Spain GP 2017 - Practice and qualifying thread

[mwk360]

Kimi is 0.24 behind Ham in Q1
if we are sandbagging/holding back then we could give them a fight in Q3 when their oil is burning + engines max

[Rob]

Ted was saying it generally take 4hrs to install the engine etc
But Ferrari have done it in 2 n half hours.
Get job forza ferrari

4 hours is the nice and steady thursday night install time. When they got to install the engine in small time window, its not a problem for the crews. No rushing, as that makes mistakes. They all at it as one team, they all know the part(s) they got to focus on. Lovely to watch.

[vcs316]

yup....that comes from knowing the car inside and out and proving team radio wrong.

I would rather our team radio is never wrong. Some work to do there.

[nani_s23]

Vet practising in &out laps

[mwk360]

Does Ham have the new engine and not Bot? because it is already showing, Big margin

[vcs316]

4 hours is the nice and steady thursday night install time. When they got to install the engine in small time window, its not a problem for the crews. No rushing, as that makes mistakes. They all at it as one team, they all know the part(s) they got to focus on. Lovely to watch.

Is there a video of the same? Any F1 team?

[mwk360]

Stroll knocked out in Q1

[nani_s23]

Both drivers from haas team did good job.

[mwk360]

Haas impressive

[SinanOzerS]

Does Ham have the new engine and not Bot? because it is already showing, Big margin

Bottas had to go back his old engine that's been used in first four races.

[Michal2_F1]

And Sauber on last year's Ferrari engine! Very very close in the midfield, further exposing Palmer and Stroll's performances.

[jgonzalesm6]

Stroll knocked out in Q1

he has been struggling since the start of the year......needs to develop more "race-craft"....he is no Mad Max thats for sure but he should be up there with a "retired" F1 driver...

[fmatiasii]

RBR still 1s down. so much for the hype.

[nani_s23]

Haas impressive

Grosjean was struggling all weekend. Did a good job to put a clean lap. That haas car driveability is poor, engine is giving them good life.

[jgonzalesm6]

middle group looks very tight with regards to times.

[nani_s23]

I think vet has power deficit...

[mwk360]

Wolff smiling & laughing , booooo

[vcs316]

"I picked up loads of understeer," Palmer says. When he's told he's knocked out in Q1, he says "Yep, I know".

[nani_s23]

RBR still 1s down. so much for the hype.

Yeah but they reduced some gap ...For sure

[mwk360]

middle group looks very tight with regards to times.

exciting

[mizf1]

Right moment of truth coming up, we will see how much time everyones upgrades are worth

[jgonzalesm6]

RBR still 1s down. so much for the hype.

Don't count them out.....yet.....maybe this race but they are doing far better with reliability than we are going further down the race schedule; grid spot penalities could be looming for the Scuderia

[mwk360]

Yeah but they reduced some gap ...For sure

agreed, but i think Q3 is when we can see the true gap, i still think Ham is way to comfy in front this weekend, Max might be really close to Seb if he is having engine issues

[vcs316]

Massa: "I'm struggling a lot to make the tyres work, very tricky. It's fortunate [to be through to Q2, 14th] because it was pretty difficult."

[mwk360]

Don't count them out.....yet.....maybe this race but they are doing far better with reliability than we are going further down the race schedule; grid spot penalities could be looming for the Scuderia

[mizf1]

Very windy on circuit

[FerrariSteve]

Palmer is way out of his depth, time they dumped him imo.

[nani_s23]

Bottas Lock up

[jgonzalesm6]

Palmer is way out of his depth, time they dumped him imo.

+1

[fmatiasii]

Bottas struggling.