Let’s start by saying that the conditions of the track were not excellent, the track is in fact one of those where the adhesion is really low, but it has a very fast evolution. Evolution that did not happen because of the three red flags.
The session starts with an air temperature of 28°C, that of the track of 40°C and humidity 48%, at the end of the session, the temperature of the air increases by two degrees, while that of the track increases by almost 6 degrees, 45.8°C, while the humidity decreases to 27%.
The long straight lines have put a strain on the drivers' tyre management, in fact many had to do more than one warm-up lap to fit the tyre temperature into the optimal window.
But now let’s see the feedback from the drivers:
We start from McLaren: Norris had problems balancing the car, suffering a great difficulty to turn left, while teammate Oscar Piastri complains about bottoming and lack of grip.
It also seems that, at least on the car of Norris was mounted the same wing used for the weekend in Monza, a medium-low load, while on Thursday they presented with a configuration to medium load.
Norris recorded a small long run on the medium with already 10L, the "long run" was 4 laps with a pace of 1:50,566, but it was a long run not very constant.
The Ferrari, on the other hand, seems to suffer from a slight understeer and oversteer, the latter in particular at the exit of turns 15 and 16. Turn 15 that was the protagonist of the accident of the Monegasque driver, in fact Charles Leclerc in the entry phase took dirt that caused him a lack of grip, inducing him to block.
To remedy the understeer on Sainz’s Ferrari, they apparently made some adjustments on the front-wing increasing its load.
From the Leclerc incident we can take a closer look at the SF-24 beam wing, with only one element, with a low angle of attack to generate as little drag as possible, and this confirms that Ferrari is aiming for a low load configuration to optimize the EOSS.
As for the Mercedes, both drivers complained about the understeering, the lack of grip. Hamilton in particular seems to lose a lot in the section between curve 8 and curve 12, of the low-speed curves.
Russell makes some changes on the rear-end (rear wing/beam wing), probably to improve balance and reduce understeer.
Red Bull currently has the best time, but there are problems for them too: Verstappen seems to have some problems in the exit phase, perhaps due to a configuration with less load at the rear (unlike previous races) may suffer from the oversteer in the exit phase. While teammate, Perez, had some problems with stalling in braking.
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