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Kimi Räikkönen experienced a tough Sunday in the Chinese GP as the 2007 champion had to work very hard to claw back into the points after having been hit hard by his Ferrari teammate Sebastian Vettel.
godlameroso wrote:Fastest lap last year was a 1:42.2, I expect the target lap to be around 1:40 as this will offer the best balance between fuel use and tire degradation. The tires have to last 16 laps for a 3 stopper to work, the mediums seem to be the only tire that can manage this consistently, but their performance is not good enough to make a two stop race, considering the super soft probably won't last more than 8 laps, and only 6 of them will be competitive, where the soft can do 11 competitive laps, however the mediums can only do 18 competitive laps, but you need to do at least 22 laps per stint to make a two stop work. 8 16 16 16 with an advantage over medium runners for 33 laps, so if you can make up 24 seconds in those 33 laps the three stopper works. A two stopper will have a roughly 12 lap pace advantage +24 seconds. If the soft is faster than the medium by 1 second the two stopper won't work unless the medium advantage is .6 seconds or more. This is of course predicated on the assumption that no one makes a mistake.
not a single one, to be precisely. But doing a three stopper with three runs on the medium doesn't make much sense anyway I guess.motobaleno wrote: few drivers have 3 medium set left.
