Do you remember our ''in Aldo Costa we trust'' conversation during the winter? He is a genius =D> . They have made a massive step forward.Vasconia wrote:Aldo Costa has done an amazing job, Mercedes had a problem with suspensions and tyre management, 3 years without a great improvement, then the italian came last year and see the results. =D>Faustino wrote:Mercedes expected to bring upgrades to the race too.
The fact Red Bull are better this year and that now Merc are only really a tenth or so of their pace is really an outstanding achievement. They've made up at least 2 seconds over last season's car.
It's not impossible to think they could continue to make progress if they actually put serious effort into this season. We all expected them to have more than 1 eye on 2014
The Merc is a very different car to last year, the lack of top-end speed worries me on a track like this.f1316 wrote: I think it's interesting that merc haven't gone with a high top speed philosophy this year -- they seem more similar to rb.
Yeah, I rememeber something hahaha, its a pity he didnt come earlier(specially as a Schumi fan).Mika1 wrote:Do you remember our ''in Aldo Costa we trust'' conversation during the winter? He is a genius =D> . They have made a massive step forward.Vasconia wrote:Aldo Costa has done an amazing job, Mercedes had a problem with suspensions and tyre management, 3 years without a great improvement, then the italian came last year and see the results. =D>Faustino wrote:Mercedes expected to bring upgrades to the race too.
The fact Red Bull are better this year and that now Merc are only really a tenth or so of their pace is really an outstanding achievement. They've made up at least 2 seconds over last season's car.
It's not impossible to think they could continue to make progress if they actually put serious effort into this season. We all expected them to have more than 1 eye on 2014
Looking at the Sepang numbers I have to say that they aren't exactly "slow". It's just that they aren't much faster than anyone else like last year.Unc1e_M0nty wrote:The Merc is a very different car to last year, the lack of top-end speed worries me on a track like this.f1316 wrote: I think it's interesting that merc haven't gone with a high top speed philosophy this year -- they seem more similar to rb.
You'd expect him to be pulling away, he's on the power first. This happens out of any corner unless one car has a large advantage over the other due to tyres, KERS, DRS, or momentum through the apex. I wouldn't read too much into it unless both cars are able to get on the power at the exact same moment.Juzh wrote:That said, Red bull had much better acceleration than mercs when both rosberg and vettel had drs open down the back straight just before vettel passed hamilton(Vettel on ham, and rosberg on vettel). Vettel was visibly pulling away from ros behind him and timing gaps confirmed it.
The car is about half a second ahead of the other cars but the tyres have limited the RB's pace in the races we have had so far. You actually might see the true pace of the RB on the more milder down-force dependent tracks.BorisTheBlade wrote:Looking at the Sepang numbers I have to say that they aren't exactly "slow". It's just that they aren't much faster than anyone else like last year.Unc1e_M0nty wrote:The Merc is a very different car to last year, the lack of top-end speed worries me on a track like this.f1316 wrote: I think it's interesting that merc haven't gone with a high top speed philosophy this year -- they seem more similar to rb.
0,5 s ahead? What do you mean by that? The only thing we've got is: current tracks, current races and current results. So in which parallel universe is RB faster by 0,5 s? Over one lap? Average over the whole race distance? That would be overall 28 s.n smikle wrote: The car is about half a second ahead of the other cars but the tyres have limited the RB's pace in the races we have had so far. You actually might see the true pace of the RB on the more milder down-force dependent tracks.