Showing only 1 lap from ferrari
There is more to it than that, it depends on how much fuel is burned in the cylinder, the combustion pressure.
I was just saying, we cant base it that because its louder, its more powerful. It can be that the Renault is not burning all the fuel as Mercedes or Ferrari, or the combustion pressure is lower than Ferrari or Mercedes. One thing is, if the pressure is higher in the combustion chamber, then the explosion in the cylinder will be louder, but, if more sound is going through the exhaust, then it means more energy wasted. Also, this year, the FIA said they cannot use exhaust gases and feed it back into the engine, they have to exit the engine. So maybe Mercedes had some system they use some of the exhaust to mix with oil and coolant, then feed it back into the engine to make more power.
We dont know exactly whats going on as we are not inside the team. I was just trying to explain it as best as I could.
Merc in 1:20s on longer stint. I think they will wreck us this year.
Huhh.... this mercs team do many laps straight out of the box when the session is green. Every day of the testing season, they complete 100 Laps.
No other teams are able to replicate that.
oh wow..thats a bit unfair for what they managed to achieve last year
McLaren gives the reason for Vandoorne's stoppage as a "power shutdown, which meant we lost data from the car". Team is investigating now.
The mercs split each day with both drivers, therefore each driver will try to do as many laps as possible. End of week 1 Ferrari were about 6-7 laps short of Merc so I wouldn't be too pessimistic just yet.
Toro Rosso on softs 1:20:97....fyi. Not far from the top two.
Long base wheel has nothing to do with Ferrari failing last year -
It was Kimi not being fast enough
Vettel losing his head
and Ferrari engine that was not reliable during the second half of the season.
So why change what was not the reason for not winning, now i guess they are trying to get use to the longer base wheel car setup
Vettel 1m20.679s
09:45
Interesting. Last time around, the Ferrari, Red Bull and Mercedes were all on the start-finish straight together. The Ferrari and Mercedes are on softs, the Red Bull on ultrasofts.
Verstappen: 1:21.325. Bottas: 1:22.231. Vettel: 1:20.887
Just for reference, the temperature here is still only 12 degrees. Hardly ideal working conditions so far.
anyone pick up the live feed I posted earlier????
This week I would see mercs doing lot of laps on softs.
As their strength is on mediums.
Dont forget the soft tyre is not the same soft tyre from last year, it has shifted by 1 step
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