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Not really.
Since when has Hamilton ever been good at making a slow car fast? He is good at making fast cars faster but not slow cars faster. If Ferrari deliver a car that isn't fast, he's not your man. Plus with CS, he would have taken seat #2 to put more force into Charles. Lewis will never do that until it's far too late in points.
“Hamilton appears much more at ease with the car than with the Mercs he has driven for the last couple of years. He was matching Russell’s pace in the afternoon just as surely as Charles Leclerc had matched Kimi Antonelli’s in the morning.”
not even 3hrs after pre season testing and we're at the point of blaming drivers already
Don't even bother replying to posts like that. We all know Hamilton and Leclerc are both extremely good drivers. Anybody doubting that is not watching F1 with their eyes open or has a personal grudge against one of them.
Pointless debating over the drivers undermines the real problem, that they didn't seem to gain as much of an immediate understanding about their car this week compared to the other teams. I hope the two week break will be enough time to go over what they gathered.
“Hamilton appears much more at ease with the car than with the Mercs he has driven for the last couple of years. He was matching Russell’s pace in the afternoon just as surely as Charles Leclerc had matched Kimi Antonelli’s in the morning.”
So much pessimism, guys, have a little faith. The team did their tests and according to their own word's the are happy..
I personally only after 2-3 races i will reach to a conclusion about this year's car.
Except Max, we have the 2 best drivers in the grid.
Gosh, what a horrible thread to read. Awful “analyses” and takes.
While McLaren might be starting the season as fastest, Ferrari will be right there. No big surprise considering McLaren basically didn’t change much on the car. Ferrari, on the other hand, has done a complete overhaul. It takes time to put everything together. Ferrari has much more development potential. Only by sorting out setup (which btw is harder to nail with pull rod suspension) tons of pace will be gained.
Yesterday the car was extremely hooked up when Lewis did his fastest lap. Really smooth.
In the race sim, assuming both were on the exact same fuel levels, Ferrari was behind McLaren, but clearly on a lower engine mode. But even on same fuel level and engine mode I’d not interpret so much into a race sim done one the second day of testing in an unusually cold and rainy Bahrain.
McLaren may not have changed suspension layout but they absolutely did bring a raft of new innovations and changes to the car. To say otherwise is shortchanging their development program. They look very prepared for the progress brought by Ferrari/RBR/Merc this year and would be my prohibitive favorite as of right now.
I agree that Ferrari's problems likely aren't as dire as people are making them seem though.
Given how much Ferrari have changed on the car, it’s pretty amazing that they are where they are. Could be MUCH worse. Looking at the onboards when the car has balance, it’s looks really good. It’s not strange that they cannot get that balance all the time at this stage. They will be very close in Melbourne.
Not really.
Since when has Hamilton ever been good at making a slow car fast? He is good at making fast cars faster but not slow cars faster. If Ferrari deliver a car that isn't fast, he's not your man. Plus with CS, he would have taken seat #2 to put more force into Charles. Lewis will never do that until it's far too late in points.
Hey this is actually a really good insight. Can you see if you can call up Vasseur and tell him what a mistake he made by signing a seven time world champion whose capabilities he knows extremely well? There is still time.
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Ferrari looked good in one lap pace yesterday and today not so good. Nothing to be alarmed with. They're probably tweaking with setups to try and find performance. I just hope that this car is not like the 22' which was a great one lap car but a much worse race car because at no point have they looked impressive in race pace during testing.
