Sorry, it was just abit of fun
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Fellas, I laughed at this when I read this and want to share your opinions of it
this proves that no one knows anything about the competitiveness at this moment in time and that journalists just talk/write for the sake of something to say
Andrew Benson from the BBC:
"The word on the street is that McLaren's long-run pace does not look too clever, although McLaren themselves insist it depends what run you look at and that they will be "in the mix". What is assumed to be a full-tank run from Jenson Button this afternoon went like this: 1:30.31, 30.27, 30.56. 30.8, 30.8, 31.17, 31.42, 32.05. Now, at 0.38kg per 10kg for fuel effect, then assume the hard tyres which he was on are 1.5 seconds slower than the softs (which is probably over-estimating the gap) and you get 7.2 seconds between a start-of-the-race lap and a qualifying lap. Calculate backwards and that gives a 23.11 - three seconds off what Nico Rosberg did this morning, a 20.1. Alternatively, calculate forwards from a 20.5 and you get 27.2, much slower than McLaren are actually doing. So something isn't adding up there."
Basically he's saying that from what times Button was doing in the afternoon and after abit of dodgy calculations Button is 3 seconds off the pace of Rosberg with a 1m 23.1, but Button phyisically did a 1m 22 something in the morning, this just shows that the number crunching game can be aload of rubbish and will (has) makes you look silly
