Vasconia wrote:Wow! I was expecting dozens of comments due to the FP1 and FP2 but it seems tha you lazy guys are still sleeping.
Hamilton on the top again, he has a trully great confidence in the car, after some issues in FP1 he has needed only a few laps to make the best time of the day. Rosberg has been strong in the FP1 but not so good in the second one.
Ferrari quite strong here, the second team with a stellar Raikkonen beating Vettel by half of a second.
Williams behind and the the rest with Lotus and RB having some reliabiliy issues, AGAIN.
Mclaren has made an important step forward, no realiabily issues, good amount of laps and better lap times. Long is the path but at least they have started to complete it!.
Don't take the laptimes as the real picture. Rosberg made a mistake on T7 during his first lap on Mediums, then on the second he was doing alright(faster than Lewis, who also sandbagged imo, on S1/S2) until the last corner where he missed the braking point. His FP1 time on a greener track and Hard compound was 1 tenth faster than his best FP2. Vettel spun during his lap on Mediums and ruined it completely so that he had to go back to only the Hard compound.
Overall, the Mercedeses sandbagged much more than the others and that's why everybody is not that far away. It was a very hot afternoon and times are still too high.
What really caught my attention, though, were two other things: 1- how painfully slow the cars look on the onboards(and are actually. Alonso did 1.32.5 on 2005 Q1) 2- how difficult it is to improve laptime after the first fast lap, even on the Hard tyre. If Pirelli had brought Softs and SuperSofts, people would run out of tyres during the race
turbof1 wrote:
Very interesting comment from Matthew Carter (Lotus). When asked about Power Unit parity between works team and costumer team, he said that "I can confirm that, having had last year a contract with Renault and this year with Mercedes, it's stipulated in the Mercedes contract that we have complete parity. In the Mercedes contract." He's clearly trying to state there, without actually saying it explicitly, that he did not have parity in the Renault contract.
How would Lotus be able to confirm that? I mean, how would they know the PU on their car produce the same power(for instance) as that on the Mercedes?
