Ted also feels that Fernando Alonso was disappointed with his first experience of the F138: “Alonso has cut a bit of an underwhelmed figure – I think he expected a bit more from the Ferrari and then he got into it and discovered that in his words, it was a continuation of the car that he had in Brazil at the end of last season. Now that car was pretty good, it came second in the race but only because Sebastian Vettel had a spin and went to the back of the grid. “I get the feeling that Alonso wanted to step into the Ferrari for the first time and go ‘wow, this is a big improvement from last year,’ and maybe the car would be worth a second a lap. Instead, he has found that they have found a little less than that. The point he made was that the amount of performance that they can put on the car between now and Melbourne in just under four weeks’ time – that will decide he has the tools in his hand to challenge Sebastian Vettel for this year’s Championship. Will Ferrari do it? I think they are feeling hopeful if not overly confident.” Don't know what Ted was thinking but it seemed more like Alonso was relieved and calm than disappointed... He is only being wary what IRBR and McLaren produce come Australia so to be honest this is a no story IMO. Even Seb is acting the same way, does that make the RB9 bad all of a sudden?
Ted making a blunder saying Lewis was a specialist around Barcelona even though he has never won here before in F1... Sky really starting to fall down again... It's like Damon Hill with the microphone, at Monaco again...
Ted Crapitz doesn't like Ferrari. He's also not very good at reading body language. As you point out, Seb acted the same way and even Sky noted this: m.skysports.com/article/formula1//8511057
Hmmmmmmm looks like McLaren and IRBR are about equal on qualifying pace... Hard tyre though and straight back in.
Yesterday I was looking at the the fastest lap of the slowest stint, as that would be as close as the drivers got to full tanks. My conclusion was that very few teams, if any, ran with maximum fuel in the car. Alonso and Vettel were in the 1:26's, whereas Perez was 7th on the list with a 1:28.1 - so I can't see anyone above Perez being on full tanks. The gap between full tanks and qualifying was about 7.5 seconds in 2010 (I use 2010 because there was no unlimited DRS in qualifying then). So, assuming Perez had maximum fuel onboard when he did his slowest stint, McLaren's qualifying speed yesterday afternoon would have been a 1:20.6 --- so when I see that Vettel's best today is a 1:22.197, he can't possibly have been on fumes. Or maybe he was, and Perez wasn't running maximum fuel.
