ClarkBT11 wrote:tomazy wrote:ClarkBT11 wrote:Bottas's fastest testing time was 19.310 - 60 kg fuel (speculation) 10 kg fuel = 0.3 seconds x 6 = 1.8 seconds 19.310 - 1.8 = 17.510 potential fastest lap
Thanks to Mark4211 we know bottas was in strat 2 on his fastest lap which is Mercedes quali mode.
That is quite a speculation, Bottas most certanly was not on 60kg of fuel. Mercedes with full tanks (105 kg of fuel) was in low 1:25 in race simulations on soft tires, so no way 1:19.3 was done with 60kg of fuel. I would say he had max 20 kg of fuel, but that would mean that 10kg of fuel is more than 0.6s a lap and a potencial time of 1:18 flat or lower.
But it would make sense if Ferrari is potentially .5 quicker than the time Kimi posted and Mercedes have a .3-.5 advantage and Mercedes historically test with 60 kg fuel.
This has become amusing now. where are all these numbers coming from? is there a mole in the Mercedes camp telling someone these numbers?
calm down Mercedes fans simple logic says they should still have an advantage so nitpicking at the Ferrari is basically you creating scenarios to back up your preconcieved notion.
I will leave this "discussion" alone with this from Kimi:
“for sure if we want we can go faster but that’s not the purpose”.
"I think it was all more or less pretty positive," he said. "The car has been running well and the feeling since the first day has been pretty good. The team has done a good job over the winter preparing the car and making it reliable.
"Compared to a year ago we feel it's much, much better in many ways, but
where we are going to be in the first race I don't know. It's the same story every winter and we'll see in three weeks."
