dans79 wrote: ↑05 Jun 2023, 19:11
Evo2racer wrote: ↑05 Jun 2023, 18:34
No low temperature on Sunday !
It was warm on the track.
You are confusing with Saturday and qualy weather
yep, and only a few things can account for the performance shift we saw.
1) AMR & Ferrari bet the farm on a wet race and skewed the set-up towards that.
2) AMR & Ferrari don't do well with the harder compounds.
3) AMR & Ferrari don't have a wide enough setup window to deal with the climate shifts
4) Mercs upgrades worked
5) The track suited Merc more than AMR & Ferrari (not a good sign if true)
Some combination of multiple of the above. I'd personally go with #3 & #4.
Didn't Red Bull too mention that for them the hard was effectively just a slower medium; I do think 2) has merit in that Merc was on the better tyre, most likely (and it also explains some of the Merc pace compared to RBR); also, 5) has probably some truth, as we also saw in previous seasons, and certainly last year, that this track showed Merc off better than other tracks.
I also think that 4) plays a role, perhaps Ferrari only bringing their updates last weekend means we might still see a positive trend emerge there, same w. AM planning upgrades from Canada onward, which is something that can be monitored.