TimW wrote: ↑03 Jul 2021, 16:58
etusch wrote: ↑03 Jul 2021, 16:53
TimW wrote: ↑03 Jul 2021, 16:50
Mercedes just accepted they could not win in dry conditions. So they put on more downforce and hope for a wet race. Easy 3rd & 4rd if its dry, 'easy' 1st & ??? If its wet.
It is not 1st if it rains but easy 1st? Why easy ? Because if it is not easy not achievable right ?
Withmore downforce they should have an advantage in the rain, so my uneducated expectation is that Hamilton will be decisively faster than Verstappen (and everybody else) if it rains.
Edit: and the and the quotation marks because it is never easy in the rain.
You cannot make such a conclusion. They do not have a rain setup. Hamilton is just hoping for rain to level the playing field.
The redbull still has more downforce than them anyway so rain wont give mercedes an advantage.
Mercedes were not gambling on rain. Their greatest hope was a setup that gave them better tyre deg than redbull.
All the same, i am hoping for rain tomorrow, not at the start but before the first stint is over.