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On the back of his first pole position last weekend, Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas topped the second day of in-season testing at Sakhir. The Finn ejoyed a trouble-free day and completed a massive 143 laps.
Well how than Mclaren aint doing much better since they sacked Sam Michael?FW17 wrote:Mercedes issues coincide with the appearance of James Allison.
Maybe Ferrari got rid of the jinx.
That guy was more than a jinxproteus wrote:Well how than Mclaren aint doing much better since they sacked Sam Michael?FW17 wrote:Mercedes issues coincide with the appearance of James Allison.
Maybe Ferrari got rid of the jinx.
I thought a longer wheelbase gives you more stability at high speed?PhillipM wrote:In theory it should be worse. Less weight transfer to the rear tyres under acceleration.Afterburner wrote:Struggling for traction?
That's weird, longer wheelbase "in theory", should be better traction wise.
Do you think professional F1 team is not aware of competitors ballpark performance? They've seen all in qualifying anyway...proteus wrote:I will never forget last years qualifying in Australia when Ferraris led at some point and then Mercedeses actually showing their pace. The camera guy perfectly caught how Arrivabiene changed his face from happy to destroyed in few seconds when both of them overtook Ferraris by quite a margin and one of the Sky comentators saying: "Haha, and Mercedes was sandbagging the whole testing" ...or something like that.
I think i have may caused a heartacking pain of a Ferrari fan
Yep he was having issues coming out of the final chicane.Giblet wrote:High speed is a grip/balance scenario far more than traction under accelleration.
I would imagine the traction issues are coming out of low/medium speed corners.
But let's completely ignore TWO sub 1.20s on softs from Ferrari!Tyre corrected, the Red Bull's most impressive time had been set earlier in the morning when Ricciardo produced a lap of 1:20.077 on softs - a fraction better than Mercedes' fastest time on softs in the whole of the first test.
I just putted it in the perspective.ferkan wrote:Do you think professional F1 team is not aware of competitors ballpark performance? They've seen all in qualifying anyway...proteus wrote:I will never forget last years qualifying in Australia when Ferraris led at some point and then Mercedeses actually showing their pace. The camera guy perfectly caught how Arrivabiene changed his face from happy to destroyed in few seconds when both of them overtook Ferraris by quite a margin and one of the Sky comentators saying: "Haha, and Mercedes was sandbagging the whole testing" ...or something like that.
I think i have may caused a heartacking pain of a Ferrari fan
Here's the actual quote:Wass85 wrote:Hamilton has stated Ferrari are the favourites as they've been the quickest so far, he expects Mercedes to be fighting for second with the Redbull. He's not a happy bunny at all today, maybe it's going to be an exciting season after all.
To me it all sounds pretty coy..."I think Ferrari are possibly the favourites," he said. "We can't take our eyes off them. They've done such a good job at the moment and Red Bull look like they've gone quite quick as well today. So we shall see over the next days and most importantly in the next weeks. I think it's going to be close at the first race, that's for sure."
"We're on target in terms of the laps that we've done, the target in terms of how much mileage we're going to get, but of course with performance we are always searching for more. I'm just throwing a number maybe but I would say we are at 70, 80 per cent maybe. But I hope that we pull out the rest in time for the first race."
