deadhead wrote: ↑03 Jul 2023, 19:49
Xyz22 wrote: ↑03 Jul 2023, 17:20
So i was able to watch quite a lot of onboards from the race. The understeer of the SF 23 is still massive. Leclerc was struggling so much to rotate the car out of the corners. It seems Sainz can deal with this limitation in a better way at the moment. I have no idea what Mercedes and AM did to perform that badly in this track, by the way.
Doesn't sound good. Why is understeer so hard to eradicate from the cars in general?
I'm surprised that LEC is doing as well as he is in this car
Most of the cars have understeer on at least one compound. I think with the new suspension regulations, heavier cars, and the new aerodynamic balance caused by the majority of the downforce generated by underfloor venturi the tendency is for more understeer. As the teams find it easier to jettison more weight which will happen as the regs mature they will have greater freedom with ballast, but they're still somewhat limited by the centre of pressure being further rearward due to the way df is generated.
Even RB who seem to have pretty good balance across most tracks have pretty bad limitations with understeer compared to what max would prefer and was able to drive in pre-2022 cars. These regs just have a bias towards understeer. Pretty much only mercedes have a car that is oversteering and that's ultimately down to a rear that lacks df. They haven't arrived there deliberately but their rear hasn't delivered the df they were expecting