US tires will not be used at this round. It'll be a tight fit to 1 stop the race if conditions are dry. The Ferrari is a better chassis but the Mercedes engine is still better. In normal conditions Hamilton should walk away with this one. The best Ferrari can hope to achieve is coming 2-3.Mandrake wrote: ↑11 Jul 2017, 11:30As long as Mercedes retains their qualifying advantage Ferrari is going to have a hard time winning on pace alone. If you need 1s+ in performance to be able to overtake Ferrari is not going to have such an advantage in the race. So either winning the start or undercutting at the pit stop is their only chance. And only if on the US tires Mercedes does not open up a 9 second gap.
Interesting choice of tires though between Merc & Ferrari
*looks out the window*Vasconia wrote: ↑10 Jul 2017, 09:41Meh, it will be like Austria, speaking about rain the hole week and finally, nothing.ChrisDanger wrote: ↑10 Jul 2017, 09:28One can hope.
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Its Silverstone and after two bad weekends I see Hamilton winning this race. He will be 100% focused on this, for sure.
But it will be interesting because both Mercedes and Ferrari will bring important PU updates so let´s see if Ferrari can close the gap. Their car should be strong here.
It it's wet, all bets are off.godlameroso wrote: ↑11 Jul 2017, 14:09Completely agree.
Any takers on pole time prediction? I'm guessing 1:27.5, and fastest race lap in the low 32's.
From what I've seen so far the race pace is similar to 2015 pole times.
Its Silverstone and Mercedes has been strong here so yes, he should win. Plus he he has ended behind Vettel the last two races so it seems that we should see "a fight back" weekend this time.giantfan10 wrote: ↑11 Jul 2017, 14:08
Every single race we get the exact same analysis from the exact same people ... its a hamilton track and he will run away with the race ...
I find it amusing.
If you think Ferrari has the better chassis I don't know how you conclude Hamilton will walk away with this one. We've just had 3 power tracks with Vettel almost qualifying on pole in Austria and fairly close in Canada (another day could have been different).godlameroso wrote: ↑11 Jul 2017, 13:59US tires will not be used at this round. It'll be a tight fit to 1 stop the race if conditions are dry. The Ferrari is a better chassis but the Mercedes engine is still better. In normal conditions Hamilton should walk away with this one. The best Ferrari can hope to achieve is coming 2-3.Mandrake wrote: ↑11 Jul 2017, 11:30As long as Mercedes retains their qualifying advantage Ferrari is going to have a hard time winning on pace alone. If you need 1s+ in performance to be able to overtake Ferrari is not going to have such an advantage in the race. So either winning the start or undercutting at the pit stop is their only chance. And only if on the US tires Mercedes does not open up a 9 second gap.
Interesting choice of tires though between Merc & Ferrari
I'm thinking that too, Ferrari might be considering multiple stints on supers.
We had the oil story in Canada, which changes made to Baku, where suddenly, Mercedes was clearly faster with both cars. Austria is a very short track, so any gap will be smaller. Adding to that the arguably stronger qualifier was on a different strategy and perhaps was addiotionally hampered by that, so I wouldn't read too much into the closeness of Austria between Ferrari and Mercedes.