pokerman wrote:mikeyg123 wrote:pokerman wrote:KingVoid wrote:https://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2017/11/09/ ... -puncture/
“[Mercedes] didn’t want Sebastian Vettel particularly to get a podium in Spa,” Carter told Missed Apex, “and they could see that Romain, on newer tyres, was catching.”
“So they gave him a different engine mode to go into.”
The car’s sudden gain in performance can be seen in the lap times from the race. Between laps 25 and 30 Grosjean’s average lap time was 1’55.6. Over the next eight laps it fell to 1’54.8, a gain of eight-tenths of a second. He set his fastest lap of the race on lap 37 which brought him within striking distance.
Grosjean told Carter the increase in performance transformed the handling of his car. “Romain came in at the end of that race and said the car had never driven the way it had in the last laps of the race,” said the former Lotus boss.
“It makes sense. The minute your car is going faster your aero is working better, your tyres are better, you don’t have to brake as late. Every part of the car works better because he was in this mode.”
How could Grosjean's average have been 1:54.8 when his fastest lap was 1:54.779 the only lap he did in the 1:54's, also Kvyat was catching him dipping into the 1:53's.
Very easily in the 1:54.8s if he is lapping consistently.
He did one lap in the 1:54's so it's not physically possible, whilst Kvyat was catching him at 1 second a lap dipping regularly into the 1:53's.
Grosjean lead Kvyat throughout the race yet with the Merc in warp factor 10 mode, Kvyat with the much inferior Renault engine was catching him hand over fist, the facts don't match the hysteria.
http://en.mclarenf-1.com/index.php?page ... n%20Vettel
People should really check what they post. Absolute nonsense lol.
Comparing drivers Romain Grosjean VS Sebastian Vettel at Belgian GP 2015
RG SV
1 2:02.796[8] 2:01.920[6] +0.876 +0.876 1
2 1:57.588[7] 1:57.106[5] +0.482 +1.358 2
3 1:56.854[7] 1:56.388[5] +0.466 +1.824 3
4 1:57.237[7] 1:56.867[5] +0.370 +2.194 4
5 1:57.497[7] 1:56.676[5] +0.821 +3.015 5
6 1:57.478[7] 1:56.737[5] +0.741 +3.756 6
7 1:58.374[7] 1:56.652[4] +1.722 +5.478 7
8 1:57.878[5] 1:57.346[3] +0.532 +6.010 8
9 2:02.271[4] PIT 23.7 1:57.179[3] +5.092 +11.102 9
10 2:09.016[7] 1:57.459[3] +11.557 +22.659 10
11 1:56.250[7] 1:57.478[3] -1.228 +21.431 1
12 1:55.666[6] 1:58.217[3] -2.551 +18.880 2
13 1:56.190[6] 1:57.926[2] -1.736 +17.144 3
14 1:56.167[6] 2:02.971[2] PIT 22.7 -6.804 +10.340 4
15 1:55.981[5] 2:08.622[6] -12.641 -2.301 5
16 1:55.513[5] 1:56.128[6] -0.615 -2.916 6
17 1:55.391[5] 1:56.184[6] -0.793 -3.709 7
18 1:55.818[4] 1:56.008[6] -0.190 -3.899 8
19 1:56.311[4] 1:56.115[6] +0.196 -3.703 11
20 1:55.769[3] 1:56.348[4] -0.579 -4.282 9
21 2:23.889[3] PIT 23.5 2:22.634[4] +1.255 -3.027 12
22 2:12.318[4] 2:04.049[3] +8.269 +5.242 13
23 1:54.957[4] 1:55.397[3] -0.440 +4.802 10
24 1:55.076[4] 1:55.386[3] -0.310 +4.492 11
25 1:55.414[4] 1:55.808[3] -0.394 +4.098 12
26 1:55.731[4] 1:55.765[3] -0.034 +4.064 13
27 1:55.311[4] 1:55.856[3] -0.545 +3.519 14
28 1:55.628[4] 1:55.551[3] +0.077 +3.596 14
29 1:55.617[4] 1:55.316[3] +0.301 +3.897 15
30 1:56.019[4] 1:55.523[3] +0.496 +4.393 16
31 1:55.194[4] 1:55.432[3] -0.238 +4.155 15
32 1:55.043[4] 1:55.443[3] -0.400 +3.755 16
33 1:55.299[4] 1:55.497[3] -0.198 +3.557 17
34 1:55.004[4] 1:55.761[3] -0.757 +2.800 18
35 1:55.333[4] 1:55.884[3] -0.551 +2.249 19
36 1:55.311[4] 1:55.711[3] -0.400 +1.849 20
37 1:54.779[4] 1:55.520[3] -0.741 +1.108 21
38 1:55.397[4] 1:55.696[3] -0.299 +0.809 22
39 1:56.189[4] 1:56.407[3] -0.218 +0.591 23
40 1:55.915[4] 1:55.949[3] -0.034 +0.557 24
41 1:56.311[4] 1:56.116[3] +0.195 +0.752 17
42 1:56.254[3] 3:03.554[12] PIT 0 -67.300 -66.548 25