max_speed wrote: ↑01 Apr 2023, 08:18
What the heck happened? Easy P2 got slipped away. This was great opportunity for alonso to open up gap to perez and make it into a title fight. Somehow fernando does not max out like others in Q3. If he wants to fight for championship he needs to bring extra tenths
The issue was that for the final runs in Q3, there was no time for a prep lap. For the rest of qualifying, everyone was just pounding in laps on the same set. For final q3 runs when the fastest times were set, it was done with just an outlap
They all fueled for the first run to end as the rain was forecast to come. So everyone boxed with 4min left.
Then when coming out again there was time only for the outlap into push lap. This took things towards Merc who could fire the tyres up quicker. Might punish em tomorrow