Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas made it a perfect race for Mercedes as they finished 1-2 at the Russian Grand Prix. Charles Leclerc finished third after losing out with unlucky safety car timing.
Problems with math ? If car loses 0.8 on a straight and gains 0.6 on other parts, then total differnce is 0.2sCapharol wrote: ↑27 Sep 2019, 19:13which as you can see above your post isn't true, there they're fastest lap was only 0.2s in each sectorauv wrote: ↑27 Sep 2019, 18:34According to Hamilton, Mercedes loses 0.8 sec to Ferraris on the straights.
https://www.crash.net/f1/news/930251/1/ ... -straights
That is interesting, perhaps fuel load had something to do with it. Fuel load is worth a lot around here, the difference between pole and race pace is something like 5 seconds. Also I would discount those short 1st stints and see that Hamilton still has the better part of a second's edge on Perez.GPR -A wrote: ↑27 Sep 2019, 18:01The most interesting performance is from Perez! On Race sim, his times are faster than that of Lewis! He also did Softs and Mediums stint like Lewis did. But on quali run, Perez was almost 1.1 seconds slower than Lewis. Not sure what to concur out of it. This shows the variety and differences in PU modes.
https://i.imgur.com/OwrJ8dS.png
O please people are going to start this already?
lets see some quotes.
Toto Wolff explains Mercedes’ problem:
Posts like this have neutered your credibility long ago.
the 1st sector is almost flat out all the way with the long left hand turn, but for 85-90% the 1. sector is high speed, and how much did they lose in the 1. sector..... correct 0.2s, when the 1st sector was like the 3rd sector i would say "yeah you are right" now.... i don't ....oh and FYI.... the complete track is around 75% high speedauv wrote: ↑27 Sep 2019, 19:33Problems with math ? If car loses 0.8 on a straight and gains 0.6 on other parts, then total differnce is 0.2sCapharol wrote: ↑27 Sep 2019, 19:13which as you can see above your post isn't true, there they're fastest lap was only 0.2s in each sectorauv wrote: ↑27 Sep 2019, 18:34According to Hamilton, Mercedes loses 0.8 sec to Ferraris on the straights.
https://www.crash.net/f1/news/930251/1/ ... -straights
Merc is slow on the straight line. Their tyres have to be significantly better to successfully pass.
This graph backs Hamilton’s claim on the 0.8 second difference in the straights.HPD wrote:
Hamilton said that they lose 0.8 on the “straights” not on sector 1... There are straights on every sector.Capharol wrote:the 1st sector is almost flat out all the way with the long left hand turn, but for 85-90% the 1. sector is high speed, and how much did they lose in the 1. sector..... correct 0.2s, when the 1st sector was like the 3rd sector i would say "yeah you are right" now.... i don't ....oh and FYI.... the complete track is around 75% high speed
https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/for ... -fia-2019/
