drunkf1fan wrote: ↑28 Jul 2019, 05:24
Artur Craft wrote: ↑28 Jul 2019, 01:45
Pyrone89 wrote: ↑27 Jul 2019, 20:45
Imagine giving Verstappen and Hamilton the same car. Mouth watering stuff every quali and race.
what is mouth watering about Verstappen massively beating Hamilton and showing him up? Remember that Hamilton had a hard time with Rosberg who got confortably trounced by webber, who got easily beaten by Vettel, who had a hard time keeping up with Ricciardo, who struggled to match Verstappen.
yelistener wrote: ↑28 Jul 2019, 01:00
Something about 2019 cars that just doesn't fit Hockenheim. Best 2019 S3 in quali is actually slower than 2018. You'd think with that that much downforce 2019 cars should at least win S3.
and are around 0.5s slower over the whole lap than on 2018. On Austria they struggled to match 2018 too. It's not just Hockenheim. The development on F1 is very poor compared to the one LMP1s used to have when there was competition there, meaning, 5s of improvement from one year to the other.
Wow, just, wow. Let's break that down a little, Webber trounced Rosberg, 7 to 4 points, Webber in his 5th season, 2nd in Williams to Rosberg's rookie season.
Webber who got easily beaten by Vettel, but led him into the final race in 2010. From that point onwards he was treated much more like a no.2 driver and he acted like it. But that season was very close.
As for Hamilton having a rough time against Rosberg... lol, he trashed him completely on every single metric. With equal reliability records it would have been a complete and utter destruction. The only reason Rosberg, who lost probably 95% of on track battles with Hamilton, and got destroyed in the only season he setup for race pace in qualifying like Hamilton does, won a single title was a combination of reliability and lack of competition from other teams.
For Vettel/Webber battle, if Vettel had a bad race or a failure Webber wasn't certain to win because he had a car 30 seconds faster than every other team in most races. If Hamilton has a failure then Rosberg won by default, easily.
Then lastly on the 'lack of development' compared to LMP1. The regulations changed, they aren't the same cars, they did lose speed in certain places and yet their heavy development reduced those losses such that at most tracks they are faster despite the regulations being a fair wedge slower. If they developed last seasons cars they would have been easily faster here again. The tires also changed, though only a little.
