Poll: Australian Grand Prix 2019, Melbourne - Race 1/21

[Dup]

McLaren further proving that Honda without reliability issues weren't the full problem. Great to see Red Bull could have the potential to get Honda a win this year.

As for Williams, they need to sell out to be competitive. Even Racing Point with bigger backing aren't faring any better with the same power plant. The writing is on the wall but is it too late? If there really is big interest in other teams joining then Williams face becoming completely irrelevant if they don't make some difficult decisions about how they're financed.

 

[Glanza]

FP2 Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZQlijoP0BU

 

[JBeck]

As for Williams, they need to sell out to be competitive. Even Racing Point with bigger backing aren't faring any better with the same power plant. The writing is on the wall but is it too late? If there really is big interest in other teams joining then Williams face becoming completely irrelevant if they don't make some difficult decisions about how they're financed.

They/she won't sell out, unless she's prepared to eat a huge slice of humble pie, which I think she won't.

Too late? Not quite, they still have this season to make changes to ensure they have a future, but if they don't i think it may be goodbye and thanks for having us.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Neither Merc or Ferrari are running to their true pace. Could be closer than we think.

Definitely true. Hamilton feels he has more pace though. Quali will be interesting.

 

[Mr Jack]

Even Racing Point with bigger backing aren't faring any better with the same power plant.

Personally, I attribute RP's difficulty this year to disrupted development due to he chaos of last year. I think they'll progress through the year and recover their position in the field next year.

 

[mattx2]

After p2 I think the team order looks like this

1. It
2. is
3. stupid
4. to
5. try
6. predict
7. the
8. order
9. early



10. Williams

 

[The_Abyss]

Genius.

 

[4K8KW10]

Last year, the Mercedes was 6.5 tenths up from Ferrari, this FP2 showed 8.5 tenths... Looks like, it is Mercedes to beat. https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ferrari-vettel-mercedes-form-melbourne/4353088/

Vettel: Mercedes "much stronger than they claimed"

 

[chrcoluk]

WARNING!

The live timing app is horrible. They've fully killed off the old app, so you have to use the new one.

thanks for the heads up will cancel the subscription, the only language they probably will understand is a loss of revenue.

I really dont understand why they did what they did, they seemed to make the change to the app for the sake of change as is no other reason they needed to.

 

[chrcoluk]

Last year, the Mercedes was 6.5 tenths up from Ferrari, this FP2 showed 8.5 tenths... Looks like, it is Mercedes to beat. https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ferrari-vettel-mercedes-form-melbourne/4353088/

Vettel: Mercedes "much stronger than they claimed"

ferrari sandbagging

 

[4K8KW10]

ferrari sandbagging

Or maybe this circuit is not that suitable for the Ferrari, plus there are different climate conditions compared to Barcelona in February.

 

[GravyMonster]

I'll be surprised if Ferrari are still .85 off in Q3.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Last year, the Mercedes was 6.5 tenths up from Ferrari, this FP2 showed 8.5 tenths... Looks like, it is Mercedes to beat. https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ferrari-vettel-mercedes-form-melbourne/4353088/

Vettel: Mercedes "much stronger than they claimed"

If you are going to blindly follow stats (which is hilarious by the way) at least get them right. Mercedes were 0.283 quicker than Ferrari in FP2 in 2018 and 0.873 in 2019. Practice times MEAN NOTHING.

FYI Haas set a time in FP2 2019 which was quicker than the fastest car in 2018... don't read it to it. We won't know the true order until Q2 tomorrow.

I'm also not sure why you felt the need to chuck pictures in your post and go with the massive headline

 

[singularity]

Practice times at least show a trend, so Merc are not looking too bad, its not going to be a Ferrari whitewash.

 

[Yaayuh!]

We won't really know until quali.

 

[413x]

If you are going to blindly follow stats (which is hilarious by the way) at least get them right. Mercedes were 0.283 quicker than Ferrari in FP2 in 2018 and 0.873 in 2019. Practice times MEAN NOTHING.

FYI Haas set a time in FP2 2019 which was quicker than the fastest car in 2018... don't read it to it. We won't know the true order until Q2 tomorrow.

I'm also not sure why you felt the need to chuck pictures in your post and go with the massive headline

Completely agree.

I know f1 news outlets have to make something out of it but it's really irrelevant

 

[singularity]

I'm expecting similar to last year , slightly more in favour of merc.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

I'll be surprised if Ferrari are still .85 off in Q3.

Especially given they’re supposed lead in development.

 

[4K8KW10]

If you are going to blindly follow stats (which is hilarious by the way) at least get them right. Mercedes were 0.283 quicker than Ferrari in FP2 in 2018 and 0.873 in 2019. Practice times MEAN NOTHING.

FYI Haas set a time in FP2 2019 which was quicker than the fastest car in 2018... don't read it to it. We won't know the true order until Q2 tomorrow.

I'm also not sure why you felt the need to chuck pictures in your post and go with the massive headline

I checked the quali times of 2018 and compared them to the last session from earlier today.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

I checked the quali times of 2018 and compared them to the last session from earlier today.

Exactly. You compared quali with FP2.

See my post for a better representation. There’s no way Ferrari have gotten 0.8 of a second slower than last year.

Not one of the top 3 has set a remotely quick time. I’d say there’s at least 0.4 of a second in reserve for Merc and much more for Ferrari.