Kubica heads test with Alfa Romeo’s best time so far

12 comments on “Kubica heads test with Alfa Romeo’s best time so far”

1. 

   Xman
   26th February 2020, 17:34

   Good job Robert :)
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   Sensord4notbeingafanboi (@peartree)
   26th February 2020, 17:35

   Ocon is often tasked with doing weird things, the other day he was lapping the track exclusively off line.
3. 

   Pete
   26th February 2020, 17:49

   Kubica – the guy who, as Williams implied, “did not understand the tires.” Yup, clearly, he is old, clueless, and slower than Russell.
   1. 

      Peter-G
      26th February 2020, 18:00

      It means nothing as it was a time set on the softest tires on a 3 lap obvious low fuel qualifying sim.

      He’s literally the only driver to have gone for that today as everyone else was doing longer runs on harder compounds.
      1. 

         Martin
         27th February 2020, 8:30

         So did Kimi last week… He had even less fuel…. And yet Kubica was faster. :l
   2. 

      anon
      26th February 2020, 21:56

      Pete, as others have noted, Kubica seems to have set that time in a single qualifying stint on the softest compound when most rival teams set their best times during extended stints, suggesting that fuel loads seem to have played a fairly significant factor.

      It is notable that some other drivers, tyre compound corrected, look like they could have been a fair bit faster than Kubica too. It might be a bit of a let down, but Lance Stroll was virtually matching Kubica’s sector times in the first two sectors of the lap, despite using a tyre two grades harder than that of Kubica.

      Equally, there were reports that the windspeed picked up quite considerable in the afternoon session, with the track becoming noticeably slower – Tobias Gruner, from AMuS, said he’d been told the track was about 0.6s slower in the afternoon. Now, Kvyat and Perez went on to set lap times during that afternoon session which were only around 0.5s off Kubica’s time, both of which were set on harder compound tyres – the fact they were getting that close in what is reported as being less favourable conditions and with harder compound tyres does cast Kubica’s time in a bit of a different light.
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   Pete
   26th February 2020, 17:57

   One other thought – this was the third fastest time of testing to date. Yes, it’s just testing, but compare it to the 2019 insinuations that Kubica was old, handicapped, and obviously outclassed by Russell (despite passing Russell at the start of almost every race). Or Williams’ insinuations that Kubica has no more performance in him. Considering how much Kubica is liked and respected at Alfa Romeo (aka “former Sauber”) as well as at Ferrari, I would not be surprised if this wasn’t a big “in your face, Williams” from both of these teams. For instance, Ferrari allowing Alfa to run with a few hundreds extra RPMs on their engine this time around…
   1. 

      F1oSaurus (@f1osaurus)
      26th February 2020, 20:40

      Imagine how fast Russel would have been in that Alfa! Probably about a second faster again.
      1. 

         Martin
         27th February 2020, 8:39

         Remind me how many points had fast Russell. Last year. :)
      2. 

         Bart
         27th February 2020, 13:49

         Imagine how two seconds would make Russel look much better in Toto’s eyes. Give Russel this Alfa seat Kubica!
      3. 

         xxxman
         28th February 2020, 0:18

         Yea but this is not English team and Russell would have second class parts with funny brakes and he would be second slower than Robert :)
         Remember then Magnussen sign for Hass when he was in Renault ? Suddenly Palmer !!! was faster than him.
         !!!
5. 

   stefano (@alfa145)
   26th February 2020, 22:06

   It’s all down to the softer tires and it’s made just for the sponsors and blablabla… who cares. This is actually very nice to see. Think about this guy, what he has endured. This is a nice little awesome thing, it made me smile.

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