tashu

max with anyone else: um actually ☝️🤓 idk if you noticed but you are standing on the wrong side of me for the quali photo, move ❓️❓️

Having track position is very important with this generation of cars. I still think ferrari can make a small compromise to favour qualy trim, the lack of dirty air will likely offset the small added levels of tyre deg. But teams should be careful handling the balance between qualify and race, Red Bull changed their downforce level considerably from Friday to Saturday for qualy which I think hurt them a bit in the race, and it was a pity we couldn’t see Max’s race pace.

But I also have some concerns for Charles’ pace with high fuel load (bc the car is more understeer with high fuel load), he always needs several laps to make the tires into working window in 1st stint, while Max and RB Seb are experts in pulling away very quickly in the start.

So P2 was truly the best he could have done today as I thought.

I've seen that apparently Checo damaged the car during the race so maybe that can explain the struggle?