F1 2023 Pre-Season Testing (23-25 February)

[Greig]

Though I agree with most of what you say - I do disagree with one thing, each team (especially competitive teams) have always tailor-made their machines toward the leading driver. Be it Prost, Senna, Schumacher, Hakkinen, Montoya, Raikkonen, Alonso, Hamilton, Vettel, Verstappen, etc.

An interesting screenshot I picked up -

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It could be seen to be an easy excuse as to why a driver gets beat by his team mate however.

[brucewayne]

Though I agree with most of what you say - I do disagree with one thing, each team (especially competitive teams) have always tailor-made their machines toward the leading driver. Be it Prost, Senna, Schumacher, Hakkinen, Montoya, Raikkonen, Alonso, Hamilton, Vettel, Verstappen, etc.

An interesting screenshot I picked up -

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Exactly. To compete with an approach like this, you have to do the same.

[Toothlessrage*]

It could be seen to be an easy excuse as to why a driver gets beat by his team mate however.

I agree.
There'll always be multiple takes on this issue.
Can't really reach a conclusion without actually having information on team politics.

Though, I still stand by my take on any team (competitive) - have a clear number 1 for whom the machine is tailor-made for.

[stasera]

Former performance engineer of Force India and Redbull, Blake Hensey about Aston Martin

“The pace is real, it is really impressive and it is hard to fake that”

In addition he analyses the tire degradation and AMR23 actually have the so called negative degradation