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The Formula 1 2013 Season |OT| End of the Webber Era
- Thread starter Leunam
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Can not believe this shit.....I wish Ferrari had taken Hulk
ClassyPenguin
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Or bring on Crashjean. Ricciardo did a great lap.
Probably literally.
That and if Vettel crashes out on the first lap
ClassyPenguin
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Best car, best driver. The Sebastian Vettel story.
Nah. The difference now is supposed to be 'negligible'...
ClassyPenguin
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Em, what is Lotus strategy?
PdotMichael
Banned
Massa faster than Alonso once again.
But Massa was on Softs.
ClassyPenguin
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lol. Vettel on cooling duty.
Elvin Atombender
Member
It looked like both Vettel and Webber set a lot of their best times on laps where they often had the whole car outside the track.
Quick, tell Ferrari. You might be on to something.
ClassyPenguin
Banned
That's the goal right? Use maximum track at max speed.
in this awesome thread people can't tell the difference between primes and options, no surprise though. ALO 2nd fastest Q2 on primes and 2nd fastest Q3 on options, but whatever, keep the trolling going.
edit: in case it wasn't trolling... quick explanation for the slowlonso and lol Massa > Alonso usual suspects here: They were on different tyres. Alonso was on the hard compound, which is more than a second per lap slower, so he actually did a fairly impressive lap relative to Massa. To put it in perspective, Alonso did a 1.24.5 in Q2 , better than Massa Q1-Q2-Q3, and that would have earned him front row tomorrow had Alonso opted for the soft compound, but he did the same as Webber, Button and Pérez, trying the med/med/soft strategy for the race, let's see, the only car that will clearly take advantage from it will be the RBR of Webber, he will jump both Mercedes and maybe, just maybe , challenge Vettel if he's successful managing the medium tyres so he has a short and lightning-fast last stint. But who am I kidding, on TV they replayed the bunch of mistakes Vettel made on his pole lap, and still won comfortably, his first stint will be enough to win the race.
edit: in case it wasn't trolling... quick explanation for the slowlonso and lol Massa > Alonso usual suspects here: They were on different tyres. Alonso was on the hard compound, which is more than a second per lap slower, so he actually did a fairly impressive lap relative to Massa. To put it in perspective, Alonso did a 1.24.5 in Q2 , better than Massa Q1-Q2-Q3, and that would have earned him front row tomorrow had Alonso opted for the soft compound, but he did the same as Webber, Button and Pérez, trying the med/med/soft strategy for the race, let's see, the only car that will clearly take advantage from it will be the RBR of Webber, he will jump both Mercedes and maybe, just maybe , challenge Vettel if he's successful managing the medium tyres so he has a short and lightning-fast last stint. But who am I kidding, on TV they replayed the bunch of mistakes Vettel made on his pole lap, and still won comfortably, his first stint will be enough to win the race.
Mohonky
Member
Its mostly just the track, the drivers usually get a say in that sort of thing from memory so they have probably agreed that in some corners leaving the track on the outside there is to the benefit of all.
Dutch Gronk
Banned
This is not a bad idea!
Do it Wave Race style, just have them pass from certain "buoys".
Psychotext
Member
Problem is, every single one of the top ten laps had a point where they went outside the track margin, usually at turn 11 / 12. I guess they could disqualify all of their laps, but I suspect you'd struggle to find a completely clean lap in the entire field.
They'd have to start judging on warmup laps.
It seems that Helmut Marko has destroyed Antonio Felix da Costa in an interview. He said "he regressed, he showed he can't handle the pressure while Kvyat showed he can. Also we were contacted by 2 Russian companies". Hilarious shit.
He also confirmed da Costa will remain in the RBR Junior Team "for now" and will be RBR reserve driver next year. Sure seems that da Costa will have a bright future inside the RBR family...
He also confirmed da Costa will remain in the RBR Junior Team "for now" and will be RBR reserve driver next year. Sure seems that da Costa will have a bright future inside the RBR family...