f1316 wrote:Today is Vettel's last day in the car, so I fully expect him to run both the softer tyre compounds - would be very weird (and in my opinion foolish) not to give each driver a chance to try them at least once.
Obviously this partly depends on how they get on in terms of issues; it was mentioned in the team thread that Kimi's spin might have been caused by drivability issues with the new PU and that seems plausible from the look of it, but that could be a software thing and hence not a major fix. Still, you'd expect they might spend much of the morning trying to ensure it's resolved.
There's no doubt in my mind that - if Vettel did a 1.19:9 on softs last week, he can break well into the 18's on ss or us and the improvements made since (not to say others also can't). But I suspect Ferrari, after the positive reviews of the initial test, will try to fly a bit under the radar this week and not set anything too obviously flashy.
So yeah, this sandbagging proves my point from earlier.
I agree that it all seems pointless, particularly when so obvious. The only point would be to avoid too much attention so people don't start protesting things on your car, but everyone knows it's fast - and, what's more, could tell form the GPS traces - so just do the lap times.
Anyway, it's a quick car, of that there is no doubt.
