Interesting that as soon as Mercedes is cut back on burning oil no more Q3 big advantage. It's just not fair that they have to endure a fair fight!
Nah, it's all about the tire temp according to Toto:
"Yes, tomorrow will be the proof of concept," he said. "If not, we have to understand. But I think that the forecast is for quite some different temperatures, some 20º C hotter track temperature. It's a long race and that could make quite a difference. We have looked at tomorrow, but we have to see whether that proves to be right."
Wolff said the issue in qualifying boiled down to a failure to get the ultra-soft tyres up to temperature for a single flying lap.
"A car doesn't lose or gains speed from one race to another, from one day to another. The fundamental base from the car is good, we lost because it's about getting the tyre in the right temperature window -- the never ending story. And what we've suffered in the past, from overheating, has happened the other way around today.
"We were always too much on the cooler side and that has triggered a lack of grip and today you can see Ferrari has the tyre in the right window and it seems their car is like on rails, similar to what we had in Melbourne."