Gasly only got fastest lap by mere 9 hundredths of a second, now that is disappointing.
Gasly only got fastest lap by mere 9 hundredths of a second, now that is disappointing.
again, why didn't Seb try to overtake.. it would have been a little justified... right now it looks like stardriver didn't want to do any dirty work and actually nothing he did on track backed up this decision. and how is this any different from last year - wheel to wheel racing and vettel spins. same like last year
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Here is the official lap history chart for you to analyze: https://www.fia.com/file/79530/download
Very disappointing race. Thought there would be at least a battle for 2nd. Ferrari did ok, even if they had pole like they said they could, the race pace was not good enough. Vettel seem to struggle after he passed Leclerc, but after the pitstops he was clearly faster.
Vettel wasn't faster than Charles, the only reason he was closer because of DRS. China has one of the longest back straight and it is pretty easy to stay close when you're getting double DRS per lap.
Also Charles's lap times dropped to 1m40's by letting Vettel go, pretty sure he lost tyre temperature.
Sebastian Vettel #5
We are happy we got the podium, but overall we cant be satisfied because we were too slow today. We were hoping to be in a much better place and be a match for Mercedes, but we were not. Also it was a shame we didnt manage to finish third and fourth, In terms of calls from our pit wall today, the priority always lies within the team and Charles and I are both aware we are driving for the team. We can do our own race but first of all we have to ensure Ferrari is in a position to fight with its rivals. I think we have a good car and we are still not able to unlock its potential completely. We are learning a lot about it and its important to do many laps to get a better feeling for it. We are getting an ever clearer picture of what we are lacking at the moment, so I think the next few weeks will be important for us, so that we can get on the right road for the coming months.
Charles Leclerc #16
Todays race wasnt one of my easiest, since it looks like we didnt have a good enough pace to fight at the front with our competitors. My start was good, then I think both Seb and myself were struggling with the tyres. We swapped positions and I thought he would have pulled away but he didnt and this didnt help my tyres because I had a bit of overheating and I lost some time. On my second set of tyres I hoped Id be able to go all the way to the end, but unfortunately had to stop again and so lost a place. We will sit down all together in order to understand what could have been done better and Im sure we will come back stronger at the next race
Mattia Binotto Team Principal
Mercedes has been fast throughout the whole weekend, since Friday. They were fast yesterday in qualifying and fast today. We had a completely opposite situation from the one we faced two weeks ago in Bahrain and this shows that we could again have things going the other way around in two weeks time. Things are changing from one weekend to the next and therefore we need to look at the championship thinking that every race may be different. Our decisions on strategy were taken to try to maximize the teams result. We will go back to Maranello and look at all the data, try to understand what didnt work this weekend in order to improve. We need to further develop the car and understand where the limits are, then come back stronger for Baku. Its again a completely different circuit and we need to approach that race with a positive attitude to do our best.
CAVALLINO RAMPANTE PER SEMPRE
First Australia and than this. We should change our target once we realise Merc is unreachable and not let Red bull pas
Seb made his first pit stop on Lap 18.
Lap 17: 1.39.790
Lap 18: PIT
Lap 19: 1.56.840
Lap 20: 1.36.998
Lap 21: 1.37.150
Lap 22: 1.37.554
Lap 23: 1.37.444
Charles made his first pit stop on Lap 22.
Lap 17: 1.39.985
Lap 22: PIT
Lap 23: 1.56.967
Lap 24: 1.37.400
Lap 25: 1.37.564
Lap 26: 1.37.348
Lap 27: 1.37.445
Seb made his second pit stop on Lap 35.
Lap 35: PIT
Lap 36: 1.54.699
Lap 37: 1.34.836 (2nd fastest lap of the race)
Lap 38: 1.36.498
Lap 39: 1.36.612
Lap 40: 1.36.698
Charles made his second pit stop on Lap 42.
Lap 42: PIT
Lap 43: 1.57.267
Lap 44: 1.35.774
Lap 45: 1.34.860 (3rd fastest lap of the race)
Lap 46: 1.35.676
Lap 47: 1.36.136
See for yourself, Seb was faster. Only in the last 10 laps was Charles marginally quicker than Seb.
Not exactly unreachable, 2 tenths per lap of race pace was missing today. Red Bull was also close on a track like China, this is definitely not Ferrari's true pace. A trend is also emerging - Ferrari stronger on hard tyres rather than soft. Work to be done but Mercedes not out of reach.
"If I was driving for Red Bull [from 2008] probably I would have more championships, but because they were dominating between 2010 and 2014 probably I would never have driven for Ferrari. I am very happy and very proud to drive for Ferrari, all my time there.
Forza Ferrari
Seb was faster today end of the story. On equal tyres and fuel load he was 0.1-0.2s on average faster. Why is it so hard to understand. Charles was faster in Bahrain.
You see Vettel managed to stay in the drs zone of Leclerc for 8 laps, Leclerc just 3 laps. Seb pulled away a 1.8s gap at the end of the stint. On fresh tyres he was also just faster.
Vettel's fastest lap, compared to Charles, after the team order 1:39.656, only 0.258 sec faster, and if we compare 12-18:
Lap 12: Vettel -0.115
Lap 13: Leclerc -0.115
Lap 14: Vettel -0.154
Lap 15: Leclerc -0.074
Lap 16: Vettel -0.258
Lap 17: Vettel -0.195
a substantial gap of 0.533 sec.
Vettel's fast lap after pit-stop 1:36.998, Charles staying out 1:40.331. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see where Charles lost ground to Vettel.
Stop trolling dude, and learn to give up.
Boring race. DVR'd the race and watched the whole thing on Fast Forward.
I said it would a Merc 1-2 and it was so.
Three races, three Merc 1-2's. I have a feeling they will dominate this season more so than any other season in the hybrid era. Ferrari have no answer to their speed regardless of any talk we may hear about Ferrari being faster.
Three races in and I'm telling you guys, it's over.
Leclerc passed him in Bahrain without team order, because he was faster by a considerable margin. Vettel even with two DRS couldn't pass Leclerc, because he wasn't faster today.
And you talk about 1.8 gap, well Leclerc had to slow down on lap 11 because of 'you know what', his lap time dropped from 1:38.981 on lap 10 to 1:40.993 on lap 11. Pretty sure he also lost tyre temperature.
But I'm not gonna waste my time with you or chinmay, you Vettel-widow's are really something else, facts don't interest you and I am sure you're gonna come up with another sob story when your idol spins AGAIN,
ah, cool, so you have a crystal ball it seems and you can predict the future.....if that's that's the case, shoot me some 6 magic #'s in the next 6/49 lotto draw....LOL
mate, we're only 3 races in, long season ahead....and for all we know, probably Ferrari have realized the issues wiht the car and may be bringing major updates in Spain.....to turn around the season
we'll see, not all is lost.....YET
So 2023 started off bad, but managed to claw back some lap time come end of the year. Lets hope SF24 will give us tifosi something to smile about.
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