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GP ABU DHABI: what is going to Lewis Hamilton?
What is going to Lewis Hamilton? We do not believe it is appropriate to make a fuss, but something in the second half of the season has changed in the house Mercedes, because numbers in hand, Rosberg suddenly became faster than three times world champion. The season for Hamilton seems to have had an abrupt change from the Singapore race , when the Federation in agreement with the Pirelli has established the values of tire pressure higher than that teams used normally, and it has also imposed the values of camber both front and rear. Recall that it has come to this drastic decision, after the problems experienced with the Spa weekend where, before Rosberg after Vettel during practice and in the race, had the anomalous "dechapage".
If we analyze the entire season, helping with classic histograms Excel (data on qualifications) may be observed that Hamilton up to the GP in Monza was consistently faster than his teammate. Until the Italian Grand Prix, Rosberg managed to beat Hamilton in qualifying only to the race in Barcelona, when, at the crucial stages of qualifying, the Briton has had a problem with the tire warmers and therefore is not able to exploit the full potential of his car. In these first 12 races, from Melbourne to Monza, Hamilton has been on average faster than Rosberg of 3/10 . On three occasions (Melbourne, Bahrain, Hungary) the gap between the two has touched nearly 6 tenths a lap and three other races (Monaco, Canada, Monza) was around 3/10. In the remaining GP, with the exception of Barcelona, the gap was less than 2/10.
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After Singapore, the track that marked the low point in terms of performance of the Mercedes in these last two seasons, something has changed in terms of performance between the two bishops of the three-pointed star . And what does that species is also the Hamilton continues to emphasize although not considered by many insiders. Nevertheless, because of errors of Rosberg and some technical problems occurred at the German driver, Hamilton managed to win at Suzuka, Sochi and Austin despite that, in qualifying, was beaten by your team-mate.
With the imposition by the FIA and Pirelli to defaults tire pressure and camber, and given the poor performance with the W06 on the Singapore track (due once again, mainly to problems of structure), the team's engineers Anglo German , have made since the race in Suzuka, some changes to the car mechanic who undoubtedly benefited the driving style of Rosberg than that of Hamilton. The admission of this change is pounced after qualifying the Brazilian GP and also in the latter of Abu Dhabi, just as Lewis Hamilton who, in front of reporters admitted without ifs and buts have poor starting to point the car after changes made after setup Singapore.
These changes referred to by Hamilton relate to the use of a relatively soft mechanical setup that goes to favor the driving style of Rosberg. Hamilton, however, prefers a mechanical set completely opposite and that is quite stiff. Changes of set-up needed to get the best from the 2015 Pirelli pressures pushing and ESPECIALLY camber less prominent.
Also from information that we receive directly from people very close to Mercedes, what has changed most is the setting of the shock absorbers. With this setting the Englishman among other things, no longer able to quickly bring in the right temperature range of tires as He did with the old settings, so going to pay Gap against Nico. It is a bit 'the same problem that in part suffer from Kimi Raikkonen at Ferrari.
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If we analyze the today's qualifying, which represented the lowest point (in comparison with Rosberg), a performance level of Hamilton this season, we can see that the gap that has accused the world champion against the team-mate is It concentrated almost entirely in the last sector which is the most driven.
Sector 1
Rosberg 17,464 Hamilton 17,535
Sector 2
Rosberg 41,967 Hamilton 41,988
Sector 3
Rosberg 40,742 Hamilton 41,030
This tells us that Hamilton does not feel perfectly at ease with the new mechanical set of the car, not being able to express the real potential of the car. Hamilton at the end of qualifications accused a gap of almost 4/10 despite possessed of an engine with a mileage lower than that of Rosberg (2600 km for the German and 1700 for English). In fact, numbers in hand, if you look at the maximum speeds, Hamilton was 3 km / h faster than Rosberg despite an aerodynamic very similar to what we say, but despite this, failed to undermine the pole position Nico.
In conclusion, it should be noted that because many of the experts and fans are not taking seriously the words of Lewis. But usually there is an explanation for everything, and we F1ANALISITECNICA we tried to give it to you.
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