2022 Japanese Grand Prix Free Practice-3 Analysis

Qualifying Simulations

VER VS SAI

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-> Ferrari is strong in medium and low-speed corners.

-> Redbull is strong in high-speed corners and straights.

-> Redbull gains the majority of the lap time in the straights and high-speed corners.

->Ferrari loses most of the lap time in S curves and sector 3.

-> Ferrari and Redbull have similar top speed.

-> Realistically only Ferarri could challenge RedBull for pole posistion come qualifying this weekend

VER VS ALO

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-> Alpine is strong in the medium and slow-speed corners.

-> Majority of the lap time made by Alpine over Redbull is in the medium-speed corners.

->Top speed of both cars is close Redbull has a slight advantage.

VER VS RUS

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-> Mercedes’s qualifying performance in FP3 looked disappointing

-> Mercedes again makes up time over Redbull in medium and low-speed corners.

->Mercedes are suffering in top speed to the Red Bull.

-> Mercedes’s qualifying performance looks similar to that of Alpine and Mclaren.

->Majority of the Laptime lost to Redbull is in the straights.

->Trimming a bit of downforce may bring Mercedes closer to RedBull.

Long Run Analysis

Long Run Pace on the softs

-> Merc Ferrari and RedBull have similar paces on soft tyres.

-> Mclaren looks faster than Alpine on the Softs

-> Soft tire data is only the accurate long-run pace data that I could plot.

->Pace on race day may vary a bit since fuel loads are an unknown