Argument is that the grip provided by the soft tyre masks the lack of DF. Go to a harder tyre and the lack of grip is evident. Not sure I believe it, but that's the proposed theory I have read.organic wrote: ↑20 Mar 2023, 19:57I don't think that follows. I'd say it's balance and/or suspension issues. Really they cannot use the tyres in the correct waySoulPancake13 wrote: ↑20 Mar 2023, 19:51Ferrari works fine on the soft, but go to the hard and all the lap time is gone, so that speaks for downforce limitations.
Balance of the car was good this weekend in fact. Charles said as much. They were just plain slower, which is way more worrying than anything else.
I am still shocked at how good the car is at qualifying compared to the race though, it has to be a gigantic race pace problem to fall off that large of a cliff. Australia upgrades can hopefully take us beyond the AMR and Mercedes.