Australian GP:no top speed statistics reveal a bewildering fact. Evening magazine’s F1-expert Jyrki lake grove estimates Kimi Raikkonen presentation to the Australian GP.
Ferrari is – or at least it was last year – the size of the F1-series the most powerful engine. Although it is hard to believe when you see, how easily Max Verstappen accelerate Sebastian Vettel over.
Traditionally, the Red Bull has been an excellent car aerodynamically. the Adrian Newey the design emphasis has always been at maximum down force, which in turn has made it bad accelerations and top speed.
Round 31 Verstappen, however, took the second bend of the suction vettel’s Ferrari, opened the rear wing and weighed purely on the second lane over.
– Why are we so slow? Vettel ask the team radio.
the German did not only refer to a lap time. Statistics namely to find another – even more confusing – an indicator of ferrari’s difficulties.
the Australian GP top speed in the first place went to Pierre Gaslyn (321,9 km/h), so it is clear that the new Honda engine has a hearty kick, too. The most confusing part is there at the bottom, because there is not find round trade other left overs Williams-the driver Robert Kubicaa .
Four of the Australian GP worst top speed recorded of were all on the move Ferrari-engine: # 17. Vettel 303,7, 18. the Antonio Giovinazzo 299,9, 19. the Charles Leclerc 297,4 and the last Kevin Magnussen 291,8.
Albert Park measuring point is the DRS-straight away, and it is true that Gasly was able to run direct a number of times the wings open on his attempt to reach Daniil Kvjatin over. But that doesn’t explain why the Ferrari drivers were on the list of a wooden spoon also at the finish line.
from There, Vettel was already the second slowest. Only Alfa Romeo -driver Giovinazzo save her jumbo place.
One possibility is that Ferrari has found the engine of their reliability problem. That’s why it would have been forced to limit the power units use and to give a handicap to the other.
Already in the winter tests in the garage noticed that the exhaust pipe of the metal wasn’t strong enough to withstand the full F1-pressure. Of course, the world championship battle of the garage should have had time to react other than by loosening turbo bolts.
Another possible explanation is related to tires. If Ferrari couldn’t get a decent grip of the Pirelli rubber, not able to accelerate properly, which in turn would be reflected immediately on the straight away at top speed.
the Car has a much higher potential than what we were able here, ferrari’s team manager Mattia Binotto awarded Tuttosport newspaper.
We adapted to this track at all. Everything is here unlike in Barcelona. We need to get this fixed.
Binotto acknowledged that it is not only one of the problems.
– This involves many things. Now we return home and we analyzed everything.
Time is less than two weeks. The bahrain GP has run 31. march.
Sebastian Vettel didn’t get a ferrari to a decent pace in the Albert Park track. AOP
