{"id":17531,"date":"2021-03-19T12:13:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T06:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=99597"},"modified":"2021-03-19T12:13:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T06:43:58","slug":"formula-1-red-bull-cars-appears-to-be-seconds-faster-than-mercedes-petronas-during-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/formula-1\/formula-1-red-bull-cars-appears-to-be-seconds-faster-than-mercedes-petronas-during-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1: Red-Bull cars appears to be seconds faster than Mercedes Petronas during testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During three days of winter testing at Bahrain two weeks ahead of the race there threw up an intriguing picture, one in which the Honda-powered <strong>Red-Bull<\/strong> and <strong>AlphaTauri<\/strong> teams emerged as the star performers and in which <strong>Mercedes<\/strong> was struggling with a serious rear end instability problem which the Mercedes team couldnt immediately rectify.<\/p>\n<p>But trickiest of all, in these three days the wind was gusty and wildly varying in both its strength and direction \u2013 which is something that can happen at a track surrounded by flat expanses not far from the tidal effects of the sea. It is that kind of wind which might be struggle for Mercedes and many other cars but not the Redbulls.<\/p>\n<p>In testing Mercedes has run even qualifying simulations with significantly more fuel on board than it would if it were for real. The others usually tend to fuel as if it were racing actual qualifying. Adjusting for those assumptions and for the different compounds tire\u2019s used when the best times were set, Red Bull appeared to be a 1sec faster than Mercedes, which was leading the pack at that time.<\/p>\n<p>Both Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton since the beginning were complaining of an unpredictable and unforgiving rear end, something which was quite visible when they were on track, in contrast to the Red Bull which looked a vision of grip and balance.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Shovlin, the Mercedes Engineer said, \u201cWe\u2019ve made a bit of progress with the balance on higher fuel and the car was more predictable but we can see from the data we\u2019ve collected over the last few days that on race pace, we\u2019re not as quick as Red Bull. The lower fuel work was a more confusing picture, we didn\u2019t gain enough and we need to go and look at our approach as far too many cars were ahead of us on pace today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Red-Bull <\/strong><b>Fastest lap:<\/b> 1:28.960s (Max Verstappen, day three, C4 tire)<\/p>\n<p><b>Lap count:<\/b>\u00a0369<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Best foot forward heading into the season \ud83d\udc4a\u2728 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UOtXVJay2x\">pic.twitter.com\/UOtXVJay2x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oracle Red Bull Racing (@redbullracing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redbullracing\/status\/1372521285654343689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mercedes <\/strong><b>Fastest lap:<\/b> 1:30.025 (Lewis Hamilton, day three, C5 tire)<\/p>\n<p><b>Lap count:<\/b>\u00a0304<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thanks for the reminder<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MercedesAMGF1\/status\/1310962405162311686?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMercedes will face the challenge of finding more pace from their new car ahead of next week\u2019s season-opening Bahrain GP head on, after F1\u2019s serial world champions conceded they were not as fast as Red Bull in pre-season testing.\u201d \u2013 Says Lewis Hamilton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red-Bull appeared to be a 1sec faster than Mercedes, which was leading the pack at that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":38275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[943,402,931,1616,404,1617,1611,1612,1618,1615],"class_list":["post-17531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-mercedes","tag-mercedes-formula-1","tag-racing","tag-redbull","tag-redbull-formula-1","tag-valtteri-bottas"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}