Originally Posted by LongBallPlease:
“Personally I think the McLarens will win easy tomorrow as they have the best pace, but the McLarens might not win because I'm not sure they have the fastest cars... (see what I did there)”
You were channeling the spirit of Eddie Jordan?
It all
seemed pretty close in quali' but the fact is that the McLaren is half a second faster than the RBRs at the moment and that's quite a margin for a driver to make up, especially when they will have to abuse their tyres to overtake other cars in the process.
I reckon part of the reason Vettel seemed so serene last year was that once he was in the lead he never had to abuse his tyres whereas following cars were forced to burn theirs up fighting for position and thus lacked the pace to catch the leaders.
Must say, I wouldn't write the RBRs off yet.
Melbourne, Sepang and Shanghai are speed circuits but I can see the RBRs beating the Merc's at races such as Spain, Monaco etc.
Incidentally, they say Webber's KERS wasn't working during quali' yesterday either.
Nice to see that he still managed to beat Vettel.