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Monaco GP 2016 - Preview

by Cato Batista, 26/05/2016 14:16:40

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Sixth round coming up in Monaco, and this GP being the darling of the calendar starts today instead of Friday like everybody else. A 4 day weekend makes wonders for revenue.

Since starting position is everything in the narrow streets, the overwhelming choice for tyres is the 'ultra-soft' that Pirelli is introducing for the first time. It's the fastest compound -and with shorter life- they'd ever made. Their engineers predict faster lap times that last year's.

Something interesting is Renault providing their two teams with the new generation of much powerful engines, problem is the have only two units, one for their Renault works team going to MAG over PAL but there was a lot of speculation of which of the Red Bull drivers was going the get the other one now that VER has won in Spain, but the teenager will have to wait until Canada when supply will normalize since RIC is still their number one driver.

Spanish GP 2016 - Race

by Cato Batista, 14/05/2016 22:48:30

Ladies and Gentlemen,

This time is Lewis in front of Nico after another contested battle for the pole between the silver machines. But the headlines are going to the Red Bull cars taking the second row in front of Ferrari -”It’s not they are fast -said VET- it’s that we are slow!” Ferrari couldn’t point to exactly what made them drop speed as QF progressed. VER at the wheel of the Red Bull for the first time was very impressive, actually faster than RIC and even splitting the Mercedes until the last seconds of Q3 when the Australian put together a fantastic lap, but still almost 7 tenths behind HAM’s. Williams came next with BOT but screwed up their timing leaving MAS out in Q1. SAI produced a last effort screamer to take 8th ahead of PER, the Mexican comfortably in the top 10 all day, and taking the last

spot is ALO, a McLaren in the Q3 for the first time since ...

Spanish GP 2016 - QF

by Cato Batista, 13/05/2016 18:55:39

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The Spanish GP is always the showcase on how the rest of the season will be like, as this is the race where the teams introduce their definitive season updates. After all the winter testing at this place they have a solid bank of data to compare all the new parts and engine improvements. McLaren is presenting a new package that is “almost a complete new car” (even flying parts overnight from their factory to try this morning), and so are the new spec Force India and Haas. For what we’ve seen today Ferrari, Red Bull and Force India had made a step forward, Haas has gone the other way (“The car is very very difficult to drive” says GRO) but McLaren remains not much faster relative to the mid field, although ALO was top 10 in both sessions.

Ferrari was fastest in the opening session but Mercedes in 3rd & 4th places made clear they are still the one to beat as their times were set solely using the Pirelli’s medium compound compared to Ferrari in soft ...

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