Caterham had a double DNF on their first race, but despite the actual result, it was not all bad for the team. Both drivers had shown promising pace in the first half of the race, but for both drivers the reliability of their cars was not at the same level.
NathanOlder wrote:Ferrari are as i predicted, falling further backwards. Year after year, since Michael and the team had left, its been downhill. Ferrari without Schumi won nothing of any note since the 70's
i think this shows the abillity of Schumacher to build up a decent team. There are a lot of good drivers, but you need more than driving skills to help your team improve. I would guess in terms of feedback to the engineers Schumacher is the guy you want to have, especially with his long formula one experience.
He also surrounded himself with good people. Plus Todt was a great TP.
drunkmunky wrote:Williams have a stronger car than Ferrari
Have to say that as much as I dislike Maldonado, just an unjustifiable personal view, I am so happy for Williams that they are back in there mixing it with the bigger teams.
Gerhard Berger wrote:rosberg set a better time in q2 than q3.
Yeah. I wonder why! Race set-up may be or its because he made another mistake in his 2nd run?
He did, afai can recall he had a huge lock up on going into turn 3 in his last q3 run.
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Gerhard Berger wrote:rosberg set a better time in q2 than q3.
Yeah. I wonder why! Race set-up may be or its because he made another mistake in his 2nd run?
It was a big lockup into the third turn (I think). Brawn also said that they ran near their ultimate pace in Q2 and didn't have as much in reserve as apparently McLaren did.
Some time back I mentioned the FI factory (or at least some there) suggested NH would beat PDR quite comfortably as the data showed he was quicker than both PDR and AS last year even with the limited car time he had.
Early day's, but so far times seem to back that up
This is PDR's make or break year and I have a fear I know which of the two it's likely to be...
lillschumi wrote:Aldo Costa must have a good time right now. Nice revenge.
I think they made a huge mistake booting him and the design team, Ferrari had a decent car which had a good basic concept and they only lacked in the EBD. Had they carried the concept to 2012 with the some evolution they could've easily been up the sharp end I'm tempted to say.
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The gulf between McLaren and Mercedes ahead of Red Bull and Ferrari is vast. Especially surprising considering the amount of downforce evident on the McLaren at least. Doesn't bode well for the next couple of races for those teams.
Rogerek wrote:Just for clarification. I was looking at official timing app for android which shows what tires have been used and all drivers from McLaren, Mercedes, Red Bull and Lotus were only using Medium compounds in Q1. Grosjean third quickest time in Q1 was done on harder compound.
There is only medium and soft. All top teams are running medium except for Ferrari who run soft in Q1. Q2 and Q3 all front runner are running soft.
