Is it worth developing?

[Andres125sx]

No, we can say the gap in race trim is a minimum of 0,6s/lap, but we don´t know if it´s much higher because any team dominating so much don´t push their PU to the limit, it would be absurd

You mean a maximum. We know Mercedes were running about as fast as they could, because they were fuel constraint. We know Ferrari were held up.

That means that the race pace gap is at most 0.6 seconds a lap at Australia.

No, I mean minimum

You´re assuming they were fuel constraint so they were pushing the PU to the max. Wrong. If you don´t push the hybrid part to avoid overheating that means you use more fuel because the PU pushes less so you´re using the ICE longer and consuming more fuel. Same as McLaren for example, they only pushed on final two laps because Jenson was forced to save fuel for the whole race due to their problems with the mgu

So no, not even Rosberg pushed his car to the limit, wich does not mean he was cruising around, he was probably pushing to the limit, but with the car on a conservative mapping to avoid overheating/failures. Obvisously Hamilton did the same, when a team dominates a race like them, both drivers are asked to use a conservative mapping on both cars, so they can fight each other on equal conditions, but without risking a mechanical failure

So we only know they enjoy a minimum gap of 0,6 seconds/lap, but since we don´t know how conservative they were with their mappings, we don´t know how much bigger is the real advantage

[Rikhart]

And that´s the end of that...