If we average out the teams’ performance across the entire season McLaren emerge as the quickest team ahead of Red Bull (see table). Instead they fell back into the clutches of Marussia, who they were involved in a fight for tenth in the championship with until the final race.
Eight races in it looked as though Caterham were finally going to catch the midfield. The cars at the tail of the field were generally closer to the pace this year. Throughout the season there were often six teams covered by 1% on lap time – last year there was usually only three. While Red Bull felt the effect of the changes most strongly, it had consequences for every team in the pit lane. Last year they were the quickest team at 18 out of 19 race weekends (94.7%), this year that fell to 7 out of 20 (35%). It was said from the beginning of the season that the restrictions on exhaust-blowing would hit Adrian Newey’s cars hardest, and here is the proof. One point leaps out immediately when comparing this graph with the same data for last year: Red Bull got slower.
0 kommentar(er)
