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Lewis Hamilton jumped into the lead at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix to never give it away again. Pole sitter Valtteri Bottas held on to second and finished there, securing yet another Mercedes 1-2 as Ferrari's Vettel had to settle for third.
Ouch, that's really going to hurt later in the season!
When he stopped that stint, tv showed he was on yellow ..
Indeed it was on the hards. I've watched it from onboard cam.
I'm pretty sure they are in different engine modes, because if I heard the commentators correctly, Merc was over 20 kph slower down the back strait. Ferrari "might" have an engine advantage, but it isn't worth that much.Artur Craft wrote: ↑12 Apr 2019, 06:10Ferrari massively quick so far, so I predict another Bahrain type of performance from them.
What is the grid penalty for taking a 3rd? Must be a generally reliable component seeing only two permitted per year, so if a 3rd is needed, should only be a grid penalty at one race and they'd probably strategically pick a race where they can easily do damage limitation.
Yeah it's possible, in the onboard lap with Vettel his engineers tells him to run a 1+ test on the backstraight, so it's entirely possible the gain there is due to that. I don't think however the sky commentators ever said 20kph, they were talking about a difference of 8kph between Leclerc and Vettel, but even Hamilton's engineer didn't know Vettel's speed because there was no GPS (at least that's what Hamilton's engineer told him after his lap).dans79 wrote: ↑12 Apr 2019, 06:31I'm pretty sure they are in different engine modes, because if I heard the commentators correctly, Merc was over 20 kph slower down the back strait. Ferrari "might" have an engine advantage, but it isn't worth that much.Artur Craft wrote: ↑12 Apr 2019, 06:10Ferrari massively quick so far, so I predict another Bahrain type of performance from them.
