Vettel is currently P2 +.027 to Bottas on the same rubber. In Free Practice 2. With half an hour to go. With one more practice session left. And Hamilton in 4th. And Hulkenberg and Sainz ahead of Charles. The only thing one can glean currently is that there are racing cars on a track in Shanghai.
Long run watch
Vettel 1:38.781
Bottas 1:39.292
Both on SS, Vettel did 7 laps on them and Bot did 10 laps
Lec out of the car..... I don’t think we will have trouble free weekend.
Not a good day for Charles, problems again. Hopefully not another engine issue
Well atleast our long run pace is looking handy, Vettel is faster than both Merc and Max, by quite a big margin.
Looks like a bouncing back weekend for Seb so far, that Bahrein test seem to have really helped him. The new CE though... Does not look bulletproof. With only 2 of them available for a season this is some what disturbing.
Major coolant leak on Leclercs car.
It's not how start but how you finish.
Vettel's last lap 1:41.215 still on SS. (tyre age: 17 laps)
Seb's first lap on hards: 1:38.112 (tyre age: 9 laps)
Edit: lap 2: 1:38.055
according to commentators our soft avg is aroound 1.40 bottas avg 1.39
It's a bit anxious reading the feedback!!!
Tifosi tell us very good race sim lap times ,and f412 comes to ruin it saying that commentators say we are slower?????!!!!!! I now both of them are telling what they are seeing/hearing, but WHATS GOING ON??!! Witch is the "real" picture??!!
FERRARI FOR EVER !!!!!!!
We are slower because we have not won it this year. So we must be slower. Dont believe this hype from last year that we are the faster ones. It is a bull ****.
Forza Schumi, keep fighting Champ, 1994-2004-2014
Forget this quali crap our strait line speed will deliver pole means crap the points come on race day o yea that's right we will also take one point for fastest lap just for good measure.
Mercedes brought a new front wing to Shanghai and have to either modify it or they can't use it. The new front wing does not comply with the regulations in the area of the end plates.
Source:
https://www.auto-mot...-gp-china-2019/
Well Bottas did shorter stint on softs, also with few back to back cool down laps which I am sure was excluded by the commentators. Vettel on the other hand did more laps onsofts with just one cooldown lap...so obviously his stint average looks worse than Bottas's.
But I don't think we should get too excited by Friday long runs. They aren't the actual representation of Sunday's race pace.
It's gonna be a fascinating race, we really need to win this one.
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