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Pace looked good on the hards, but like you said, very strange session. Still I would be lying if I say Im not optimistic for qualifying, unless we get something massively wrong on the setup we should be mega round here.
And I didn't see anything bad or scary. Everything seemed to go smoothly. The car goes well on hard tires, which means that there is a grip with the track. On medium and soft tires times was not shown. So they could have added to the classification if they finished their fast laps evenly. Qualifying is in an hour and a half, we'll see. But I'm optimistic for now.
Team stream says they thought he went wide so they told him to abort in order to save time.Darth-Piekus wrote: ↑06 Oct 2023, 19:10He was also faster in his last lap but had to abort. I wonder why. He has to do a flawless lap when he comes out again. He mustn't have another time deletion.
No, and Stella goes on to say that Lando's advantage was between 1-2 tenths, but exaggerated by the tyres.LionsHeart wrote: ↑06 Oct 2023, 15:23Well, it's hard to put it down to tires. Lando was consistently faster than Oscar at all times. And the average pace per lap in the difference was 6-7 tenths during the entire race. So Stella is not telling us something. Once Oscar gains experience, he will go consistently faster and will be much closer to Lando.mwillems wrote: ↑06 Oct 2023, 13:11I think in terms of the tyres, it just takes a little time and experience, everything else is where it needs to be though which is immense really.
Nope, it has been fairly even in Qualifying over the last 6 or 7 races and on that front you can't really put anything between them.
Edit: Adding this article, in which Stella suggests the delta between the two drivers was because of Lando's favourable pit strategy and not necessarily because of Piastris tyre wear, but I do think that is part of it.
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/mcla ... /10527745/
Stella thinks that the pace difference between Norris and Piastri in the Japanese GP, at the stage of the race when the team had to intervene, was exaggerated by the excessive tyre degradation.
"In a race like this, every lap of tyre that you save, so if you pit one lap later than somebody else, you gain one tenth," added Stella.
"Lando at that stage pitted six laps later, so his car is automatically six tenths quicker than the other car."
