Can Teams Find 0.5 Seconds of Speed by Malaysian Grand Prix?

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Published: March 26, 2014

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Whilst the radical new engine regulations imposed for the 2014 season promised closer racing than ever before, one team has already forged ahead in its understanding of the new rules.

Such was the dominance of Mercedes in Australia that Nico Rosberg stormed to a dominant victory over Kevin Magnussen by a massive 26.777 seconds.

It served as an ominous warning to other teams that the Silver Arrows could be in for a season of dominance to rival that of Brawn GP in the early half of 2009 and Red Bull in the second half of 2013.



McLaren Group CEO Ron Dennis believes Mercedes already has an advantage of up to 1.5 seconds, but he is confident his team can find an extra 0.5 seconds of pace in Malaysia.

"We are confident that we will be half a second quicker at the next grand prix, for a variety of reasons, Dennis is quoted on Autosport."That will not be enough to achieve our goal but it will keep the pressure on those teams that are chasing us."

So do we have an inkling into what these "variety of reasons" are that Dennis could be hinting at and can McLaren, and other teams, really make up 0.5 seconds by Malaysia?

Firstly, Dennis believes that much of Mercedes’ 1.5-second advantage is manifested in qualifying pace and on this basis, the gains he hopes to make will come during the race proper.

Their pace is only apparent in qualifying. It is clear that they have a good 1.5 seconds on anyone else. That is challenging to close, but not impossible. The result is not so bad, but there is more behind the result: the discipline in the team, pitstops that were well performed, calling it right with Jenson; basically the weekend as a whole worked very, very well.



McLaren prides itself on efficient race strategy and efficiency in their pit stops. Looking at the official FIA data from the Australian Grand Prix, Jenson Button’s second pit stop was almo...
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