This picture shows that Hamilton Q3 lap was made better window compared others.
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Lewis Hamilton dominated the Styrian Grand Prix from start to finish to take his first win of the season. Valtteri Bottas passed Verstappen for second in the closing stages, making for a perfect result for Mercedes AMG F1.
This picture shows that Hamilton Q3 lap was made better window compared others.
I think a large part of that stability is his excellent car control at the limit. Watching the lap he uses minimal steering input, opting to rotate the car through braking or throttle control. It was a really amazing lap IMO.Fulcrum wrote: ↑12 Jul 2020, 09:33Pretty mega lap from Hamilton under the circumstances. A few things worth pointing out.
- The Q3 grid order is inversely correlated with number of laps recorded. Doing an extra lap or two probably helped to familiarize the driver with conditions, gave them extra chances to hook up a lap, and put their tyres in the right window at the right time.
- Hamilton's qualifying time was set later in the session than anybody else. I suspect he made the best of what he had at exactly the right time. Bottas definitely did not.
- By comparison with other onboard footage, Hamilton's car looked extremely stable.
- Barely any steering correction out of turn 1, and little wheel spin.
- He took an extremely wide line into the hairpin (officially turn 3) at the top of the hill, some correction upon application of throttle on exit, but relatively little wheel spin.
- Turn 4, some twitching, but again, quite stable, and really early throttle application.
- Turn 6, had two bites at the wheel, but no opposite lock.
- Turn 7 and 8, probably the only wobbly moment during the lap, fighting the car to generate change in direction.
Its difficult to point at any moment in isolation as the differentiator in lap time. I suspect everybody else made mistakes, while Hamilton made observably few (if any).
- Turn 9 and 10. Very controlled.
It was also the last lap so he did not have in mind that an off would finish his session. Nothing to lose, no safety margin, balls oute30ernest wrote: ↑12 Jul 2020, 12:09I think a large part of that stability is his excellent car control at the limit. Watching the lap he uses minimal steering input, opting to rotate the car through braking or throttle control. It was a really amazing lap IMO.Fulcrum wrote: ↑12 Jul 2020, 09:33Pretty mega lap from Hamilton under the circumstances. A few things worth pointing out.
- The Q3 grid order is inversely correlated with number of laps recorded. Doing an extra lap or two probably helped to familiarize the driver with conditions, gave them extra chances to hook up a lap, and put their tyres in the right window at the right time.
- Hamilton's qualifying time was set later in the session than anybody else. I suspect he made the best of what he had at exactly the right time. Bottas definitely did not.
- By comparison with other onboard footage, Hamilton's car looked extremely stable.
- Barely any steering correction out of turn 1, and little wheel spin.
- He took an extremely wide line into the hairpin (officially turn 3) at the top of the hill, some correction upon application of throttle on exit, but relatively little wheel spin.
- Turn 4, some twitching, but again, quite stable, and really early throttle application.
- Turn 6, had two bites at the wheel, but no opposite lock.
- Turn 7 and 8, probably the only wobbly moment during the lap, fighting the car to generate change in direction.
Its difficult to point at any moment in isolation as the differentiator in lap time. I suspect everybody else made mistakes, while Hamilton made observably few (if any).
- Turn 9 and 10. Very controlled.
hard to say, as they only did runs on Mediums, while many other teams did not. They looked decent though, more or less on a similar level as Stroll
I would probably put Bottas on mediums to cover both potential strategies Verstappen may go for. Not sure if Mercedes really wants to split their drivers yet though.cooken wrote: ↑12 Jul 2020, 12:23Given how last race panned out with Merc starting on soft, I'd be surprised if they did any different to risk track position and first lap contact. Although they probably have so much pace advantage it doesn't matter. The rest of the grid however should be very interesting.