search wrote: ↑30 Nov 2019, 18:13
Sieper wrote: ↑30 Nov 2019, 17:28
search wrote: ↑30 Nov 2019, 16:54
maybe Verstappen has upped his game a bit as well though. He used to be pretty hopeless against Ricciardo (who was only 6 tenths behind last year) here
0.15 behind. This was one of 3 tracks (during the whole of last year) where Ricciardo was faster by a discernable margin. Still .15 is acceptable. Max might have improved further, car more to his liking, who knows.
yeah, he has lost all three Qualifying matchups against Ricciardo in Abu Dhabi though, so there was room for improvement so far, is more what I meant to say.
Ricciardo has an 8-0 record against his team mates now on this track though, so it may have been more of a strength of him than a weakness of Verstappen.
Agreed, and you have a valid point, maybe I should have stressed that. And here again, Ric is quick here, that is for sure.
In fact, member CFS230 made a number crunch and expected Max by the trend to be 0,2 behind here. 0,02% which equates to 2 tenths and he was a bit more. Otoh they didn’t get the car completely perfect and a trendline does offcourse not mean every track is the same, merc is strong here so the result, especially that first run, was solid imho. Enough to beat the Ferrari’s and that took Some doing imho.
Hope they can indeed find more in the car next year.
