scuderiabrandon wrote: ↑06 May 2024, 00:38
AmateurDriver wrote: ↑06 May 2024, 00:30
Emag wrote: ↑06 May 2024, 00:10
It's a bit early to call off RedBull because clearly something wasn't working for them here. China was very dominant.
But if we assume the direct followers (Ferrari and McLaren) are getting closer, that upgrade could catapult Ferrari to the lead team.
But it all depends on how much RedBull's upgrades bring for them. Did that 0.250s number on Ferrari's upgrades come from a reliable source?
Ferrari must stop talking and start producing results. Today McLaren gave them a bitter lesson. On the hand Ferrari keeping on saying we're quite there, we're closing the gap, we are maximing the car as it is, we are optimizing tyre behavior and so on. On the other McLaren silent and striving to deliver. And they delivered, surprising everyone. I fear more and more my gut feeling was right: on the one hand a luxury brand full of PRs and marketing agents, on the other hand a committed racing.team.
Mclaren gave them a bitter lesson? Leclerc was the biggest loser with BOTH the VSC/SC, Norris the bigger winner with the safety car. If everyone is matched on pace, it's lady luck or strategy that decides your race. Secondly they pretty much brought a modern day B-spec car here if you don't recall.
Talking about being surprised, literally no one was surprised by them after seeing their pace on Friday.
I meant to say they surprised everyone in the whole weekend, not today. I am maintining they had flown under the radars while preparing some very serious stuff and had managed to be the first ones to close the gap, much to the surprise of many, first of all of Ferrari, that on the contrary had talked and promised a lot but up to now had achieved quite a little, and now is in the prospect of find themselves in third position.