Australian GP 2016 - Practice 1,2 & 3 + Qualifying Thread

[SinanOzerS]

Good lap from Vettel, could've been quicker.

[fronaldo]

Vettel time could be 0.4-0.5s faster if not for that lock up

[KimiBot]

it looks like that mercs are maybe 0.1-0.2 ahead, atm

[tohellandback]

yes he had a lockup...i agree can be better

[totox]

Any news about the engine runing in low power mode???

[fronaldo]

0.7s gap still too big..

[johncnet]

what tyre soft or supersoft on vettel for that beautiful lap time

[Rishu]

Vettel improved 1 sec on SS tyres

[Kyss4k]

The lockup was not worth half a second, maybe just a tenth. It seems that the gap to Mercs is still significant sadly

WDIT: Ok this is weird

[KimiBot]

Vettel improved 1 sec on SS tyres

time was made on third lap, with softs, 0.5 is maybe difference between soft and supersoft

[totox]

Not really, only .2 on ss!! not bad at all!!

[fronaldo]

Merc ahead of us 0.1-0.2s

[Fireblade]

Hamilton two tenths faster than Seb on the same tyre. Not bad, if that's the real gap.

[tohellandback]

Super Soft Gap is .228 ..not very bad i think and Vettle has a bad lap he could improve

[fronaldo]

Vettel could split both Merc if not for that lockup..Game on guys?

[totox]

maybe, without the lock he could be only .1 off the mercs. Thats are good news. Anyway, it will be good to have the same .2 distance in Softs.

[Kyss4k]

If this is real... good luck Mercedes! We'll destroy you!

[FerrariF60]

Vettel could split both Merc if not for that lockup..Game on guys?

again we should look at these times our boys have set with a bit of caution....it's still free practice because we don't knwo all the variables like fuel loads, engine maps...etc
but all in all i think we are a lot closer to the Mercs at this beginning of the season.....

we'll see where we are in a couple hours time when Q3 ends

[SinanOzerS]

Wow, Toro Rosso looks very fast.

[Kyss4k]

Nice laps from Toro Rosso as well!

[fronaldo]

Question is..Do Merc turned down their power?

[FerrariF60]

Nice laps from Toro Rosso as well!

probably on FUMES....

[SinanOzerS]

Also don't forget guys, Seb and Kimi both still didn't pit after their fastest laps, they're still running. So they had plenty of fuel onboard.

[tifosi_kaka]

The lockup was not worth half a second, maybe just a tenth. It seems that the gap to Mercs is still significant sadly

WDIT: Ok this is weird

I think the Mercs barely pushed on their laps. Rosberg has barely used much kerbs.

And our boys are still on the track, so maybe we did have a quite a bit of fuel in the car?

So both Mercs and us should be faster still, just not sure by how much.

[Rishu]

again we should look at these times our boys have set with a bit of caution....it's still free practice because we don't knwo all the variables like fuel loads, engine maps...etc
but all in all i think we are a lot closer to the Mercs at this beginning of the season.....

we'll see where we are in a couple hours time when Q3 ends

Yeah gap can increase on proper racing tracks like Malaysia or Barcelona but certainly good point to start, game on

[FerrariF60]

Question is..Do Merc turned down their power?

we'll find out soon enough, won't we???

[MRRabbit]

vettel with that time and the amount of laps afterwards, still on the track meaning he had quite abit of fuel in the tank for that lap. Being cautiously optimistic

[Kyss4k]

I can't get over how beautiful the yellow on the Renault looks... Why do most of the teams stick to boring black or silver when we can have something that pretty and recognizable.

[SinanOzerS]

Toro Rosso's speed is the great example of why the engine manufacturers doesn't want to give Red Bull an engine.

[Nand0Nand0]

Vetel 2 tenths behind but did 12 laps, Hamilton did 5 laps .... I think, can someone confirm that. If so that looks very good