NewtonMeter wrote:Yeah while the laps were bad, they (well, me included) were the ones saying one can't read much into testing times, yet you were.
No........ I was looking at what the picture overall was telling us,
not individual laps. Somehow everything is now hunky dory because Mercedes did a fast lap to reassure everybody that things are fine.
A lot of people might want to put a lot of stock into that glory lap (no surprise that people are - they need all the good cheer they can) but I don't. It's frankly hilarious that most people are, having tried to tell us that the multiple laps over multiple test sessions that we've seen weren't. Look at the drop-off in times once the fast lap was done. There's not much cheer to be had there........
Oh, and you don't slap an exhaust system and a front wing on to a car and claim that it's different. Frankly, Mercedes
needed to confirm that everything was fine today.