The numbers that disprove Ferrari 'magic step' theories
It has been suggested that Ferrari's power unit performance has put it on an even footing with Mercedes in recent races, but our technical expert has crunched the numbers and proved that is not the case
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What is the latest you have heard about Ferrari power unit development? At the British GP, it was said Ferrari had found an improvement.
@F1Eoin, via Twitter.
I'm not so sure I'm seeing this big step that everyone is talking about. People like to talk and find reasons - no, make that excuses - for their own performance. But let's take a more rigorous look at the laptimes, expressing the fastest lap either Ferrari or Mercedes has achieved at each event this season as a percentage relative to the fastest outright lap from that event, then averaging them out over three blocks of four races.
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