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Originally Posted by wnut
You are right, about all they are doing is running demo laps.
Lewis qualified on pole at 1:21.164, the fastest lap of the race was set by Ricciardo at 1:25.954 with Hamilton at 1:26.444 and Vettel the winner at 1:26.469. The fastest race lap by anybody was 4.79 sec off the pole time and the fastest race lap by the pole sitter Hamilton was 5.28 seconds off pole.
In short, no passing and just droning around to a delta a long way off the ultimate pace of the car, this is not a motor race it is a regularity trial.
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But surely this is what has happened over the past decades; race pace, even fastest laps, have rarely reflected qualifying times.
Go back not that long, and they even had highly stressed qualifying engines run on rocket fuel. And the teams only cared that the engine would last long enough to finish the qualifying period.
So, it's nothing new in F1.