f1316 wrote:Well, at least the Merc has finally had a reliability issue!
Rosberg has said that run from this morning was a proper quali sim - he might be lying, so you never know. But there are rumours Ferrari had 50kg on the US stints last week, plus that the engine isn't turned up, so we could still find out that they're as close as Rosberg is saying.
It's all speculation of course, but then, so is this whole thread.
He is not lying!! If you look at what I posted earlier you could see he did only 3-4 laps on both medium and soft while Kimi did his fastest on his 6th lap then some cooldown laps and he pitted and came back (probably after some setup work) and was just 0.060 slower than his best time but that was maybe his 9th or 10th run on those medium tyres.
by Silent Storm
According to Autosport
"21:29 No cool-down laps for Raikkonen, he's still pushing and posts a 1m26.5s on the third timed lap of this run on mediums."
"21:42 Raikkonen puts Ferrari on top after Verstappen and Rosberg post fastest times in quick succession
It's clear that Raikkonen was not running with low fuel or doing a Quali run as he was out the whole 13mins on medium tyres and according to "F1Today.net" he did not pit and was out the whole time even though I think Autosport posted his fastest time a couple of minutes late, it's safe to say he did this time on his 6th or 7th run and maybe 4-5 mins earlier then when Autosport posted it. Anyone know if Rosberg posted his fast time in first test on a low fuel run?
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