godlameroso wrote: β29 Oct 2021, 17:10
How do you see each coming circuit at the moment?
Button was saying you need traction to do well in Mexico and Brazil and said RB was better than Mercedes in this area which seems to go against what you have said. I like your posts and know that you know your stuff, just maybe explain this difference
And Hamilton made a mistake in Bahrain which cost him 0.3 so gap in Bahrain would have been around 0.1
It's right there for you to see. Look where Verstappen gains and loses.
Verstappen carries more speed 3-7, and I feel Hamilton stuffed turn 1 a bit vs Verstappen, but it evened out because Verstappen kind of botched 11.
You can see Hamilton gains in turn 9 which is a very tricky traction exit. Again after the end of the back straight(12), Hamilton has better traction on the exit, Verstappen has better entries on 13 and 16 but Hamilton has better traction out of 16. Verstappen carries a bit more speed on the final 2 corners.
Also very telling was the exit of turn 13 turn 14 entry, there is a huge bump, that cost Hamilton. That Mercedes doesn't like bumps.
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Just saw the video. You can clearly see that the Mercedes chassis in that particular trim was no match in the twisty parts of Austin. It made up its gains at the last half of the main straight. It had no realistic chance of winning that race.
Analysing the turns it is clear now why Max couldn't pass Lewis when behind on the straight, and why Lewis couldn't pass Max coming out of the turns. Also makes more sense now why the RB had good tyre life. It had less sliding in the corners.
Because Mercedes was forces to jack up thr ride height in Austin, I don't want to predict what will happen in Mexico city. Ride heights could explain why Merc was so slow in the Austin traction zones and twisties.
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