Bojan Vrbnjak
Even if we look at the times of the race simulation Verstappen, it seems to have been for Red Bull the best choice. As for racing speeds, he has a team silver arrows here in Sochi a significant advantage.
Bottas is a simulation of a vehicle race with an average time of 1: 39.767 minutes and that nine rounds on medium mixture tires, colleagues from car engine and sport. He was good at it four tenths seconds faster than Verstappen, who drove ten laps with an average time 1: 40.140 minutes. If we calculate these four tenths of a second on 53 rounds, then the Dutchman would finish Sunday 's race more than 20 seconds for Mercedes.
He seems to be doing well here as well Ferrari, which ranks third in this analysis. Carlos Sainz had an average time 1: 40.286 minutes, but according to German colleagues, this is just an illusion. The Spaniard was driving these times towards the end of the simulation, which means he had less fuel in the tank. In addition, he drove only four laps. Lewis Hamilton he drove eight laps with an average time on the middle mix 1: 40.308 minutes. Sainz was the only racer to do a race simulation on soft mixtures tires.
Na hard mixtures gum was relatively fast in the race simulation Sebastian Vettel at Aston Martin, who drove nine laps with average time 1: 40.514 minutes. The race for the GP of Russia is basically always just with one stop, so it's good to look at hard mixture tires unless it is raining and wet track tires are required. Qualifications for Verstappen they don’t matter because he will have to start the race from scratch due to penalties. That's why it is Dutchman in training focused on the race, his teammate Perez as well as on qualifications. However it is Mexican wasting too much time in turns, so it will be very important compromise when adjusting the car between planes and turns.
