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      02-08-2019, 01:20 PM   #34
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Originally Posted by five_timer View Post
This may very well be true, and might have brought them closer to equal with Mercedes. But this whole "Ferrari was faster" thing is not actually correct.

In the first 11 races, it was 5 poles each for Ferrari and Mercedes, and 1 for RBR. To me, that doesn't say "Ferrari was faster". And Vettel only won 4 races in the first half, same as Hamilton. Other factors contributed to Vettel's points lead.
The Ferrari was faster for the first half + of the year. This is undisputed by all but the most strident Ferrari fans. The speed range between 150kph and 250kph was the sweet spot for their illegal battery deployment, not additional DRS. Lewis Hamilton first noticed it as the car was accelerating at a greater rate in this speed range. The greater media and many others believed that it was sour grapes but gps data, which is available to all teams for all teams confirmed Mr. Hamilton's assertion.

The advantage was lost when the FIA quietly made them revert back to the previous spec.
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