How can all of the teams improve so much?
It seems that nearly every team in the paddock has come out over the past few weeks and said that they have massive improvements for Valencia and that they’re now going to be much faster. While all very well in itself, it doesn’t really mean much unless your improvement is faster than the other teams around you. Since the start of the season all of the teams, even the new ones, have made massive strides forward in pace. It’s just that so have all the other teams and the status quo remains about the same.
The fight at the front seems the closest out and out battle but even there the track conditions and drivers seem to make more of a difference than the car – which is arguably what should be happening. It’s not that the teams are making progress, that’s great, it’s that they should make a noise about when it shows on the track. If Sauber are suddenly getting their cars into Q3 and beating the Force Indias then by all means tell us about the upgrade package that went on the car. It makes you look silly when you come out with statements about your upgrades and then it turns out you needed that performance just to remain where you were.
I guess some of it is the media machine that always needs something to write about but if the teams kept quiet and concentrated on making their cars better we might have some more racing to watch. McLaren seem to be the masters of the upgrade package with Red Bull coming in second but Ferrari really need to get on with it to have a chance – they are lucky that they are still there with a chance, for Alonso anyway, I can’t see how they are going to grab the constructors.
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