***** Russian Grand Prix 2014 ***** (contains spoilers)
Discussion
Gaz. said:
Dr Z said:
Just hope Honda is on the ball.
Well Mercedes hardly gave them a paper weight. Best engine and they're 6th in the WCC. To come runners up they need RBR to score no more than 14 points and Mclaren need 1-2's for the rest of the season. It's far more likely Williams will have double Mclaren's points at the end of the season than Mclaren to leapfrog them for 3rd.
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Munter said:
These are situations where the car has been designed to protect the driver. It's expected to hit solid barriers at speed. And consideration for that has been put into the design and testing.
Problems happen when you introduce something into the environment that hasn't been considered in the design. e.g. Heavy construction equipment.
Sorry, I'm struggling to see a material difference between a lump of concrete and a sump of steel, except the latter may not be a uniform flat surface.Problems happen when you introduce something into the environment that hasn't been considered in the design. e.g. Heavy construction equipment.
Neither the design of the recovery vehicle or the design of the car consider a collision between the two. And yet we put them in the same space. And when you do that the laws of probability and physics take over to say eventually the thing we didn't consider will happen. Ok eventually if we hold enough F1 races one of the cars will be hit by a meteorite. But race car vs recovery vehicle does have a higher probability when we actively put them in the same place.
PurpleMoonlight said:
IN51GHT said:
It's the going under the lump of steel that caused the problem though.
Not necessarily. It could be the slope that saved his life.London424 said:
hornetrider said:
Can anyone who saw FP2 feed back on the types of runs the Mercs were doing? Because on the face of it Lewis appears to have marmalised Nico.
Just read that Nico locked up on his fast run so didn't set a 'true' pace time. Jasandjules said:
hornetrider said:
It's crap isn't it. I got up early to see FP1 just to check out what it was like - very disappointing.
The drivers are making a few mistakes learning the circuit though, could be interesting to see how much they push it for an overtake etc.give him a nice advantage ?
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I think that McLaren's pace is at least in part due to the nature of the track, it looks pretty low downforce and power dependent, hence the Williams are doing ok but Red Bull not.
McLaren's "good" result at Japan was more to do with Button switching tyres on the restart than the upgrades. KMag was still struggling wasn't he.
Lewis has got to grips with the track ok, but the gap to Nico doesn't tell the whole story - it will be much closer tomorrow.
McLaren's "good" result at Japan was more to do with Button switching tyres on the restart than the upgrades. KMag was still struggling wasn't he.
Lewis has got to grips with the track ok, but the gap to Nico doesn't tell the whole story - it will be much closer tomorrow.
Some good points being made. I missed FP2.
Peter Windsor said that Lewis was finding lines that nobody else was at Turkey in 2007. He could well be doing that now.
With regarding to the differential between Lewis and Nico, I could well have been Rob Wilson and Peter Windsor, or possibly the chap that's recently defected from Autosport to Motor Sport, Lewis is carrying greater pace through corners that means he's exiting corner faster so isn't using as much fuel to maintain his pace. I'd have thought Lewis's pace would means he used more fuel, not less. Perhaps that style of driving works better with the current tyres?
Nico will be nearer Lewis tomorrow after sharing data, unless Lewis has found some lines that he's keeping under his hat for now.
For what it's worth I've said that Nico would be the WDC this year, despite being a Hamilton fan. It looks like I was wrong in that prediction.
Peter Windsor said that Lewis was finding lines that nobody else was at Turkey in 2007. He could well be doing that now.
With regarding to the differential between Lewis and Nico, I could well have been Rob Wilson and Peter Windsor, or possibly the chap that's recently defected from Autosport to Motor Sport, Lewis is carrying greater pace through corners that means he's exiting corner faster so isn't using as much fuel to maintain his pace. I'd have thought Lewis's pace would means he used more fuel, not less. Perhaps that style of driving works better with the current tyres?
Nico will be nearer Lewis tomorrow after sharing data, unless Lewis has found some lines that he's keeping under his hat for now.
For what it's worth I've said that Nico would be the WDC this year, despite being a Hamilton fan. It looks like I was wrong in that prediction.
Crafty_ said:
McLaren's "good" result at Japan was more to do with Button switching tyres on the restart than the upgrades. KMag was still struggling wasn't he.
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That put JB in a strong position but his pace once he was in that position was very strong. After all the talking down of their Suzuka chances it appears the latest McLaren updates might be going in the right direction..
Gaz. said:
Anyone watching the Principle press conference? Graeme Lowdon sounds like he has shattered into a thousand pieces.
I was going to post the same. Massive respect to Marussia for not running a second car this weekend. That's the right decision in my mind. I'm always uncomfortable with teams saying we race on after a team fatality. I thought it was a great shame that the Porsche Supercup championship contenders didn't pull in before the final lap. Sean was a friend and it was certainly something I would have done in respect.
btw it's the anniversary of Sean's death on the 15th October - they're doing a twitter campaign on the day #jump4SEF
On Wednesday next week (15th Oct) JUMP for a very good cause. Take a photo and use the #Jump4SEF tag. Pls RT
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