13-04-2023, 13:34
(13-04-2023, 10:17)Enrike red escribió: Vasseur: Ferrari has to understand Red Bull's "mega big DRS effect"
Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur says his Formula 1 team has to understand where Red Bull is making the difference with its "mega big DRS effect".
Vasseur says his team has to understand what Red Bull is doing to get such a big drag reduction from its rear wing design when the DRS is enabled.
"They have a mega big DRS effect, bigger than everybody else. And we have to understand how they're able to do something like this," he said.
"They are doing something different, and they are doing something better for sure."
But when asked how surprised he was by Red Bull's top speed gap, Vasseur said the Milton Keynes team's advantage was actually bigger in 2022 as Ferrari has manage to claw back a part of the deficit.
"I think that the difference was probably bigger last year," he said. "I think we compensated part of the gap. It was probably even more obvious last year. But we have still to improve on this area.
"That problem [is] that we were expecting to compensate a bit more, but the gap was bigger last year. But now for sure we have room for improvement on this area. We are on it."
In qualifying Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc were in the middle of the pack through the speed trap, with the caveat that the choice of downforce levels can also affect the outcome.
Polesitter Verstappen led the qualifying speed charts at 328.8km/h ahead of Perez at 326.7km/h. Williams's low drag design saw Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant follow in third and fourth respectively, just 3km/h behind.
At the bottom of charts the Alfa Romeo duo of Zhou Guanyu's and Valtteri Bottas's top speed of 319km/h was nearly 10km/h down on the Red Bulls.
Red Bull's top speed advantage is expected to stand it in good stead at the upcoming Azerbaijan Grand Prix, which features a 2km-long straight.
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DataVasseurAnal-ferrari
Anal desde luego que es pero para ferraristas. Es un no estamos tan mal.
Puede que se acerquen si saben donde esta el deficit. En los dos primeros GPs la impresion que han dado es la de estar a un mundo y lo del superdrs... no estoy de acuerdo, quiza lo recuerde mal pero RB sin DRS tambien era mas rapido en recta. Yo los veo muy perdidos(desde el sofa
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