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First of all Hello again from me. Haven't written for some time.
In my opinion it's the first year back from 2013 I would say that we are delivering some results and that is doing a lot of laps, running consistent and the car seems to be able to be fast. Call me crazy but this year we might do a big step forward.
Question. What is the difference in time between tyres?
Considering Red Bull won some races last year and they were very close in some other races are we able to do the same? What if we bring a whole new package till Melbourne that might close that possible gap to the front?
I must say that I feel positive for this year. Something good is being made.
It's far too early to tell. They could be anywhere from 4th till 9th. I wouldn't expect any miracles, things are simply looking much better, even if the pace isn't as good as they might have expected.
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And before we get another 'hur dur, glory run!' comment from someone - Mclaren were running tyre cameras and 3 camera's up top for a bit of promo filming that run, so it wasn't full attack mode.
I think what's been most promising is the speed traps, constantly up there as or with the fastest. There's a new floor getting bolted on for tomorrow, which suggests we're far from the car we'll see in Melbourne. Cautiously optimistic too.
And before we get another 'hur dur, glory run!' comment from someone - Mclaren were running tyre cameras and 3 camera's up top for a bit of promo filming that run, so it wasn't full attack mode.
That quick lap was I think the 8th of a quick/slow run too, so unfair to call it a glory run.
but for all the same, we have no idea what the rest of the field is doing and on how much they are operating - but i'm pretty sure they're not at 100% capacity.
so it remains really entirely a wild guess on what's gonna happen. only the teams themselves know what their programme is and what they're doing.
the only thing we can take from it is things like whether somebody is sporting some crazy gadget, which we aren't seeing (talking f-duct, double diffuser stuff).
additionally, we can see whether laptimes are reasonable, which they are, so it doesn't seem anybody is running a failed concept. also, everybody seems to be
having no actual reliability issues. remember honda with mclaren years ago?
the tight RB15 body with the honda engine isn't bringing any problems, so thats positive and thats more or less what we can get from all of this.
and offcourse williams missing from the scene, showing their bad shape.
so it's to be expected that there will be minimal movement across the field in regards to the end of 2018 on grid position,
with the exemption of Mclaren, which is more or less the only team that's sporting a different direction compared to 2018 and seems to be doing okay.
then again, they seemed to be doing okay last year too, during testing, so it remains the same; we won't see untill melbourne where the teams really are.
"Explain the ending to F1 in football terms"
"Hamilton was beating Verstappen 7-0, then the ref decided F%$& rules, next goal wins
while also sending off 4 Hamilton players to make it more interesting"
