A hidden McLaren Qurek in which this cost may be F1 Hungary Poll

In a circuit packed with corners of moderate motion, where the downforce is the king, it is foolish that it is foolish to bet against one McLaren Cars that grab a comfortable pole. Stupid … yet right.

By Q2, however, the possibility of a McLaren defeat looked remote. Lando Noris Chairmanship Oscar piastry Half tenth, surprisingly quick Eston Martin Lance walk third. Two McClarances were the only cars to take a dip below 1M15 mark, while the final pollster Charles Lakeler 1m15.6s lap placed him sixth.

The entire session dropped both tracks and air temperatures, but a very large factor was a sudden 90-degree change in the wind direction as the Q3 shootout was going on, while the average air speed increased, and the gusts raised intensity.

This change is easy to trace on the telemetry, as well as suddenly with drivers slow down between 5 to 8 km/h, as a crosswind turned into a headwind for cars.

As a result of the changing conditions, the track slowed down on the average, the only driver of the 10 Q3 drivers with Lakeler was explained with a large mistake in the large -scale Q2.

Surprisingly, the changes in circumstances affected the major mcClance otherwise than the competition, with both Noris and Piastry, they were managed a few minutes ago at a slow pace of about half a second in Q3.

“Without disclosing too much IP, I should say that when we look at the wind direction in some corners, we can identify that in some corners where we lose the most than ourselves in Q2, we see a certain wind pattern” – Andrea Stella

Analyze data

According to the team’s principal Andrea Stella, about a tenth part was down to his drivers with lower risk compared to Lakeler, while the four tenth part could be repeated as a real lost car performance in simulation data. It will also explain why it affected both drivers equally.

Asked to throw light on a misleading Q3 shootout by Autosport, Stella replied: “We certainly had a significant change of situations. Everyone from Q2 to Q3 slowed down. We slowed down for about half a second.

“I think for Lando and Oscars, the first run was seen in the first run that the situation had changed, that the catch was not what he hoped that every corner was going to be a bit unexpected, I think he needed to be a little vigilant in the second set.

“When you run for the championship, you want to make sure you are there. I think it’s a slightly different approach to Charles. I think he just went for it, and it was paid. And it is a credit and merit for a very good execution. Ferrari And Charles. ,

Lakeler did great to snatch Dhruv away from McLarenBut it still does not explain why McLaren lost so much time against her own elevated benchmark. And when Stella was cage to reveal a lot of mysteries, he indicated on a certain wind sensitivity that McLaren’s Achilis in Hungering became the heel.

Did it matter more in the direction of wind?

“Without disclosing too much IP (intellectual property), I should say that when we look at the wind direction in some corners, we can identify that in some corners where we lose most of ourselves in Q2, we see a certain wind pattern,” he explained.

“Therefore, when we look at our aerial maps, we can be correlated with the fact that it is not unexpected that in corners in which we have this variation of wind pattern, we pay the biggest price. I can’t disclose what these situations are.”

However, while overlaying GPS data along the wind direction, sufficient information to find out seems to be what is going on. Pawan change made it difficult to drive cars everywhere because the drivers were optimized for separate downforce levels and car balance, but there are two major corners where Piastry and Noris were losing more time against their own benchmarks than others; It turns 13 and 14.

Here what we have done together:

• The joint 0.250s lost through the sequence of the final corner of both Noris and Piastry, which indicates exaggerated sensitivity of MCL39 in crosswinds.
• 180-degree turn 13 The turn-in for the left hand began in a headwind, and as the downforce gradually fell, both drivers were ending to improve through mid-corner crosswind. As the circuit returns on its own, the opposite to Turn 14 is perfect, which started more squirrels in a tailwind before turning into a headwind, which helped the cars to move straight on the straight.
• Both drivers also lost about half -tenth in high speed turn 11, which also became a crosswind corner. And the lower turn 14 exit speed then help explain why McClance lost more time on directly than its direct rivals, to the tune of 0.150s between the start-finish line and the braking zone for turn 1.

Whether a crosswind sensitivity is the whole story or a part of the clarification for McLaren’s esoteric display loss, it was not a surprise for the team that there are some more secrets in the past of the halfway of the season given to these 2025 cars.

“It’s an interesting confirmation that nothing is random,” Stela said. “Formula 1 cars are aerodynamic machines that give their lap time a lot more base on aerodynamic forces. They depend on the direction of the wind and the intensity of the wind in the first order, and this is what we have validated today.”

But Stella is still convinced that her cars can fight with Lakeler on Sunday, whether there is 40 percent of the rain or not.

“I am optimistic that we will be able to express the speed of the car with full capacity,” he concluded. “I am already saying to some of you that Ferrari was in the game, Ferrari seemed competitive, but at the same time we are confident that we will have the pace to fight for victory.”