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F1
Sunday, April 4, 2021, 07:34
Author: Zoltán Kármán, photo: DPPI
After a time trial at the Bahrain Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton complained that the rules were clearly taken against Mercedes. Not only the factory barn lost a lot.
After the test days and the weekend in Bahrain, experts agree that Red Bull-Honda has certainly caught up, perhaps a little ahead of the silver arrows they have dominated so far, and Max Verstappen can always Get enough extras out of the car to get ahead of Mercedes.
Although the seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton with better strategy, some luck and kept Max Verstappen behind him with the prospect of a sentence sentenced ever since, In both the time trial and the race, despite a minor technical glitch at Red Bull-Honda, he was faster than anyone else on the field.
Mercedes motorcycle teams have fallen dramatically compared to last year
Motorsport.com did the math and compared the best of the time trial laps with last year. He also revealed that Hamilton was wrong in claiming that the FIA had deliberately brought the new rules against him, as not only the Mercedes factory had drastically dwindled, but all the barns that the German manufacturer had supplied with resources last year. So let’s not even take McLaren under the hat with the other three guards, as the Wokingians were still racing a Renault engine last year.
Both Williams and Aston Martin lost more than two seconds from last year’s average. The minor loss could have been booked by Ferrari, but let’s not forget that last year the Reds performed so poorly that there was plenty of room for improvement from there, the Scuderia escaping with a loss of half a second.
Data shows that Red Bull, McLaren and Alpha Tauri also adapted well to the new rules, with Haas not achieving much for their car, making them last on the list. Alfa Romeo is also to be commended for seeing the second smallest loss, but Raikkonen’s car has the same situation as the factory Ferrari in that the significantly strengthened Ferrari’s resource, which was extremely weak last year, also includes the fact. that he lost much less. .
Here’s what each team lost in their lap time compared to last year:
Ferrari – 0.541 mp
Alfa Romeo – 1,217
Red Bull Racing – 1,319
AlphaTauri – 1,361
McLaren – 1,385
Alpine – 1,832
Williams – 2,022
Mercedes – 2,121
Aston Martin – 2,279
Haas – 2,338
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