Bisonas wrote: ↑03 Apr 2018, 15:33
What i said, have nothing to do with Mclaren, TR or RB.
Engineers within Teams know very well how much advantage or deficit each engine has on another regarding power and efficiency. They have the tools and the data to estimate those numbers quite accurate. Not 100% accurate, but close enough in order to protest to FIA in a more official way. And trust me that their tools are not like your logic.
loner wrote: ↑03 Apr 2018, 14:41
"Mclaren in Australia qualiy was 2.5 off Hamilton and after the SC Mercedes , Ferrari , RBR pulled about 8 seconds gap in the first 5 laps but we can't say renault has a turd of PU because we can see its very decent PU in the hands of RBR"
Which is a very simplistic logic, with conclusions based on what each of us want to believe.
Is Renault a decent PU compared to Mercedes and Ferrari ?? or RBR chassis its just that good atm ??
Is Mclaren so slow compared to RBR, or Alonso was managing Verstapen and his tires knowing he couldn't possibly do anything better even if he was making slightly better lap times after the restart. Its all about Perspective.
Now, That 0.3s parity on a theoretical Barcelona lap its a true number that was agreed. The methodology about it though its a problem.
What Horner is crying about its something that he is crying about for a year now.
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/12923 ... ine-parity
The problem is that If you are Mercedes, and you know you have 1s advantage for example (theoretical margin), what stops you from making it look like 0.3 advantage. Control the pace, preserve the engine, adjust the engine modes, make it look like its more close and not show the full advantage until you actually need to and if you ever need to.
So keep all the parity engine crying at bay, and take both championships with ease.
That's what Horner suggesting that Mercedes is doing atm. We don't know at what extend this may be true, but we can acknowledge that it is a possibility. And his tools, are better than ours.
Politics are involved also of course.