Yea, startin 11th is best... And Eric "****" Boulier claiming 13&16 in qualy is "solid"
what next? We' should be happy if one car goes to Q2 ?
Yea, startin 11th is best... And Eric "****" Boulier claiming 13&16 in qualy is "solid"
McLaren is the faster car in the race, I don't think McLaren is allowed to criticize Renault, so they make excuses as to why they're a second slower than the factory team in quali but are a tenth or two ahead in the race. Alonso was the only midfielder that could do 46's, in clean air he should be best of the rest.Ground Effect wrote: ↑28 Apr 2018, 16:06How was their long run pace compared to Renault, FI & Haas?Macklaren wrote: ↑28 Apr 2018, 16:00Not a surprise honestly given the extra power mode the Merc engine cars have for qualifying this race. With McLaren's better race pace and no extra power boost i expect Alo to jump both Williams and Force Indias in the race.BrunoH wrote: ↑28 Apr 2018, 15:44Qualy a bit worse than expected to be honest.
I was hoping they wold go very low drag wings to try and mitigate things but i guess not. worse than Williams... what a shame.
Hoping for Super Alonso to do his thing and maybe a few crashes up ahead can help ( safety car etc also )
PS: Hul p9 so Alo picks up a spot
Yeah, but also no point really discussing this all now, all teams will bring upgrades to Spain, so that will change the pecking order, let's just hope McLaren make a bigger gain than the rest of the teams.godlameroso wrote: ↑28 Apr 2018, 21:21McLaren is the faster car in the race, I don't think McLaren is allowed to criticize Renault, so they make excuses as to why they're a second slower than the factory team in quali but are a tenth or two ahead in the race. Alonso was the only midfielder that could do 46's, in clean air he should be best of the rest.Ground Effect wrote: ↑28 Apr 2018, 16:06How was their long run pace compared to Renault, FI & Haas?
I agree sort of. But i dont think much has changed since the last 3 races except for a 2 km pit straight. The mercedes teams were always going to have that advantage here.
That upgrade package better be good. Imagine how the shareholders must feel after listening to their team talking about having one of the best chassis out there.
Mercedes power was always going to give FI and Williams an added advantage. But at least Fernando was quicker than Haas. But that said, they're really shockingly slow! I don't think they actually broke into the 1:43's at any point this weekend.
Ground Effect wrote: ↑28 Apr 2018, 22:49Mercedes power was always going to give FI and Williams an added advantage. But at least Fernando was quicker than Haas. But that said, they're really shockingly slow! I don't think they actually broke into the 1:43's at any point this weekend.
2.47% for AlonsoNuvolari wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 12:24I'm going to be slightly more optimistic and say around 2 seconds off pole.
About 0.4s/km deficit. Seeing how there is a nice downward trend from the the three races so far, I'm predicting they'll close the gap further to near 2% off pole time. If they get the tyres wrong, all bets are off.
Happy to be wrong now, if the Spain update will let them close the gap to within 1.5%.mrluke wrote: ↑28 Apr 2018, 23:242.47% for AlonsoNuvolari wrote: ↑25 Apr 2018, 12:24I'm going to be slightly more optimistic and say around 2 seconds off pole.
About 0.4s/km deficit. Seeing how there is a nice downward trend from the the three races so far, I'm predicting they'll close the gap further to near 2% off pole time. If they get the tyres wrong, all bets are off.
2.95% for Vandoorne
Joe has suggested today that Goss is not the mystery TD in question, FWIW.Nickt9999 wrote: ↑27 Apr 2018, 10:20Joe is reliable. joeblogsf1.comAndres125sx wrote: ↑26 Apr 2018, 17:34Wow, if this is a reliable source... can´t be a coincidence if one month later Goss is fired
He has been to over 500 Grand Prix as a journalist