Seanspeed wrote: ↑26 Feb 2025, 21:56
SoulPancake13 wrote: ↑26 Feb 2025, 21:43
Anyone saying the car was hard to drive without recognizing there was 100kg of fuel in the car which will always make the car less responsive, slower, etc., is being dishonest. The truth is even on the fast lap there was a decent amount of fuel likely onboard judging from the onboard.
It's not being 'dishonest' to recognize that on similar enough low fuel runs, the Ferrari was certainly lacking responsiveness in a few certain corners compared to the likes of Mclaren. You can speculate that this is coming from higher fuel than others, but that's really just a pure guess.
There's also plenty of things it could be, whether it's the car not being as dialed in yet, or that Leclerc did his fastest lap quite a bit before others did their bests, where conditions were different and whatnot. Maybe the tires weren't brand spanking new? Hard to say.
But it's still entirely reasonable to point out that something the car struggled with last year was still there in the similar-enough run by Ferrari compared to Mclaren. Maybe it's a sign of things to come, maybe it's not. Nobody is concluding anything. Just observing.
If other’s speculation about fuel load levels is a “pure guess”, how is your speculation (“similar enough low fuel runs”) any more accurate?
