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Indeed, I did not think of the scale of potential exploited from the packages. This could indeed mean Caterham will retake 10th in the pecking order soon.

Certainly in Monaco, if they indeed have better one lap […]

I forgot to add the conclusion: obviously, if a backmarker team has to score, it would be Marussia first, that would be my bet. Of course this in itself would not rule out a Caterham point-scoring finish, but […]

Ugh, I have to disagree with the COTD.

Maybe Caterham made a step forward with thier Spain upgrade, in fact that’s almost 100% in terms of absolute performance, but once again the race was not very revealing of […]

Me neither.

Also, I rate Ricciardo higher myself – but that’s largely down to last year’s performance/hunch.

I just wanted to falsify Marko based on pure observable performance so far this year.

What Marko said is simply not true.

I re-checked the Friday long run pace, Friday best sector times, qualification and race pace of the two so far this year and found that Vergne actually beat Ricciardo in […]

A better perspective is to look at the last two competitive sessions (races and Qs): it’s 2-0 to Checo. Looking back, his race pace was also better than Button’s in Australia.

…which is now 8th. Good job, although this means dirty side on the grid now…

Does anyone know if someone ran his best Q3 time on hards and/or used tyres?

Here’s the bang. The combined best of the Ferraris’ are actually better for both Alonso and Massa. Strange. Could have been caught out by the sudden drop in track temp in Q3.

Someone beat me by a minute with the figures.

Into T4 and perhaps T14 are the other places I can think of.

Anyway, the whole ‘you can’t pass in Barcelona’ thing got outddated a bit in the past two years, incidentally (or not) since the introduction of DRS. […]

I don’t really get the picture of this.

Obviously, they were both told they were a fraction away from nullifying the weekend for the team, and has been asked of two things: first, to be honest with each other, […]

I agree. However, the public eye seems not to. Take Vettel v Webber. Vettel immediately came under scrutiny for – basically – following his instincts – at least here among the Hungarian F1 broadcasters and coverage staff.

Spot on.

One one hand, nah, looking at the race charts and longest stint comparisons and one-lap pace, Force India is seriously, ingeniously quick. Particularly in hot conditions (Malaysia, Bahrain). It could be down to […]

I thought Allison was good.

Vettel, Raikkonen, Alonso all two times in the top 3 so far this year.

*surprised by the

Why am I not surprised the prospective Marussia-Ferrari deal since Binachi’s arrival?!

Rather “Today, it’s not ONE OF the fastest driver in the fastest car who wins, but the one with the optimum tyre management.” Oh wait…