https://www.motorsport-total.com/forum/ ... 21&t=95050The discrepancy between simulator and reality is also currently raising eyebrows at Red Bull. Teammate Yuki Tsunoda had already said in Suzuka that the Red Bull can be driven very differently in reality than in the simulator. Asked if that's the same for him, Verstappen refers to the Japanese: "There you have your answer."
"Sometimes it's better, sometimes worse - depending on the weekend," he says. This was particularly noticeable in Suzuka: "In the simulator, you can somehow make the car slide a little more naturally. But if that doesn't work in reality, you're more restricted."
Another problem is the extremely narrow performance window of the current Red Bull. "As soon as you want to get the maximum out of the car, the window is very narrow at the moment," Verstappen explains. Although it is not tighter than last year, "but it is not necessarily bigger at the moment. We definitely have to find more."
On the positive side, however, Red Bull often makes progress over the weekend - a circumstance that could be observed especially from Friday to Saturday. "That depends. Sometimes the balance is a little better, sometimes it's more off," Verstappen said.
Often the set-up is not optimal at first: "Most of the time it has been wrong so far because the car reacts extremely sensitively to small changes."
That's why training continues to play an important role in the development process. "Of course you want to be fast and do well, but sometimes things have to be tried out and understood," says the Dutchman.
The goal is to start the weekend in a more stable window if possible - something that can be achieved in Bahrain could at least be favored by the track layout. "I think it's going to be a bit more stable by nature - just because of the layout. There aren't that many extremely fast corners."
I think the drivers understand that Red Bull need to try things to understand more.
