Absolutely... If I’m not wrong Gasly qualified last in Melbourne last season... So definitely some of this times need to be further analyzed to understand how much progress was done.diffuser wrote:My point was that I seem to remember STR/Alfa having problems in Quali Aus 2018. I think we just need to be mindful of causes for time discrepancies. That it isn't always just pure pace. If we use the data to create trends and averages, it will be interesting.SmallSoldier wrote: ↑24 Mar 2019, 17:08You keep saying that, but your logic is flawed... You can’t compare the times of one car year on year because of all the changes... But comparing the improvement of every car against each other is a valid argument since all the teams used the same regulations last year and this year.Capharol wrote: yes there is... other wings, other bargeboards, other temperatures, for some other engines, for some other drivers.....
to many different facts compared to last year, and therefore in my opinion you can't compare 2018 anymore with 2019, due to these other wings, tyres etc.
see 2019 as year 0 with new regulations, same goes for 2021 by the way
So even though, there are new wings, bargeboards, etc... You can compare the improvement from every team and in that regard there are teams that made great improvements (Alfa and STR)... There are teams that made good improvements (RP, Mclaren, Haas)... There are teams that were expected to get less improvement than the midfield due to the law of diminishing returns but still made good improvements (Mercedes and Ferrari) and there are teams that disappointed (RBR with better engine or Williams).
You don’t want to accept this logic because it means your team either was lying about how much better the engine is, or didn’t made as good of a job with their chassis as the rest of the field... But the fact that the analysis doesn’t show what “you” want to see, doesn’t make it invalid.
I believe that in the RBH topic I mentioned before the weekend started that I was surprised that RBH were rushing their China upgrade and that it was most probably because after testing they realized that they were way farther than they thought from Mercedes and Ferrari... Wonder how far they would have been if they didn’t rushed it in.
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Since McLaren's car stopped improving right around Spain last year. It will be interesting to see that trend widen.
The top 3 though, they were in the top 6 places and their Qualy performance can be very representative both years (there might be a few races where with penalties we may have to be more careful with the analysis)... Bahrain should be also telling in regards to how much they have move forward this season.
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