Sebastian Vettel topped the times on the second day of testing at Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona. His time set just on Pirelli's new ultra-softs before noon remained best as teams focused on longer runs in the afternoon.
That's wrong.A-Bap wrote: - Good but not great lap times relative to the rest of front runners
Fair point. But I don't think this derails my hypothesis.dot235 wrote:That's wrong.A-Bap wrote: - Good but not great lap times relative to the rest of front runners
On softs Rosberg had 2nd best time almost matching Kimi.
Those 2 laptimes very easily the best of all the testing.
Disregard all the SS/US runs from top teams. Those are irrelevant with such a tiny laptime differences from softs, no one was pushing on SS/US.
That's pretty much the exact opposite of what we are seeing. For Mercedes to be consistently and easily taking double one after another for half the season they need to have more than current ~0.2s of race pace advantage over Ferrari in Barcelona (the track that tends to suit Merc more). In testing we didn't see that at all.basti313 wrote:Marco at Formula1.com: “For the first half of the season I see Mercedes doing one-two finishes as long as they do not screw-up, then I see Ferrari and a tight fight between Williams, Force India, Toro Rosso and Red Bull Racing behind them."
That pretty much sums up, what we have seen during testing.
Kevin pretty much kept up with Jenson in his rookie season, so he can't be that badflickerf1 wrote:Agreed, but the drivers from Renault and Sauber are still young. They've yet to grow into their prime. Jenson and Fernando both started way back in 2000 and 2001. Don't write them off yet.GoranF1 wrote:Mclaren has considerbly better drivers than Renault an Sauber.
Yeah, plus Jolyon is the 2014 GP2 champion. You don't get that by being lazy.langwadt wrote:Kevin pretty much kept up with Jenson in his rookie season, so he can't be that badflickerf1 wrote:Agreed, but the drivers from Renault and Sauber are still young. They've yet to grow into their prime. Jenson and Fernando both started way back in 2000 and 2001. Don't write them off yet.GoranF1 wrote:Mclaren has considerbly better drivers than Renault an Sauber.
Or they could be taking it easy in Sector 1, and doing intensified DF testing and optimization in Sectors 2 and 3. I wish we had sector time time to really investigate this possibility because I think they were pushing through the curvy sections, and cruising down the straight.Phil wrote:I think you will find if you re-read my post that we do in fact agree with one another. Yes, that they tested various engine modes under to us unknown circumstances.
What I disagreed with in your earlier post was specifically:
"So how do you hide your pace with EPU running max power?"
...implying that Mercedes would have reason to do all their runs with the EPU running max power. My point was precisely that this is unlikely to be the case. They may have tested it under certain runs, but not in a way that would make it obvious to other teams how much pace they have in hand or not. There'd be no point in doing that. In order to mask their pace, they could be running various different engine modes and doing runs to test the tire degradation on various different fuel loads and that would give them all the info they would need without having to run all-out, max power.
Maldonado was also a GP2 champion....flickerf1 wrote:Yeah, plus Jolyon is the 2014 GP2 champion. You don't get that by being lazy.langwadt wrote:Kevin pretty much kept up with Jenson in his rookie season, so he can't be that badflickerf1 wrote: Agreed, but the drivers from Renault and Sauber are still young. They've yet to grow into their prime. Jenson and Fernando both started way back in 2000 and 2001. Don't write them off yet.
And became a GP winner without being in a Top carkrisfx wrote:Maldonado was also a GP2 champion....flickerf1 wrote:Yeah, plus Jolyon is the 2014 GP2 champion. You don't get that by being lazy.langwadt wrote:
Kevin pretty much kept up with Jenson in his rookie season, so he can't be that bad
After which he crashed his way to fame.Big Mangalhit wrote:And became a GP winner without being in a Top carkrisfx wrote:Maldonado was also a GP2 champion....flickerf1 wrote: Yeah, plus Jolyon is the 2014 GP2 champion. You don't get that by being lazy.
Thank you for posting!GoranF1 wrote:https://vimeo.com/158398507
