Lewis Hamilton controlled the Spanish Grand Prix from start to finish, carving a comfortable gap to the competition early on in the race as a basis for victory. Valtteri Bottas finished second while Max Verstappen completes the podium for Red Bull Racing.
Really?Phil wrote: ↑15 May 2018, 10:51Lets see, Barcelona 2018 pit stop summary:
Mercedes: 1 stop
RedBull: 1 stop
McLaren: 1 stop
Haas: 1 stop
Sauber: 1 stop
Renault: 1 stop
Force India: 1 stop
Ferrari ............ 2 stops
And yes, Williams and TR also 2 stopped. Doesn't look like many teams struggled to get a 1 stop to work on these unique 'Mercedes tires'.
What you are referring to is just a suspicion yet. Like every other thing which was suspected, but nothing was found.Phil wrote: ↑15 May 2018, 12:39Didnt you learn the most valuable lesson from Barcelona yet? Ferrari certainly did. I’ll give you a hint: track position is key. Just ask Bottas, ask Vettel, ask Ferrari, ask Alonso, ask the Redbull drivers.
Anyway, you guys can keep whinging about the tires that will only see daylight on another 2 races, but Ferrari have a lot bigger problems coming their way it seems (hint: it’s on AMuS). I can imagine you’ll find more in the Ferrari topic soon.
The ride hide would be as low as they could get whatever the tyres. I doubt it would be any different. Remember we’re talking about less than half a millimetre here, it’s such an insignificant amount. But ten pages and counting...Fulcrum wrote: ↑15 May 2018, 13:00I guess the only thing that can categorically be stated about the different tyres is the impact they would have had on overall ride height, cars being 0.4mm lower than before.
I'm sure they could engineer around that, but would this have favoured anybody in particular? My low-level assumption is more severely raked cars would be effected more.
OMG!!! You're right!TAG wrote: ↑15 May 2018, 14:23It was the mirrors that gave Ferrari such a hard time Sunday. You'll see, in Monaco, the mirrors will be gone and Ferrari will not struggle for pace as they did in Barcelona. Occam's razor.
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Bring on Monaco then.F1Krof wrote: ↑15 May 2018, 14:55OMG!!! You're right!TAG wrote: ↑15 May 2018, 14:23It was the mirrors that gave Ferrari such a hard time Sunday. You'll see, in Monaco, the mirrors will be gone and Ferrari will not struggle for pace as they did in Barcelona. Occam's razor.
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Starting from cold with the extra 0.4mm of rubber was a safety issue, because there was excess rubber that could move around much more during the heating phases (e.g. race start and qualifying), therefore heating the surface too quickly with the result of dangerous levels of blistering.
Really?f1316 wrote: ↑15 May 2018, 10:26Yeah , I don’t think there’s a conspiracy here - Pirelli weren’t trying to help Mercedes, they were simply bringing the tyres they felt best suited the circuit in question.
Nevertheless I think it’s only logical that the sudden total reversal of which team was best managing the tyres is due to this change - as Seb said, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that removing tread will make the tyres harder and that’s always been better for Mercedes than Ferrari. Both have it in their ‘DNA’ on opposite ends of the spectrum.
We’ll certainly see in Monaco but I think Toto’s comments are telling - they’re not looking forward to hypersofts.
You know that is a myth right? Because it was often Rosberg whose tyres used be gone while Lewis was still going around comfortably. He was also more economical with fuel usage, whereas Rosberg used to suffer with fuel consumption in 2014/15. If Lewis was aggressive in tyre usage like people believe, he wouldn't have achieved those poles and wins with different compounds that Pirelli has brought since 2011 with different construction types.Vasconia wrote: ↑15 May 2018, 11:57It seems that Max was more consistent on this tyres than Ricciardo. As Hamilton he may like the harder tyres because of this agressive driving style.
As it has been mentioned also before, Monaco will be interesting. Last year Ferrari was clearly better during the race but this year it won´t be so clear, though Ultrasofts should benefit the Ferrrari. I expect a RB to be on the pole.
TAG wrote: ↑15 May 2018, 14:23It was the mirrors that gave Ferrari such a hard time Sunday. You'll see, in Monaco, the mirrors will be gone and Ferrari will not struggle for pace as they did in Barcelona. Occam's razor.
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Oh my god.... 
It is not a myth that Hamilton feels very comfortable with medium tyres. This does not mean that he is bad with the softest ones but I think he has shown many teams that with harder tyres he has no rivals.GPR-A wrote: ↑15 May 2018, 17:46You know that is a myth right? Because it was often Rosberg whose tyres used be gone while Lewis was still going around comfortably. He was also more economical with fuel usage, whereas Rosberg used to suffer with fuel consumption in 2014/15. If Lewis was aggressive in tyre usage like people believe, he wouldn't have achieved those poles and wins with different compounds that Pirelli has brought since 2011 with different construction types.Vasconia wrote: ↑15 May 2018, 11:57It seems that Max was more consistent on this tyres than Ricciardo. As Hamilton he may like the harder tyres because of this agressive driving style.
As it has been mentioned also before, Monaco will be interesting. Last year Ferrari was clearly better during the race but this year it won´t be so clear, though Ultrasofts should benefit the Ferrrari. I expect a RB to be on the pole.
Yep.
