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More teams have hit trouble in the final day of pre-season testing at Barcelona. At a moment when one would expect reliability issues to be nearly ironed out, the lack of running for some teams was surprising.
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That would make a M-HS difference of around 2.5s. So theoretical Bottas lap time of 1m16.441 using his Medium tyres times as a baseline. I'm not sure I buy that.TheGkbrk wrote: ↑09 Mar 2018, 17:57https://twitter.com/MSM_Christian/statu ... 3687656448
Thank you!TheGkbrk wrote: ↑09 Mar 2018, 17:57https://twitter.com/MSM_Christian/statu ... 3687656448
Speculating and analyzing time and making comparisons is not useless, I don't think. At the same time, one should keep in mind that although you can paint a general picture, you can't pin exactly where the pace is for everyone. If this isn't your first F1 testing you should know by now a lot of times teams that look good(long runs, headline grabbing times, etc) turn up mediocre during the season, and teams that look lost can spring surprises. Last year Ferrari seemed like the fastest car during testing, only for them to only be faster on a few specific tracks.dans79 wrote: ↑09 Mar 2018, 17:50Phil wrote: ↑09 Mar 2018, 17:17So maybe i should reword my post into not saying fuel comparable but lap comparable. If Ferrari think thes need 10kgs more fuel in total, so be it. Across the stint, we can still compare them as bith cars set out to do representative race sims. Unless you are saying that Ferrari purposely overfilled their car with too much fuel, though what would the point of that be? They’d simply be falsifying their tire wear etc.
I'd add that while Vettel's last stint was compromised because it was longer, it's not as bad and unrepresentative as some would like to claim it is. It was the last stint and the car was substantially lighter.
As a a side note:
I don't know why some people are getting so bent out of shape because of comparisons, its like they think we should do nothing because we don't know all 10 billion variables...........
It's with the realm of reasonable, now if any car actually has the power and DF to do it is another matter.Restomaniac wrote: ↑09 Mar 2018, 18:01That would make a M-HS difference of around 2.5s. So theoretical Bottas lap time of 1m16.441 using his Medium tyres times as a baseline. I'm not sure I buy that.
That actually sounds about right to me.Restomaniac wrote: ↑09 Mar 2018, 18:01That would make a M-HS difference of around 2.5s. So theoretical Bottas lap time of 1m16.441 using his Medium tyres times as a baseline. I'm not sure I buy that.
