Robert Kubica is leaving winter testing downbeat, having seen his schedule on Friday being cut short by excessive wear on car parts for which the team did not have spares.
Whata great guy, and so lovely doggos!zibby43 wrote: ↑01 Mar 2019, 21:05Marc has some of the most reasonable and technically sound video analysis out there. Highly recommend subscribing.
https://youtu.be/dGeMqnzumss
I'm almost sure this was the case last season as wellLM10 wrote: ↑01 Mar 2019, 20:29
Comparing the times of Mercedes (especially Hamilton's) with Vettel's, it's visible that Vettel seemed to have pushed more in the first sectors, thus losing out in S3 on the sensible C5s whereas it seems Hamilton has done the opposite. Bit of a different approach. However, that's just one of many possible explanations. We don't really know.
Glad you enjoyed it! He's one of the good guys in this sport. Former McLaren mechanic.Jozsusz wrote: ↑01 Mar 2019, 21:30Whata great guy, and so lovely doggos!zibby43 wrote: ↑01 Mar 2019, 21:05Marc has some of the most reasonable and technically sound video analysis out there. Highly recommend subscribing.
https://youtu.be/dGeMqnzumss
Thanks for the sharing!
I recall earlier in the week, one of the teams or media, came up with Ferrari's race pace was 5 seconds quicker than Bottas' race pace. But as I said at the time, Bottas is usually 20 seconds behind Lewis, so that sky prediction should say Hamilton 15 seconds ahead of Ferrarinevill3 wrote: ↑01 Mar 2019, 22:07Sky sports summary of testing they said they crunched some data regarding the long runs/race sims for Ferrari and Mercedes and Ferrari were about 5 seconds quicker over a full race distance. That says to me that both teams were either evenly matched or running to lap deltas or both. Lets hope they are evenly matched and it will be similar to last year where each teams shines on different weekends/circuits and we have a season long fight between at least four drivers in the two teams. If Red Bull and the others can get involved to take the odd win maybe reliability will decide the championship this year just like 2016.
Here's hoping for a spectaular season that keeps us all on the edge of our seats. All I have taken from this winters testing is that no one has found a silver bullet and the status quo remains. Red Bull's experiment with new engines looks to not have backfired and we have not lost any teams in the off season. All is well in my F1 world
No one did any number crunching, I believe this is what AMuS heard from someone in Mercedes, number probably pulled out of thin air.nevill3 wrote: ↑01 Mar 2019, 22:07Sky sports summary of testing they said they crunched some data regarding the long runs/race sims for Ferrari and Mercedes and Ferrari were about 5 seconds quicker over a full race distance. That says to me that both teams were either evenly matched or running to lap deltas or both. Lets hope they are evenly matched and it will be similar to last year where each teams shines on different weekends/circuits and we have a season long fight between at least four drivers in the two teams. If Red Bull and the others can get involved to take the odd win maybe reliability will decide the championship this year just like 2016.
Here's hoping for a spectaular season that keeps us all on the edge of our seats. All I have taken from this winters testing is that no one has found a silver bullet and the status quo remains. Red Bull's experiment with new engines looks to not have backfired and we have not lost any teams in the off season. All is well in my F1 world
In another thread, someone said that Mercedes team must be annoyed that Hamlton doesn't test etc. Bang! 100 laps more than anyone else.
Drivers, teams and engines are all listed separately...
The person who wrote that comment is a Mercedes fan and probably also fan of Hamilton. He told that Hamilton doesn't care about testing. My guess is that he thinks Hamilton just wants to race and finds testing boring (like many drivers do).Just_a_fan wrote: ↑01 Mar 2019, 22:28In another thread, someone said that Mercedes team must be annoyed that Hamlton doesn't test etc. Bang! 100 laps more than anyone else.
Sorry, couldn't resist a bit of fan lad rubbish.
