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Originally Posted by 3798j
Don't know if you saw this, Ericsson was testing at Laguna Seca last Friday. His comments on his new ride sounds like it'll take him some time to get accustomed...
"For me, the biggest issue is consistency. The IndyCar is tricky to drive, difficult compared with a Formula 1 car which is so planted to the ground. This car moves around a lot.
“So my biggest challenge now is to understand that and deal with that. At the moment I’m hooking up different corners well from lap to lap, but I struggle to get my best from all the corners in the same lap.
“I might get two or three corners just right and then do worse on the next two or three. Then the next lap, I’ll improve the ones I struggled with, but lose time on the ones where I was good.
“So I’m working with the team to improve that consistency to help me get up to speed better.”
He was about .5 second off his teammate James Hinchcliffe's best lap.
https://www.motorsport.com/indycar/n...issue/4335126/ |
This has been my biggest gripe with F1 for some time now. The cars definitely have become too easy to drive. In the late 90s and early 2000s, you saw cars sliding around a lot more than today. That meant that the quick drivers always had a big advantage over the average ones.