Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel topped the timing-sheet ahead of the all-important qualifying session. The German driver went on to claim the best time with a 1:12.395 in front of his team-mate Kimi Räikkönen.
Classic Kimi quoteJonoNic wrote: KR:… I don’t know why people expect that it is something different tomorrow... Just try to make a stupid story out of nothing.
There is something wrong with how how the car maintains heat in the tyres. Haphazard tyre temperstures and what not. Not good for the rest of the season.ENGINE TUNER wrote: ↑27 May 2017, 20:17Damn I missed all the "lunacy", gotta get here sooner.
Any ideas on the Hamilton setup problems... I heard talk of them not being able to get the tire(the carcass and/or the sidewall) up to temp but at the same time overheating the surface of the rubber. Too much sliding & wheelspin? Too softly sprung? He seemed like he was suffering with too much oversteer during qually. Maybe a broken ARB?
"A lot of analysis will go into understanding it, but it is a tyre issue," he told reporters. "I didn't get the grip from the tyres and it kind of transcended from P2. I never got them working as they did in P1 from then on.
"We have to try and get to the bottom of it, but we had a similar problem in Sochi - particularly on my side - but I hope we can discover the issue moving forwards."
Hamilton added: "It's a very, very strange thing because I did the same thing I always do when I leave the garage and the same thing as I did in P1, but it's actually a case of it going in and out, in and out through the lap.
"Mostly being under - and it's not even just the fronts or the rears. It can be one tyre and then another tyre, but in general just all tyres were not in the window."
"You can say there's a certain DNA in our car," said team boss Toto Wolff. "I think we've proved our car can go very quick in qualifying and the race but it seems to be a bit of a diva to get it into the right window.
"It's probably marginal differences that make it drop out of the window and we just need to get on top of this. We have a great team that has shown in the past their strength is in analysing the data and finding out how to put it on the track on Friday and then develop it into the weekend.
"This is one of the outliers we've had in the past. We've had it in Singapore for different reasons but this is another one. It's the second weekend that comes into my mind after three or four years, where we have struggled really badly from the get-go from P2 with set-up."
Hamilton said his W08 was set-up in the same way as Bottas' and, although he does not believe he is doing anything specifically wrong, he is ready to help the team overcome the problems with his car.
Poor kid. Tears tomorrow after the first lap pile up.Bomber_Pilot wrote: ↑27 May 2017, 21:29Remember this little guy?
http://www.sportfair.it/wp-content/uplo ... kkonen.jpg
If they never got it working in FP1 or if it was't working in BOT's car in Q3 it would be much more understandable but this seems quite baffling.
I thought Ham was using Bot setup????ENGINE TUNER wrote: ↑27 May 2017, 21:40If they never got it working in FP1 or if it was't working in BOT's car in Q3 it would be much more understandable but this seems quite baffling.
What did you see different between them in Sochi?basti313 wrote: ↑27 May 2017, 21:52I thought Ham was using Bot setup????ENGINE TUNER wrote: ↑27 May 2017, 21:40If they never got it working in FP1 or if it was't working in BOT's car in Q3 it would be much more understandable but this seems quite baffling.
If this is the case, then no question why this does not work. They have completely different ways of working the tires. We already saw that in Russia.
No each driver must use two dry compounds during a dry race, one set must be (one of) the mandatory tyres.siskue2005 wrote: ↑27 May 2017, 22:24One question can Lewis start on Super softs and go to the end without any pitstop?
As the mandetory tyre for the race in either Supersofts or Softs
