IIRC wasn't Canada the first race Bridgestone said they could bring the softer tyres as requested by the teams/FOM (not sure)? Reason being they had manufactured all the tyres up to Canada.Tomba wrote: Well it's all about the tyres really. Canada became an interesting race because the tyres made such a huge difference.
+1Robert_Kubica wrote:Renault has much more to show for itself in the last two races, then the result has shown.
The BBC post race coverage had a discussion with one of the technical people from Bridgestone. he named three tracks as being very hard to predict for tyre wear with variable performance. They were Montreal, Hockenheim... and err... sorry!gibells wrote:IIRC wasn't Canada the first race Bridgestone said they could bring the softer tyres as requested by the teams/FOM (not sure)? Reason being they had manufactured all the tyres up to Canada.Tomba wrote: Well it's all about the tyres really. Canada became an interesting race because the tyres made such a huge difference.
If correct it will hopefully be the beginning of more crazy tyre strategies.
Still slower than Mercedes.Blackout wrote:+1Robert_Kubica wrote:Renault has much more to show for itself in the last two races, then the result has shown.
Seriously, you need to really look at things in a more balanced fashion than to say Mercedes outpacing Renault is all down to "luck".Blackout wrote:[-X
In Istanbul and Montreal it wasn't slower... same thing in Melbourne and Bahrain.
In Barcelona, Kubica was as fast as Schumacher despite Sutil being in front of him and a broken front wing...) In Montreal, after 3 stops and 2 very damaged endplates, Kubica ended at 1 second behind rosberg (who stopped only 2 times)
The only gp where the Wo1 was really faster than the R30, is Shanghai.
Only the better qulifiying speed and the luck helped Mercedes to keep Renault 'behind'.
Really? It's not down to luck, but they sure benefited from Renault's gamble in Montreal. If you look at Turkey, RK was stuck behind NR, he was the only one that had the same pace as the frontrunners. I think Renault has focused to much on race pace(in Turkey and even in Monaco, which I completely don't understand) and now they've realised it. RK had the fourth best time on options in Q2 in Canada. In Q3 he qualified better on the primes than NR did on the options. They are clearly behind Renault and I don't think they'll cause any more trouble(you never know with Ross Brawn) for Renault, especially in Valencia and Budapest.JohnsonsEvilTwin wrote:Seriously, you need to really look at things in a more balanced fashion than to say Mercedes outpacing Renault is all down to "luck".Blackout wrote:[-X
In Istanbul and Montreal it wasn't slower... same thing in Melbourne and Bahrain.
In Barcelona, Kubica was as fast as Schumacher despite Sutil being in front of him and a broken front wing...) In Montreal, after 3 stops and 2 very damaged endplates, Kubica ended at 1 second behind rosberg (who stopped only 2 times)
The only gp where the Wo1 was really faster than the R30, is Shanghai.
Only the better qulifiying speed and the luck helped Mercedes to keep Renault 'behind'.
I had to laugh at it
Sorry, you're just dead wrong! Have'nt you watched any of the races?. Not provoking anyone and this is the Valencia tread. We won't have any more of these discussions, beacuse RK is going to leave NR and MS in the dust!JohnsonsEvilTwin wrote:Thats right Blame Petrov.
Whining of Mercedes???? Oohhhhhh You mean on Mercedes threads where you post about Renault?
Renault are behind Mercedes get over it.