April 8, 2011

Red Bull and Mclaren blow everyone away.

Signs from Friday practice point to a two way battle between Mclarens and Red Bull in Malaysia this week end.

After the second practice session, Webber and Button were .0005 of a second apart followed by Hamilton and Vettel in the next 2/10th.
But the rest of the field was nowhere, Schumacher and Massa were 1.2 sec off Webber's pace everyone else further behind with Alonso a massive 1.7 away.

Bad news for Ferrari and all the aero updates they had announced. A quick look at the onboard below seems to suggest the Ferrari needs quite a bit of correction mid corner and especially on tight corner exit. This would confirm reports of Ferrari being extremely worried about tire wear. Compare that to the smoothness of Vettel's RB or even Schumacher's Mercedes.








Pos Driver Team Time Laps

1. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1m36.876s 24
2. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m36.881s + 0.005 30
3. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1m37.010s + 0.134 23
4. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m37.090s + 0.214 30
5. Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1m38.088s + 1.212 26
6. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m38.089s + 1.213 31
7. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m38.565s + 1.689 25
8. Nick Heidfeld Renault 1m38.570s + 1.694 16
9. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m38.583s + 1.707 27
10. Jaime Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m38.846s + 1.970 31
11. Pastor Maldonado Williams-Cosworth 1m38.968s + 2.092 25
12. Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1m39.187s + 2.311 30
13. Vitaly Petrov Renault 1m39.267s + 2.391 17
14. Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1m39.398s + 2.522 29
15. Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 1m39.603s + 2.727 34
16. Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1m39.625s + 2.749 31
17. Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1m39.809s + 2.933 28
18. Sebastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m40.115s + 3.239 31
19. Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1m40.866s + 3.990 24
20. Jarno Trulli Lotus-Renault 1m41.890s + 5.014 19
21. Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 1m43.197s + 6.321 15
22. Tonio Liuzzi HRT-Cosworth 1m43.991s + 7.115 14
23. Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Renault 1m44.886s + 8.010 4

All Timing Unofficial


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4 comments:

  1. A little off topic, but Red Bull is using KERS finally.

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  2. That red horse looks crap if you look at the steering. It also lacks some rear end grip. Might be the kers-loading that's doing it's weirdness.

    Why is grandpa not keeping his hand on the wheel?

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  3. what, no mclaren onboards?

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  4. Why do the RB rpm lEDs go dark in top gear?

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