2017 Belgian Grand Prix - Spa Francorchamps, 25-27 August

[f1316]

Oh what a surprise, Ferrari are faster on Sat than Fri - we've never seen that before....

Really wish people would get over jumping to conclusions about Mercedes advantages on a Friday - we know the pattern by now.

Likewise, Mercedes still probably have a little more potential from FP3 to quali than Ferrari, the 'little bit' somewhat dependent on what this new PU does.

[atanatizante]

After FP3 some conclusions:
- Kimi on his fastest lap has had 324km/h in speed trap 1 and was quickest in S2 being almost 3 tenths faster than Vettel or Lewis
- Vettel has had 328km/h and lost 2,5 tenths in S2 ending 2 tenths behind Kimi on overall lap
- Lewis has had 332km/h and lost 3 tenths in S3 ending 2 tenths behind Kimi
- Bottas having some grip issues as Niky Lauda said on Sky but I think he was focused more on race setup hence Lewis more towards qualy
- Perez did 338km/h on speed trap 1 saying Merc PU could run faster in qualy and probably Merc is not showing all their cards yet ...
- Same with Ferrari when Kimi`s last run on US at the end posting a speed of 335km/h when he did a couple of race simulation laps
- Vettel did to and there were some at least interesting laps : Kimi 1:49,7 and Vettel 1:49,1 and in the end Kimi did a 1:49,9 (maybe having traffic) and Vettel a 1:48,7 !!! No times from Lewis or Bottas and Ricci did just a 1:50,1 ... So between FP2 and FP3 Ferrari gained 7-8 tenths methinks ..
- Force India and Haas was the only 2 teams running on soft tyre hence could be on 1 stop race as I presume Merc is too ...

[Juzh]

Just to add the full tyre data. Note that Palmer did not set his time on Supersofts, as Juzh's post suggests

That's just last tires used on the cars, not necessarily the ones used on the fastest lap.

[Juzh]

Perez fp3 onboard lap ( 1:45.8 )

https://goo.gl/wmF8WH

8th gear trough puohon.

[Shrieker]

Perez fp3 onboard lap ( 1:45.8 )

https://goo.gl/wmF8WH

8th gear trough puohon.

I'm getting an error ?

[MakkieT]

And having his teammate give up the win for him, It's been the Ferrari way.

OK, produce me the list from those 91 wins where he was handed the win by his teammate. I bet you will have trouble naming more than three.

One would be considered one too many when not wearing the rose colored glasses.

That was not what you were implying with your post. Considering your answer, you cannot come up with such a list. Case closed.

[Juzh]

Perez fp3 onboard lap ( 1:45.8 )

https://goo.gl/wmF8WH

8th gear trough puohon.

I'm getting an error ?

Tried mobile and different browser with no problems. what kind of error?

[NathanOlder]

Perez fp3 onboard lap ( 1:45.8 )

https://goo.gl/wmF8WH

8th gear trough puohon.

And that Force india is one of the slower cars in the middle sector as they are running less DF.

[ClarkBT11]

Mercedes just burnt some oil Ham Q2 142.927

[NathanOlder]

Lewis in the 1.42's in Q2!!! Mega speed. Can Ferrari respond in Q3 ?

[NathanOlder]

30.0 in S1 now for merc. Turned up a bit.

[NathanOlder]

42.5 job done.

[NathanOlder]

Wow. Good job from Vettel

[matt_b]

Lewis delivering a mega lap, what happened to Kimi though

[NathanOlder]

In his words "I F##cked it up"