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Steppenwolf
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Sebastian Vettel - Melbourne Pole Position Onboard Lap
Damn impressive driving. He's flying around the track.
Damn impressive driving. He's flying around the track.
subzero9285
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Diablohead
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didn't feel like waking up at 6am so going to watch the repeat at 1, I just have to watch the race live tomorrow though, not the same otherwise.
Jinjo
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Steppenwolf said:
Aside from actually being faster than everyone else, he looks faster too. Sector 3 is amazing. You can see he's right on the limit. He almost loses it about 3 times in that sector alone, but he keeps it together. Great stuff. This is a new track record right? Commentators on BBC said something about a low 24 being the previous record by Schumacher.
But god do I hate that finger pointing every single damn time.:lol
Onboards from the Hispania team are funny btw. The steering is just all over the damn place.
Don't know what's up with Hamilton. He is just slow for some reason. Maybe shadows from last year/yesterday evening. Great for Button though. Put me in the supporter camp for him. Either way Hamilton has to get his act together if he is going to make something of it tomorrow. Hoping for rain, that should be quite the spectacle.
I remember last year, that was quite the race. The crash between Vettel & Kubica. My friend actually called that 3 laps before it happened. It was awesome.:lol
thechemist
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Vettels lap was amazing there was sparks coming from his car lol at one point near the end, prob his front wing, he was absolutely killing the car. Top job by Webber and Alonso as well.
Steppenwolf
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Jinjo said:
Yea it's a new track record. Wasn't even a perfect lap. As you said he's pushing very hard and in sector 3 he makes two small mistakes that must have cost 2-3 tenths.
Webber must have been excellent too if he nearly beat that time.
Jinjo
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Steppenwolf said:
Webber has been faster throughout the weekend so far. He made a costly mistake in sector 2 on his first Q3 run. Track got worse for the second runs so he didn't get a chance to redeem himself. I hope he beats Vettel to the first corner tomorrow then he can actually win the race. Vettel will retain P2 and Button will have quite the race with Alonso and will take the final spot on the podium (as I said, put me in the Button support camp
). Should mix up things nicely in the championship.Here is a rumour of how it works:
"They are using a ratchet with a spring which is pre-loaded. To prevent the ratchet from reducing the ride height for instances when the load decrease, like when the inside wheel unloads, both bell cranks are tied in from left to right. The height only ratchets down when the load decreases evenly left to right, which is the decrease due to fuel burn"
The regulations don't permit electronic active suspension but there is no ruling against using a mechanical system.
Did anyone see the sparks coming from the floor of Vettel's car during Q3?
They have the car running really low which would be impossible for a race with 160kg of fuel added.
"They are using a ratchet with a spring which is pre-loaded. To prevent the ratchet from reducing the ride height for instances when the load decrease, like when the inside wheel unloads, both bell cranks are tied in from left to right. The height only ratchets down when the load decreases evenly left to right, which is the decrease due to fuel burn"
The regulations don't permit electronic active suspension but there is no ruling against using a mechanical system.
Did anyone see the sparks coming from the floor of Vettel's car during Q3?
They have the car running really low which would be impossible for a race with 160kg of fuel added.
thechemist
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Steppenwolf said:
To get a track record dont you have to get the time in race conditions?
Steppenwolf
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thechemist said:
No. it's just the fastest time that was ever driven on a track. For example Stefan Bellofs track record for the Nürburgring Nordschleife is from a training session.
From the sounds of it, it wasn't that bad, just accelerated hard enough to smoke the tyres.
youtube clip as wellyoutube clip as well
picture from the Daily Mail story
Templar Wizard
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"Basically on my last try, I was slowed down by him," explained Schumacher about Alonso. "I asked him whether the team had told him [I was on a quick lap] and he said no.
unlike you Michael, who came up with the idea yourself in monaco a few years back....
unlike you Michael, who came up with the idea yourself in monaco a few years back....
Lewis had the measure of him all weekend except Q2. It's not like Button's been manhandling him all weekend. He was only faster in FP3 because Lewis had to weigh-in the last 10 minutes of the session. Not sure wtf happened to Lewis. I'm just blindly hoping it was either a problem with the car, or he decided to gamble and setup for rain. But the problem with that argument is that you don't need to setup for rain until Q3.moojito said:
I hope it rains, otherwise, Lewis is gonna be following someone for half a race, pass them and then follow another car the rest of the race. PEACE.
CurlySaysX
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Lewis will let out all of his frustrations at the first corner and he'll either take out everyone or go from 11th to being ahead of Button.
Official forecast here:
http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml
Most weather agencies predicting up to inch of rain in the late afternoon, evening in the Melbourne area, Red Bull predicting 20% chance of rain at start of GP.
http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml
Most weather agencies predicting up to inch of rain in the late afternoon, evening in the Melbourne area, Red Bull predicting 20% chance of rain at start of GP.
Finally got a chance to watch Quali. What a lap by Vettel! He was wringing the crap out of the car. That #1 celebration is going to get annoying though, as much as Schumi's stupid podium jump.
'Nando did a great job to be right there with the Red Bulls in a car that obviously gives up a little bit to those two. I'm hoping he can split Seb and Webber by Turn 1.
Also, bring on the rain!
'Nando did a great job to be right there with the Red Bulls in a car that obviously gives up a little bit to those two. I'm hoping he can split Seb and Webber by Turn 1.
Also, bring on the rain!
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Sounds good man.
Don't listen with the speakers too loud the first time
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I remember seeing sparks coming from underneath several cars. Not just Vettel's.
Pterion said:I love C63 AMGs.
You might like this too then. E63 AMG. 518 HP and 465 lb ft TQ.
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Sounds good man.
Don't listen with the speakers too loud the first time
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I remember seeing sparks coming from underneath several cars. Not just Vettel's.
S. L. said:
You are allowed to make changes to 2 things between qualifying and the race. You can change the tyre pressure and also re-gas the suspension dampers. This is another theory how Red Bull are adjusting their ride height.
How they can do it during the race is the question though.
Damnit. This is one of the things that drives me nuts about F1 these days. Any mechanical innovation is against the spirit of the rules. Mass dampers, mechanical solutions to banning of electronics, very clever things that F1 should be promoting, are all banned. With engine development frozen it has very little room to call itself the pinnacle of technology, except maybe in aerodynamics.navanman said:
Well, there's some drizzle about atm and its been overcast here all day. The main rain band is still about 200km west of here, hopefully it'll get here around about race time.h3ro said:
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR023.loop.shtml#skip
I'm abit disappointed I couldn't make it trackside this year.. oh well at least it means I won't get wet
sportzhead
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Free Red Bull F1 game if you have an iPhone or iPod Touch. Only free today. Don't know if it's any good, haven't played it yet.
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Just watched a nice interview with Sutil. He seems to be a large reason why Force India went from absolute crap to moderate success. If there's one driver who deserves a top podium finish, it's this guy.
A shame about the Bahrain incident as he was working on an entirely different strategy to the other drivers in terms of tyres. Would've been interesting to see it had he pulled it off.
A shame about the Bahrain incident as he was working on an entirely different strategy to the other drivers in terms of tyres. Would've been interesting to see it had he pulled it off.
Victoria has stupid laws which basically means if you do something like a burnout or get caught speeding you get your car impounded.... I swear I hate the nanny state/police state mentality of Australian lawmakers.
Vettel is a masterful driver, a real talent, lets see how he goes in the race with Webber and Alonso hungry for the win.
Sucks that Schuey wasn't able to get a good lap in, doubt that Alonso and others did it intentionally though, but hopefully in the next race it won't be as big a problem.
Vettel is a masterful driver, a real talent, lets see how he goes in the race with Webber and Alonso hungry for the win.
Sucks that Schuey wasn't able to get a good lap in, doubt that Alonso and others did it intentionally though, but hopefully in the next race it won't be as big a problem.
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