venkyhere wrote: ↑08 Jun 2024, 20:39
zibby43 wrote: ↑08 Jun 2024, 20:24
venkyhere wrote: ↑08 Jun 2024, 20:19
Merc and Aston most likely were on glory runs
RedBull and Mclaren looked 'well settled' everywhere, except RB20 looking bad in the last chicane.
Ferrari were struggling with something, looked nothing like how they did in FP2. Dry track, so not tyres.
VCARB looked good.
Considering Merc is fastest in the corners, how do you suggest they were glory running?
Fuel? That certainly didn’t look to be the case given the number of laps performed.
They still need to put it together in qualifying, but that was the most real/commanding performance from them all year.
Borrowing this pic from another thread :
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GPkZcjVWAAE ... name=large
Redbull spending more time on throttle and brakes, and less time in corners than Merc.
Mostly likely it means Merc had turned up the engine more and Redbull was very conservative with braking input.
You were right, my bad. It wasn't engine mode afterall, in FP3.
Thank goodness I used "most likely" in my reasoning earlier.
Fine job by Mercedes, bringing up the car to where it's natural fighting area is - at the front. Looks like their decision to STOP EXPERIMENTING OVER THE RACE WEEKEND and make only small changes one by one, has paid dividends. Although this circuit is purely straight line + slow corners, no medium or high speed. The proof of the pudding will come at Barcelona. Nevertheless, better late than never. Credit where credit is due.
Will be a great opening lap tomorrow. In the track interview Max said in reply to tomorrow's lap1 T1 question - "we will think about it. I am not stressed". That sounded ominous, maybe race pace is the ace they have up their sleeve. From quali, there is nothing to separate the three teams at 1,2,3 grid spots.
VCARB is looking like RB19.
Re:Perez, I was one of them who said
'maybe it's not as big a catastrophe as its narrative-d out, the extension of his contract' , An Alpine and Sargeant finished ahead, ffs. This is below the bottom of the barrel. I better STFU.