Spa is a special track in terms of ride height due to the compression in Eau Rouge and a nasty bump in the Stavelot corners. In order to alleviate the impact at these points, the teams have to set their cars five to six millimeters higher than usual. In fact, this time the ground clearance had to be increased by a bit more than the engineers had calculated. This was due to the ominous bump between turns 14 and 15. This put Ferrari and Mercedes in a window in which their aerodynamics no longer delivered the downforce that they were used to.
As a consequence, both teams had to trim the chassis harder than usual, which also cost mechanical grip. The Red Bull felt comfortable with more ground clearance and therefore also reached its normal form. "Over the course of the season, we've shown more than once that our car can handle more ground clearance," confirmed Horner.
The directive could well become a factor that causes disorder at the top. For example on the bumpy Zandvoort circuit, where you could again be forced to drive higher than you want. "Then we could experience a second Spa," fear Mercedes engineers. That would not be good prospects for Ferrari. Maranello hopes that the Hungaroring-like track characteristics will again fit more into the profile of the F1-75.
I'm gutted, he sounded so sad in his post. I think we all knew it was coming, but still gutted.
There also aren’t many characters like DR left.
have to say that lewis was lucky not to get some kind of penalty from that, the contact with fernando was completely his fault. also though perez should have had a penalty for squeezing charles out but i am also very biased.
