Originally Posted by ACU:
“I would suggest theory 1 is too simplistic. There are a load of other factors that come into play for a car, the track characteristics being another major factor which you have neglected to mention.
Theory 2 also has holes. We dont know that the new tyres didnt cause a problem for the other teams, they may well have. If they caused the same amount of problems to all the teams, then the drop in performance would have been negated.
Your hot/cold weather theory doesnt hold up either. The coldest race of the season so far was Australia (20C). Thus according to you Merc should have done well at this race, and Lotus and FI would have done badly. Yet Kimi won the race, and Hamilton finished 5th. After the test, the coldest race was Canada (29C) Hamilton finished 3rd and Kimi 9th. The hottest race after the tests Monaco (34C) and British (31C) were both won by Rosberg, with Kimi finishing 10th and 5th respectively. All these facts, not opinion, do not fit your theory. Therefore the theory isnt correct.
NB - I chose the highest placed driver from Merc and Lotus for the above data. I also ignored Germany due to changes in tyres.”
“I would suggest theory 1 is too simplistic. There are a load of other factors that come into play for a car, the track characteristics being another major factor which you have neglected to mention.
Theory 2 also has holes. We dont know that the new tyres didnt cause a problem for the other teams, they may well have. If they caused the same amount of problems to all the teams, then the drop in performance would have been negated.
Your hot/cold weather theory doesnt hold up either. The coldest race of the season so far was Australia (20C). Thus according to you Merc should have done well at this race, and Lotus and FI would have done badly. Yet Kimi won the race, and Hamilton finished 5th. After the test, the coldest race was Canada (29C) Hamilton finished 3rd and Kimi 9th. The hottest race after the tests Monaco (34C) and British (31C) were both won by Rosberg, with Kimi finishing 10th and 5th respectively. All these facts, not opinion, do not fit your theory. Therefore the theory isnt correct.
NB - I chose the highest placed driver from Merc and Lotus for the above data. I also ignored Germany due to changes in tyres.”
TBH, I don't have records of all the specific race temperatures.
Just seems like the same teams usually do well in hot climates and badly in cold climates or vice versa.
I think the key point is that you have to look at what's happening with the other teams as well.
Lotus and RBR are the two benchmarks IMO.
They've done well in cold climates and hot climates respectively.
Seems rather unlikely that those teams would have made changes to their own cars which, by pure coincidence, put them back on roughly the same standing where they started the season.
As I say, I think the rest of the season will bear this out.
And, let's not forget, of course, that the FIA itself acknowledged that Merc' and Pirelli weren't up to anything underhanded during their test and they were punished simply for running the car, in contravention of S22 of the sporting reg's.
Originally Posted by Forza Ferrari:
“Its nice to see I'm not the only person who gets abused on here for having a different opinion on a matter.
Would the real Forza Ferrari please stand up.”
“Its nice to see I'm not the only person who gets abused on here for having a different opinion on a matter.
Would the real Forza Ferrari please stand up.”
Hush now.
Grown ups are talking.




