Belgian GP 2011 - Spa-Francorchamps

[MrBlacky]

I wouldn't pay much attention to those as those are showing best sector times for each driver, rather than sector times from that driver's best lap. McLaren were experimenting with downforce levels and others probably were messing around with the setups too; so that could show sector 1 from a low downforce run and sector 2 from a high downforce run

Hm? No the sector times displayed in the official live timing are from the fastest lap.

[MikeFromCanada]

I wouldn't pay much attention to those as those are showing best sector times for each driver, rather than sector times from that driver's best lap. McLaren were experimenting with downforce levels and others probably were messing around with the setups too; so that could show sector 1 from a low downforce run and sector 2 from a high downforce run

Hm? No the sector times displayed in the official live timing are from the fastest lap.

Must not be for Practice sessions, because just doing a quick comparons of the sectors and laptimes of Mark and Vettel shows a difference in the calculated difference using the sectors and the actual difference listen in their lap times.

Here are their times again:

Webber: 32.4 48.1 29.4 - 1:50.321
Vettel: 32.0 49.6 29.3 - 1:51.790

From the sector times, it shows Vettel up 4 tenths in S1, down 1.5s in S2, and then up 1 tenth in S3 for roughly a 1 second net gap in laptime to Mark. Though their fastest laps show a difference of almost 1.5 seconds.

[MrBlacky]

Ah ok I misunderstood something, sorry.

[marcush.]

We don´t have more ...but obviously Vettel was quick in the speedtrap .So either he got a big tow combined with a long gearing or they tried something and it did not really work (judging by the times it was not fixable in the session and so Vettel was further down the order)

[dave34m]

Can anyone PM me and tell me th best torrent site for F1 so I can download the pracice sessions, thanks

[Deany_t]

We don´t have more ...but obviously Vettel was quick in the speedtrap .So either he got a big tow combined with a long gearing or they tried something and it did not really work (judging by the times it was not fixable in the session and so Vettel was further down the order)

did vettel actually run the soft tyre though?

[djos]

I wouldn't pay much attention to those as those are showing best sector times for each driver, rather than sector times from that driver's best lap. McLaren were experimenting with downforce levels and others probably were messing around with the setups too; so that could show sector 1 from a low downforce run and sector 2 from a high downforce run

Hm? No the sector times displayed in the official live timing are from the fastest lap.

Must not be for Practice sessions, because just doing a quick comparons of the sectors and laptimes of Mark and Vettel shows a difference in the calculated difference using the sectors and the actual difference listen in their lap times.

Here are their times again:

Webber: 32.4 48.1 29.4 - 1:50.321
Vettel: 32.0 49.6 29.3 - 1:51.790

From the sector times, it shows Vettel up 4 tenths in S1, down 1.5s in S2, and then up 1 tenth in S3 for roughly a 1 second net gap in laptime to Mark. Though their fastest laps show a difference of almost 1.5 seconds.

Looks like another weekend that Seb will end up "borrowing" Mark's setup before qually!

[jamsbong]

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[djos]

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(I do appreciate his driving talents tho, just not a fan of some of his methods)

[raymondu999]

Actually I don't see anything wrong with Seb's car. He was running slightly less downforce which explains 4 tenths in sector 1. He didn't hook a complete lap together on the slicks either. If you add all of his best "slick tyre" sectors together from the same run, he would be 1:51.028 (for reference, Mark's would be 1:50.145 - 8 tenths above).

Also, Sebastian didn't run the option tyres - I would consider 8 tenths off option vs prime for the longest lap on the calendar would be quite good.

[jamsbong]

Actually I don't see anything wrong with Seb's car. He was running slightly less downforce which explains 4 tenths in sector 1. He didn't hook a complete lap together on the slicks either. If you add all of his best "slick tyre" sectors together from the same run, he would be 1:51.028 (for reference, Mark's would be 1:50.145 - 8 tenths above).

Also, Sebastian didn't run the option tyres.

Good job Raymond! Thats quite a detail analysis.

[raymondu999]

Cheers mate, sadly I can't take credit for it. I got it from f1fanatic.co.uk

[kalinka]

FP3 under way, PM me for link if you want to watch. It's raining quite hard currently in Spa.

[Tamburello]

I just heard the comment as well - good work Raymondu999!

[raymondu999]

Eh? What comment?