The track characteristics have an opposite effect on the leaders of the McLaren championship, whose car is the best in this field in managing the tire temperatures.
As a result, McLaren was struggling to make her work at its best in Montreal.
The championship leader Oscar Bayshery is third on the network, behind Russell and Versaben, but his teammate and opponent Lando Norris could only manage the seventh, admitting that he made two mistakes in the last session of the qualifiers.
Norris said: “I think we can move forward anyway, but not much. As you know, it's not as if we were two easy, as we were on other paths,” Norris said.
“It is just a very low grip, first and foremost it is one of the biggest things. So the car balance never meets as much as it does in other tracks.
“Maybe just a low grip, some Kerb rides and bumps, which seem to us only, apparently, more than others.”
NORRIS was using a revised front suspension design that was designed to increase the feeling of the front axis of the car, which the British believes is important in the face between him and PiaSSTri last year and this.
Norris said it was difficult to say, “If this had improved the feeling of the car.
“This path, everything looks different,” he said. “So I think it is something that we must wait and see in the next few races through Austria, curiosity, etc. to understand the successive tests between them.
“Nothing I felt yet. But it's more than that when you go to a new path, it's difficult to remember everything for other paths. So we need more time to understand whether it is better or not.”
PiaSSTRI holds old planning, saying: “It is not an upgrade. It is a different part. It changes some things, some things are better, and some things are worse. I was happy with how the car appears this year.”
“From Lando's point of view, there were no negative aspects. If there was anything, despite the result we got in the third quarter with Lando, immediately, Lando was already competitive, especially with Oscar throughout the weekend.
“So we believe that the experimenting of the front suspension is a successful experience, and it is a preference, it is an option to prepare somehow, it may be different through drivers depending on their requirements from the driving point of view.”
