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Qualifying Prediction Since the previous qualifying in Hungary was rain-affected, the season FP2-to-Qualifying multipliers have been carried over from Silverstone: And the predicted team qualifying order for the 2016 German Grand Prix is as follows: Team Fastest Qualifying time Mercedes 1:14.09 Red Bull 1:14.82 Ferrari 1:15.03 Force India 1:15.20 Williams 1:15.54 Toro Rosso 1:15.89 McLaren […]
Qualifying Qualifying projections take the average FP2 to Qualifying time multiplier throughout the season. Recently, McLaren and Force India’s times, in particular, have been inaccurate but should be improved now because a total of anomalous multipliers have been disregarded. Each team’s range is approximately +/- 0.005% which works out as 0.4 seconds around the Hungaroring, […]
Qualifying Projections The season average FP2 multipliers carry over from Canada as the previous two weekend had variable weather and track conditions: In FP1 the pole position, race win and fastest lap looked to have already been decided as Mercedes seemed so dominant, but, for whatever reason, Free Practice 2 was much closer between Mercedes […]
After Canada the FP2-to-Qualifying multipliers have been updated as above: They proved to be fairly accurate in Montreal with eight teams correctly predicted to 0.2 seconds and two teams bang on: Here are the predictions for Saturday’s qualifying session in Baku: They’ll probably all be half a second or so faster because this is a […]
Here is the forecasted qualifying order: Team Fastest Qualifying time Mercedes 1:13.0 Ferrari 1:13.1 Williams 1:13.5 Red Bull 1:13.8 Force India 1:13.9 Toro Rosso 1:14.3 McLaren 1:14.5 Haas 1:14.8 Sauber 1:15.4 Renault 1:15.4 Manor 1:6.0 The above lap times are calculated using an average multiplier that varies for each team depending on how they ramp […]
Lewis Hamilton gave praise to his engineers after securing a sensational win on the streets of Monaco – his first of the season. The Brit reduced Nico Rosberg’s lead in the Championship from 43 to 24 points as the German finished nearly a lap down in seventh after allowing his teammate through on lap 16 […]
Despite the many yellow flags and virtual safety cars, FP2 provided enough free time to complete some race stint simulations as well as hot laps. Daniel Ricciardo set an impressive time of 1:14.6 to go six-tenths clear of Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton who ran into light traffic in the middle sector of his fastest lap. The […]
F1.com’s driver of the day for Australia and Bahrain suffered a 19th place finish in the Chinese Grand Prix. “It was a horrific race. The start was terrible when Ericsson turned into me and got my front wing,” Grosjean explained. “From there we had the safety car and I thought, ‘OK, we still have a chance […]
Sergio Perez suffered a disappointing weekend at the circuit he finished on the podium two years ago. The Force India driver qualified 18th and finished 16th at the 2016 Bahrain Grand Prix. “Not the best of weekends for me,” Said the Mexican. “I knew I had to get a good start after yesterday’s qualifying result […]
Daniil Kvyat recovered from a disappointing qualifying position of 15th to finish seventh on Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix. “I would say it was a good race. It was not easy at the beginning, we had to take care of the tires, but then our plan worked, allowing us to have a strong finish,” the 21-year-old […]
Because we’re so early into the season, qualifying and race result forecasts will take a couple more races to have the same accuracy you expected at the end of last year, and, therefore, are absent. Reason being the tyre rules and tyre regulations have changed so there is almost no historical data to compare to. Mercedes […]
Red Bull’s Daniil Kvyat failed to start the season-opening Australian Grand Prix for the second year running, however, the Russian says he is coping better than in 2015. “I’m glad Fernando is OK, it looked like a very bad accident and it’s a relief to know that he is alright. In terms of my day, […]