Chinese Grand Prix 2015, Shanghai - Race 3/19

this_is_gav said:
Ferrari aren't going to win the title. Obviously they've made a big step and will challenge Mercedes here and there, but they're not going to beat Mercedes over the year.

2016 looks tasty though.
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That Ferrari is a race winning car. That McLaren is pathetic.

Regardless if this season is basically testing for McLaren , the other teams have a year on them.
 
Ericcson/Nasr on the same softs from Q1, so this is a banker lap, they'll use a fresh set end of Q2 and gain 3-6/10th's probably. As usual Brundle not understanding why they are slower.
 
Rybo89 said:
That Ferrari is a race winning car. That McLaren is pathetic.

Regardless if this season is basically testing for McLaren , the other teams have a year on them.
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I'm like 90% sure that Alonso pre-Malaysia was saying wins are important, no more second places... then Ferrari win and the story has changed to titles rather than wins. Drivers like wins, any driver saying anything different is daft and that it has happened since Ferrari suddenly look competitive says a lot I think.

Hamilton's time, wow.

Hamilton has had heat issues after qualifying runs, energy store overheating? Might be less of an issue over the race as the battery won't dump out 4MJ in a single lap.
 
I don't understand the mentality of setting a lap that much quicker, when you have to use those tyres for the start :confused:

Also, "mah-lace-ee-ah" :mad:
 
Lotus are odd, they really show some pace in qualifying but show zero pace throughout practice at all. Struggling financially and so worried about engine life and needing more engines? Lotus's long runs were horrible but what do you learn running around so far off your real pace. You only learn about tire life at race pace if you run at race pace.
 
Brundle complaining that the Saubers were a couple tenths down in Q1 and saying they should really try and do better in Q2 than Q1. Then Sauber put on new sets and go pretty much over a second faster than their first Q2 run. Irks me that someone with all the data infront of him and all that experience can miss those throughout every weekend.
 
Skeeter said:
How do we know that he hasn't cruised around and still set that time?
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That much quicker? He could afford to set a time 1 second slower and get through to Q3 comfortably. Either way he didn't need to push as much (or little) as he did.
 
EVH said:
That much quicker? He could afford to set a time 1 second slower and get through to Q3 comfortably. Either way he didn't need to push as much (or little) as he did.
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To a certain degree if he isn't close to the limit he won't have a sense of where the limit is and he has a much greater chance of either being too slow/conservative in Q3 or going beyond it and losing the car or just ruining the lap. He's fighting 1 car for sure and maybe more if he does a bad Q3 lap so you can't afford to be too conservative at all in Q2.
 
EVH said:
That much quicker? He could afford to set a time 1 second slower and get through to Q3 comfortably. Either way he didn't need to push as much (or little) as he did.
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Leading teams have been punished in the past for sandbagging in qualifying. OK, granted it's unlikely to happen in such stable conditions, but never assume with ever-improving track conditions (more rubber and lowering temperatures). Best go out there and make sure, then just park up.

It clearly wasn't an all-out lap anyway as he was 2 tenths slower than Q1 and they'll probably be buried in the mid-37s in Q3.
 
Sauber gained a second or so on the new softs vs old softs.... Ferrari need to gain almost 2 seconds.

The only way Hamilton can stay in though is if Rosberg does, Rosberg would have to completely concede defeat to not go out again though.... would Merc talk him into it, tell him that a completely fresh set in the race against Ferrari would do more for him than wasting a set against Hamilton? Rosberg to be sneaky and say he won't go then jump out at the last second... has he learnt from Alonso or not :p
 
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