The results are in! Mercedes improved by a large margin between winter testing and Australia Qualifications. A quick analysis of their car in winter testing spec clearly shows how they were able to do it. It was all about the removal of some key Aero bits.
This week's winner is
Kai Star with a time
0.072 seconds away from
Lewis Hamilton's pole time of
1:20.486! Great job seeing through the winter testing times!
The full results are below:
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Pts Error Guess Player
10 00.072 1:20.558 KaiStar
6 00.236 1:20.250 John
4 00.291 1:20.777 Picci
3 00.366 1:20.120 MonteCristo
2 00.501 1:20.987 TomDA
1 00.665 1:19.821 Ian-S
0 00.764 1:21.250 xcraigx
0 00.802 1:21.288 Megallos
0 01.056 1:21.542 Kals
0 01.614 1:22.100 ErwinGreven
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The points and accuracy standings are exactly as this week's results (as they are for the first race every year!).
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If the Ferrari had been the fastest car (as the winter times predicted), I would have taken this round with a Vettel pole time of 1:21.190. But I was fooled like so many others.
I'm interested to see if any of the other teams can pull a surprise in the race like Ferrari did last year. And how competitive is the Alfa? It was placed in or just out of the top 5 in Q1 and Q2 and I expected much higher than 9th for Kimi in Q3. Can he bring some magic tomorrow?
The GP of Bahrain will be in 2 weeks, so please come back to look for a new thread next week!