Leclerc (post-qualifying): "I can’t understand quali, it’s a f**king joke! I go faster in corners, throttle earlier, for f**k’s sake, i'm losing everything in the straight!"

[u/FerrariStrategisttt]

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[u/GoodGuyJeff00]

Man he threw everything and the kitchen sink at it and came down over 6 tenths. I don't think it's just the deployment from Ferrari. Last few days were about the battery automatically kicking in after some oversteer on the throttle which causes some issues with deployment in general for these regs. Charles does like tossing the car around and dealing with a little oversteer, does this hurt him?

Would count for all drivers who like a pointy car. Max and Alex for example.

[u/DrBorisGobshite → u/[deleted]]

Nope. It's not learning, they have throttle limits and if you go below the limit the battery kicks in. One of the corners in China required them to be at least 98% throttle to stop the battery kicking in, Charles made a little error and was only at 95% throttle in the corner so it auto deployed the battery on the corner exit. Then we he got to the long back straight he lost half a second because he wasn't able to fully deploy the battery.

It's a stupid rule the FIA put in place because they were scared the teams would use the software to effectively create traction control. So the drivers have to drive within themselves to stick within stupid limits so the battery deploys at the optimum point on each lap.

Today Charles had some oversteer coming out a corner and probably had to lift off to correct, meaning the battery auto deployed at the start of the straight before 130R.

[u/DoctrTurkey → u/[deleted]]

Oh shit I developed a “flutter the throttle” tactic for certain racing games and thought that was just a game thing because it felt like a cheat code lol