Ferrari and Canada GP Drama

Scuderia Ferrari SF 90 is an F1 car with Low downforce(low drag) and high fuel consumption, actually the high consumption problem was found in Baku GP, when MercedesW10 ended the race with more than 7 liters in the fuel but SF90 with not so much, then they changed the power unit in the Barcelona to make it fix, but there is an issue here, Barcelona and Monaco Circuit is not very power unit related circuit and the real test took shape in the Montreal, in the Montreal they know they had the possible chance to take the pole because of their low drag car and the power they could fly in the straight line, but the FP2 showed us the Mercedes is the team to beat because they had much more race pace than the Ferrari(+0.8s), but Ferrari setup they car in the way they have less drag and less downforce and sacrifice the corners for the straights.

because they do know they are no match in the corners VS mercedes. so if you see this diagram you will amazed that Vettel is even slower than Ricciardo in some corners.

in the race, they do know they don't have the car to compete with mercedes race pace, from lap 3 lewis was gaining on the vettel, Seb knew he doesnt have the chance to make a mistake, so he's going all and defensive, this is a recap from #SEB5 team Radio in the Race:

On the Lap 10, he's race Engineer Adami said to him: "we suggest left leverage in turns 3 and 8" , the leverage he's suggesting is about differential setting, DIF IN (is the left one), DIF MID(is the right one), they do change differential setting in the race to get the most out of the corners, I can confirm that no one has operated every lap the same differential settings that has managed Vettel to try to pull out of that car, even what he did not have at that time. Most of the drivers, including Leclerc, as far as I could see, managed only a lap adjustment on the differential in the hairpin bend.

During this race, EVERY LAP from the eleventh, Sebastian activates the DIF IN modified before turn 3, turns it off after turn 4, turns it back on before turn 8, turns it off after turn 9, arrives at the hairpin and there manages the DIF MID by activating the right lever, deactivates it as soon as the hairpin ends, and returns to act on the DIF IN input of turn 13 to turn it off on the straight of the finish line.

With Hamilton several seconds away, the German's Ferrari entered FS 2 (Fuel Saving) mode on lap 32. He is also instructed to switch to a more conservative ICE mode (Engine 4). From lap 32 to lap 40 Hamilton approached in an impressive way (demonstrating the absence of consumption problems as well as the excellent performance in the hard rhythm of the W10 well described here) and was within reach of DRS already on lap 40. ICE, however, from the data collected, goes back to consuming more fuel than it is available to get to the end, so after two laps (lap 42) they suggest to go back to Engine 4 and to take advantage of the Mode OV (a mode that I think indicates overtake; this mode, little exploited by Ferrari usually, is not to be exchanged with the push mode of qualifying or with the various K1, K1+ and K2 that by now you know well to be exclusively parameters of the MGU-H + Turbo group). On lap 43, however, Hamilton is still close and Adami tells Seb that the OV mode is not enough and it's necessary to put Engine 1 side by side.

On lap 44 Adami says: "The numbers you see on the steering wheel are correct! Take Actions". What are the numbers they refer to? Simply the fuel indication. Adami, in fact, is now afraid that without a SC (as it happened then) the German car would never have reached the finish line.

This, despite the fact that he was now on lap 32 in Fuel Saving 2 mode, did lift and coast and had also done 9 laps in Engine 4. In essence, what Seb recovered with the lift and coast in the first two sectors, was burned on the long straight in an attempt to defend himself from Hamilton. So how do you do it? What could be the actions that Adami suggested to do to save fuel and at the same time not get overtaken?

Seb finds the answer and completely changes the approach of different curves and driving style. In turn 1, for example, he enters faster, so as to bring more speed to the point of rope of turn 2 without the aid of gas (at risk of a spin like that had by our compatriot Giovinazzi). Throughout the first and second sector, he pulls the gears more - in doing so he tries a desperate recharging of the electric from MGU-H so as to have more battery charge in the long straight and exploit less ICE - and at the same time (where he can) he tries to do lift and Coast (before the hairpin and before turn 6 in particular). In addition, depending on how much electric recharging he could generate, the driver activated (autonomously, it's right to point this out) the K1 and K1 Plus modes sometimes before the hairpin bend, sometimes in the straight before turn 8, almost always squeezing the last percentage of ERS on the long straight. All of this, I remember, while in a mode called overtake and in Engine 1

Vettel and Ferrari wanted to avoid that overtaking at all costs, despite the fact that the vehicle was not really at the level, despite they were almost without fuel, despite the pace on Hamilton's hard cars was better than theirs

He thus arrives at lap 63 and Adami tells him that he is doing a great job with consumption and that another 4 laps should suffice with what he is doing. Just for the sake of clarity, in case you've lost this passage, Vettel is still in Mode Race (and not Mode Fuel Saving) and with Engine 1 (what lets the endothermic engine express its maximum potential) and "what he's doing" is a lift and coast in places where he could afford it, high engine revs to recharge the electric and try to bring as much speed as possible in the curves (especially the chicanes) so you have to re-accelerate less at the exit (remember the locking in turn 3 for the crucial mistake, yes?); all this keeping back a possessed Hamilton who, after learning of the penalty, asks to be given more engine - probably because, as he will declare in the final radio team - he didn't like to win this race so much.

about the lap 48:

from lewis point of view:

1 - vettel was recharging he's battery then he's about 160hp less

2 - he saw vettel lost the rear of his car and goes through the grass, he could go down the inside but he didn't and goes from the outside and try to overtake, but i think lewis is genius in this kind of stuff and agree with Jacques Villeneuve view about he did it to penalize vettel

form seb point of view:

1- vettel with all his PU probelm and rechargeing in this sector having just about 0.7s distance with lewis was putting pressure on him, then he went late on the brake to make a gap with Lewis but that wasn't a good choice, because in Lap 47 he braked at 247 km/h and everything was normal but in lap 48 he did it in 248 km/h !

2- two lap cars in the ahead of him that dirty air doesn't help so much to create downforce

3 - he was on the radio!

I don't think he was doing anything deliberately and if i was the steward and wants to make a call I'll go with the immediate swapping position or no penalty because that was just hard racing not dangerous racing, the only dangerous racing was daniel ricciardo and Valtteri bottas

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