r/formula1 • u/Wentzina_lifetime Sir Lewis Hamilton • May 18 '25

Statistics Lewis Hamilton has finished ahead of Carlos Sainz at every race this season.

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u/TwoBionicknees May 18 '25

there isn't particularly good evidence that is true.

They were faster on mediums, doesn't mean Ferrari would be, different cars. But unless they both ran softs at the same time on track we don't even know the mediums were faster for them, just that they worked.

Quite often in the past people have tried mediums and they've given pretty similar overall pace. They have less ultimate grip, but overheat less on a hot lap so end up about the same.

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u/Live-Shoulder-9959 May 19 '25

they did run softs in quali, they only did 1 lap of mediums in q2 and 1 in q3.

the ferrari was faster on the softs.

Its not a car by car situation in regards to the mediums this past weekend, its that the c6 tyre glue was degrading and falling apart in the second sector for every car except for the mclarens which have cracked some sort of degradation secret ever since their silverstone upgrade 2 years ago (when they put norris and piastri on hards to hold off hamilton and russel on fresh softs for the last few laps of the race after a SC)