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Originally Posted by xjr14
Well if everybody would take a second to take a look at the fuel-corrected laptimes from all of this years qualifyings I simply can`t cannot find huge improvements, gap-wise, by McLaren and Renault! For sure Alonso and Hamilton did a great job,but it`s mainly down to driver expertise. Alonso knew he just had to deliver with the ultra light car and Hamilton also was just a bit lucky to get into top ten, look at how close gap-wise he was in the races before to enter Q3. ...some mishaps (Massa, Glock, Kubica) and you`re in. Still a great effort and well done by Hamilton. But on the other hand that`s just what we expect by the two world champions, isn`t it?
So I don`t believe for a second the very well deserved imrpovements on McLaren`s and Renault`s side are anywhere near as big as some might think! For me it just proved slapping a double-decker on (or some 1,5 deck version in Mc`s case) won`t get you the big improvements that are floating around due two our "heros" Flavio and Horner. Kovalainen also did run a 1.5 deck diffuser yesterdy, but a slightly different one than Hamilton. Not seen an Mc closeups for today. The numbers floating around might correct on the bases of cfd calculations and windtunnel data, but we all know those numbers often get screwed up in the real world`s environment.
We`ll see how everyone`s strategy works out tomorrow, god I wish they had banned refuelling for this years championship, I hate this fuel strategy stuff! Great it`s banned next year! Hopefully the RedBull cars won`t fall apart. ...Man I love this years championship with it`s "screwed up world order"!  |
I'm not sure where you don't see an improvement ?
Take Renault, they barely made it to Q3 last time round and this time alonso was comfortably there, this is with a light car where fuel load has no effect or very little effect.
And in Q3 he's 3/10th up on the brawns, which are 22kg lighter. It's alleged that you lose about 3/10th every 10kg so in effect he's 3/10th off them, which is much better than has been before.
For a package that has been fitted on the car overnight and had done a grand total of 3 laps before qualifying, I think this just totally PROVES that it works.