Chinese GP 2012 - Shanghai

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raymondu999
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Mandrake wrote:Button in the McLaren in 2009.
I'm quite sure he drove a Brawn in 2009 :P
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raymondu999 wrote:
Mandrake wrote:Button in the McLaren in 2009.
I'm quite sure he drove a Brawn in 2009 :P
Ahh crap, I should not post while doing too many things at the same time :D Who was the other example in 2009 then?
ell66 wrote:silverstone 2010 is all the proof you need.

oh and button was in a brawn in 09 ;)
Exchanging 1 part is 1 thing, building a whole car another. Had they built the RB8 solely around Vettel it would most probably have looked differently. I think it's more a case of RedBull building their car and puts their drivers into it, "regardless" of what they prefer.

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MSC FP2 Lap times
Source: http://www.fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/f1 ... -times.pdf

NO TIME
1 14:06:32
2 1:45.040
3 1:38.124
4 1:44.849
5 1:37.261
6 1:37.426
7 P 1:53.458
8 11:40.468
9 1:41.973
10 1:37.742
11 1:37.374
12 1:40.945
13 1:37.506
14 P 1:45.174
15 12:30.278
16 1:35.973
17 1:45.809
18 P 1:42.897
19 12:21.201
20 1:43.910
21 1:44.159
22 1:43.642
23 1:44.933
24 1:44.511
25 1:44.270
26 1:44.474
27 1:45.606
28 P 1:51.746
29 2:23.716
30 1:42.535
31 1:42.493
32 P 1:51.229
Forza Michael. Forza Jules

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Hm, i hope Schumacher did not have the same fuel in the car as e.g Vettel. If you just compare VET with MSC. Vettel did 7 laps where the slowest was a 1:43,780 and MSC did 8 laps where almost every lap was in the mid 1:44. But the last two laps of MSC gives me a bit of hope.

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tomorrow will be a little bit warmer and this should contribute to our lap times, as today was only 15c.

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Pandabeer wrote:Hm, i hope Schumacher did not have the same fuel in the car as e.g Vettel. If you just compare VET with MSC. Vettel did 7 laps where the slowest was a 1:43,780 and MSC did 8 laps where almost every lap was in the mid 1:44. But the last two laps of MSC gives me a bit of hope.
Historically Red Bull have run with stint 2 levels of fuel where as McLaren and Mercedes have favoured fuel levels for the 1st stint. So there could be a bit of fuel in it. But still the Mercedes looks like it's suffering a bit.

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Pandabeer wrote:Hm, i hope Schumacher did not have the same fuel in the car as e.g Vettel. If you just compare VET with MSC. Vettel did 7 laps where the slowest was a 1:43,780 and MSC did 8 laps where almost every lap was in the mid 1:44. But the last two laps of MSC gives me a bit of hope.
the last two laps have been done after a pit stop...no big hope I fear....

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motobaleno wrote:
Pandabeer wrote:Hm, i hope Schumacher did not have the same fuel in the car as e.g Vettel. If you just compare VET with MSC. Vettel did 7 laps where the slowest was a 1:43,780 and MSC did 8 laps where almost every lap was in the mid 1:44. But the last two laps of MSC gives me a bit of hope.
the last two laps have been done after a pit stop...no big hope I fear....
True, but i do not know what they have done while the pitstop. Did he get fresh tyres? I also don't know how long the pitstop was, if it was a longer one, maybe they changed something in the setup.

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guys relax!! this car can win a race in Europa after another 3 weeks of develop. I'm so sure this year MSC win 1 race!! (hope SPA or Moncao)

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For all we know they are testing to get their setup right for the race. Lets see what the situation is during the race. Right now it's all pure speculation.

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Maelstrom wrote:For all we know they are testing to get their setup right for the race. Lets see what the situation is during the race. Right now it's all pure speculation.
+1

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IIRC the W03 just dropped off like there's no tomorrow. Maybe quicker than the RB8 for one or two laps, but no way over a stint. In any case. We know far too little of fp programs and fuel loads to say anything much.
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Ferraripilot wrote:From what I saw of the heavy fuel load runs on similar tires to other teams, W03 appeared quicker than RB8 but a tenth or so slower than Mp4-27.
It's also worth thinking about if they were testing their tyres to find optimal settings. Maybe it wasn't about pace at all but tyre testing.

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Did Webber run with the same config as seb in FP2? Because their times were very close to each other. Eurosport was claiming that the Mclarens were running heavier than the Red Bulls which were only doing 12 lap stints.

Can't wait to get up bleary eyed tomorrow morning to watch the qualifying!
Felipe Baby!

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raymondu999
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Webber was in B-spec. Vettel A-spec
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