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I hope so, but I am not 100% sure. It seems like they are basically following last year's plan; and on the last day they ran some lower-fuel running with Hulk but they were still 1s off of Sauber. So my guess is not really. I hope for their own good that they are refueling the car between every run because pretty much every lap has been between 1:34.5 and 1:36.0, independent of compound, other than a few 1:33s from Ocon. Because every run is the same and there was not a clear race sim where fuel is clearly burning off between runs it is hard to tell where they are. Could be anywhere from 3rd to 10th. Ocon in particular had two good looking long runs about 15 minutes apart. I think it was on the C3, which would be the soft if it was a race weekend.
If that was meant to be a mid-race fuel level, then the times are not far off of Ferrari(!) and track similar to Lawson in the Red Bull, even though I would doubt they are that close to the works team or Red Bull. But more promising than Sauber, VCARB, and the "long" runs that Sainz did in the Williams which were all in the 1:35.0-1:36.5 range. I think people who expect them to be obvious backmarkers are underestimating the discipline they have to avoid any performance running.
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