After seeing the results I wonder if Aston Martin has actually hired the Ferrari strategy crew. I mean how can they fall so far behind? Meanwhile Ferrari made their car less tyre hungry and it worked perfectly.
My guess is that the AM struggles with corners that demand high downforce to retain speed and momentum.
They did well in Monaco, which is a rather slow track where downforce isn't as much of a deciding factor to do well and they did absolutely fantastic in Baku, which is all slow corners and long straights.
France and Austria just might not work out well for their car, since the new aero-rules gimp low-rake cars and their engine isn't as powerful as Mercedes to make up for it.
In that regard, I really wonder why they didn't switch to high-rake, the only reasons not to pick up high rake would be that they didn't see this coming as that big of an issue for low-rake cars or they hope to gather more experience for next season, when the cars use ground effects similar to (but not quite like) the low-rake cars.
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Or how about professional drivers stop trying to go down the outside of another car when the racing line dictates that gap is going to be a wedge.
Reddit is dumber than advertised, jfc.
drivers and fans have got spoiled by tarmac runoffs. As ballsy and exhilarating as they are, round the outside moves like Perez's or Leclerc's should be seen as inherently risky.
I never thought about it, I guess drivers indeed are too used to tarmac runoffs, hence these weird maneuvers. I mean, when they work, it's great, but the overtaking car tries to pass by using a trajectory that puts it in the same line as the other car and the only way for the inside car to avoid a crash is to slow down (allowing for a tighter turn) and just not fight back at all. And that's bullshit.
A lot of young drivers, such as Kvyat, Verstappen and Leclerc had this habit of divebombing down the inside in a turn, which meant they overshot the apex, could barely make the turn themselves and since they need every inch of tarmac to turn their car around, the outside car has no other choice but to slow down even more and go straight until the divebombing car has made its turn and cleared the path.
Both these maneuvers are questionable, since they are operating under the assumption that the overtaking driver is either getting his will or there's going to be an incident. The only difference: When going around the outside in a fast corner, it's the overtaking car being pushed off the track, whereas with the divebomb on the inside, the outside car is either forced to give in or crash both cars.
