2014 Russian GP - Sochi

[MercedesAMGSpy]

Another Singaporestyle quali thriller coming up?

[SectorOne]

Mercedes relaxing a bit i think, i also expect Williams to be right up there as well in Quali.

edit: Hopefully they put a sleeping police men on the outside of turn 2.

[iotar__]

Another Singaporestyle quali thriller coming up?

I don't think so, this as every other track before the weekend suits Hamilton more. 0,007 will be downplayed as "close". No, 0,15 is close.

- Nice tarmac
- They should do something with cutting corners and other track limits issues. I'm not holding my breath when after no mercy radio transmissions ban coaching in the form of ""drivers are going off at turn X" (meaning drive in a different manner there) is still allowed and not penalized.
- Ecclestone looks like he doesn't know which planet he's on
- What's up with the Bulls? Running engines at 70% and getting all the data from Toro Rosso?

[FW17]

So no to Rossi again

[prince]

On both quali sim and long runs, Surprisingly, McLaren is looking the next best after Merc. Button was doing very good times.

I wish this is for real and things are in fact looking upward at McLaren.

[gray41]

Mercedes looking way quicker than RedBull on the long run, 2 seconds per lap.

[Juzh]

Carbon copy of abu dhabi. ehhhhhh

[MercedesAMGSpy]

Jenson Button looks strong.

[Juzh]

I can only hope mclaren's pace is genuine. Getting a bit sick of mercs always -1s on everyone else.

[SectorOne]

lol wtf happened there Lewis.

[Juzh]

lol wtf happened there Lewis.

Hopes squashed right there

[SectorOne]

Mclaren will probably close it right down, we´ll see.

Was just funny seeing how he struggled all the time, slower then Mclaren and Rosberg, making mistakes then pulls out 7 tenths out of nowhere.

Red Bull doesn´t look that good, but probably "sandbagging" a bit i.e. running heavier then everyone else around them.

[Juzh]

Nah, doubtful RB are sandbagging all that much. I expect them to be on pace with TR, but not much quicker. Similar to austria.

[Juzh]

It's also nice to see softs able to cope with multiple hot laps one after another.

[jurinius]

LH improved two times enough to be on the top. Magnussen also was struggling this morning, now he looks like he found the right setup =D>