Sebastian Vettel has won the Malaysian GP after passing his teammate following an extremely hard fought battle 10 laps from the end. Mercedes impressed as well with Hamilton finishing on the podium, just ahead of his teammate Nico Rosberg.
I wonder what will happen if Lotus has last year pace on warm weather. They sucked last year on cold, but this year they win Melbourne in those conditions, if their pace is even better on warm conditions, well goodbye everyones see you in next lapraymondu999 wrote:How can you say red bull is the favorite? For pole maybe. But from what we've seen so far, they're 3rd fastest at best in equal conditions race pace.
Though as I say - the warmer climates could change all that. Remember lotus last year? The Red Bull could very well be the similar in that it becomes competitive in race pace in the heat. Considering their pole advantage in Melbourne, they could probably bias their setups more towards the race now anyways as they can afford to weaken their qualifying to increase race pace.
I think it remains to be seen whether it will play out like that, or if in fact their efforts to rectify their cold weather lack of competitiveness means that they will be losing their hot-weather advantage.Neno wrote:I wonder what will happen if Lotus has last year pace on warm weather. They sucked last year on cold, but this year they win Melbourne in those conditions, if their pace is even better on warm conditions, well goodbye everyones see you in next lapraymondu999 wrote:How can you say red bull is the favorite? For pole maybe. But from what we've seen so far, they're 3rd fastest at best in equal conditions race pace.
Though as I say - the warmer climates could change all that. Remember lotus last year? The Red Bull could very well be the similar in that it becomes competitive in race pace in the heat. Considering their pole advantage in Melbourne, they could probably bias their setups more towards the race now anyways as they can afford to weaken their qualifying to increase race pace.
Their *relatively* poor qualifying showing would tend to indicate they are still benign on the tyres (relative to the other teams).raymondu999 wrote:I think it remains to be seen whether it will play out like that, or if in fact their efforts to rectify their cold weather lack of competitiveness means that they will be losing their hot-weather advantage.
I'm not sure you can really say anything along those lines. At the moment we have no idea which kinds of tracks this years cars are suited to. No, last year's cars are not an indication.Mika1 wrote:I think RBR is favorite, because Sepang suits the RBR especially in Q.
That was expected because, although he didn't test this year, Bianchi has more mileage in an F1 car than probably all the rookies that started today.kilcoo316 wrote: - Marussia: I don't think Max Chilton will be in F1 very long. Bianchi, with virtually no testing, schooled him.
Miles in the actual car are far and away more relevant than miles in another car.stefan_ wrote:That was expected because, although he didn't test this year, Bianchi has more mileage in an F1 car than probably all the rookies that started today.
