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[Swed3121]

FP2 looked better

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HOAUd5EXEAA ... =4096x4096

And still half a second off the Ferrari

[Macklaren]

Merc teams better be sandbagging for reliability

[FittingMechanics]

Norris was one of the first to put on softs.
Mercedes and Piastri had their runs interrupted due to red flag. Mercedes (at least Kimi) were quick in S1 before red flag.
Ferrari was last one out and had clean runs.

Very hard to say anything except I think Red Bull is behind.

[CjC]

Norris was going quicker on a second push lap…

[Macklaren]

race pace looked bad though

[CjC]

I’ve seen some figure compared to Russell and Lando was a tenth off. The others had shorter stints which made their averages look better

[SilviuAgo]

race pace looked bad though

Compared to whom?





LONG RUNS IN HUNGARY FP2
MEDIUM
VER: 1:24.447
RUS: 1:24.528 (+0.081s)
NOR: 1:24.702 (+0.255s)
HAM: 1:24.835 (+0.388s)
PIA: 1:25.499 (+1.052s)
OCO: 1:26.213 (+1.765s)
GAS: 1:26.356 (+1.908s)
BEA: 1:26.554 (+2.106s)
BOT: 1:27.976 (+3.528s)



ANT and LEC doing (short) runs on Softs. Lando the only one with 10 Medium laps (vs VER or HAM 5 or RUS 9)
Imo McLaren is not looking bad. Considering that, vs Ferrari, Mercedes or RedBull, they had more job to do with the upgrades and understanding the updated package. Plus one session with Oscar replaced. We saw the impact that this had also on Mercedes, where ANT finished P 13 the second free practice after he gave his place to Vesti for FP1.

[venkyhere]

Went through the lap plots for Q sim run by the 'big 4' :

Mercedes - car was out of balance and after correction, couldn't run due to red flag, so 'unkown'

McLaren - 'showed their hand' the most

Redbull - hiding straightline speed, and not deploying the full quota

Ferrari - hiding the most by not deploying full quota, in spite of that, Sector3 is spectacular, leagues ahead of the others, by atleast -0.25s in this shortest sector.

[SilviuAgo]

If Lando can find a solution for the last corner, we have a good chance tomorrow, for a good starting position.