2023 Qatar Grand Prix - Lusail, Oct 06 - 08

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Wow Leclerc almost dropped it

So Ferrari have used a soft, hard and medium set?

yeah, mediums and softs within a couple of minutes, and Leclerc improved by 4 tenths from one to the other.

Alonso was half a second behind Verstappen on mediums, McLaren 1s behind on hards. So both those times look fairly competitive, I'd say. It's probably more or less equal to the tyre difference.

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Wow Leclerc almost dropped it

So Ferrari have used a soft, hard and medium set?

yeah, mediums and softs within a couple of minutes, and Leclerc improved by 4 tenths from one to the other.

Alonso was half a second behind Verstappen on mediums, McLaren 1s behind on hards. So both those times look fairly competitive, I'd say. It's probably more or less equal to the tyre difference.

I question the fuel loads though. Verstappen didn't go purple in S2/S3 even though the car looked quite good on the lap.

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Wow Leclerc almost dropped it

So Ferrari have used a soft, hard and medium set?

yeah, mediums and softs within a couple of minutes, and Leclerc improved by 4 tenths from one to the other.

Alonso was half a second behind Verstappen on mediums, McLaren 1s behind on hards. So both those times look fairly competitive, I'd say. It's probably more or less equal to the tyre difference.

I question the fuel loads though. Verstappen didn't go purple in S2/S3 even though the car looked quite good on the lap.

Had a lot of traffic in S2 iirc

[Xyz22]

Wow Leclerc almost dropped it

So Ferrari have used a soft, hard and medium set?

yeah, mediums and softs within a couple of minutes, and Leclerc improved by 4 tenths from one to the other.

Alonso was half a second behind Verstappen on mediums, McLaren 1s behind on hards. So both those times look fairly competitive, I'd say. It's probably more or less equal to the tyre difference.

Lec only improved by 0.2s from medium to soft. Clearly he didn't have a good lap.

Anyway, McL seems super fast but hard to understand anything in these conditions. Quali is going to be a mess with all that evolution.

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I think it will be very strange. As others have said we won't know for sure anything until the final q3 runs

[basti313]

And there is no frame program on track, right? So track will be sandy again...

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Wow Leclerc almost dropped it

So Ferrari have used a soft, hard and medium set?

yeah, mediums and softs within a couple of minutes, and Leclerc improved by 4 tenths from one to the other.

Alonso was half a second behind Verstappen on mediums, McLaren 1s behind on hards. So both those times look fairly competitive, I'd say. It's probably more or less equal to the tyre difference.

Lec only improved by 0.2s from medium to soft. Clearly he didn't have a good lap.

Anyway, McL seems super fast but hard to understand anything in these conditions. Quali is going to be a mess with all that evolution.

yeah, you're right, I missed Leclerc's better lap when scrolling through the numbers. And his best final sector came on mediums, so there definitely was room for improvement.

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It has cooled down a lot more than I expected. Wind seems the bigger problem anyways.

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It has cooled down a lot more than I expected. Wind seems the bigger problem anyways.

Yes. Though less wind than prior to fp1

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Yeah Verstappen's RB looks absolutely beautifully balanced on this first run. He got held up by a Ferrari and a Merc though.

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Aston is quick.

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Aston is quick.

nevermind...

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I think that it's difficult to judge lol

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I think that it's difficult to judge lol

wait no he's quick!