It's not so much about Carlos, it's his repeated trolling bout the so called "8th" (lewis) and all the stuff he keeps saying like a broken record just to mess up with everyone I am sure you know because there is not a single member that does not complain.
People in the vast majority have resorted in putting him in ignore. Even that won't work. And yet, nothing is done for him.
Why? Is he the comic relief of this place? If that is the intention, it's not working.
"If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari" - Gilles Villeneuve
Ferrari has taken Sr Lewis from Merc for 2025 ! That's trolling! I could never keep up with all the Charles is better than Carlos trolls here :rotf l Charles Let Carlos win that last 2024 win! People as you say in the vast majority here have to be ivid that FERRARI and me want and got Sr Lewis to join our team. I truly wish both ur drivers points galore! Forget Spain vs Monaco.
If he does get Rubenized Charles had better win!!! I really doubt Ferrari would get $$$$ Lewis and then tell him to move over for Charles. I'm hoping for wins and points between both drivers. Enough already with Max and Perez. I wish the best for Sainz; he really got screwed having to leave Ferrari.
This race in terms of data is very rich to analyse.
Ferrari will be hard at work to crunch all kinds of numbers and data to see how aggresive they can be with the set up and where they can get closer to Red Bull.
Australia might not be as easy for Verstappen if Leclerc manages to get pole or get in front come race time especially if Ferrari brings some kind of different spec rear wing.
Thanks for waking me up! I agree!
By catching up, are you implying that he had better pace or that Leclerc was driving to a delta and not pushing?
I don't think Leclerc was pushing, as evidenced by his fast lap. Looks like he had quite a bit of pace left. Just not sure why he wasn't using it, unless it's a fuel usage issue.
I have a theory, maybe a very wild one: Ferrari is just conserving it's Engine-1 during race as this is the first engine. It needs to do mileage during Free practice, Quality and Race. From next engine onwards they can use Engine-1 for FP and the other for Quali+Race. This year it seems all teams are worried out the CE cooling as only 2 are allowed.
During the Saudi race I saw Lec increased his pace for few laps here and there and in all those laps I saw the top speed of the car improved; only to suddenly see the top speed drop the next few laps again (and a proportionate increase in laptime).
There wasn't any conservative engine mode in Saudi, they simply used a bit too much downforce. On every straight we were slower than the Red Bull. They brought a low DF RW but didn't use it.
I also think that the low ambient temperate is a hindrance for us. Charles struggled with the rear tyre warm up issue in qualifying and also during the race. As soon as the tyres were up to temperature, his pace was as good as the Red Bulls. But by then both Red Bulls were ahead and he had no one to challenge him from behind.
With regards to rear downforce, Ferrari removed a beam wing in Jeddah that they used in Bahrain.
I have the pics comparing both cars at both tracks with emphasis of the rear wings and beam wings.
In Bahrain, Ferrari achieved a top speed of 319kph.
In Jeddah, Ferrari achieved achieved a top speed of 330kph.
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It's not how start but how you finish.
I know we went with high downforce setup, but I observed on live timing app we were continuously 4-5 kmph down on top speed of even Mclaren (after Lec cleared Norris) in free air. But in the last 10 laps or so Lec upped his pace to match the top speed of Mclaren and then last 2-3 laps he was well above the top speed of Mclaren in each sector and almost matching RedBull (within 3-4 kmph).
So definitely engine modes were at play. Also seeing Lec comments post race, we can see he hints that he didn't push after he had tire warming issues with medium and hard and realised he cannot match RedBulls.
P.S: Singapore will be very tough for us if we have this issue prevailing till then.
These top speeds are from Quali where the engine is at full beans. I think our engine is the strongest over a lap, even masking the obvious drag associated with high downforce config. I think we were only 3 kmph down on RedBulls in Quali, but as Lec mentioned in post-quali the car was losing all the time in traction dure to poor warmup of tires.
I have seen a graph of the drivers best 15 laps top speed.
Bearman reached 339kph during the race as his fastest.
Leclerc reached 334kph during the race as his fastest.
I also have a graph showing or comparing Bearman vs Leclerc and you can see Bearmans time closing in on Leclerc throughout the race....especially towards the end of the race.
It's not how start but how you finish.
Again, the graph that I am seeing during the race was Mclaren(Norris) was severely hampered to a draggy car and Ferrari was not slower than Mclaren according to the top speed of the drivers 15 laps that I observed.
It's quite a huge difference between Ferrari and Mclaren as the race is concerned.
It's not how start but how you finish.
Yeah, I was wrong about engine mode. Ferrari use mode: race during the races, which delivers optimal power. Charles for whatever reason, didn't use it as much as Bearman.
He struggled with the rear tyre warm issue, but as soon as the tyres got up to temperature and whenever he used mode: race, he was super competitive. His fastest lap is a testament of that, which was done in the final lap of the race on 43 laps old C2. (He did a 1"31.915 in the penultimate lap, so his fastest lap wasn't some fluke)
Yup, Ferrari ICE is strongest on the grid, plus the SF24 has good efficiency (but not as good as last year's SF23), so that top speed didn't say much. When Charles overtook Hamilton and Norris, he didn't go above 324.
A car with good downforce and minimal drag will gain big speed boost with the DRS. That's what Red Bull is doing with their car. People thought they were stalling the beam wing but that was just a myth. Ferrari removed the upper portion of beam wing but ran with the Bahrain-spec RW. They didn't use the 2023 SPA-spec low DF RW they brought in Saudi, and Jeddah is a low downforce track.
i'm nitpicking, it seemed to be a bit of an issue last season, Vegas springs to mind, and in Jeddah, i'm saying maybe he didn't have optimal tyre heat, because he didn't challenge Max going into turn 1 like in Bahrain.
and as you said, Jeddah had the caveat that Chico jumped the start
Montoya is 48 and still racing !!!
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