I love having two race weekends stacked. The saving grace for Bahrain is that I believe Ferrari will perform better here as it is very much a power circuit and I believe they might be able to outgun Renault. From what I've seen, the Ferrari is geared pretty high and they were about as quick as MB in the power sector, so I hope they to well there. That being said, this entire weekend will otherwise be a Mercedes works team dessimation of the field. The only questions remain: Nico win or will it be Lewis. And how far back will Vettel finish considering RB10 was a full 3+ tenths slower in the power sectors at Malaysia.
Kimi will plow the track with the rest of the field and leave them all in a ditch...Massa probably won´t be second...the rest...they can go home and cry...
I don´t know how this can help them, they´re short in power and traction out of corners. I think that Williams and McLaren will be closer to the top, like in Australia.
Maybe he´s good at was he´s good at, but that doesn´t mean that he´s a good Technical Director. At Mercedes he´s not the big boss.
True, but there really is no more 'big boss' at that team. Their operating model is one that places no one fully in charge of really anything, that's why Brawn split. Costs is not the head TD, Bob Bell is, but that being said, Costa's cars with Ferrari were far better than the stuff Ferrari have out out since he was let go.
Mmmm... that´s debateable. He had some good cars, but what he did in 2009 and 2011 was worse than what they had since he left. Anyway, a car is never a one man job, the variables are countless.
Yes. Sounds like either he wasn't a good fit for the culture or they didn't quite know how to get his potential from him.
I have a feeling Kimi will outgun Alonso on this one, and get a podium at that. As long as that bloody car stays together and he's not getting torpedoed, that is.
Much will be unchanged given the narrow development turnaround time. Barring reliability issues or catastrophic driver error, Mercedes will be top dog and Ferrari will be fighting Force India again. Such is the sad state of affairs at team red but as the saying goes, "there is nowhere to go but up from the bottom."
Glad to see another race so soon. Mercedes should be the fave. Nico or LH. Hard to say. Id say LH as he seems to be at a good point now. Ferrari - need help and there wont be any this weekend. RB is still the unknown but P3 will be realistic unless someone surprises us.
Repeat of Malaysia: Mercedes 1-2 Vettel 3rd Alonso 4th, unless Hulk gets the pit strategy right. Ricciardo gets a 10 spot grid penalty for the early release in Malaysia, so I think the race-within-the-race will be him and Bottas drag racing thru the crowd! With dry qualifying, Williams could finish even higher. Lotus just might fix a bug or two and get two cars to finish this time.
I hope Lewis' decimates everyone again but Nico is no slouch and there's a very real chance he will be on pole. I think Ferrari will have the edge on red bull here and Kimi can finally get a good performance. I hope vettel's car breaks.
Merc will win as everyone expects. RB will be second. The rest will be nowhere. Ferrari will soldier manfully on with Fred outperforming his equipment as usual, but to no real gain. Williams will do ok. Force India and TR will show up at least. McLaren will continue to fade away as they have no real incentive to try too hard with this years package - all their engineering effort will be on developing next years Honda based package. The rest? Who cares.
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when alonso gets back to mclaren next year i bet they will become a force. Mac is good at setting up the car when a really supreme driver is telling them what needs to be done (think raikonnen at mclaren years ago).
Lol F1 sucks, sound is horrible, races are boring and cars slower than GP2. Oh and less pinnacle than LMP1 (although those are slower ). I probably forgot a few.
