Interesting to se Lewis only 0.1s slower than George but on the slower tyre.organic wrote: ↑18 Mar 2022, 19:54https://i.imgur.com/sSk3Cpf.jpg
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I hope and believe Ferrari have not shown their hand but Max consistently 1s quicker than Sainz on their soft stint. Lap 10 max did 1.37.6 which is faster than every lap attempted by other drivers except for leclerc's one 37.1
If RB really did bring a weight reduction worth a few tenths for this weekend, the application of the update only to Max's car could explain the 1s gap to Perez - 0.7s last season was not unusual on pure pace.
Similar to Alonso and Ocon, 0.2 between bothJust_a_fan wrote: ↑18 Mar 2022, 20:16Interesting to se Lewis only 0.1s slower than George but on the slower tyre.organic wrote: ↑18 Mar 2022, 19:54https://i.imgur.com/sSk3Cpf.jpg
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I hope and believe Ferrari have not shown their hand but Max consistently 1s quicker than Sainz on their soft stint. Lap 10 max did 1.37.6 which is faster than every lap attempted by other drivers except for leclerc's one 37.1
If RB really did bring a weight reduction worth a few tenths for this weekend, the application of the update only to Max's car could explain the 1s gap to Perez - 0.7s last season was not unusual on pure pace.
Hamilton on Mediums is 0.2 slower than Russell on Softs, which is the same case between Gasly and Tsunoda. Alonso on Mediums is 0.3 faster than Ocon on Softs. On the basis of that, it does appear as if the Medium is a better race tyre than Soft.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑18 Mar 2022, 20:16Interesting to se Lewis only 0.1s slower than George but on the slower tyre.organic wrote: ↑18 Mar 2022, 19:54https://i.imgur.com/sSk3Cpf.jpg
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I hope and believe Ferrari have not shown their hand but Max consistently 1s quicker than Sainz on their soft stint. Lap 10 max did 1.37.6 which is faster than every lap attempted by other drivers except for leclerc's one 37.1
If RB really did bring a weight reduction worth a few tenths for this weekend, the application of the update only to Max's car could explain the 1s gap to Perez - 0.7s last season was not unusual on pure pace.
I don’t believe Ferrari has shown their hands at all and just toying with Redbull. And I also don’t believe any of this timing because this is a new regulation and no one knows what the teams are doing.. And don’t even count Mercedes’ out of qualifying. My surprise tomorrow will be Haas and Alfa. they may have a drive each in the top 10, because I think Ferrari engine is at par if not better than Merc and Redbull’s engine
I think Perez was running a few different setups so should be closer in race pace but race pace is Max's greatest strength
I think you’re right on the money.
Let's hope this is it, I want them to be close
As a reference, Verstappen did 1m29.997 in quali (Softs) and settled into 1m35.9s in first stint (Mediums) in race last year. That's about 6 seconds between a qualifying and race fuel loads and with compound difference. If Verstappen would have started on Softs in race (theoretically), he would have been atleast another half a second faster. So, it could have been 1m35.4s. That's about 5.5 seconds on the same compounds.
Indeed. Like I was saying before. I watch Max closely and for me that was the defacto norm as well.organic wrote: ↑18 Mar 2022, 19:54https://i.imgur.com/sSk3Cpf.jpg
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I hope and believe Ferrari have not shown their hand but Max consistently 1s quicker than Sainz on their soft stint. Lap 10 max did 1.37.6 which is faster than every lap attempted by other drivers except for leclerc's one 37.1
If RB really did bring a weight reduction worth a few tenths for this weekend, the application of the update only to Max's car could explain the 1s gap to Perez - 0.7s last season was not unusual on pure pace.
And that happened as he overtook someone just before the chicane and misjudged entering it as a result (imho). Just saying so that people don’t think it happened purely from trying to go (to) fast. He has that kind of pace.Dee wrote: ↑18 Mar 2022, 20:46I think Perez was running a few different setups so should be closer in race pace but race pace is Max's greatest strength
Gasly and Albon - (0.7 - 1.0) second a lap faster
Perez - (0.4 - 0.7) a lap faster
Then (although some people don't like a comparison) in the sim world he can be a second a lap faster than anyone, like the Le Mans just gone, before he crashed
You have to take in that certain laptimes (the alfa, the haas) are to try and get sponsors. Looking at FP1 and FP2 I am right on the mark with Red Bull and Ferrari. However some of the other are out including Mercedes although russell was 0.6 off max which is within my data of 0.5-0.8 but Lewis is well off.Artur Craft wrote: ↑18 Mar 2022, 16:56
I don´t believe RB is 1s ahead of everybody but, going from that data, it seems Alfa Romeo is quite a good car. Those kind of data is useful just to extract a couple of informations, not to make big conclusions about the actual pecking order.
My personal prediction is that Ferrari will not be that close to RB, though.