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Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene pins hopes on continual development rather then on revolutionary packages. The Italian is hopeful that his squad can keep up with its big rival Mercedes and can establish itself as a serious title-contender this year.
Regarding the bold part, do you realize that he was managing the delta (saving tires for the final attack) to HAM to catch him about 3-4 laps before end of the race to be able attack (what he managed just right). If VET start pushing on the softs from the beginning he surly would be faster and close the gap sooner, but then the softs would be even much damaged that without the hard pushing...Phil wrote:That set he had ...giantfan10 wrote:Vettel was ...
Now Vettel on new softs, wasn't that impressive IMO. He was doing consistent mid to high ~1.30 - 1.31.5x times between lap 37 (he pitted on 34/35 rememer?) until he closed the gap to Lewis. Lewis on quite old mediums (older than Rosbergs) was also driving in traffic for a substantial time. Yet he was able to retain a pretty consistent pace of 1.31-1.32 ...
There was absolutely nothing impressive or ominous about rosberg on mediums in clean air doing 1:31s . what i see is a Mercedes fan trying to convince everyone that Mercedes is untouchable.Phil wrote:That set he had on were the brand-new-unused SS he saved during Q3. He pitted on lap 13/14, hence by the time the race restarted after the red-flag, they were 3-5 laps old (lap 14 was an outlap, lap 17 the accident took place and slowed down the field considerably). Yes, Rosberg started the restart on never-used mediums at that point, but the big surprise was still how well that Mercedes kept up, on a tire that was two compounds harder and harder to warm up. Vettels tires were as good as they possibly could be. Vettel did his best lap on those tires on lap 24 - 6 laps after the race restarted and on tires that had done a total of 9~10 laps - a 1.29.951 - on average over that stint he was doing mid 1.30.xxx times. On lap 26, he started to drop consistently into the 1.31. He had driven out a gap of 3-4 seconds. Only on lap 30, after doing 16 laps on those tires did the times start to gradually move into the 1.32. where it remained until he pitted on lap 34.giantfan10 wrote:Vettel was on used SS and Rosberg was on brand new Mediums after about 5 laps of Vettel pushing the SS fell off and the mediums kept on trucking.....
Rosberg during the entire duration of this stint, was doing consistently somewhere between 1.30 and 1.32 times and continued to do that until the end of the GP, ending lap 57. Note, he did a 1:30.557 on lap 21 (vs Vettel low 1:30s), but the key point is, is that Rosberg was doing 1.30ties (high) around lap 44 too and again lap 51-52. Fantastic pace.
It's not that Vettels times weren't good - they were consistent with what you could expect given the laps he was doing at the start on a heavier car, also on SS tires - it's that the Mercedes pace on mediums was extraordinary, given the compound and the fact he did 39 laps on them.
Now Vettel on new softs, wasn't that impressive IMO. He was doing consistent mid to high ~1.30 - 1.31.5x times between lap 37 (he pitted on 34/35 rememer?) until he closed the gap to Lewis. Lewis on quite old mediums (older than Rosbergs) was also driving in traffic for a substantial time. Yet he was able to retain a pretty consistent pace of 1.31-1.32.
So perhaps before giving advice on using some statistics, I suggest you do the same and look at the actual data. Here's a good place to start:
http://www.fia.com/events/fia-formula-o ... ormation-5
Are you implying that the aero kit has been proved with Haas?ferrarifire wrote:Rumors from Italy suggest that new aero kit is ready even before Melbourne (thx to hass partnership)but ferrari didnot want to introduce due to insufficient wind tunel data .most probably they will be introduced in next cpl of races and they will have enough data to prove that it is out from Marnello facility..
Vasconia wrote:Are you implying that the aero kit has been checked with Haas?ferrarifire wrote:Rumors from Italy suggest that new aero kit is ready even before Melbourne (thx to hass partnership)but ferrari didnot want to introduce due to insufficient wind tunel data .most probably they will be introduced in next cpl of races and they will have enough data to prove that it is out from Marnello facility..
been reported that Arrivabene said that Vettels failure was a valve or injector and did not damage the engine.... we will find out in a couple days what the real reason is and if the engine is useable.F1NAC wrote:Will be interesting to see when will Ferrari bring new PU. Given the fact that both drivers will probably(still dont know if Seb's pu is usable) use 2nd of every component in China
that white smoke is oil being burned into the exhaust manifold, that most of the time is the following of something likegiantfan10 wrote:been reported that Arrivabene said that Vettels failure was a valve or injector and did not damage the engine.... we will find out in a couple days what the real reason is and if the engine is useable.F1NAC wrote:Will be interesting to see when will Ferrari bring new PU. Given the fact that both drivers will probably(still dont know if Seb's pu is usable) use 2nd of every component in China
why would Kimi change his engine in China?
