from FormulaUno:
Despite a struggling Red Bull, Andrea Stella's team knows that the next 11 races against Verstappen are a mountain. What has changed is that the top is now more visible , last year McLaren was 30” behind the dominant Red Bull, yesterday it won comfortably ahead, it is fair to say that if we compare the development path in a calendar year the Woking team has reduced the gap by 7/8 tenths, it is an astonishing result . The engineers have made impeccable use of the time available in the simulations, it is clear that they are reading the data in the correct way, the new tunnel is providing the quality necessary to implement the changes. The great virtue of the Hungarian MCL38 was to be the most balanced in the medium speed compromise where it gained 3 tenths on Red Bull , an advantage that also protected the tyres from degradation.
https://formu1a.uno/...i-sta-reagendo/
That's an insane gain in just 12 months. I struggle to remember such a turnaround in performance and I've been watching F1 since 1993 and constantly since 1997.
Edited by jonklug, 23 July 2024 - 14:35.