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Lewis Hamilton controlled the Spanish Grand Prix from start to finish, carving a comfortable gap to the competition early on in the race as a basis for victory. Valtteri Bottas finished second while Max Verstappen completes the podium for Red Bull Racing.
Hopefully he will need to get used to being informed. Alongside all the other teams obviously.
In other words even though Pirelli said the tyres are softer, they are only softer in a narrow working range and because it is so diffucult to get them into that temperature window the tyres are essentially harder tyres the majority of the time.atanatizante wrote: ↑13 May 2018, 11:221. On the press conference after the Qualy one journalist put the following question: “It looks pretty strange for us because usually Mercedes has some problems to extract the maximum out of the softest compound tyre, today you were pretty strong on that. Ferrari was quite the opposite. Do you have an explaining for that? Seb mentioned thinner tyres this weekend. Is it related to this or is it special track surface we have here track layout or…?” Lewis didn`t knew/wanna respond, Bottas did something vaguely but Seb answered and told us that:“The tyres are different. They are different for everyone so everyone needs to cope with that. I think it was exceptional that Mercedes were struggling in the last events as much as they were – but thinner tread, basically the tyre is harder, so, we still have the same tyres, if you look at the colours, but they are harder than they used to be.”
2. Another one put the following question:“All of you are saying you’re having problems with the tyres. What is it, exactly? Do they not reach the temperature? Go over temperature? Graining? They have blisters? Also, Lewis, you used the supersoft at the end of Q2 after registering your time on soft tyres, and also you got the best time on supersoft in Q3. All weekend until now you didn’t have a so-good lap with supersoft.” And Lewis did the following answer:“ It’s because it’s a constant learning process – but these tyres, they seem to have the smallest working window. Whether you give us more rubber or less rubber, they appear to be a lot harder than last year. I know they went softer but I think it’s more so because the working range is far narrower than it was last year – and so you give it everything on an out-lap and you still don't have your tyres in the window. And they heat the tyres up in the blanket. This year they’re just too hard. That’s why everyone struggles. I don’t understand why they worked in Australia and haven’t worked ever since and today we have them working. Yeah, let’s hope… I was saying to Valtteri, when we get to Monaco we’re going to just be driving around on cold tyres because it’s not very easy to get your temperatures up there.”
4. These new tyres have a thinner inner tread by 0.4mm so their operation window shifted up by a few centigrades, as Seb said being harder than the previous ones. This means now a car which has a setup to run them harder now can`t overheat them, so they could reach the optimum operating window and extract the maximum grip out of these tyres. Not to mention a lower rake car philosophy gives you a shorter suspension setup hence car`s operation window is smaller …
Ha ha ha ha ha ha...seriously? Ha ha ha ha ha.
Umm. Jody Scheckter was the last champion for Ferrari before Schumacher in the 90s.Restomaniac wrote:The last winner in a Williams was Crashtor..
What a damning statement that is for Williams.
And yet something like 14 out of the last 17 races here have been won from pole.
Fair enough I did wonder where you were going then.
YipRestomaniac wrote:Grosjean needs shooting for that.
