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On the back of his first pole position last weekend, Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas topped the second day of in-season testing at Sakhir. The Finn ejoyed a trouble-free day and completed a massive 143 laps.
DIdn't he yesterday come up with the gem that deg was awful on the new tires and Williams showed a 17second tire deg in a 16 lap stint.... I find it hard to take a single thing he says seriously.dren wrote:What is possible Gary, please tell us...Gary Anderson wrote:I've just spent a bit of time standing by the pitlane exit where the drivers do their practice starts and you can get a good look at the cars. Of the top three teams, the Red Bull is the most basic car. There's nothing trick on there and it's all smooth surfaces so I expect there will be parts to come there. If I was writing a development list for the big teams, I would say Mercedes needs to concentrate on the bargeboard area, as although it has a sophisticated arrangement it hasn't fully exploited what is possible. For Ferrari, the focus would be on the diffuser. For Red Bull, it would be both areas.
Who needs CFD and wind tunnels when you have this guy around, what an utter tool !dren wrote:What is possible Gary, please tell us...Gary Anderson wrote:I've just spent a bit of time standing by the pitlane exit where the drivers do their practice starts and you can get a good look at the cars. Of the top three teams, the Red Bull is the most basic car. There's nothing trick on there and it's all smooth surfaces so I expect there will be parts to come there. If I was writing a development list for the big teams, I would say Mercedes needs to concentrate on the bargeboard area, as although it has a sophisticated arrangement it hasn't fully exploited what is possible. For Ferrari, the focus would be on the diffuser. For Red Bull, it would be both areas.
What makes you think he isn't already?TAG wrote:He could fit right in this place as a forum member with some of his observations.
After all, everyone is anonymous here.
Are those the speeds from the normal speed trap used in qualifying? If so then last year Wehrlein hit 341.5kph in quali, Hamilton/Rosberg were 334, strangely Ricciardo was at 328 and Verstappen 335kph in qualifying.Santozini wrote:So, it looks like Ricciardo did 330.2kph yesterday, Vettel 328.2 and Hamilton 327.2...not so slow after all
It could also be that they've already decided what the winning tyre is like they did in 2016 when they spent all testing on the mediums.supermarine wrote:It's interesting that the Merc seems to like a softer tyre than the competition. Last year they were all about the medium tyre and now they seem to like the soft. The only thread of hope for the other teams that I can see in the current Merc domination of testing is that they may struggle to switch on harder compounds at some circuits.
The medium were to hard last year. This year Pirelli is making even more robust. I hope Pirelli will brave and chose the soft, supersoft and ultra-soft tyres more for the races otherwise we will see a lot of boring 1 stop races.GrizzleBoy wrote:It could also be that they've already decided what the winning tyre is like they did in 2016 when they spent all testing on the mediums.supermarine wrote:It's interesting that the Merc seems to like a softer tyre than the competition. Last year they were all about the medium tyre and now they seem to like the soft. The only thread of hope for the other teams that I can see in the current Merc domination of testing is that they may struggle to switch on harder compounds at some circuits.
It's far too early to tell anyway.
