So yeah, Vettel/RedBull cries about Pirelli tire after what's about the most abrasive race of the year for tires only to pretty much lap majority of the grid now in Montreal with plenty of race still to go.

Thank God Pirelli is sticking with the tire that was introduced at the start of the year and that rules protect this from changing.

Silverstone is gonna be hell of a lot more interesting when Ferrari fights back.


P.S. This early braking by Merc might have been because of the tire saving after-all. Lift at 120, coast to 80 then brake instead of at 100. I heard Hamilton talking about that somewhere few days ago.

Bottas about the only driver ever to make it around the outside of T3 into T4 of Montreal's circuit in F1 car, twice even. Love the onboard shots with him.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Hamilton doesn't HAVE emotions. He just says the team have done a great job. Even when he does get poles/wins he looks miserable. But as the most brain-dead F1 driver it's hardly a shock I admit.

Rubbish.

No remote.

haha wat is Bottas doing, sensational

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U79GGlx4Jrk

holly shit wat i find

Quote from el pibe :

****ing shit weather. its been raining on and off for the past 2 weeks. you get one day of heat so intense that 90% of the old ppl could die cause of it, and then for the next 4 days you have torrential rain.

Pretty much the same in Europe too.

Really looking forward to this GP. Always loved that place.

Wall of champions : fingers crossed for Vettel on lap 54.

There's no public link to a full race onboard as far as I know, racingfor.me if you've got an invite can only help you.

Tristan's reason? The tire saving? Mercedes does run 10C hotter tires then others as per say. Is it possible that F1's DF is so great it boils Mercedes' tires under normal heavy heavy braking... I noticed this in races ever since Malaysia. Very notable from onboards.

Quote from sinbad :

How did you notice that they are consistently braking early? 15 metres is a lot in any car let alone an f1 car.

Barcelona mid sector big stop, T9? Monaco's chicane braking. 10 meters at least! Surely it will be visible in Canada hairpin/chicane.

Of course it cant be solved in here. It's not even what we're trying to do, it's just to give ourselves a little bit more insight and maybe learn something for ourselves. I highly doubt they're braking any earlier to protect tires, because you mostly use front tires with heavy braking and they're chewing the rear ones. It's really distinctive once you see an onboard and they're really missing a lot there. XRR brakes vs FZR brakes are a little bit like this, because of gearbox and their gearbox is different to some degree, maybe that could be an issue.

Tristan forget that. You're technical man, maybe got some answers to my questions?

ohhhhhh this happened to me in internet caffee once on demo, bl1 chicane xrg and the guy flew over my head like that Had an epic laugh with a buddy back then

Is anyone got any idea what is going on with Mercedes' brakes, or the lack of them?

The car has brilliant traction, even surpassed the RedBull and Lotus in that area, especially where the tricky curbs are. This could lead to believe that lack of aerodynamic downforce might be causing Mercedes to have huge braking distances on big stops. We might also consider that they're running a too soft suspension which could be a factor to why they are cooking tires, though soft suspension is highly unlikely, as the slow corners traction would surely suffer. Or they simply have lousy brake supplier?

It really wonders me. Back in the Brawn days Button used to dive people like a granny would dive you in a shopping center with a cart for Christmas. I haven't really noticed their brakes being the weakest of top teams competition before this year, so were they or were they not? Really makes you wonder why are they braking good 15 meters earlier than others. Of course their engine is super powerful-still though that isn't even half the solution. Surely there must be solution to that, it means a couple of tenths a lap at least.

I want that Marsolus Tilke built track like Turkey in a 300hp touring car with slicks and then a 650hp S3 GTR.

DTM's DRS fine tuned so much better than F1.

Absolutely loved Spielberg race. Way to go Post BMW and Glock!

ahhh schumi, miss him so much

#61 Sfidare Squadra

teamName: Sfidare Squadra
car: FZR
number: 61
drivers:
- {xtraction, Sean Lyddon, England}
- {N I K I, Nikifor Đaković, BiH}

All well done to Perez for giving it a shot. Kimi made his luck by forcing the issue, wouldn't be surprised if he even got penalized. No matter who's fault it is you don't put someone into an armco!

Sutil hero of the race for me. Beautifully judged passes and exactly knew when it was enough to allow luck to come his way. Great result there.

And Alonso, probably well managed race considering the position he was in. Those few points could come charming at the end of the year for him.

Kimi you had a vodka too much.

Chilton pls.

Oh delightful. Way to go Merc.

RedBull, especially Vettel surely sandbaggig (though Merc is surely still the favorite).

Quote from seniecka :

Gonna be a procession race.

That might remind us how important all the tweaks to new age F1 are important.
On the other hand qualifying and pitstops will be exciting! And the city is pretty.