Bold statement.godlameroso wrote:Vettel looked like he had the fastest car in the race.
Given that he had the slowest tyre he wasn't that bad either. But in Canada Merc will be back few tenths comfortably aheadJuzh wrote:Bold statement.godlameroso wrote:Vettel looked like he had the fastest car in the race.
Not necessarily in this context. The oscillation you see in the image is the result of the wingtips stalling repeatedly as they make contact with the circuit under load.godlameroso wrote:Wing flutter actually stabilizes the wake reducing turbulence.
He was faster than perez a tiny bit. Is that what ferrari is about now? Overall I think Vettel's pace relative to the front runners is still unknown given the traffic problems he had all race.godlameroso wrote:Did you watch him catch up to Perez? He was clearly quicker than the Force India, just wasn't quick enough.
Debatable which tires were actually best to have in those conditions. Certainly isn't as clear cut as it is normally.F1NAC wrote:Given that he had the slowest tyre he wasn't that bad either. But in Canada Merc will be back few tenths comfortably aheadJuzh wrote:Bold statement.godlameroso wrote:Vettel looked like he had the fastest car in the race.
barcelona... impossible to pass along with ferrari screwup in qualifying..... Monaco a "red bull track" and they capitalised for the most part... before that ferrari was 9 tenths ahead in Australia(qualifying and 9 tenths ahead in bahrain before the driver mistakes in quali in china....proteus wrote:Im somewhat surprised by excuses everyone is searching for their poor performance in previus race and todays qualifying. Even Vettel is becoming a whiny character complaining on the radio...The fact of the matter is that their chasis is aparently somwhere 4th on the grid, behind RedBull, Mercedes and i think that STR too. Not to mention there is atleast 1 of their engines breaking down in their cars or cars of the customers in every weekend. I must say that im really really curious what kind of sorcery is being done in RedBull, that they are faster with so much weaker engine.
and Ferrari should the second team, with a good margin to RB. Williams and FI should be also strong. I think Vettel will have a good chance of returning to the podium and hopefully we will see the pure speed of the Italians.F1NAC wrote:Given that he had the slowest tyre he wasn't that bad either. But in Canada Merc will be back few tenths comfortably aheadJuzh wrote:Bold statement.godlameroso wrote:Vettel looked like he had the fastest car in the race.
As he said finding excuses always, just see how redbull have evolved from race 1, and what do you mean by redbull track??? Ferrari gets the most money above everyone else and has the engine seamlessly fitted into its chassis, either Ferrari has got poor engineers or they are totally mediocre at aero, a good car has the ability to fight anywhere everywhere except Mercedes W06 @ Singapore (which was really due to underestimation and improper understanding of setup like toto said)giantfan10 wrote:barcelona... impossible to pass along with ferrari screwup in qualifying..... Monaco a "red bull track" and they capitalised for the most part... before that ferrari was 9 tenths ahead in Australia(qualifying and 9 tenths ahead in bahrain before the driver mistakes in quali in china....proteus wrote:Im somewhat surprised by excuses everyone is searching for their poor performance in previus race and todays qualifying. Even Vettel is becoming a whiny character complaining on the radio...The fact of the matter is that their chasis is aparently somwhere 4th on the grid, behind RedBull, Mercedes and i think that STR too. Not to mention there is atleast 1 of their engines breaking down in their cars or cars of the customers in every weekend. I must say that im really really curious what kind of sorcery is being done in RedBull, that they are faster with so much weaker engine.
how does that translate to red bull being faster? come canada i suspect red bull will be right back in third fighting for scraps.
the 5 tenths red bull are claiming and the 9 tenths ferrari has in hand along with a coming turbo upgrade doesnt compute to red bull being faster but we shall see i suppose : )
Yes, traction and braking stability are very important but you need a very powerful PU because the fast sections are majority on this track. For this reason I consider that Mercedes, Ferrari and all the Mercedes powered teams will be stronger on this track. While RB will not be as strong as in Monaco, TR will suffer a little bit and McLaren will suffer a lot, unless they bring a good update which works.godlameroso wrote:Canada has similar requirements to Monaco, except for the long straight, but getting a good exit from the hairpin is more important, and so is being able to ride the curbs, as is braking stability and traction. There are no high speed corners they're all low to medium speed.
Isn't this supposed to be Mercedes' biggest problem, as highlighted by many people here last year? Their strength was all about tyre pressures and once the clamp down came in Monza, from Singapore, they were supposed to fall of the grace.Juzh wrote:-Mercedes among the teams capable of controlling tyre pressures at will
-it seems that the higher the mandatory tyre pressures, the larger the superiority of Mercedes
Every year is the same, always the chasis... when is going Ferrari to build a truly good chasis?giantfan10 wrote:So a german reporter claims the german team has it all figured out and the italian team doesnt... go figure
What happened to this mercedes mastery of their car in monaco? Rosberg being a moving roadblock is completely opposite to his claim....
Why didnt the best chassis qualify on pole in monaco and had to depend on a botched pitstop to win?
Thats a whole lot of hogwash from amus with his usual german slant to every article written by him
I see we are back to the standard nonsense about the ferrari engine being on par with mercedes so it must be the chassis or tire management....