Formula 1 CFA Comments
2015 Singapore GP - Race
by Cato Batista, 19/09/2015 20:18:56
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Ferrari and Red Bull had taken the 4 top spots in the grid pushing Mercedes to the third row. It was widely believed the Silver Arrows were ‘sandbagging’, not showing their cards through all practice sessions, but for the first time since last season they had been positively outpaced.
VET lapped the Ferrari over half a second clear of second place RIC, 8 and 9 tenths over teammate RAI and KVY, and a huge second and a half over Lewis & Nico. Both Williams made it to Q3 with BOT in 7th and MAS 9th split by teenager VER, with GRO’s Lotus completing the top 10. Rookie SAI had a big accident (he’s OK) stopping short Q2 and leaving out of the shoot out both Force Indias and ALO in the McLaren, although both HUL and PER admitted they probably didn’t have the pace to take on the Lotus or the Williams.
2015 Singapore GP - QF
by Cato Batista, 18/09/2015 19:10:16
Ladies and Gentlemen,
No, Mercedes is not on top of the timesheets, it’s Red Bull and then Ferrari looking like they can give the Germans a run for their money. Mercedes strength, superior performance on the harder compounds has disappeared in the Marina Bay circuit. The fastest lap times in Friday’s practice sessions were 4-5 seconds quicker on light fuel loads using the supersoft (red) compound, (soft/yellow is the other one for this GP) what we have to look at is the times the top teams were doing on their race simulations, that is with 3-lap used options / supersoft with the estimated starting fuel loads, and that data points out to a very contested race on Sunday as Ferrari and specially Red Bull are showing better pace than Mercedes. Both Lewis & Nico were the only drivers ...
2015 Italian GP - Preview by Cato Batista, 17/09/2015 18:26:57 Ladies and Gentlemen, The 13th round of the season is coming up up this weekend in Singapore, the night race mother of all street circuits, and if it ever was a chance of Mercedes being beaten, this could be it. But let’s get to the most relevant news of the moment, and that’s Renault supremo Carlos Ghosn expressing his displeasure at the continuous criticism from partners Red Bull in the last 18 months. He declared that ...“when we were winning (four Championships in a row ...
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