2014 Australian Grand Prix - Melbourne

[frosty125]

Anyone got an idea of the lap time difference between compounds I'm interested as Button didn't do his fast lap on the option.

Im pretty sure button did his time on the options. If you watch this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/26573372

Button is on the yellow walled options.

Sorry I meant FP1

[Juzh]

If you have the live timing app, you can check gearing, rpm and speed of any driver on any lap.

Where can I get this? Does it work properly?

[dren]

Mercedes ran heavier than some of the others in practice last year. So did Red Bull. I expect the Mercedes gap to be bigger than the one second Button is saying.

[dren]

Taken from: http://intelligentf1.wordpress.com/2014 ... ractice-2/

[mclaren_mircea]

Anyone got an idea of the lap time difference between compounds I'm interested as Button didn't do his fast lap on the option.

Im pretty sure button did his time on the options. If you watch this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/26573372

Button is on the yellow walled options.

Sorry I meant FP1

Button was on soft tyres in FP1 or FP2?
James Allen and Mclaren said that in FP2 Jenson's time was on medium

[mclaren_mircea]

The difference between medium and soft is 0.8 seconds not 2 seconds.

[Xero]

Pirelli themselves are saying there is a 2 second gap between compounds.

http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/3077 ... s-pirelli/

[basti313]

Mercedes ran heavier than some of the others in practice last year. So did Red Bull. I expect the Mercedes gap to be bigger than the one second Button is saying.

Yes. Every team had one car with more fuel than the other...except Mercedes. This could mean they had both cars rather heavy on the longruns.

From the picture the times of the other Merc powered cars look quite similar, slightly behind RB. Maybe even FI being fastest?
And Ferrari clearly behind all Mercs and the RBs...astonishing.

[mclaren_mircea]

I think I found a very accurate information om James Allen's blog.
"Jonathan Cooper Reply:
March 14th, 2014 at 11:30 am

Jenson’s was set on the medium? (or at least the official FOM timing screen, shown on Sky’s coverage, showed him as being on the medium)

[SectorOne]

Problem is the timing screen also got Vergne wrong i think. It said he had mediums but he was on the softs.
I might have mixed up the driver but it definitely happened in one of the sessions where the timing data was incorrect.

[atanatizante]

On other forum someone said that relying on screen figures provided by his TV cable broadcaster:
a) There is a 5-600 rpm difference between a qualy and race ICE setup
b) Merc were running max.~12.300 rpm, McL ~12400 , FI ~ 13200 and Williams only ~11800rpm!!!
c) RB was running ~11.700rpm and Ferrari ~12600 rpm
Could anyone confirm that?

[SiLo]

http://intelligentf1.files.wordpress.co ... =594&h=445

Taken from: http://intelligentf1.wordpress.com/2014 ... ractice-2/

I can hardly tell anything from that because the colours on the graph are so poor. I can tell the Mercedes were consistently quick though.

[CHT]

Merc should lock out the front row, however their race might be compromise due to their higher fuel consumption. One the other hand, Renault might suffer during qualifying, but they could still win due to their ability to push harder during race. Ferrari should be in the mix, which is good.

[mclaren_mircea]

Please any real source about Button's tyres in FP2?
There is no source to mention softs, and there is only one to mention medium.

[Bredd]

Please any real source about Button's tyres in FP2?
There is no source to mention softs, and there is only one to mention medium.

As you can see with my helpful arrow to the yellow walled tyres his time was on softs. Ive also circled his number 22 incase you had any doubts who it was.