Nuvolari wrote: ↑03 Aug 2017, 18:34
Interesting that the 2016 pole lap on super soft was only just over 0.2s faster than the fastest time in Q2 on the soft tyre, with a best sector 2 by Rosberg slower than RB and Ferrari. Is there not such a big lap time gain between the softer tyres here? I would've thought the softer compounds would be particularly helpful in sector 2.
Hope Pirelli don't mandate crazy high tyre pressures like last year.
It's funny, RB always had tiny rear wings on Spa and still was always a match for Mercedes on Spa's S2 (2015 and 2016). However, because of their poor PU, even with the low drag RW, they were still massively behind Mercedes.
S2 has high speed corner, so a softer tyre won't matter much there but more on the slow corners of S1/S3, which are just a couple on Spa.
It's funny cause the record is from 2009 and I doubt the 2017 cars will be able to beat even that(2016 QLF times barely faster than a race record
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), imagine if the track was the same in 2004
All tyres are too bad this year, they all degrade quite a lot but always in similar rates, so the softer compounds always remain faster, unlike on previous seasons. I'm surprised anybody still opt for anything other than US(or the softest available).