While Scuderia Ferrari were up front on the grid again during the Monaco and Baku Grand Prix weekends, the team fell down at the Paul Ricard circuit and back to the midfield. Chief Strategist Inaki Rueda sees a fundamental difference in track layout as the reason. Rueda explains that while a circuit like Monaco puts the greatest pressure on the rear tyres, the situation is significantly different at Paul Ricard. "There are some cases in which you can have very high tyre wear and do not suffer any lap time loss, these are tracks in which all the lap time is created by the traction of the rear tyres, you can have very high front wear, but still decent lap times. This happens at places...
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