The same Toyota that fails to deliver in Le Mans aka the most important race of the calendar. ;)
The same Toyota that fails to deliver in Le Mans aka the most important race of the calendar. ;)
Shhhhh, don't tell him that.The same Toyota that fails to deliver in Le Mans aka the most important race of the calendar. ;)
They brought it on themselves!
MOOOOOOOM, MERCEDES IS SANDBAGGING AGAIN
Looks like it. Or they were simply running heavy as tankers today.
About that unmarked rubber, taken from Motorsport live coverageHamilton sets a low 1:19 on unknown tyres (unmarked as Perilli sometimes does this for their own testing) and Ricciardo has a decent run in the high 1:19s on medium tyres.
It's hotting up!
Here's some information on those unmarked tyres Hamilton used to good effect, with help from our friends at Pirelli:
They're medium compound tyres. There are two F1 factories, in Turkey and Romania. The Romania one is used at the moment, but there's the production line in Turkey as well. So those are medium tyres produced in Turkey, as opposed to Romania.
Hamilton is running them to benchmark against the Romania ones - but they're meant to be identical in every way. The same thing was done at the test last year. It's quite a common occurence.
And on a low track run too!
I read something from Allison yesterday where he's saying the coke bottle rear end is worth 0.25 alone and that overall this car is "much much faster" than last year.Hamilton, cheat lap aside sets a lap faster than last year's pole position lap.
It's currently 10c outside.
Wow.
yeah that was from a video posted my Mercedes AMG F1 on their Youtube channelI read something from Allison yesterday where he's saying the coke bottle rear end is worth 0.25 alone and that overall this car is "much much faster" than last year.
Alonso's steering wheel will come back with a lot of bite marks.
Alonso's steering wheel will come back with a lot of bite marks.
HAM: "I like a track that's a bit more dated in terms of surface. Drivers in drivers' briefing are constantly complain about bumps, but you have to manoeuvre around bumps. You can brake a little bit more offline or brake afterwards, or slightly before them. Or you have to set the car up to be a little bit better in terms of ride. But that's what the character of a circuit is. You flatten it out and it's got bunch of corners but it's missing something."
"When you smooth it out you make it easier and in all honesty this track is a lot easier. Driving it today is the easiest it's been the whole 10 years I've been driving."
Real talk: I'm retroactively feeling bad about shitting on Honda so much.