No need to lose all hope. In fact, we should all just stay numb till tomorrow. Then, after qualy, we can rant all day long.
No need to lose all hope. In fact, we should all just stay numb till tomorrow. Then, after qualy, we can rant all day long.
We're atleast half a second behind Mercedes.
Disappointing; 2009 to 2016...
After winter tests, Bottas said that they was not pushing for one great lap time, and that they can go faster...so I think we are in same order than last year, maybe RB is behind us, hopefully
In Barcelona testing 2017 the fastest lap was over 3 secs faster than last years pole time, Hamiltons fastest lap today was almost equal to last yeas pole time. There's still a maybe 3 seconds to gain tomorrow so the deficit is not really representative. I think we're still going to be strong come tomorrows qualifying
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Given the new rules i.e. with only 4.....let me say that again 4 engines for the ENTIRE YEAR.....practices(if any indication of what we just saw in Melbourne) will be limited as far as engine modes; let alone running the car with limited laps for aero and suspension setups due to the track and/or possible weather inclements.
When the fastest time came in Barcelona the track was rubbered in good. Now this is just first day. Of course setup might bring some tenths here and there and like I said a rubbered track is always faster. The thing that I am interested about is the engine not being used to its maximum because of short supply over the year (4). Taking that into consideration, more teams might have not gone very strong in free practice. But by the smile on Wolf's face and general feeling, I will not bet against Mercedes tomorrow or on race day.
+1.....fans paid good money in the stands. Free practice engines OR make 6 or 8 engines per year.....maybe 10 from an ENTERTAIN perspective as FANS want the teams to go "exceedingly fast" on a couple of laps during practice and put in way more laps than what we just witnessed.
Paddy Lowe said in the press conference that engine mileage wasn't a factor for limited running on Fridays and Saturdays. It's tyre allocation that's the limiter. Obviously he's speaking for the Mercedes engine, but ours is a good engine too. We did the whole winter test on just 1 engine.
This track is a-typical and very different from Barcelona. I do not expect Ferrari to be competitive enough to grab First or second position. 600-800 gap still exists in my opinion. I hope not.
Friday... Let's see what happens tomorrow?
In 2015 Ferrari began the year 1.64% behind Mercedes on pure pace at this track yet went on to win three races. Based on today’s lap times the gap is 0.65%. We should at least wait to see what qualifying brings before passing judgement on their form.
So we are not running on full engine mode and yet we are closer.
We have some balance issues and yet we are within 0.5 sec.
Now this is only Melbourne so wait a few races please but I'm staying optimistic here.
Hero's come and go, but legends never die!
http://www.planetf1.com/news/ferrari...y-predictions/
MA seems pretty confident, that there is more to come.
i hope for a Kimi win....c'mon iceman
even if the car is fast enough, I fear Ferrari will mess it up with a poor strategy as we have seen before.
i'm hoping Ferrari have been sandbagging a lot in these free practices, but something tells me that the Merc's have been sanbagging the most in winter testing and come quali they'll turn up the engine that extra bit and and pull HALF a second or more on our best time....i TRULY hope not, but those Germans look pretty sneaky to me and have looked all throughout winter testing....including TOTO wolf....
i really hope Ferrari will prove me wrong come Q3.....but....don't know, we'll see how happy both Ferrari and fans will be after QUALI
You can see Hamilton was pushing a lot harder than Vettel in practice. It looked like Ferrari were taking it pretty easy. Vettels best time was only about a half second faster than his pole time from last year and we already know these new era cars are way faster tgan what practice was showing. I expect Ferrari to start turning the power switch up in FP3 and in all three rounds of qualifying. Its clear from practice so far that the Ferrari is far more stable than the Mercedes. My prediction is that pole position will be in around 1:19.7
Hmm long runs
Hamilton
13 P 2:28.844
14 1:59.072
15 1:28.054
16 1:27.577
17 1:27.526
18 1:27.911
19 1:28.232
20 1:34.978
21 1:28.051
22 1:28.653
23 1:28.361
24 1:41.140
25 1:33.623
26 1:28.055
27 1:28.145
28 1:30.054
Vetel
16 P 2:15.563
17 1:37.577
18 1:29.217
19 1:28.872
20 1:29.369
21 1:28.849
22 1:29.100
23 1:29.565
24 1:36.924
25 1:29.082
26 1:28.862
27 1:28.615
28 1:28.580
29 1:28.933
30 1:29.450
31 1:30.664
32 1:29.258
33 1:40.050
Rai
15 P 2:13.042
16 1:59.499
17 1:28.919
18 1:28.806
19 1:28.836
20 1:29.890
21 1:29.212
22 1:28.817
23 1:29.114
24 1:29.327
25 1:30.507
26 1:34.144
27 1:28.370
Worryingly it looks like we're about a second off the pace in race simulation
"Okay,...Jean is smarter than you....... can you confirm you understood that message" Bernie on the phone to Max circa 2009
Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines - Enzo Ferrari circa 1960
yup i'm afraid of that also....whomever qualifies on pole will win because of really low tire deg, one stopper as well as possibly really hard to pass....
but yeah, our long run sims seem to be about a second off the Mercs...........unless we've run with 105Kg of fuel in there....which i don't think so
so i know it's still early to take predictions, but from what i've seen in practice, hte Mercs is clearly hte bench mark and we're a SOLID second, so far....
i really want Ferrari to prove me wrong.....so we'll see
So 2023 started off bad, but managed to claw back some lap time come end of the year. Lets hope SF24 will give us tifosi something to smile about.
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