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[Vanja #66]

We were a couple of tenths behind Ferrari at Imola after FP2.

Not that I want to dispute for the sake of disputing, but Norris was fully matching Leclerc on Mediums and Piastri was just a tenth away on Softs in FP2 Regardless, Leclerc was furious today and out of sync with the rest of the grid on how much he was pushing and risking. Gaps were exaggerated and will drop tomorrow and McLaren will be fighting at the top. Not the extended top 5, "just" the regular Top 3

[mwillems]

We were a couple of tenths behind Ferrari at Imola after FP2.

Not that I want to dispute for the sake of disputing, but Norris was fully matching Leclerc on Mediums and Piastri was just a tenth away on Softs in FP2 Regardless, Leclerc was furious today and out of sync with the rest of the grid on how much he was pushing and risking. Gaps were exaggerated and will drop tomorrow and McLaren will be fighting at the top. Not the extended top 5, "just" the regular Top 3

I'm not actually sure what your disputing lol If you're referring to Imola Piastri was 2 tenths behind Leclerc and it was set on softs I think? Checking F1-Tempo and yeah this is correct. As for the longer run pace, looks like we matched them, I don't see Ferrari being ahead on long runs at Monaco. So the parallel stands from what I can see.

[Vanja #66]

I'm not actually sure what your disputing lol

Couple of tenths is plural, a tenth is singular. And came from a de facto driver #2. McLaren was fully matching Ferrari in Imola on Friday, that's all

[CjC]

Are you discussing a couple of tenths in Imola or Monaco?

[mwillems]

I'm not actually sure what your disputing lol

Couple of tenths is plural, a tenth is singular. And came from a de facto driver #2. McLaren was fully matching Ferrari in Imola on Friday, that's all

OK, nobody says a couple of tenth. At all, and this means nothing. We were two tenths down, a couple of tenths so let's put that daftness aside.

Whomever you think is the fastest driver has no bearing on anything but if you look at it from that point of view, you're suggesting there was an even bigger gap that Mclaren got over if we ignore Piastris time?

In any case, the de facto #2 also qualified ahead at Imola having been a couple of tenths down in FP2.

[mwillems]

Are you discussing a couple of tenths in Imola or Monaco?

I was also confused but he's questioning the Gap Mclaren got over Ferrari at Imola.

my point is just that you can't look at FP2 and think you know where we are in relation to Ferrari. We have shown multiple times this season that it isn't representative and the specific point at Imola is that when we were 2 tenths down after FP2 (Times for each driver set on softs), we were actually more competitive than Ferrari and finished ahead of them in Q with Piastri in P2 and Lando in P3.

So there is a bit of a tendency for people to see what happens in FP2 and use it as confirmation bias when really, what we can see every weekend, is that FP2 isn't telling us how fast we are.

Questioning grammar, or the actual time (I wasn't sure which as it was 2 tenths and I even made the text a link to the FP2 results), or saying it is down to which driver set the fastest time doesn't really have anything to do with it it's just obfuscation or some confusion on Vanja's part.

[CjC]

I hope you are right as a fellow McLaren fan , however during FP1 I changed my fantasy predictions to a Leclerc pole and win

[mwillems]

I really don't know what will happen, I'm not suggesting we are ahead of Ferrari or that this will be Imola-esque in the turnaround.

I'm just saying wait for Saturday, because everyone in here now should know that FP2 isn't representative, but every blooming weekend here we are lol

p.s. Traitor!

[mwillems]

Scratch that. FP2 might be representative, but we don't have a clue until after the event because more often than not it isn't and there isn't enough in general for us folks at home to discern.

[FittingMechanics]

Oh, and I think RB have a lot of time left in the car that they have chosen not to show yet and if I had to guess who was fastest after FP2, I'd actually say Red Bull, not Ferrari.

I didn't watch FP2 but in FP1 Verstappen was driving on the edge - he was hugging walls and seemed to have to push the car very hard to get lap time. His comments are also quite negative.

[f1rules]

Leclerc will get this, and with his bad luck so far at this track im ok with that, he was amazing yesterday
Then i hope lando gets silverstone

[mwillems]

Oh, and I think RB have a lot of time left in the car that they have chosen not to show yet and if I had to guess who was fastest after FP2, I'd actually say Red Bull, not Ferrari.

I didn't watch FP2 but in FP1 Verstappen was driving on the edge - he was hugging walls and seemed to have to push the car very hard to get lap time. His comments are also quite negative.

His speed all over the track was significantly down on his FP2 fast lap, straights, everywhere, so that lap wasn't close to pushing so I'm not going to write Max off just yet. But I hope he has a terrible weekend

[LionsHeart]

Leclerc will get this, and with his bad luck so far at this track im ok with that, he was amazing yesterday
Then i hope lando gets silverstone

You mean how sharply McLaren drove in qualifying compared to Friday practice. To a certain extent, this will happen. I only considered two times. Yesterday from the second practice and a year ago, but in qualification. The difference was a couple of tenths. And the MCL38B chassis, according to Stella, is now more than a second faster. By the way, Lando's time last year should have been better. Remember, he broke the tie rod coming out of the chicane. They managed to fix it, but Leclerc blocked it on a fast lap. So even the McL60 without upgrades should have been faster than the 1:12.254 shown.

It is clear that, as always, we do not know what adjustments were made to the chassis, to the engine operating mode, to how comfortable Lando and Oscar felt. But what’s interesting is that they both said that overall everything was fine. Therefore, there are no problems in the behavior of the car. I think the balance is fine, our drivers just haven’t attacked yet.

Here everything is decided by 99% qualification, so all that’s left is to wait a little.

[mwillems]

Leclerc will get this, and with his bad luck so far at this track im ok with that, he was amazing yesterday
Then i hope lando gets silverstone

Let's hope he doesn't bin it, actually, no, let's hope he does

[SilviuAgo]

Leclerc seems the man for this weekend. Lando P4 in FP1, P5 in FP2 and for the moment, P6 in FP3. Not the progress we were expecting. Oscar has better pace till now.