2019 Chinese Grand Prix - Shanghai, April 12-14

[siskue2005]

I love it when the Ferrari is ahead by a couple of tenths and everyone is like "my god they're in god mode.. their engine is so powerful." Yet, when the Mercedes is ahead by over half a second, there's always a reason why it's an anomaly.

So, Mercedes sets the fastest time of the weekend thus far and yet Ferrari's are fastest?

Seems like a narrative I've heard of before. Mercedes and Toto fan boys setting up a heist about how they've won a race without the fastest car.

It is only you posting such things... maybe you need to relax and enjoy the race

It's not him, we have a lot of new people posting uninformed comments all over the place.

Then Please post those quotes here
Thank u

[dans79]

It is only you posting such things... maybe you need to relax and enjoy the race

It's not him, we have a lot of new people posting uninformed comments all over the place.

Then Please post those quotes here
Thank u

I can't do that, as calling people out like that is against the forum rules!

[siskue2005]

It's not him, we have a lot of new people posting uninformed comments all over the place.

Then Please post those quotes here
Thank u

I can't do that, as calling people out like that is against the forum rules!

I don't think there has been any uninformed comments about the pace of Ferrari... just people getting offended based on speculations

[dans79]

Then Please post those quotes here
Thank u

I can't do that, as calling people out like that is against the forum rules!

I don't think there has been any uninformed comments about the pace of Ferrari... just people getting offended based on speculations

Their is a difference between speculation, and a post crafted as a thinly veiled antagonization!

[siskue2005]

I can't do that, as calling people out like that is against the forum rules!

I don't think there has been any uninformed comments about the pace of Ferrari... just people getting offended based on speculations

Their is a difference between speculation, and a post crafted as a thinly veiled antagonization!

Then please post those quotes, I have not read anything here to suggest what u said...the Ferrari is indeed faster over the straights, there is no denying that. Great analysis by Karun
https://www.facebook.com/17139841961979 ... 528980330/

[BillS]

How it makes sense when Bottas was fastest in FP2 though?

It doesn't make much sense. I can understand classifying sections of the track in those categories, then looking at the sectional times over those sections for each car. With that graph Ferrari should be ahead. Maybe the graph isn't of the fastest lap for each car, but an average?

It also has to do with how many corners/sections of each type there are.
For example, if a car is a lot faster in slow/medium speed corners and somewhat slower in high speed ones but the track is full of high speed sections, then the car will probably not be the fastest overall.

In that particular circuit though, I would say there is a mix of everything which makes it difficult to explain the graph in comparison to FP2 results.

[GrandAxe]

https://www.racefans.net/wp-content/upl ... 5548-1.jpg

This looks so good...

Sir, your taste and mine do not coincide.

ahahhaa well i don't mean about the colors, but i think the cars would look better if they were shorter. Like they was around midle 2000's.

Heheh! The shorter, more sculpted cars from that period certainly looked really nice (except the Williams FW26). The colours on the car in your pic though! ... Damn!

[Juzh]

sainz fp2 1.34.141 (P6)

https://streamable.com/1s2ws

[langedweil]

It was on hards. Soft run now not fast enough, third sector slow. Max back in the pits.

When he stopped that stint, tv showed he was on yellow ..

They do a practice pitstop after every run, those are very old yellows that they use to replace the stint tires with. It was on hards.

Ah, ok .. perhaps I missed that ..

[SmallSoldier]

Lap time difference between compounds:

Soft to Medium: 1.1/1.2 seconds
Medium to Hard: 0.7/0.8 seconds


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[F1NAC]

It's doable going to meds for top teams. they have at least second till the elimination zone. Could Ferrari do it? IF that long run is somehow representative, it is awful for Vettel (vs Bottas)

[F1Krof]

So the pattern is Ferrari has incredible power.

Sarcasm?

Says Toto

[Mattchu]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D38pVs3U4AARDcv.jpg:large

After looking at that I reckon the Mercs might try to get through qualy 2 tomorrow using the medium tyre. I`d imagine they have enough pace as the tyre gap doesn`t seem that big here.

[Partymood]

Lap time difference between compounds:

Hard to Medium: 1.1/1.2 seconds
Medium to Soft: 0.7/0.8 seconds


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Hi. Just out of curiosity, where did you get these numbers from?
To my knowledge, after FP2, Isola stated that the gap between soft and medium is 1.1 seconds and 7/10 between medium and hard.

[SmallSoldier]

Lap time difference between compounds:

Hard to Medium: 1.1/1.2 seconds
Medium to Soft: 0.7/0.8 seconds


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Hi. Just out of curiosity, where did you get these numbers from?
To my knowledge, after FP2, Isola stated that the gap between soft and medium is 1.1 seconds and 7/10 between medium and hard.

Thanks for pointing it out, I made a mistake when typing... It was the other way around... Already edited the post


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