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Originally Posted by lens
I don't get where the TD affecting the RB came from lol
Even Newey denied it was that.
Ferrari engineers, you mean the same one that had the car blow up for half the season last year? Or made the Ferrari drive like crap for the first half of 2023 
Charles engine almost blew up during Singapore, I wouldn't trust Ferrari engineers!
RB will be fine, it's just track specific, singapore was all slow corners which the RB is slow in, but Japan is all Med-high speed corners which the RB will demolish the competition |
Well , I heard RB had to remove the middle part of the floor (the wooden middle part)
The new FIA regulation (TD018)! means that the wings are too flexible ..
But they also looked at and under the floor , and inside rumours said the RB19 floor was too flexible and that RB had to ran at Singapore with a stiffer floor.
Then the issue was to make the aero package work like it worked before and that didn't worked like before . That's why they got in trouble to find the right balance setup package at Singapore .
Sim runs didn't made it work on Vriday night .
In the last hours RB dropped the suspension to make it work , but that failed too .
The issue of the lower setup was that they couldn't run fast enough over the curbs in QF because the car was bottoming out over the curbs ,very shortly followed by brake and balance issues .
In the last 20 laps of the race it was going better , because the car was lighter and was bottoming lesser.
That's why the RB19 was 1.5 sec. slower in QF ,it was since 2016 that both RB cars didn't qualified for QF3 !
And that's why the RB19 was extremely slow in the turns , MAX couldn't fight the turns like he's used to do ...
Singapore wasn't track specific ! The Monaco street track with ultra slow turns ? Who won there ?
Newey needs a miracle to make the balance package work again in just one week .
In the land of the rising sun. HONDA's home race !