2019 Spanish Grand Prix - Catalunya, May 10-12

[Phil]

Minimum rear tyres pressure lowered to 19.5 psi.

Increased or lowered? Lowered = less restrictions. Increased more.

Usually Pirelli increase the minimum pressure for safety reasons.

[yelistener]

bottas vs hamilton fp2
https://streamable.com/lowgx
https://streamable.com/lowgx

Bot didn't go flatout through T9 like Lewis did. Probably was worrying about the dirty air from the car in front.

It's interesting that a flatout Campsa barely make the speed and RPM drop. In 2018 a flatout Copse drops the speed by about 12-15km/h. Campsa is actually a sharper turn than Copse, but since the car doesn't come near top speed at the entry, it's easier for the engine to maintain the momentum, while at Copse entry the cars are already over 300km/h, so the cornering punishes the engine a lot harder.

[Xwang]

Minimum rear tyres pressure lowered to 19.5 psi.

Increased or lowered? Lowered = less restrictions. Increased more.

Usually Pirelli increase the minimum pressure for safety reasons.

Lowered from 20.5 to 19.5

[JPBD1990]

Minimum rear tyres pressure lowered to 19.5 psi.

Increased or lowered? Lowered = less restrictions. Increased more.

Usually Pirelli increase the minimum pressure for safety reasons.

Lowered from 20.5 to 19.5

Maybe Liberty saw another Merc walkover coming and thought they’d throw the others a bone. Higher rear pressures tend to favour Mercedes.

[sAx]

I really do feel for Kubica. I hope the team as a whole turn things around, but by the looks of it, it's gonna end as another sad story.

Team-mate besting you by 0.5sec in the chassis you think has a problem doesn't sound great. Should also give a lot of credit to George Russell he's a very serious talent, even if Kubica is not the Kubica he once was!!

George indeed is very talented, no doubt about it. You can't really say though that he beat Kubica by 0.5s unless You say that softs and more rubber on track during FP2's were only 0.1s faster than mediums on FP1 (that's the difference in Kubica's lap times between the sessions). It's only FP, too soon to draw conclusions I'd say.

Referring to chassis here! Specifically, the one that Kubica said had an imbalance issue, which in Russell's hands in FP2 sort of suggests otherwise.

[LM10]

Increased or lowered? Lowered = less restrictions. Increased more.

Usually Pirelli increase the minimum pressure for safety reasons.

Lowered from 20.5 to 19.5

Maybe Liberty saw another Merc walkover coming and thought they’d throw the others a bone. Higher rear pressures tend to favour Mercedes.

In China the pressures were increased from Friday to Saturday which obviously didn’t help Ferrari. Let’s see which effect it will have this time.

[MtthsMlw]

Softs tyres not good for three fast laps confirmed
Medium tyres not good when they are too cold confirmed as well..

[Restomaniac]

DI Resta climbs up Bottas’ anus telling everyone how great he is. Whilst he is doing so they cut to a shot of Bottas having dropped it into the gravel.

[Just_a_fan]

bottas vs hamilton fp2
https://streamable.com/lowgx
https://streamable.com/lowgx

Bot didn't go flatout through T9 like Lewis did. Probably was worrying about the dirty air from the car in front.

Looked like Ham was slightly slower on entry and so was then able to keep the power on through the turn. Bot was a couple of mk/h faster on entry which might have been enough to make the car feel less than planted. Fine margins at this level.

[cooken]

Minimum rear tyres pressure lowered to 19.5 psi.

You know something. This really winds me up.

What’s the point of FP 1/2 if Pirelli are going to keep pulling this crap?

You're not alone. At least partially invalidates the full day's work.

[Kormidlo]

Increased or lowered? Lowered = less restrictions. Increased more.

Usually Pirelli increase the minimum pressure for safety reasons.

Lowered from 20.5 to 19.5

Maybe Liberty saw another Merc walkover coming and thought they’d throw the others a bone. Higher rear pressures tend to favour Mercedes.

But do Mercedes Javě to decrease pressure, if higher pressure are favourable for them?

[Carl Mccoy]

Ferrari losing half a second in 3rd sector.

[MtthsMlw]

Nice it's 2016 again.

[JPBD1990]

Bye f1. It’s been a good 14 years. RIP xoxo

[Juzh]

fp3