Seeing Duchessa's tweet about Ferr upgrades concentrated mostly on reducing porpoising, how did it look in FP1?
Would be nice to compare with preseason test.
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Ferrari tried running Leclerc without the stay on the car and it was porpoising as bad as ever.
It isn't normal for the two teams to run such differing fuel levels in the race sims though, unless it's a sprint weekend. I haven't seen the numbers they speak of but I hope it's as simple as different fuel loads.
What about Mercedes?
It is normal... it happened any race without many red flags. In Jeddah for example it was the other way around with Leclerc 1s faster than Max in race pace. Sainz was faster than Max in his first laps of the stint on softs, they were running different fuel load, some test stint 1 and others test stint 2.
rafeyahmad wrote: ↑20 May 2022, 18:42
Wasn't down to fuel levels but setup. Mekies said he's not concerned and the issue will be rectified. Sainz says the upgrades are working.
Ferrari: no worries, because the car showed important potential
At the conclusion of the second hour of free practice, there was little concern at Ferrari; there was an awareness that, with the introduction of such an important package of changes, something might not go right with some extra work after FP2 then budgeted. However, the most important thing is that the package of changes brought to the track would seem to have worked. "The updates worked, I am very happy about that, we found more performance but at the same time in FP2 we were slower so we have to find the feeling we had this morning. Here compared to testing everyone is faster and that makes everything more interesting," said Carlos Sainz. It is not an update problem but a setup problem.
The Sporting Director, Laurent Mekies, was also not too concerned talking about an "important potential" of the car that would seem to be there, as well as speculation about the problem that generated this disappointing tire management in the simulation of the race passes as usual carried out in the final part of the second free practice. On these occasions, the engineers do not take everything negatively since having a visible problem on degradation can allow them to discard some aggressive parameters in terms of setup.
As for the race, Pirelli expects two stops. "The left front tire has been the most stressed," explained Mario Isola. What tires will be used? Medium would seem the best compound to make two stints, playing the third with Soft. For now the Hard would seem too slow, spaced a full 2.4 seconds behind the Soft and 1.2 behind the Medium