Quote Originally Posted by Nitrodaze View Post
A few websites with the traces for Australia and china show that the 2026 cars drop power on approach to the corners due to clipping, while the 2025 cars can carry speed well up the apex of the corners. The 2026 cars rotate around the corners more efficiently and rocket out of the corner faster than the 2025 cars due to the electric motor boost. I have looked at the traces for Russell and Leclerc for both years at both tracks and they show that the 2026 cars recover lost ground through the corner, but lose out to the 2025 cars on the straight and through fast corners.
Corner entry and corner exit are not cornering speed. If you have any telemetry showing a higher apex speed with the new cars, I'd love to see it. If they exist most likely very low speed where aero isn't in the picture, as I've stated in the previous post. Japan was close at the final chicane and Degners, but 2025 was still quicker.

Almost the entire delta between the 2026 and 2025 cars at Suzuka was through the S's.