2015 Spanish Grand Prix - Circuit de Catalunya - 8-10 May

[F1NAC]

How much was track temp in Malaysia again? 60?

yup

[PlatinumZealot]

Ferraris is just as fast as Mercedes now... They might be faster in the race too.

[prince]

Ferraris is just as fast as Mercedes now... They might be faster in the race too.

Watched FP2 live on Sky. Crofty and Anthony Davidson just concluded that on the race trim Mercedes is half a second faster than Ferrari and Ferrari is another half a second ahead of the rest. The pace advantage is same on both compounds for Mercedes. In Bahrain FP2, Ferrari was over three tenth faster than Mercedes over race sim, but still couldn't win. Here they are half a second behind.

[evered7]

Does anyone know if Vettel pitted during his race-sim. I believe he started on hard tires and ended on it. Can somebody confirm?

[Morteza]

This is from FP2. Should I be excited to see a Honda-powered car in the top 10?

[turbof1]

Well, there's reason for optimism. I think they definitely will both get in Q2, and depending on how much average power/lap the PU can generate, they might be able to score points.

[Andres125sx]

This is from FP2. Should I be excited to see a Honda-powered car in the top 10?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEfIUwiWMAEvJrI.jpg:large

First time this season, should mean something

[mikeerfol]

Does anyone have fastest sector times? I'd like to see how McLaren fared in S3.

[Dipesh1995]

Could someone explain to me why this year's fp2 times are so much slower when compared to last year's fp2. HAM did a 1.25.524 last year compared to the 1.26.852 this year.

[psychemedia]

Quick graphical summary of P2 laptimes:

[dans79]

Could someone explain to me why this year's fp2 times are so much slower when compared to last year's fp2. HAM did a 1.25.524 last year compared to the 1.26.852 this year.

I'm pretty sure it's a lot hotter this year!

[psychemedia]

Quick sketch of long run pace from P2:

[giantfan10]

Ferraris is just as fast as Mercedes now... They might be faster in the race too.

Watched FP2 live on Sky. Crofty and Anthony Davidson just concluded that on the race trim Mercedes is half a second faster than Ferrari and Ferrari is another half a second ahead of the rest. The pace advantage is same on both compounds for Mercedes. In Bahrain FP2, Ferrari was over three tenth faster than Mercedes over race sim, but still couldn't win. Here they are half a second behind.

After ferrari installs their race engine get back to me with what the gap is....... they arre running the engine they took out of race rotation after china.....Crofty and Davidson are doing the same thing we all do guessing.
for all i know the gap could be bigger but making that statement at this point in friday practice is kind of silly.... remember bahrain when Ferrari had better race pace than mercedes on friday? what happened in the race again after mercedes changed their setup?

[Morteza]

Ricciardo is now on his 4th engine and 3rd trubo and MGU-H.

[Juzh]

How much was track temp in Malaysia again? 60?

yup

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