The Official 2014 Singapore GP Thread ***Spoilers***
Discussion
Silverbullet767 said:
A thunderstorm during a live night race? Would be nothing short of spectacular!
Don't let Bernie know, he'll stipulate it for all races- that and live tigers in the cockpit with the driver, sharks in the puddles and rocket boosters instead of DRS.As for the race I'd like to see Lewis close the gap some more but still have fingers crossed for a Williams on the top step.
JML said:
You here yet BritishRacinGrin ?
The weather's lovely - I didn't know eyeballs could sweat until I came here.
Not arriving until mid Saturday I'm afraid! Work and stuff. Ergo I only have one-day pauper tickets for general entry on Sunday. The weather's lovely - I didn't know eyeballs could sweat until I came here.
I've been living and working in Thailand for about six months so hopefully the weather and time zones won't do me in!
Has it been wet over there? Thailand has been pretty blowy and rainy recently... still never any cooler than 26 celcius though.
BritishRacinGrin said:
JML said:
You here yet BritishRacinGrin ?
The weather's lovely - I didn't know eyeballs could sweat until I came here.
Not arriving until mid Saturday I'm afraid! Work and stuff. Ergo I only have one-day pauper tickets for general entry on Sunday. The weather's lovely - I didn't know eyeballs could sweat until I came here.
I've been living and working in Thailand for about six months so hopefully the weather and time zones won't do me in!
Has it been wet over there? Thailand has been pretty blowy and rainy recently... still never any cooler than 26 celcius though.
THX said:
Should this be any harder on the brakes than Monza?
I'll leave it for the F1 engineers to comment but it's the longest race on the calendar (2hrs) and a 20% of the lap time is spent braking. It's one of the warmest and due to the lower speeds of a street circuit the cars run with improved cooling as little time to cool on the straights.Having just written that I'm changing my prediction!
Both Mercs (brakes) and Red Bulls (power unit overheat) to retire with Bottas win.
Ah. I was thinking the ambient temp + massive high speed at Monza would cook them just the same, but yeah you're right.
That said, the Merc's brake issues have been apparent for sometime... Surely, given the massive gap in performance elsewhwere, they could / would have diverted resource towards solving it?! Or maybe it's just inherent in the design of the car?
I dunno, just thinking out loud : )
I seem to recall Ros having a cracking race here in 09, in a dog of a Williams, too. Sure he was denied a good finish due to over stepping the pit exit line?
That said, the Merc's brake issues have been apparent for sometime... Surely, given the massive gap in performance elsewhwere, they could / would have diverted resource towards solving it?! Or maybe it's just inherent in the design of the car?
I dunno, just thinking out loud : )
I seem to recall Ros having a cracking race here in 09, in a dog of a Williams, too. Sure he was denied a good finish due to over stepping the pit exit line?
BritishRacinGrin said:
After his Monza disappointment, I'm thinking Fernando might drag a result out of the Ferrari aided by at least one safety car which I'm predicting will not be caused by either of the Nelson Piquets.
I should add, for nando a result is a podium (for obvious reasons 0BritishRacinGrin said:
Not arriving until mid Saturday I'm afraid! Work and stuff. Ergo I only have one-day pauper tickets for general entry on Sunday.
I've been living and working in Thailand for about six months so hopefully the weather and time zones won't do me in!
Has it been wet over there? Thailand has been pretty blowy and rainy recently... still never any cooler than 26 celcius though.
No rain to speak of so far this week since I got here.I've been living and working in Thailand for about six months so hopefully the weather and time zones won't do me in!
Has it been wet over there? Thailand has been pretty blowy and rainy recently... still never any cooler than 26 celcius though.
Looking like less change of rain over the weekend now, forecast currently is 32 c with very occasional showers or thunderstorms.
Very humid though, around 85% last night. Tis sweaty
JML said:
No rain to speak of so far this week since I got here.
Looking like less change of rain over the weekend now, forecast currently is 32 c with very occasional showers or thunderstorms.
Very humid though, around 85% last night. Tis sweaty
It's Singapore. Rains at pretty much the same time every day. Roughly 1pm, as it was today. The locals say there are only two types of weather in Singapore: outside weather and inside weather...Looking like less change of rain over the weekend now, forecast currently is 32 c with very occasional showers or thunderstorms.
Very humid though, around 85% last night. Tis sweaty
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