12/4/2023 0 Comments Mercedes f1 2017![]() Their average margin over whichever was the closest car on any given weekend was 0.64% which is virtually the same as it was last year’s 0.65%. But there’s more to it than this as well.īecause two different teams were vying to be the closest threat to Mercedes this year, the silver cars usually had closer competition than that 0.87% figure suggestions. Mercedes lost three races apiece in 2014 and again in 2015, yet over this year’s longest-ever calendar they were only beaten twice. This is partly reflected in the scoreline. Yet Mercedes enjoyed a greater margin over their closest rival than in either of the previous seasons: 0.87%, or just under eight-tenths of a second on a typical 90-second lap. Nonetheless Ferrari narrowly beat Red Bull to be the closest team to Mercedes on average throughout 2016. Had Ferrari shelved development of their SF16-H to concentrate on next year’s change in regulations? Not entirely: The team continued to bring new parts for the car in the latter stages of the season. After the summer break Red Bull were a more consistent threat. They were often closer to the silver cars than they had been the year before, other times further away. Red Bull won twice but Ferrari were closer to MercedesThe red cars’ performance was much ‘peakier’ in 2016. But it also reveals some interesting trends in Ferrari’s performance. The extent of Mercedes’ superiority over the three previous seasons is clear from the data above. It had been Ferrari in last year (as Mercedes struggled in Singapore) and Williams in 2014 (when the Mercedes drivers fluffed their qualifying runs in Austria). Ferrari’s development programme did not run as smoothly and the team parted company with designer James Allison (partly due to personal reasons) at mid-season.Īs was also the case in 20 there was only one race all season where something other than a Mercedes produced the quickest lap time. Routine upgrades helped edge the RB12 closer to the front of the pack as well. However a Renault power unit upgrade at the Monaco Grand Prix helped propel Red Bull into contention. The red cars were closest to the silver machines at each round with the exception of Shanghai, where an inspired lap by Daniel Ricciardo put his RB12 on the front row. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan, right click to resetįerrari was Mercedes’ biggest threat at the start of the yearOver the opening four ‘flyaway’ races of 2016 it seemed as Ferrari were going to be Mercedes’ closest challengers, as was the case last year.
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