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Ferrari team boss Maurizio Arrivabene kept his emotions in control while his driver Sebastian Vettel was storming to the race win at the Malaysian GP, but the Italian could not hold his tears back when he got a message from Switzerland.
, can they afford only to prepare one car? Looks like the only people left there are those no one else wanted, who needs engineers we'll spend our limited money on marketing gimmick. They could have had Symonds.Why are you surprised? Have you began to watch F1 this season? RedBull played this game for 3 years at least. Have a superior car setup for fastest lap, get pole and drive into sunset. They were in the lower third of the speedtraps everywhere.WaikeCU wrote:It's insane to see that Lewis is the only one under the 1.40's at the moment and he's not even on the top 10 speed traps.
+1. Total cruise mode for Merc right now. Most interesting prospects for this race:Mandrake wrote:Why are you surprised? Have you began to watch F1 this season? RedBull played this game for 3 years at least. Have a superior car setup for fastest lap, get pole and drive into sunset. They were in the lower third of the speedtraps everywhere.WaikeCU wrote:It's insane to see that Lewis is the only one under the 1.40's at the moment and he's not even on the top 10 speed traps.
The Mercedes have just cruised in FP. Rosberg also had a mistake in his fast lap attempt. I guess come qualifying the gap will at least be as big as in Australia.
iotar__ wrote:- Let's start what if Alonso drove Ferrari, Mercedes is still winning easily, gap will be bigger but still interesting, Williams slowish
- FIA's site is even worse than the official one
- obligatory Lotus is pathetic
Last year Williams was not that good during rain-races..Alexgtt wrote: Possible Ros/Ham race.
Rain.
Ferrari battle.
Rain.
Maybe Williams snapping at Ferrair heals and scooping up scraps.
Rain.
Keeping eye out for possible Mclaren progress and Alonso/Button racing.
Rain.
Very interesting comment from Matthew Carter (Lotus). When asked about Power Unit parity between works team and costumer team, he said that "I can confirm that, having had last year a contract with Renault and this year with Mercedes, it's stipulated in the Mercedes contract that we have complete parity. In the Mercedes contract." He's clearly trying to state there, without actually saying it explicitly, that he did not have parity in the Renault contract.Lorenzo_Bandini wrote:Team press conference. A nasty battle between Horner and Abidteboul. It's the first time i see that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOxvLHxi30c
FP2 analysis
https://lorenzodl83.wordpress.com/2015/ ... -mercedes/
Ideal lap times
Vettel 1:39,582
Hamilton 1:39,790
Rosberg 1:39,955
Raikkonen 1:40,163
Kvyat 1:40,346
Bottas 1:40,450
Massa 1:40,560
Was no secret RB (and TR do a degree) had better support from renault compared to other customers.turbof1 wrote: Very interesting comment from Matthew Carter (Lotus). When asked about Power Unit parity between works team and costumer team, he said that "I can confirm that, having had last year a contract with Renault and this year with Mercedes, it's stipulated in the Mercedes contract that we have complete parity. In the Mercedes contract." He's clearly trying to state there, without actually saying it explicitly, that he did not have parity in the Renault contract.
Support is one thing, but parity is different. He is basically saying the PU package they got wasn't the same as what RB got.Juzh wrote:Was no secret RB (and TR do a degree) had better support from renault compared to other customers.turbof1 wrote: Very interesting comment from Matthew Carter (Lotus). When asked about Power Unit parity between works team and costumer team, he said that "I can confirm that, having had last year a contract with Renault and this year with Mercedes, it's stipulated in the Mercedes contract that we have complete parity. In the Mercedes contract." He's clearly trying to state there, without actually saying it explicitly, that he did not have parity in the Renault contract.
Yep.dren wrote:Support is one thing, but parity is different. He is basically saying the PU package they got wasn't the same as what RB got.Juzh wrote:Was no secret RB (and TR do a degree) had better support from renault compared to other customers.turbof1 wrote: Very interesting comment from Matthew Carter (Lotus). When asked about Power Unit parity between works team and costumer team, he said that "I can confirm that, having had last year a contract with Renault and this year with Mercedes, it's stipulated in the Mercedes contract that we have complete parity. In the Mercedes contract." He's clearly trying to state there, without actually saying it explicitly, that he did not have parity in the Renault contract.
But, wasn't it known that Renault tried to work with each team to suit their individual needs rather than just making the same PU for everyone?