'd have been at if this was the car from earlier in the season, it's actually a big improvement. It was fine. Not amazing, but we knew this track layout in these kinds of conditions would be basically worst case scenario for the car. The fact that they still hung on and were up at least near the front was a good accomplishment.