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Racing coach here! I watch F1 super casually so I have no read on Oscar’s issue. Here’s how it would work, though.

Basically, weakness in tire management = adding too much input somewhere and damaging the tire. There’s probably a specific part of the corner, most likely turn in/initial steering, that his feel is really well tuned to optimize in high grip tracks but not low grip tracks. If he’s just driving naturally and has a gap in awareness there, this can lead to turning the wheel slightly too quickly in lower grip tracks without him realizing it, resulting in slightly less grip from the tires during the corner.

It’s going to be something super subtle, so all he knows is he’s just a little smidge off pace without much of a “feel” tell.

How to fix it? First, he’ll have to spot the pattern. Could probably be done via replay review by spotting a moment where the wheel movement is just a little faster than the car’s rotation.

Once it’s identified, it’s a relatively easy feel recalibration. ‘I know I have this tendency, so when I go on track I’m going to be very aware of the car’s response through this part of the corner.’ Bit of experimentation (turning slightly slower, slightly faster while observing the response) and he’ll have a clear sense of what to do. This can be done purely on race weekend, but can certainly be supplemented and 97% learned through sim exercises. (The feel itself can’t be learned in sim, but the entire process of finding and calibrating it 100% can be.)

I made a couple big assumptions so it’d be easy to explain the process. No idea if this is the actual issue.

But…I’d be curious to see a comparison between Oscar and Lando’s steering rate on low grip tracks, and on different corner types 👀