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Originally Posted by Garry Walker
How do you know that 99% of the paddock thinks Ferrari is the quickest car?
Obviously that is not a survey I have personally carried out. But you'll be hard pushed to find someone who will state that McLaren have so far had the fastest car this year. Most will say McLaren have made a better start, but I don't think you could find many, if any who would agree with you that McLaren are actually quicker than Ferrari.
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Considering Kimi fuelled long and LH short, thats exactly what should have helped KR show his quickness over the McLarens then. By keeping pace with LH, despite more fuel. But he couldnt at all. McLarens were in a different class that day. When Massa had clear air, and he did for a little while, then he wasnt able to go any quicker than FA or LH either or even nearly as quick. Also, sector times show that Ferraris were nowhere as good as the Maccas.
In fairness, the stint in which Lewis managed to open a slight gap, the majority of that was made during the pitstops, as he stayed out 2-3 laps longer than Kimi, and on top of that, due to pitting in later, and putting 5-6 laps less fuel on board (than Kimi did), had a much shorter pitstop, compared to Kimi who had to put in 5-6 laps more fuel, and was out there on a full fuel load while Lewis was running on fumes - allowed him to open up quite a gap. Then also during the 2nd stint after the pitstops, Lewis was on less fuel and newer tyres, which made sense that Lewis was slightly quicker. In the end, the McLaren start and their strategy after that stopped Ferrari from showing their true pace, but it was clear all weekend beforehand that Ferrari had the quicker car.
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Practise times are irrelevant, especially FP1 and FP2. In qualifying, if im not mistaken then LH didnt improve on his 2nd try in the final qualy. But what counts is the race. I brought up some points from the race in my previous post in this thread and you havent countered them.
They are irrelevant to the race result, however they are a good indication when analysing who is quickest. A car isn't top of the time sheets in 90% of the practice times for no reason! Obviously qualifying in particular, and the race results give us a better indication (in the race though there are so many variables they don't always tell you who was quickest - e.g. the McLaren's were clearly the quickest car in 05!).
So ok, ignore the practice times for the time being, let's compare the qualifying, Ferrari have got 3 poles, McLaren 0.
Now the races, Ferrari have got 2 wins, McLaren have got 1. Let's look at it into more detail - McLaren haven't really made any mistakes, while Ferrari had problems for Massa in Oz, and then Massa made a rookie error in Malaysia, Kimi had a weak engine in Malaysia. Bahrain was the first trouble free race for Ferrari. If Ferrari had made the most of their car and drivers, in the same way McLaren, it's quite clear to see Ferrari would be leading the championship, and the drivers title.
I'm not sure which points I missed your referring to sorry.
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No, its not clear at all that Ferrari is the quicker car. They might be the quickest car at Spain, or they might not. Please dont let that distort your views on the previous races. I find that most people, when doing their analysis on the Malaysian race, were still mentally stuck in Australia and with blinders on kept going on about Ferrari being 1 second per lap quicker. There never was such thing this year, nor will there be such a thing this year.
Don't worry, I'm not :)
