The track is different, it asks different things from the car, here there are no chicanes, only constant radius turns, braking is relatively straight forward except for the braking for the double apex right, the right hander before the start of the 3rd sector and the decreasing radius turn before the back straight. In Melbourne you had a low grip surface, trail braking was difficult and essential, plus there were a lot of low to medium speed chicanes.markp wrote:Why are Ferrari closer to Merc here? The car looks the same as Australia. Know one has picked up on anything looking different, not even a mistaken shadow to take a few pages of the thread up. The engine is the same hardware wise as no news more tokens spent. Were they running on lesser settings last time to look through the data after a full competitive outing then just turned it up. Button on Sky said its as simple as turning a switch on the wheel for McLaren. The only other thing is refining the engine mappings. Does the car appear to be putting the power down smoother this weekend?
I was watching the BBC qualifying program where they analyze Hamilton Vs Raikkonen laps in P3, I was amazed that Hamilton's advantage was only from the exit of 6 to the entry of 7, somewhere in those two corners Hamilton managed to gain four tenths, on the Ferrari
