another thought came to me just now.
Can Kobayashi pit on the very last lap (if his pitbox is before the finish line) for the option tyres?
Can Kobayashi pit on the very last lap (if his pitbox is before the finish line) for the option tyres?
I believe if they're saying investigating after the race at this point, it couldn't be a time penalty?
it'll be either a "warning", or 5/10 places grid drop in the next race.
Wtf half the field to be investigated after the race???
if Lewis didn't brake but legally stomp on the throtle and pass the safety car instead, Alonso probably would be able to do the same.
But well, now Lewis finally get one back on Alonso and screwed him nicely.
On another note: when the cars are coming through the start/finish straight under SC condition, there is a red light at the end of the pitlane and all cars should stop. Shouldn't the same apply to the safety car when it's trying to exit the pitlane? It could have been very dangerous...
yeah, McLaren must have yelled on the radio pass the @#$@# safety car Lewis when they saw Lewis slaming on the brakes for it. But by then it was too late.
but well, he would have been MUCH WORSE if he didn't pass the safety car.
on hindsight, Alonso must be thinking he should've done the same....
because Vettel try turning in on him as if he isn't there.
Lewis had the braking and the grip to get out of it when Vettel squeeced him, how was that overconfident?
Don't forget these cars are travelling at over 300km/h at point of impact, the drivers wouldn't get much time to think. Webber was thinking of moving to the left to brake round the outside of him, but just as he started doing it Heikki jerk to the left.
but Webber (again) havn't thought better of how early Heikki would need to brake, but it surely does seems to be VERY early. And Heikki certainly didn't say he's letting Webber go, he said on the radio he was racing Webber...
I think Vettel at the start was a dirty and very desperate for defending a position.
But that wasn't illegal and it worked.
PS. nearly same thing happened at the restart, ran wide, and turn back into the corner as if no cars were there, which also worked because Lewis chickened out and couldn't get into his draft.
after what Michael did to Daimon Hill, I wouldn't blame the British to be harsh on Michael ever after...
yeah banning the team would be useful isn't it. They'll just close it and start another.
If it is really a scam, they would need to ban the senior personnel in the team. But that wouldn't happen, I guess Peter Windsor have a decent enough relationship with the FIA...
and beside, they did spent a shitload of money already, what with the entry fee, getting a factory, employing some people, these all costs money. Just that they didn't get enough money so they couldn't spend enough money to get things properly sorted...
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Merc and someone else will also have it at Valencia.
I think the Ferrari one will work out as planned, heck, they've done plenty of mileage at a "filming day" already anyway.
I think FIA did it purely for procedual reasons. I think they fully expected the effect of their penalties are nil anyway.
a). the fines won't be paid, FIA can sue the hell out of them but it just won't happen.
b). they only disqualified "US F1", not its senior personnel, so next time Peter Windsor and co start again, it'll be called USA F1 or something.
because it's a "filming day".
Funny that there are probably more cameras outside the gates trying to get a shot at it, than the number of cameras Ferrari actually arranged at the track.
a badly prepared, badly setup car driven by a crap driver. Life couldn't get much tougher than that. But that was ridiculously slow and dangerous.
But since she's a female, it would be easier for her to find sponsors, so we might get to see her for a few more years yet.
Autosport now reveals that Ferrari is saying it's a shakedown during a special 'filming' day.
But yeah I remember reading somewhere for promo videos, they have to use GP2 spec tyres or something different from F1 spec. And for shakedown, they can't do more than 50km with the car?
There are a few things they could do to test a car, and I think there are voluntary code of conducts for these events. (The testing ban was just a voluntary ban adopted by all the teams?)
Basically they could do a shake down, they can claim they're filming a promotional video, and they can do some straight line tests.
So there were nothing busted. lol
Basically they could do a shake down, they can claim they're filming a promotional video, and they can do some straight line tests.
So there were nothing busted. lol
didn't it also said in the article that the super soft compound for the super soft tyres won't be ready for Valencia?
how about Fisi?
he was fighting for win at Spa one weekend in a Force India, and was struggling and qualified pretty much last the next weekend in a Ferrari.
It was more of bad luck.
The first one with Buemi, they were racing for position. So Ferrari should just shut up about this one. But Alonso did put himself in a very nice position to be overtaken by Lewis there.
The second one with Chandok, ideally he should have given way before entering the corner, but he didn't, and he nicely followed DC's advice of not going out onto the marbles to let Alonso pass. And Alonso wouldn't dare going out of the racing line himself because he crashed at exactly the same place a couple of years ago.
Bad luck for Alonso, great opportunistic moves by the McLaren drivers.
on hindsight, what Liuzzi should have done was:
Go dead straight when Massa made his first chop to him going into the braking point for T1. Spinning him nicely, and then that'd hopfully take out a couple of whichever of the McLaren/Red Bull/Ferrari that was unlucky. Hence giving Sutil a easier run to more points.
The top three were cruising to the finish, and the last thing they'd want to do is to cruise home while right up someone ass, wouldn't do their engine temp any good.
Or perhaps he needed to nurse the tyres more than the McLaren, or he needed to save fuel to get to the finish. Or he just plainly gave up.
nah he was just talking rubbish. Aussie always do.
What he was referring to was the high speed blow outs the Michelin tyres were suffering a few years ago, which forced all Michelin cars to pull into the pits and retire without even starting the race. And that only happened because the oval part of the track have been resurfaced, and the track surface was much more abbrassive on the tyres than Michelin estimated.
It wasn't a problem for Bridgestone because they got data from the Indy 500 (they supply tyres to the IRL).
But 24 F1 cars going round Bristol for 400 laps would be brilliant!!
I wouldn't expect anything less from Michael Schumacher in terms of race craft and agressiveless on track.
It was good that most people he was battling with was having none of it. It was also brilliant that the Force India managed to shove him out of the points on the last lap.
(as well as the red Ferrari that ruined a FI at T1 got shoved out of the point by Michael)if I was Kubica I would keep all four wheels on the black stuff, and if Michael continue to move over I'll spin him off rather nicely. But then I'm too crap to be a F1 driver, and if Kubica really did that he'd be worse off himself too.
Would have been interesting if Kubica didn't went wide and short cut the chicane there. Michael was agreesive on the turn in, he deliberately turned in early and screw Kubica up there. But that is Michael Schumacher, he races hard, smartly, and agressively.
The one with Massa, the FIA declared it as a non-event anyway. And I agree that Massa didn't need to stick a nose there, it was never going to work to out brake someone from behind on the outside into that chicane. And Michael have the right to expect on that particular braking point, it would be ok to move across a bit to get a better line through the chicane.
But the turn one chaos was definitly caused by Massa, three into two in turn one would never work, but he shoved Liuzzi to the inside, and then tried to stick one up the inside of Button when Liuzzi was still there.
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Don't know about Webber. But in a post race interview, Vettel was talking about some gearbox problem.
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