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organic wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 10:46 amAnother weekend of C3-C5. So far RB have been weaker in the softer compounds, but may be partly due to circuit characteristics that tend to require harder compounds (higher speed corners)..
Will be interesting to see where the laptime comes. Sector 1 under the previous rules was almost always fairly even between teams. Williams might even be purple there in quali if previous years are to go by
I'm expecting McLaren to have a strong showing here with the lower drag penalty and their good high speed performance. Is their so-called b-spec car upgrade coming this weekend or unconfirmed?
On high altitude circuits, the W13 was a bit of a rocket. The rarefaction allowed them to run the car very low without porpoising (i.e closer to their simulation performance). The W14 is a bit of a different car though. It lacks overall downforce compared to RB and possibly AMR. At high altitude I think they won't be as strong. What made them so good at altitude last year is why the car was so flawed at sea-level. They now have a car that functions properly at sea-level so they don't have the advantage of having a hidden window that could only ever be unlocked thousands of meters above sea level.
I don’t know. I know that was your theory last year. I think it had more to do with circuit (corner/speed range)/asphalt type than altitude. I think it’s rear end down downforce they lack specifically this year, and efficiency.AR3-GP wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 10:03 pmOn high altitude circuits, the W13 was a bit of a rocket. The rarefaction allowed them to run the car very low without porpoising (i.e closer to their simulation performance). The W14 is a bit of a different car though. It lacks overall downforce compared to RB and possibly AMR. At high altitude I think they won't be as strong. What made them so good at altitude last year is why the car was so flawed at sea-level. They now have a car that functions properly at sea-level so they don't have the advantage of having a hidden window that could only ever be unlocked thousands of meters above sea level.
We will. Merc will have to buy some traction out of T1 and T3. Remember that last year the Merc was very good in slow corners too because there car was operating in a window between high downforce at low speed and wild bouncing at higher speeds. This year it's been Hamilton's #1 complaint. He said it live in cool down room in Canada and it was mentioned in Bahrain.zibby43 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 11:18 pmI don’t know. I know that was your theory last year. I think it had more to do with circuit (corner/speed range)/asphalt type than altitude. I think it’s rear end down downforce they lack specifically this year, and efficiency.AR3-GP wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 10:03 pmOn high altitude circuits, the W13 was a bit of a rocket. The rarefaction allowed them to run the car very low without porpoising (i.e closer to their simulation performance). The W14 is a bit of a different car though. It lacks overall downforce compared to RB and possibly AMR. At high altitude I think they won't be as strong. What made them so good at altitude last year is why the car was so flawed at sea-level. They now have a car that functions properly at sea-level so they don't have the advantage of having a hidden window that could only ever be unlocked thousands of meters above sea level.
I actually think the W14 will be pretty good here. We’ll see.