Team standings after Malaysia, so bizarre....
I was under the impression that he was running there getting feedback from drivers about the track conditions so he can forward it to stewards?
Scene and lighting first, materials after that 
Well, rule book is there and they just followed it. Now results are from last completed lap.
This also dropped Hamilton from 5th to 7th...conspiracy theories...go!
Can't see a damn thing out of onboard cam 
Too much water for intermediates now, which means Ferrari failed again.
I think Mr. Montezemolo is going to have a word with their race strategy department 
"..my tires are completely destroyed" -Räikkönen on radio
Yeah, too early for wets. They are costing him more time than one extra pitstop would have took.
I'm betting on that Räikkönen is not going to make it to the end, his car keeps stepping out in all corners and it's just a matter of time when he can't flick opposite lock right and off it goes.
Ask Logitech for replacement first, they could just swap it.
If not, go ahead and open it. It's very simple job and only thing you really have to be careful about is to take it steady as you're taking off the top cover so you don't just rip it off and damage wires. Nixim brake mod site has quite detailed info on how to open and assemble it back together.
If it's the sound of spring scraping, adding oil won't do any good. Fixing it is easy, just need to rotate spring located inside that "red tube" so end points are level and spring doesn't twist and move as it compresses (I had this problem after cleanup). This does however require opening pedal set completely.
If not, go ahead and open it. It's very simple job and only thing you really have to be careful about is to take it steady as you're taking off the top cover so you don't just rip it off and damage wires. Nixim brake mod site has quite detailed info on how to open and assemble it back together.
If it's the sound of spring scraping, adding oil won't do any good. Fixing it is easy, just need to rotate spring located inside that "red tube" so end points are level and spring doesn't twist and move as it compresses (I had this problem after cleanup). This does however require opening pedal set completely.
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I disagree.
While usual brake force slightly varies between cars, I've never experienced lockups under braking with less than 50% on a smooth and level braking zone. Here's a Skippy lap I recorded some time ago and if you look at 1:30 you'll see that I'm applying 70-80% brake force all the way without any lockup and rougly the same for last corner as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8mXXBilKFA
Still, that is in Skippy which at least to me feels much more prone to lockups than Mazda with it's fat slicks.
I don't use 500€ pedals, just standard G25 without any mods. Only adjustment I've made is having removed that deadzone from beginning of the pedal travel.
Rosberg is just missing one vital ingredient, the moustache
Edit: FIA has been busy slapping some more penalties today
Heidfield, 63.7km/h on pits, 800€ fine
Glock, 79.1km/h on pits, 4000€ fine (ouch!)
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Looks like Ferrari are not 100% confident with KERS right now.
Edit: That's some serious ride height Räikkönen has in rear of his car.
Edit: That's some serious ride height Räikkönen has in rear of his car.
Atleast McLaren seems somewhat stable even if it's little slow, Ferrari seems to be a real handful and backend keeps stepping out.
Only complaint I have so far is that technical-terms-for-dummies section "power understeer...what?", but otherwise it's been excellent.
I'm pretty sure BBC could make some extra income by selling season subscriptions to their F1 coverage for non-UK users.
That blurriness is probably just heavy noise, like you see on ground where car shadow fades off. Also I'd probably tilt camera just little bit more up so you don't see URL being reflected off the rear bumber, painted plastic doesn't generally have that clear reflections and it's being sharply cut right along the edge of first angled face.
Negative camber itself is realistic and common, but your rear tires have maybe little extreme amounts of it
P.S. Reason why there's quite often visible amounts of camber on tuned cars is because people just throw in shorter springs and not realise/bother to fix the adjust the camber afterwards.
Negative camber itself is realistic and common, but your rear tires have maybe little extreme amounts of it
P.S. Reason why there's quite often visible amounts of camber on tuned cars is because people just throw in shorter springs and not realise/bother to fix the adjust the camber afterwards.
Like it or not, Hamilton didn't really have an option to disagree with McLaren's statement. He's not stupid enough act against team's orders in cases like this that will always get high media cover. He plays his part, do what he's being told to do and he doesn't have to worry about his contract.
Everyone cheats but McLaren stumbled and got caught.
(What I mean is, teams will try to find loop holes and be really subtle about it if they happen to break some rule, we don't hear about it until they get caught)
Everyone cheats but McLaren stumbled and got caught.
(What I mean is, teams will try to find loop holes and be really subtle about it if they happen to break some rule, we don't hear about it until they get caught)
This doesn't take away the responsibility for your actions.
In corporate world employee who has been instructed to break the law, will be punished for it. However the boss who issue the order, often gets away with much lesser punishment if any at all.
In the end, it was a gamble that McLaren took and it didn't pay off. I'm not naive enough to believe that there's no cheating or lying going on in F1, but you have to know when and where. Stewards office is not really a good place for it, especially when they have the information available to see through it.
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Would CMX Viewer do the trick? That kind of simple animation can be done just by taking a picture of the helm from different angles and then combine them into animated .gif
So, place your bets; Will it rain this weekend?
Hint:
Hint:
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