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a sole pinkie finger on the streering wheel. Let's talk about that like we do every year shall we?
Last year it was just Rosberg due to Hamilton’s PU penalties. It was a “just enough” lap. With both drivers in the mix, they would have gone a lot faster.
Kimi was also less than 2/10 behind. I do believe Rosberg was great at driving "just enough", but gap looks too small to me.
All the wrong angles as usualsosic2121 wrote: ↑06 Aug 2017, 10:47Kimi was also less than 2/10 behind. I do believe Rosberg was great at driving "just enough", but gap looks too small to me.
Maybe pole is not guaranteed.
- what is the point of dragging '16 results again as some kind of indication of '17 form? Can't you remember Ferrari vs RB at Monaco, or against Mercedes at Hungary/Singapore. For the 100th time, RB from last season is not RB from '17, they can go whining about the engine but that's not the reason they're losing to Mercedes and Ferrari now.NR:We had a difficult weekend until Qualifying. Especially, this morning we were thinking that we were off the pace a bit. So I was really happy to grab pole today. The Red Bulls were quickest on the long runs on Friday, so we need to be at our best to beat them. The tyres are a big challenge in the heat here this weekend. The degradation is very high. My disadvantage at the start is that I have a harder tyre with lower grip,
Spa is considered a power circuit, but cars with lesser engines were only 1.5/10s behind last Year. If that gap was realistic, maybe engine difference is not detrimental this year.
The day you stop feeling offended, whenever Rosberg's statistics are put in perspective, you would understand the picture better.iotar__ wrote: ↑06 Aug 2017, 14:40- what is this just "just quick enough" nonsense? Rosberg had one of the better laps in China '16 where Ferrari were close/on par. BTW in Singapore Hamilton didn't have any penalties and Rosberg was ~0,6 quicker than second Ricciardo and ~0,7 than third LH. Draw conclusions from that. Dragging Hamilton into everything.
Fair enoughgodlameroso wrote: ↑05 Aug 2017, 03:48I've been conservatively wrong on every prediction I've made thus far, so I figured I'd try going the other route this time![]()
Unfortunately, the opening of the PU regulations made Mercedes stretch it's legs over Renault(they said their 2017 PU is just 0.3s faster than their 2016's while FI claimed Mercedes made "unprecedent" gains with their 2017 PU), so, I'm afraid Red Bull will be far this time and, as said by godlameroso, Rosberg could've gone faster(just look at his Q2 time on the soft compound)
except there are several videos out there showing that they, normally(I guess Silverstone QLF, on that damp track, was an exception), do not lack speed on the corners. Being fair to them, their RB13 car might not be much better than Ferrari or Mercedes, but it's not much worse either. It's there or thereabouts and the PU makes the most difference(their performances on Monaco and Hungary are further evidence of that).
Well, that kind of prediction would come close to true, "IF" everyone is running a high downforce spec. As Both Spa and Monza require a far more trimmed downforce package (lowest downforce package for the calendar), it would be hard to take Hungary as a reference for cornering performance. Whoever has the powerful PU, can afford to bolt a little more wing.ironrose wrote: ↑07 Aug 2017, 17:37https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EdMsHAUX_A
Going by the video I think it will be
Merc dominant from Turn 2 to Turn 7
Ferrari dominant from Turn 8 to 14
Merc dominant from Turn 15 to 18
Ferrai dominant in Bus Stop Chicane and first hair pin (Merc lost lot of time in those hairpins at Hungary)
Why do you have to ruin everything?
something like, hey guys! wait up! :0
They've said that before and then been surprisingly competitive at spa.