Aceroba Ent medal 5000 5 years 265 days ago
Hi everyone!
I am a demanding manager when I lose I like to know why. If I do not know, I ask you.
I have two very strange races that I can not understand, maybe my absence of 2 months has caused me to have lost some change in the game.
In today's race, rain in spa, I have better pilots than my rivals, a car with the big 4 at max in practice I'm beast in all races, today, 1 and 2
But in the race ... I was like a turtle, I did not know what to do. I had the right thrust the right temperature.
My feeling is as if they had put a burden on the elite.
Frank Thomas medal 4983 Moderator 5 years 264 days ago (Last edited by
Frank Thomas 5 years 264 days ago)
First I have to say that reading through the race reports is always quite some guesswork as there's always quite some information missing of what happened there on the track. Still, it looks quite a rather quiet race, so I'm pretty confident it's mostly 3 things:
-Bad qualifying by one of your driver and a bad start by the other wasting his good position.
-Then it's the slightly bit of fuel weight, you can see that effect by the 2 drivers of Okis, in the first stint Martin is blocked by the heavier car of his team mate, in the second he fell a bit behind due to the overcut of his mate and suddenly is 0.1-0.2s faster every lap. You've got 2 laps more of fuel. Still, your strategy with more fuel might've worked if it wasn't for the bad position and number 3:
-the dirty air. As I wrote Martin was blocked by his team mate, but at a distance of 1.4-1.5s behind him as he couldn't get closer because of the effect of dirty air. Now the thing about dirty air is it only affects the second car, until he's far enough behind the first that is, then the 3rd feels more and more of that effect, and so on, slowly pushing the cars apart further and further back through the ranks. Your cars were 7th and 8th, so that effect slowly built up a gap towards the leader that not even 2 laps of overcut could fix anymore. That's why I wrote the fuel might've worked, you could keep your gap to the cars in front despite more fuel so you probably wouldn't have lost nearly as much time if there'd have been not that many cars between you and the leading one.
In dry races all of that often isn't really noticeable as DRS drags the field back together and acts as an equaliser in terms of small differences in lap times like due to fuel weight, but in rain there is none and all those things can play itself out, it's a bit like Monaco, such a race in the rain.
