There were fooling around with mediums at the time when the track was at its quickest in Q3.Space-heat wrote: ↑21 May 2024, 13:08Yes on Sunday, but where were they in quali in Miami (https://www.formula1.com/en/results.htm ... fying.html)? It looks like Mclaren was set up for race pace and the SC eliminated his positional disadvantage from quali. Lando after qualification in Miami was saying he wished they could have undone the overnight changes. His better race pace got him an +7.612 second gap to Max at the end, 9.9 s to Charles.
I don't want to burn anything down, if anything I think that the team has done a good job with the upgrades, it's just that the competition has done an outrageous one.Space-heat wrote: ↑21 May 2024, 13:08If Ferrari are behind Mclaren in the constructors after Barcelona feel free to burn it all down but at least give them a chance to fail.
That's so not guaranteed.Sphere3758 wrote: ↑21 May 2024, 16:23Bahrain : Without Charles brake issue, it would be a 2-4 instead of a 3-4
bananapeel23 wrote: ↑21 May 2024, 16:40Also I would NOT underestimate the ability of Leclerc to absolutely dominate Monaco qualifying. The SF-23 was like half a second off the pace on average in quali in the first half of 2023, despite that Leclerc was within a tenth of pole in Monaco. The 2021 Ferrari was also pretty middling, yet Leclerc took pole in Monaco. The 2022 Ferrari was by far the best car in Monaco, but Leclerc was on track for a 0.8-1 second gap to the fastest non-Ferrari until Perez crashed out.
All three were traction monsters, which the SF-24 is very much not.
edit: I can't find the link now, but I think it was Sainz who said that the upgrades won't help much at Monaco.