They covered off Vettel and it nearly cost them 2nd to VerstappenBill_Kar wrote: ↑17 Mar 2019, 09:02They would have to pit eventually, no (I mean on the next 3 laps) ? Last thing Mercedes wanted was Hamilton to emerge behind Vettel even with more fresh rubber.the EDGE wrote: ↑17 Mar 2019, 08:59I am speechless about the way Merc screwed Lewis over
Covering Ferrari-off is something you do when your in or near your pit window
Not something you do when you have another 20 laps of decent rubber left
Time and time again they do this, admittedly usually to Bottas, but they seriously need to sort out their race strategy calls
But I can't understand why do it the very next lap when you have such gap (above 5 secs IIRC).
Yep, and the only way to rectify the issue is more downforce from the front wing.GrandAxe wrote: ↑17 Mar 2019, 09:08Sadly, Merc is faster than them in all corner types, the advantage is just greater in the slower corners.Ringleheim wrote: ↑17 Mar 2019, 09:02If Ferrari's advantage is to be found in medium and high speed corners, then they had nowhere at Albert Park to harness that advantage.
If they raced tomorrow at Spa, I think we would see different results.
Ferrari has to fix their understeer problems to mount any sort of challenge, especially as their lower downforce front wing design would eat up their tyres faster than Mercs and Red Bull's higher downforce choice.
Maybe they had serious problem with PU on one car and decided not to risk it on another, hence doubt to get into 25's .z.topoln wrote: ↑17 Mar 2019, 09:07They did 1:21.2 yesterday on low fuel and new tyres. Ofcourse they could get 1:25.5...tranquility2k4 wrote:Ferrari demolished. I think they didn't pit because they couldn't do a 1.25.5
As for gap, they had 35s gap to magnussen. Thats quite alot of leeway for a bad pit, over 10 seconds.
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You also said yesterday ferrari will have good race pace and possibly be even dominant, just goes to show how full of nonsense (wanting to use a stronger word, but we know how the mods work) you really are.
After Bottas dominant display, even having the tyres to set fastest lap on the last lap, its almost safe to predict that the Red Bull's would be much more of a nuisance to Ferrari than Ferrari would be to Merc.dans79 wrote: ↑17 Mar 2019, 09:09Yep, and the only way to rectify the issue is more downforce from the front wing.GrandAxe wrote: ↑17 Mar 2019, 09:08Sadly, Merc is faster than them in all corner types, the advantage is just greater in the slower corners.Ringleheim wrote: ↑17 Mar 2019, 09:02
If Ferrari's advantage is to be found in medium and high speed corners, then they had nowhere at Albert Park to harness that advantage.
If they raced tomorrow at Spa, I think we would see different results.
Ferrari has to fix their understeer problems to mount any sort of challenge, especially as their lower downforce front wing design would eat up their tyres faster than Mercs and Red Bull's higher downforce choice.
Because they already (indirectly) announced to do so even before the season started. So it's not really a question to be answered.
https://www.gpblog.com/en/videos/32915/ ... alia-.htmlLM10 wrote: ↑17 Mar 2019, 09:33Because they already (indirectly) announced to do so even before the season started. So it's not really a question to be answered.
Leclerc is a very good driver and person. I really like him. But he will learn from race to race. He told he needs to convince his team that he's faster in order to make it hard for them to choose Vettel as number 1 driver. However, this race weekend it was not the case yet as he was slower in Qualifying and also in the race when he lost like 10 seconds to his team mate in the first stint.
Yes incompetent because they have the highest budget of all teams and still in 2nd place... other teams don't have the amount of money or resources like Mercedes and Ferrari. So the difference?Ringleheim wrote: ↑16 Mar 2019, 22:39Please. Ferrari is "incompetent" huh? Then what is everyone else besides Mercedes? Criminally inept?siskue2005 wrote: ↑16 Mar 2019, 21:17And whose fault is that?
Mercedes for doing their job?
Or the incompetent Ferrari team with their high budget?
I can't remember a time in F1 when 1 team was not dominant for a certain duration of time. When this happens, it is on the other teams to raise their game and bring the challenge to the dominant team.