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.
No, according to FIA records he did the fastest lap in the first hot lap of an 5 lap stint on medium tyre : http://www.formula1.com/results/season/ ... _trap.htmlraymondu999 wrote:Something that @virtualstatman noticed, but I unfortunately didn't:
"So, Vettel set the best time of FP3 when his medium tyres were 6 laps old!? When they were 8 laps old, he set a time good enough for 3rd..."
I don't think we'll see a non-red bull on pole today.
but the tyres only lasted 10-11 laps and then they were shot. and than means 4 or 5 stops come sunday!atanatizante wrote:Both RBR drivers did a 10 lap stint on the hard tyre and their times were very consistent in the 1.44 bracket and it was just 1 sec. between the fastest and the slowest time ...NathanOlder wrote:Which has to be encouraging as it appeared the Red Bull struggled at about lap 10 on the harder tyres earlier in the same session. Does anyone know if the hards Red Bull used, and the Mediums Rosberg used were all new ?atanatizante wrote:Toto Wolf said on RTL that both drivers are moaning about a little bit to oversteery car and they are working to cure that in FP3. Another thing that they are doing is trying how long the medium tyre last and Nico did a 15 lap to answer that ...
What's bothering me is that Mercedes drivers are the slowest in the speed trap : http://www.formula1.com/results/season/ ... _trap.html
Did they copy last years RBR philosophy or they have a wet setup in mind?
Maybe a set up change to compensate for the bad tyre deg ?atanatizante wrote:Vettel 8 tenths slower than Webber and also 15th in Q1 ... is he gambling on a wet setup?
Yes, it was. But they did another run before that - a qualifying style outlap, flying, inlap. So that first flying lap on the second run was the nett 5th lap on those same tyres. Data from the iPad timing app.atanatizante wrote:No, according to FIA records he did the fastest lap in the first hot lap of an 5 lap stint on medium tyre : http://www.formula1.com/results/season/ ... _trap.htmlraymondu999 wrote:Something that @virtualstatman noticed, but I unfortunately didn't:
"So, Vettel set the best time of FP3 when his medium tyres were 6 laps old!? When they were 8 laps old, he set a time good enough for 3rd..."
I don't think we'll see a non-red bull on pole today.
