Vettel race simulation:
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35 1:29.165 +6.13
36 1:29.334 +0.169
44 1:30.568 +0.137
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50 1:29.329 -20.194
51 1:28.673 -0.656
59 1:29.586 -0.021
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62 1:26.743 -2.843
72 1:28.096 -0.008
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75 1:26.065 -2.031
76 1:26.947 +0.882
77 1:28.384 +1.437
78 1:28.923 +0.539
79 1:29.032 +0.109
80 1:28.380 -0.652
82 1:27.377 -1.003
83 1:27.607 +0.23
84 1:28.168 +0.561
85 1:27.948 -0.22
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88 1:26.425 -1.523
89 1:24.480 -1.945
93 1:25.216 -0.16
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96 1:23.806 -1.41
97 1:24.036 +0.23
98 1:24.443 +0.407
99 1:24.395 -0.048
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Thanks for posting these Snowy. I am keeping an eye on the site itself, but they lose the data after the day is complete and navigating their site is greek to me
What is interesting is the tyre degradation that the laptimes show. I have snipped out some of the in between laps and focused on the fast lap at the start of a stint and the fast lap at the end. If we knew what tyre compounds the driver was on we could see much better what is happening.
These times arent fuel adjusted obviously, yet Vettel (and Hamilton and the others that have done a longish run) are all getting slower as the laps go by. Vettel's figures show about 1.4s slower on lap 44 than lap 35 when fuel adjusted (0.094s per lap), he should be 0.85s faster. It looks like tyres might even be degrading faster this year - these went by 2.3s taking the fuel into account. Hamilton's are doing something similar.
If you check
http://cliptheapex.com/threads/2011-formula-one-pirelli-tyre-analysis.4315/#post-99189 you can see how things were in the race last year. After 10 racing laps last year, softs were 1.5s slower fuel adjusted and they hit the cliff soon after that. Have you seen anyone doing 15 to 20 consecutive laps anywhere, cos both Lewis and Seb are simulating 4 stop races (like they did last year)?
This track was the highest deg of all they raced at last year and I think degradation makes for great races, so it is good to see things wont be any easier than they were last year.
There are also some other interesting bits. On his second stint he does some very slow laps and then brings the tyres in gently, and manages to keep deg over 8 laps to under 1s, which is a bit better.
On his third stint Vettel bangs in a quick one of 1.26.7 (in last year's race he did a 1.27.3 on lap 21 which was by far the fastest fuel adjusted lap last year and this lap yesterday was at the same point in the race simulation, straight after the second stop). Maybe these cars are even faster than last year? At least the Red Bull (HAM is in the low 1.28s at the same point in his "race" which is very similar to the 27.8 he managed in last years race at the same stage).
Presumably, the stint that starts on lap 75 is a different tyre compound (it would be if he was doing a proper sim as he would have used all 3 sets of options). It starts with a 1.26.0 which is about 0.5s slower fuel adjusted than the earlier 26.7 on lap 62. That tyre then goes through a horrible phase (unless they are testing something else...) before settling down again around 1.28 about 3s fuel adjusted from its peak.
This stint must be a concern for the team and everyone else. Lewis seems to avoid the really bad phase with the prime tyre but even so, he is suffering the same 2.5s to 3s fuel adjusted demise on that prime compound.
