Everybody knows that Newey will win championship again with easy, but I am just interested how close is merc to him and are they even in level of ferrari?Unc1eM0nty wrote: ↑03 Mar 2024, 11:50I don't know about 0.5 this seems to much, but sounds more like cooling package needs work as the other Merc powered cars seemed ok.
Russell & Lewis went different ways on set up but Lewis seemed to have slightly better race pace, started 6 places back and only 5 seconds behind at the end.
Id like to see lap times for Ferrari, Merc and McClaren for that last stint, it looked very close.
I like seeing actual competition. That's what I'm here for first and foremost. It can be dull at times, but I'd rather have a merit-based result than one where some landmines were thrown on track just to shake things up. If I wanted that, I'd watch IndyCar instead of F1.stonehenge wrote: ↑03 Mar 2024, 04:14Random thought and not sure whether it's right so wanted to get other opinions:
F1 cars are getting *too* reliable. Accidents seem to be becoming rarer (at least anecdotal it feels that way) and cars have very few reliability issues. Safety Cars have always been a big part of interesting F1 races because they not only condense the grid, but they create opportunities for strategy, upsets, etc. Is a possible reason for this development the fact that the engines are frozen? Teams can't develop the engines (at least not the way they can when engines aren't frozen) and so they're not pushing them the maximum as much. In fact, the only development that is allowed *is to improve reliability*, and yes I know that means they can still find performance gains, but likely at a far smaller cost to the reliability of the engine than if normal development were allowed and everyone was pushing to make significant gains. Just a thought, not sure if it's correct, but I do feel that the level of reliability we are seeing right now is a big factor in making races very dull.
Williams also had cooling issues. McLaren and Aston Martin never really ran in traffic due to field spread so we don't really know if they could've had issues with it tooUnc1eM0nty wrote: ↑03 Mar 2024, 11:50I don't know about 0.5 this seems to much, but sounds more like cooling package needs work as the other Merc powered cars seemed ok.
Russell & Lewis went different ways on set up but Lewis seemed to have slightly better race pace, started 6 places back and only 5 seconds behind at the end.
Id like to see lap times for Ferrari, Merc and McClaren for that last stint, it looked very close.
I doubt it's anywhere near 0.5, I'd say 0.2 at most.sport777 wrote: ↑03 Mar 2024, 13:29some verified Italian media say the same thing, that Merc sometimes lost up to 0.7 per lap, the truth is somewhere in the middle it’s about 0.5 per lap, I think this is true, you need to wait a few races, in my opinion the W15 is a good car, which is interesting that the media Italy was told that Russell's problem started on lap 4 of the race, if you look at his lap before the problems it was a solid 1:36.4, then the pace dropped sharply to 1:37.7 in one lap the tires don't wear out that much considering they only completed 7 laps , so the problem was clearly
when merc had 1:36.4 how much RB had?sport777 wrote: ↑03 Mar 2024, 13:29some verified Italian media say the same thing, that Merc sometimes lost up to 0.7 per lap, the truth is somewhere in the middle it’s about 0.5 per lap, I think this is true, you need to wait a few races, in my opinion the W15 is a good car, which is interesting that the media Italy was told that Russell's problem started on lap 4 of the race, if you look at his lap before the problems it was a solid 1:36.4, then the pace dropped sharply to 1:37.7 in one lap the tires don't wear out that much considering they only completed 7 laps , so the problem was clearly
Yeah me too, this track is a bit of an outliner, after anthother couple of races we should have a clear idea.
From history we know that fastest car never loose winning momentum, change comes only after new rules.Unc1eM0nty wrote: ↑03 Mar 2024, 14:04Yeah me too, this track is a bit of an outliner, after anthother couple of races we should have a clear idea.
I suspect Ferrari, Merc and MaC are very close, it would be an epic season if Red bull were with them
One wonders how he didn't finish 3 minutes ahead of the fieldchrisc90 wrote: ↑03 Mar 2024, 14:27Just have to look at the data on f1-tempo to see the differences, even in the middle stint when they were all on the same tyre.
Overall Race:
https://i.ibb.co/tqFNC9R/Screenshot-202 ... 175838.png
First stint:
https://i.ibb.co/9hmgbW4/Screenshot-202 ... 121935.png
Middle Stint:
https://i.ibb.co/0Vx5kZ2/Screenshot-202 ... 122351.png
Final Stint:
https://i.ibb.co/7vzyXJ2/Screenshot-202 ... 122450.png
(sorry about it being time rather than laps, f1-tempo isnt showing right for some reason.)
The middle stint on Hards for RB was ruthless. Your looking at 1.6seconds a lap faster than both the Ferrari and Mercedes