etusch wrote: ↑24 Nov 2021, 11:49
Just_a_fan wrote: ↑24 Nov 2021, 10:02
godlameroso wrote: ↑24 Nov 2021, 02:16
It will be closer next race, the track characteristics are a mixture of Mexico and COTA, or a flat Spa or a faster Montreal. There are two traction sensitive corners around Jeddah, the banked "hairpin" and the final corner. The rest you have to be very brave and come close to the wall. 2 stopper for sure.
COTA is a bit of an outlier recently - the bumps meant the black cars ran with higher than normal ride height which lost a chunk of performance. If Jeddha is smooth the difference between Red Bull and Mercedes will be different to COTA.
didn't Redbull also lost performance because of that bumps? Why talking as if it affected only mercs badly? There are more variable and track may match Redbull more on the contrary of general expectation or may be we will see what expected.
My point is; people still thinks under 7 championships affect and this season have not able to change this by now. Normally it should be changed from beginning of season. These are last 2 races and you will win or lost everything. Merc open their dirty hands much earlier, now Redbull will play with all what they have. we will see what will happen
It is nonsense to discuss ride height as an issue. The ride height is one of the primary parameters when adjusting the car and Merc simply got one of these parameters wrong. Just like RedBull was on a wrong path in Turkey.
The big question is how well they arrive to the track. In Nl RedBull had a perfect setup as they run the track on demos. I also suspect that Merc had some more knowledge on the grip change in Turkey maybe from their customer GT3 cars or some HWA test runs.
The interesting factor is, that really no one has any data of Jeddah. Big question will be who nails the setup. Unfortunately it seems the Bull is not that easy to adjust.