Mercedes believe the “fundamental rate” of your car remains strong despite the sudden upheaval in the life compared to competitors Ferrari.
For the second race in a row, no Mercedes will start Sunday’s Chinese GP – started at 7.10 a.m., exclusively live on sky sports F1 on the first row, after losing to rivals from Ferrari Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen in Shanghai.
It is noteworthy that in a circuit where the Mercedes was on pole for the previous six Chinese GPS, Ferrari beat quick silver arrow for more than half a second.
In addition, lose the Mercedes is a stunning turnaround from the season since the GP of Australia when Hamilton took pole position by six tenths of a second.
Mercedes to Ferrari: qualifying turn
| Race | On pole position | Fast Mercedes in a fast Ferrari |
| Australian GP | Lewis Hamilton | +0.664 |
| Bahrain GP | Sebastian Vettel | – 0.166 |
| Chinese GP | Sebastian Vettel | – 0.530 |
This led sky Formula 1 Damon hill said: “it certainly doesn’t look like the tide has turned for the first time in a long time in the turbo-hybrid era. It’s like the rise and fall of empires and maybe a Mercedes at the end, and the new era “Ferrari” is going to come back.”
While in Bahrain a week ago, the defeat of the Mercedes can be attributed to long-standing the relative weakness of the team in hot conditions, world Champions brought back dive temperature in Shanghai on Saturday – as having the same effect on the performance of W09.
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“The car does not lose speed or gain speed from one race or one session to another, the basic rhythm of the car is good,” the head of the team Toto Wolff told reporters. “With us, it’s about getting the tyres in the right window – the neverending story. What we have suffered in the past from overheating occurred in the other direction today, the tour is really too much on the cold side.
“What caused the lack of traction for us today and you can see Ferrari put their tires in the right window and the car is just on rails, similar to what we had in Melbourne.”
This picture coincided with the trend of recent years when Mercedes was often found peak performance over their closest rivals on a more rigid rubber.
“I think we’ve seen this season that the softer we go, the less profit we get,” said Bottas sky F1.
But Finn added, relative W09 struggle on the soft tyres Pirelli could not fully account for the half-second deficit to the pole-siting Ferrari.
“Maybe some part of it may be from the tires, but I think some of them should come from the car,” said Bottas. “There is little in terms of tyre brand is ideal for a circle – but it’s not half a second.”
All four candidates will start Sunday’s race on the soft tyres before a likely switch in the environments. Although this deployment in the tires should play in favor of the performance of Mercedes, expect a one-stop strategy will be greatly restricts their tactical capabilities.
The sky commentator of Formula 1 Nico Rosberg has said that the victory of the Chinese GP will not be easy for Mercedes
“Ferrari has learned from his mistake in Bahrain, not to let the Mercedes again that opportunity, so they will go for one stop. It will be difficult from the point of view of strategy,” the former world champion Nico Rosberg told Sky F1.
“The only hope” Mercedes ” really is the temperature goes up, then suddenly their machine is running much better on more rigid rubber and with temperature. This may be their only chance.”
And this chance mersedesovsky pinning their hopes on wrestling, great qualifying pace of the Ferrari.
“Tomorrow will be a proof of concept. If not, we have to understand,” admitted wolf.
“But the forecasts have different temperatures, 20 degrees more temperature, and it’s a long race. That can make a big difference.”
The Ferrari car is getting enough credit?
While the temptation after seismic Mercedes qualifying defeat maybe focus on their weaknesses, it would be a mistake to lose sight of the General superiority of the Ferrari.
“They have a really strong car,” Bottas passed. “We see this especially in the far corners, turn one or two, they make some good profits for us and, obviously, without any difference in speed on the straights, they can keep the winnings they make in the corners.”
And Hamilton didn’t lose hope to be able to challenge the front row starters for the race on Sunday.
“I am confident that I can stay where I am, but moving forward is going to be tough,” he said. “Valtteri did a good long run, [Ferrari] guys in front did a good long run.
“You need a second or something like that to overtake here, so…
“It will be interesting. Start is an opportunity. The strategy tires this year pretty hard. They are one step softer everywhere, but we continue to do one stop”.
Will Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari to make it three wins in a row or maybe Mercedes and Red bull to answer in Shanghai? Watch the Chinese GP, exclusively live on this weekend’s F1. To Make Sky Sports F1.
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