Kyle Edwards5 said:I don't get how Mercedes managed to pull even further ahead...
Logic dictates they had virtually zero room left to squeeze any more performance out of the engine side 🤔
Then you’ve got this total paradox where the Toro Rosso is actually showing better race pace than both Ferrari and Red Bull 🤔
Mercedes has some seriously bizarre pace right now. It honestly feels like they're sandbagging, at least during qualifying...
For some nonsensical reason, they're sitting just 0.5 seconds ahead of Ferrari in qualifying mode, yet they're nearly a full second faster in race trim. 😵
It looks to me like Red Bull is either hiding something or they completely botched their setup. 🤷
It's also incredibly weird that they're this far behind Ferrari while being so close in STR. There’s zero logic in them trailing Ferrari more than STR trails them in qualifying—and there's even less logic in STR having better race pace. 😵
I'm genuinely worried that once Mercedes actually decides to floor it in Q3, we're in for a disaster. Like, Hamilton might end up over a second ahead of everyone else. Sure, maybe Bottas catches up within a second as the season goes on, but the rest? Unlikely. 🙂
As for Ferrari and Red Bull, I don't see why they'd bother hiding their speed. From what I saw, they were both pushing it to the absolute limit. After all, Kimi and Max were flying off the track, which is a pretty clear sign they were going full throttle.