Formula 1 CFA Comments
Monaco GP 2011 - Thursday Practice Sessions
by Cato Batista, 26/05/2011 19:34:34
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Monaco has its own schedule, the only race with practice taking place on Thursday and leaving Friday with no track activities. Teams had barely 4 days to haul their tons of equipment from Barcelona and get their machines ready for this morning free practice.
The big question in everybody’s minds was how the un-tested super-soft Pirelli compound will fare, and so far has been a hit with all drivers but the concern remains as to how long they will last. Pirelli recons their window should be 7-10 laps, and so far we’ve seen 5 laps without sudden drop with medium fuel load. The primes had proven to be about 1 second per lap faster that the options at this stage.
On top of the sheets it was a VET-ALO affair on both sessions with ROS close behind, both McLarens and MAS. The lead Ferrari setting a flyer half through P2 1.5 secs. faster than VET’s best on P1 that nobody was able to touch even in full QF trim.
P1- VET 1.16.619 ALO ROS MAS HAM BUT MAL SUT PET SCH
P2 – ALO 1.15.123 HAM ROS BUT VET MAS SCH WEB SUT HEI
ALO downplayed his achievement assuming that the F1 order will not change in only the last five days and he expects Red Bull to dominate QF and the race. He was happy with his set-up and said that in this track all comes down to confidence, something that him and VET had a clear edge over the rest today. SCH and MAL damaged their cars in separate accidents and WEB lost P1 completely due to gearbox and KERS issues.
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Monaco has its own schedule, the only race with practice taking place on Thursday and leaving Friday with no track activities. Teams had barely 4 days to haul their tons of equipment from Barcelona and get their machines ready for this morning free practice.
The big question in everybody’s minds was how the un-tested super-soft Pirelli compound will fare, and so far has been a hit with all drivers but the concern remains as to how long they will last. Pirelli recons their window should be 7-10 laps, and so far we’ve seen 5 laps without sudden drop with medium fuel load. The primes had proven to be about 1 second per lap faster that the options at this stage.
On top of the sheets it was a VET-ALO affair on both sessions with ROS close behind, both McLarens and MAS. The lead Ferrari setting a flyer half through P2 1.5 secs. faster than VET’s best on P1 that nobody was able to touch even in full QF trim.
P1- VET 1.16.619 ALO ROS MAS HAM BUT MAL SUT PET SCH
P2 – ALO 1.15.123 HAM ROS BUT VET MAS SCH WEB SUT HEI
ALO downplayed his achievement assuming that the F1 order will not change in only the last five days and he expects Red Bull to dominate QF and the race. He was happy with his set-up and said that in this track all comes down to confidence, something that him and VET had a clear edge over the rest today. SCH and MAL damaged their cars in separate accidents and WEB lost P1 completely due to gearbox and KERS issues.
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Spain Grand Prix 2011
by Cato Batista, 21/05/2011 17:11:43
Ladies and Gentlemen:
It was the other RedBull on pole, but it’s clear that Adrian Newey’s cars are in a league of theirown. They sail through Q1 on hard tires and needed only 1 set of softs to lockthe front row, leaving plenty of new primerubber for the race. Apparently VET had a KERS issue earlier in QF but thatshould not take anything from WEB who has shown his best form from the go onFriday. HAM was 3rd as many expected, but the happiest guy was ALOsplitting the McLarens in forth with a very impressive last lap on option tires, bringing a lot of speculationthat Ferrari could have a very strong car on race trim for tomorrow. PET againsolid behind the big names and in front of the Mercedes. The surprise wasrookie MAL in the Williams making the Q3 cut.
Three colleagues score QF plenums: Joe, Santi and reigning champFernando, but in general it was a toughsession for us with many ‘ones’ and ‘zeroes’.
The Grid: WEB VET HAM ALO BUT PET ROS MAS MAL SCH
We are starting to get a better picture of what thestrategy for tomorrow could be when McLaren and RB were extracting 14 laps out of thesoft tires. With 66 laps to cover, that means 3 stops leaving the hard compoundfor the closing stint with 18 laps. This is a very abrasive surface and hasn’tallowed the rubber to build up leaving the teams with little options. At 2 secondsa lap faster than the hard tires, RB and Ferrari will have an advantage if theycan use their 3 new sets of soft compound.
Since the new changes were announced for 2011 (DRS, KERS andPirelli), it was apparent that the Circuit de Catalunya ...
It was the other RedBull on pole, but it’s clear that Adrian Newey’s cars are in a league of theirown. They sail through Q1 on hard tires and needed only 1 set of softs to lockthe front row, leaving plenty of new primerubber for the race. Apparently VET had a KERS issue earlier in QF but thatshould not take anything from WEB who has shown his best form from the go onFriday. HAM was 3rd as many expected, but the happiest guy was ALOsplitting the McLarens in forth with a very impressive last lap on option tires, bringing a lot of speculationthat Ferrari could have a very strong car on race trim for tomorrow. PET againsolid behind the big names and in front of the Mercedes. The surprise wasrookie MAL in the Williams making the Q3 cut.
Three colleagues score QF plenums: Joe, Santi and reigning champFernando, but in general it was a toughsession for us with many ‘ones’ and ‘zeroes’.
The Grid: WEB VET HAM ALO BUT PET ROS MAS MAL SCH
We are starting to get a better picture of what thestrategy for tomorrow could be when McLaren and RB were extracting 14 laps out of thesoft tires. With 66 laps to cover, that means 3 stops leaving the hard compoundfor the closing stint with 18 laps. This is a very abrasive surface and hasn’tallowed the rubber to build up leaving the teams with little options. At 2 secondsa lap faster than the hard tires, RB and Ferrari will have an advantage if theycan use their 3 new sets of soft compound.
Since the new changes were announced for 2011 (DRS, KERS andPirelli), it was apparent that the Circuit de Catalunya ...
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