GPR-A wrote:marlosb wrote:bonjon1979 wrote:Actually he's now doing 23s in his race sim. That is rapid
Race sim explain a lot. Thanks
Just to highlight, Last year in winter testing, on day two, Rosberg was lapping in 1m27.xxx while he was doing race sim, using medium tires. On Race day though, RB12 was doing 1m30.xxx when the race started (of course, after the coming together of Nico and Lewis).
It depends entirely on what stage of race sim he was doing those times. The fastest lap in that race was a 1:26.xxx and that was without the Merc's running in the race. If you compare final stint averages to first stint averages you'll get a 2-3 second difference.
Either way as those Verstappen times, Hamilton earlier today did a 19 lap stint starting at 1:21.7ish and moving into the 23's only after 14 laps. Judging by Bottas's times, Hamilton was likely doing final stint, as is Verstappen, Bottas obviously doing a full race stint.
We're going to see 1:25-26 seconds at the start of the race and 1:22's by the end of it most likely, which IF we keep the 4-5 second gap between qualifying and race.... means the current 1:20.xxx times aren't at all close to real qualifying pace. We'll be looking at 1:18-1:19's come Q3.
