Mercedes AMG F1 Team 2012

[skgoa]

Very interesting. Sounds like Mercedes was just hunting for a bigger part of the pie.

Was there ever any real doubt about that?

[marcush.]

obviously this track does emphasisze the good points of the car ---weird china -Monaco and Monza who thought of these suiting the same base car And only these three ....

[Mestrades]

These are the times that the principal drivers have done today in their long respective simulations.
X-Axis: The time per lap - 60 seconds (for convenience)
Y-Axis: Number of laps (Aprox all of them have done 15 laps, the lines are trendlines)

The best times are for Michael with a descent tire degradation. I think that he and Rosberg are the favorites for this GP.

[siskue2005]

obviously this track does emphasisze the good points of the car ---weird china -Monaco and Monza who thought of these suiting the same base car And only these three ....

There is a pattern
Monaco needs lots of stable braking and great traction out of corner....so does Monza and China
and another the car is slippery as hell in a straight line so they had advatage in Monza and China
therefore in Monaco they could run lots of wing and still be on par with others as drag doesnot matter in Monaco like other tracks

[clipsy1H]

P4 and 6 not bad don't know how or why Force India was faster than MGP

[siskue2005]

i think there is no way to catch the Mclarens, but he has to fight off Massa, Vettel, Kimi and Alosno for 3rd place...could be a fantastic race

[zyphro]

Blind hope, but, let's hope they sacrificed some qualifying speed for the race.

[clipsy1H]

without incidents will be impossible to finish in top 3 with 1 car. I guess Vettel and Kimi have a strong pace tomorrow.

i'm so sad for Alonso he deserve here a better place.

[Vasconia]

Good job guys! the Mercedes seem to be good in the long stints and with Michael 4th and Nico 6th we can be quite optimistic. Excellent job by the "old" german, 3 tenths of a second faster than Nico.

[NonNewtonic]

without incidents will be impossible to finish in top 3 with 1 car. I guess Vettel and Kimi have a strong pace tomorrow. i'm so sad for Alonso he deserve here a better place.

I don't think so because Mercedes has comparable race pace as the Red Bulls, Ferrari or even McLaren! The key is how long they could preserve their tyre? Because in Monza a extra stop could cause you dearly as youarer under pitlane speed limit while others are running at300+kmh

[alvinkhorfire]

^
+1.
I am very hopeful that Schumacher can obtain a podium tomorrow. [-o<

[xpensive]

obviously this track does emphasisze the good points of the car ---weird china -Monaco and Monza who thought of these suiting the same base car And only these three ....

There is a pattern
Monaco needs lots of stable braking and great traction out of corner....so does Monza and China
and another the car is slippery as hell in a straight line so they had advatage in Monza and China
therefore in Monaco they could run lots of wing and still be on par with others as drag doesnot matter in Monaco like other tracks

What are you guys smoking anyway, Monza is an xtreme powertrack, that's all there's to it, but beaten by an FI....giggle!

[zyphro]

obviously this track does emphasisze the good points of the car ---weird china -Monaco and Monza who thought of these suiting the same base car And only these three ....

There is a pattern
Monaco needs lots of stable braking and great traction out of corner....so does Monza and China
and another the car is slippery as hell in a straight line so they had advatage in Monza and China
therefore in Monaco they could run lots of wing and still be on par with others as drag doesnot matter in Monaco like other tracks

What are you guys smoking anyway, Monza is an xtreme powertrack, that's all there's to it, but beaten by an FI....giggle!

Oh yeah, I forgot points were awarded on a Saturday; I wonder what you're smoking.

[bhall]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcZVD74UnOo[/youtube]

They don't award points on Saturday, but with Pirelli predicting one-stop strategies, we've seen a reasonable indication of the results tomorrow. Though, obviously, surprises lurk.

[Ferraripilot]

What are you guys smoking anyway, Monza is an xtreme powertrack, that's all there's to it, but beaten by an FI....giggle!

FI doesn't have the race pace and neither do Ferrari. Should be a good one tomorrow for Schu. The race is indeed Mclaren's to lose though