The last train of tires mounted with too high pressure perhaps to accelerate its heating given the low temperatures. But there is another scenario that would entail the failure of the modification to the rear suspension
The Hungary F1 GP of Leclerc, which started from the pole position, ended with a disappointing fourth place after the Monegasque pilot, in the last Stint, quickly had to surrender to the attacks of George Russell, with a SF-25 that has become practically inguidable. The reasons behind the radical performance drop in the Charles single -seater could find a substantial feedback in the pressure of the tires mounted in the last Stint, too high. In fact, making them come out of the so -called ideal window of use, in a way so striking as to make the car almost ungovernable, forcing Leclerc to a step of about a second to the slower round compared to its direct opponents starting from Oscar Piastri.
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If this is the scenario that deprived Leclerc – that for forty laps it had seemed in total control of the race – of a possible success, it is relevant to understand what generated it. That is, if it was an incorrect choice, but wanted by the team, if it was an incidental fact, or a mix of both. Leclerc, interviewed in the after race, generically spoke of a problem with the frame that from the fortieth round onwards, would have radically changed the dynamic behavior of his SF-25. Fred Vasseur subsequently explained that by chassis, Charles meant saying it had been a problem foreign to the power unit. By collecting the opinions of some technicians after the race, it was underlined how the environmental temperatures were low compared to the seasonal average. A clear fact especially on Saturday in qualifying, with very low temperatures on the asphalt. Taking this data into consideration, it seemed plausible that the team technicians may have chosen to increase the basic pressure of the tires prepared for the second but above all for the third Stint with the aim of speeding up the war up of the tires, or the ability to quickly enter the range of optimal use temperatures. In this sense, a radio team of the track engineer of Piastri who after Leclerc’s second stop, warned him of the possible slow Warming Up of the Monegasque tires could be considered an indirect confirmation of this thesis. Which, however, would have found the heat transmitted by the brake baskets to the tires as an additional aggravating element, thus inducing a swelling pressure, in fact well beyond the correct range of use.
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However, a second thesis has also gradually set itself into the paddock. Always linked to the swelling pressure of the tires that are too high, but with a decidedly more disconcerting motivation. We refer to the hypothesis that the team technicians have set up a higher inflation pressure in the last set, to avoid excessive consumption of the table under the bottom. As plausible, this hypothesis would implicitly represent the admission of the bankruptcy of the modification to the rear suspension introduced to Spa. It is in fact correct to remember that one of the objectives of the modification was precisely to guarantee the use of setups even extremes with minimal earth heights, but without incurring the excessive consumption of the table that had led to the disqualification of Leclerc in China. It seems therefore more reasonable to think was the combined arranged between a higher inflation pressure to induce a faster Warming Up and the warmth transmitted by the baskets to the circles in creating the perfect storm in which Leclerc’s success hopes have wrecked miserably.
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