Mercedes quickest again in final practice

21 comments on “Mercedes quickest again in final practice”

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   Manished
   29th June 2013, 11:14

   STR improved alot since they upgraded to ramp tunnel style coanda exhaust.
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   HiPn0tIc (@hipn0tic)
   29th June 2013, 11:16

   Any resemblance to secret testing, is purely coincidental.
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      Shreyas Mohanty (@)
      29th June 2013, 11:21

      @hipn0tic Not a valid fact here. Mercedes have been topping practice sessions from the staert of the season. Improvements, if any, will be revealed in the race. I personally don’t think there will be much of an improvement.
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         Shreyas Mohanty (@)
         29th June 2013, 11:26

         reply*
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         Shreyas Mohanty (@)
         29th June 2013, 11:28

         Holding my breath for qualifying! Will the Ferrari perform better? Are Ferrari even trying to improve ? :0 Do they realise Alonso’s championship is sinking only and only because of bad qualifying?
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            Knoxville
            29th June 2013, 11:37

            i see we have a ferrari fan here! i suspect ferrari will be equally strong here in terms of race pace as they’ve been in previous grand prixs but lack of the one lap pace which mercedes has. Im tipping a Mercedes front row lockout in quali. However, I fear we’ll have another redbull charging to the top step of the podium. hopefully webber instead of vettel, that dudes been on an astonishing form this season! with a 4th place as his worst finishing position thus far this 2013 season.
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               Shreyas Mohanty (@)
               29th June 2013, 11:45

               Yeah, I guess. Same story will be repeated.
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            Knoxville
            29th June 2013, 11:40

            i see we have a ferrari fan here! i suspect ferrari will be equally strong here in terms of race pace as they’ve been in previous grand prixs but lack of the one lap pace which mercedes has. Im tipping a Mercedes front row lockout in quali. However, I fear we’ll have another redbull charging to the top step of the podium. hopefully webber instead of vettel, that dudes been on an astonishing form this season! with a 4th place as his worst finishing position thus far this 2013 season. The lotus with its new passive DRS seems to be a threat to the podium too, especially in the warmer climate in direct contradiction to FP1 and FP2.
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               Joel (@pads)
               30th June 2013, 7:36

               and…. my predictions were true. Mercedes 1-2, Redbull 3-4. Ferraris no where to be seen relative to the front end of the grid. but i suspect a hard charging alonso will be at play here on sunday.
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            anon
            29th June 2013, 12:09

            They have had the best race pace for most of the season, but I think poor qualifying is a combination of not being as good as Mercedes in qualifying Alonso not being as good as a Vettel or Rosberg over one lap.

            If you look throughout his career he’s never been a noted qualifier. Ferrari haven’t even had qualified in pole in dry conditions since September 2010.

            Look at McLaren from 2010-12 and all poles Hamilton took. Button is a strong driver but only took one pole in that entire time. If Button was your lead driver then people would have assumed that the McLaren was a “weak qualifier” rather than the driver himself.
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         HiPn0tIc (@hipn0tic)
         29th June 2013, 11:31

         @shreyasf1fan That’s why i said purely coincidental. At the race we will see…
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            John H (@john-h)
            29th June 2013, 11:49

            To be fair, I think anyone that reads your initial comment senses sarcasm, even if it is not intended.
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      Jay Cooper (@coop)
      29th June 2013, 11:22

      Because Mercedes haven’t been strong with one lap race pace all season.. Oh no, they have! You plonker
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         HiPn0tIc (@hipn0tic)
         29th June 2013, 11:36

         Please read and read again my sentence, at the race of the next 3 races we will see….
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      Shreyas Mohanty (@)
      29th June 2013, 11:23

      @hipn0tic Not a valid fact here. Mercedes have been topping practice sessions from the start of the season. Improvements, if any, will be revealed in the race. I personally don’t think there will be much of an improvement.
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         Dizzy
         29th June 2013, 11:36

         Looking at Mercedes long run pace yesterday, They did seem to be suffering from far less tyre drop-off than they were Pre-Test.

         Also looking at how they set the fastest laps this morning, They were set several laps into a run which suggests the tyres are not suffering as they were a few races ago.
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            HiPn0tIc (@hipn0tic)
            29th June 2013, 11:37

            O’rly????
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            Knoxville
            29th June 2013, 11:45

            Dizzy were we watching the same broadcast? i recalled vettel during his race simulation was running on the primes over a 10 lap stint lapping around the mid 1.38s. Contrasting that info with hamilton’s 10 lap stint on the similar harder of the compounds he was lapping over a second slower than that of the redbull! with an average of mid 1.39s!!

            to further reinforce my argument and refuting what you said above as utter rubbish, Rosberg and Webber were running similar compounds (Mediums) during race sim. and as expected Nico was running significantly slower to webber!
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               HiPn0tIc (@hipn0tic)
               29th June 2013, 11:58

               To be fair you have to compare Vettel and Nico, but we also know that Brawn is a master in strategy so the advantage that Mercedes have we will see it in a gradual way, not all of it in the final practice.
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      Prisoner Monkeys (@prisoner-monkeys)
      29th June 2013, 12:21

      @hipn0tic – You’ll have a hard time proving that any success Mercedes have is down to their test at Barcelona and the test alone. Especially since they were using the early versions of the 2014 tyres at said test, which would be of little relevance to this year.
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         HiPn0tIc (@hipn0tic)
         1st July 2013, 13:31

         @prisoner-monkeys We’ve seen already this change of pace in this race. But we will see it again and again…so it has to be coincidence, the test and the diference pace, for you not to relate to the test…

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