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The Formula 1 2015 Season |OT| Formula E Feeder Series
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massivekettle
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JadedWriter
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I don't think a rookie will come out of the blocks that good for a very long time. Granted the testing ban isn't exactly helping either.
Big Takeover
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It sounds like Mags could very well lead Carlin into IndyCar next year with Honda.
I miss testing for all the opportunities that it afforded young drivers as much as what it did for the competitive balance. It was great see so many guys from F3000 and beyond get a chance to show their stuff.
I miss testing for all the opportunities that it afforded young drivers as much as what it did for the competitive balance. It was great see so many guys from F3000 and beyond get a chance to show their stuff.
Ricciardo has come close, though.
I feel Perez will be the only driver who was promoted too early, relegated and managed to keep his drive.
JadedWriter
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I think Ricciardo had more F1 experience than Hamilton did in 2007 though. But yeah Ricciardo toppling Vettel was great to see though.
Vettel - LOL. I'm absolutely convinced, and nothing so far this season changed my view, that this is exactly the same Vettel we saw last year. He simply lucked into another fantastic car and his team mate has some flaws, which doesn't make it obvious. Pair him up with Alonso or Ricciardo for that matter and you'll see the same as last year. Mistakes, average tyre management and quali pace which isn't really as great as it looks, since, as I said, Kimi is not strong in this area. Awful race by Vettel and I have to be honest, he made me smile sooo much
Perez - Great race, he's really superb at this circuit.
Alonso - Fantastic performance. To beat and hold off both Saubers and one Force India is a mark of how great driver he is. I really, really hope from Barcelona onwards they will be truly in upper midfield and moving forward won't stop there, because at this moment it's a waste of talent of 2 superb drivers
Maldonado - How many mistakes you can make during one race, lol? Apparently stalling during stop was also his fault and according to Ted team is starting to get fed up with Crashtor. Yeah, he was unlucky this season but somehow other drivers also starting in danger zone at every race, manage to avoid running into problems, unlike Pastor. I always thought 2012 Williams was multiple race winner and podium contender on pure pace and Maldonado's career so far only confirms my belief.
keep preaching.
Yes, Vettel made mistakes this Grand Prix. But Alonso heroically defending the saubers? Yeah right. You must have watched another race. But maybe its really Alonsos end-game to defend himself against Sauber and Force India.
It is not surprise that team is fed up with his performance - Grosjean is scoring points on regular basis and those points are golden now for the team. If Pastor could get a point or two each race, they would be chasing Sauber in overall standings... instead 3x retired and one 15th place...
Short explanation regarding the break by wire problems from yesterday.
What happened the engineers call the break "going passive". That means, you still have your full break power available, but the pedal works differently, other then you expect. You cannot dose the breaking power as you are used to, you have to use force (not feeling), and you have to kick the pedal way more down than usual.
ROS problems with bbw failures actually started in lap 3. He had them all race, on and off again. Which practically means, when you started to break you got surprised by the break either working as expected, or not. The tenth of a second it takes to register the difference could well mean the difference in hitting the breaking point on the track or being late. Combined with the lessening headwind on the first straight, that made for very interesting driving...
ROS bbw system was fully gone 3 laps before the end, HAM 2 laps.
Working hypothesis at the moment is that the problems were temperature related (some kind of overheating), but will of course be looked at in detail.
What happened the engineers call the break "going passive". That means, you still have your full break power available, but the pedal works differently, other then you expect. You cannot dose the breaking power as you are used to, you have to use force (not feeling), and you have to kick the pedal way more down than usual.
ROS problems with bbw failures actually started in lap 3. He had them all race, on and off again. Which practically means, when you started to break you got surprised by the break either working as expected, or not. The tenth of a second it takes to register the difference could well mean the difference in hitting the breaking point on the track or being late. Combined with the lessening headwind on the first straight, that made for very interesting driving...
ROS bbw system was fully gone 3 laps before the end, HAM 2 laps.
Working hypothesis at the moment is that the problems were temperature related (some kind of overheating), but will of course be looked at in detail.
Hamilton said in the BBC interview that he managed to reset the system almost immediately, but everyone at Mercedes is basically saying it was a total failure, so who do we believe?
As long as its not fully clear what exactly went wrong and how, no one knows how reliable the telemetry data is. So basically: wait and see... ;-P
lol Mastah, Crashtor Maldonado is a good name.
Rosberg needs more pole positions. Everybody knows he can drive in top 3 but he has to prove that he can be faster then Ham and not always complain about this or that when he can't overtake him. Always complaining about stuff when you are the one behind, makes him look like a whiner.
Don't really like Rosberg but he gets a lot of shit lately and is under heavy pressure. He has to do something now...
Race was better than expected in the end (thanks to the second half). We need a race with heavy rain. These are always good for suprises.
Rosberg needs more pole positions. Everybody knows he can drive in top 3 but he has to prove that he can be faster then Ham and not always complain about this or that when he can't overtake him. Always complaining about stuff when you are the one behind, makes him look like a whiner.
Don't really like Rosberg but he gets a lot of shit lately and is under heavy pressure. He has to do something now...
Race was better than expected in the end (thanks to the second half). We need a race with heavy rain. These are always good for suprises.
Psychotext
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glol
Dutch Gronk
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#MaxToMercedes
We need somebody to challenge Hammie, since Rosberg gave up trying.
We need somebody to challenge Hammie, since Rosberg gave up trying.
Put Alonso in that car. Or Pascal.
With that tempo, Red Bull could face their worst season in their recent history
We will see what they will bring to Barcelona, but with 4th engine on 5th race and with Kvyat struggling as crazy...23 points on the first four races is a total disaster for such team.
Lach: there is a thread about that on Autosport forums. read posts from user Exb
We will see what they will bring to Barcelona, but with 4th engine on 5th race and with Kvyat struggling as crazy...23 points on the first four races is a total disaster for such team.
Lach: there is a thread about that on Autosport forums. read posts from user Exb
I'm sure Jos has already paid them a visit.
But yeah, if Rosberg stays like this the entire year then Hamilton will just start live tweeting straight from the car as he leisurely goes about the track. #blessed #lovelytreeoverthere #shouldtakethedogsforawalklater #TeamLH
Mohonky
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Just watched the GP;
- I don't understand Mercs strategists. When Vettel had an issue and had to pit again and put on a new wing it gave Merc a window for another stop. They had Vettel and Raikonnen had to stop again also. Had they pitted they would have had fresher tyres and more speed, Raikkonen wouldn't have even managed to get up to the back of Rosberg much less challenge. They got lucky there was no safety car or Raikkonen would have had them both. As soon as I saw Vettel come in for a nose my first thought was Merc should consider another stop for fresh softs just to cover the Ferraris.
- Raikkonen had an awesome race, Ferrari made the right call on the softs in the end. Excellent drive by him. As a Hamilton fan his podium is a win / win in my books. I think they snuck a Maldonaldo clone into Vettels suit today. Leaving the track, smashing his car up and generally just entirely missing brakng points.
- Speaking of Maldonaldo, I really do wonder where the money he contributes in sponsors ends and his talent begins because he is just a broken limb to Lotus, his sole contrbution to the team is money because it sure as shit isn't as a driver. At what point does his uselessness outweigh his sponsorship. He's costing them points and cars at this point. Not every accident has been his fault but he consistently seems to find himself in position to be in one and if he doesn't he's all over the place and barely on the track. That shot of him spinning in China, I swear I saw a few of his crew laughing. Grosjean keeping the nearly dead dog that is Lotus limping along. I would imagine his entire mechanical crew is pissed with him.
- Unlucky for Massa, my favourite under achiever. He still did well though. Bottas taking the Greece & Italian football strategy of parking the bus. Worked well enough to keep Vettel at bay, even if Vettel did nearly wipe Bottas out at some point.
Who else? Barely saw anyone, its one of the first races for awhile where all the action was happening up front instad of in the middle of the pack. I'm not sure we even saw Ricciardo out there. Spent so much time watching the front runners it was hard to see who was racing who back there.
Also, Manor continue to exist. Which is pretty much the theme for any race weekend for them really. I do feel bad for them, they looked like the kid whose wearing everyone elses hand me downs. I don't know how they survive, no sponsors, you never see them on TV so why would you sponsor them and they could all but disappear and you would never know. It would be good if they could develop the car to be competitive. Its a bit hard for head of development old mate out back with nothing but a pencil, scissors, some card and sticky tape to really give them anything meaningful in the way of a faster car.
- I don't understand Mercs strategists. When Vettel had an issue and had to pit again and put on a new wing it gave Merc a window for another stop. They had Vettel and Raikonnen had to stop again also. Had they pitted they would have had fresher tyres and more speed, Raikkonen wouldn't have even managed to get up to the back of Rosberg much less challenge. They got lucky there was no safety car or Raikkonen would have had them both. As soon as I saw Vettel come in for a nose my first thought was Merc should consider another stop for fresh softs just to cover the Ferraris.
- Raikkonen had an awesome race, Ferrari made the right call on the softs in the end. Excellent drive by him. As a Hamilton fan his podium is a win / win in my books. I think they snuck a Maldonaldo clone into Vettels suit today. Leaving the track, smashing his car up and generally just entirely missing brakng points.
- Speaking of Maldonaldo, I really do wonder where the money he contributes in sponsors ends and his talent begins because he is just a broken limb to Lotus, his sole contrbution to the team is money because it sure as shit isn't as a driver. At what point does his uselessness outweigh his sponsorship. He's costing them points and cars at this point. Not every accident has been his fault but he consistently seems to find himself in position to be in one and if he doesn't he's all over the place and barely on the track. That shot of him spinning in China, I swear I saw a few of his crew laughing. Grosjean keeping the nearly dead dog that is Lotus limping along. I would imagine his entire mechanical crew is pissed with him.
- Unlucky for Massa, my favourite under achiever. He still did well though. Bottas taking the Greece & Italian football strategy of parking the bus. Worked well enough to keep Vettel at bay, even if Vettel did nearly wipe Bottas out at some point.
Who else? Barely saw anyone, its one of the first races for awhile where all the action was happening up front instad of in the middle of the pack. I'm not sure we even saw Ricciardo out there. Spent so much time watching the front runners it was hard to see who was racing who back there.
Also, Manor continue to exist. Which is pretty much the theme for any race weekend for them really. I do feel bad for them, they looked like the kid whose wearing everyone elses hand me downs. I don't know how they survive, no sponsors, you never see them on TV so why would you sponsor them and they could all but disappear and you would never know. It would be good if they could develop the car to be competitive. Its a bit hard for head of development old mate out back with nothing but a pencil, scissors, some card and sticky tape to really give them anything meaningful in the way of a faster car.
JadedWriter
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During that time Roscoe will make a cameo as his guest race engineer #BestDogs.
Souldestroyer Reborn
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Bernie needs to fucking go.
The longer he has involvement in this sport the worse it's going to get.
Porsche,VW,Audi,Toyota,Ford don't want anything to do with the sport.
France,Germany and potentially Italy pulling out.
Things are only going to get worse.
The longer he has involvement in this sport the worse it's going to get.
Porsche,VW,Audi,Toyota,Ford don't want anything to do with the sport.
France,Germany and potentially Italy pulling out.
Things are only going to get worse.
From last week -
Easiest guess ever made.
Wouldn't be surprised if each Renault driver went through at least 7 engines.
Easiest guess ever made.
Wouldn't be surprised if each Renault driver went through at least 7 engines.
Goldrusher
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They will also host 1st European games
So did I and, apparently, Azerbaijan is geographically half in Europe and half in Asia, despite being next to the Caspian sea... The more you know !
Hermann Tilke track though... so still fuck you Bernie !
Any change is good change. What we need is someone at FIA to grow a pair.
At worst it's just gonna be a guy that's equally as bad as Bernie.
But F1 definitely needs a younger, fresher guy at the helm.
If only because F1 really needs to get working on a online streaming service.
Okay - just don´t come crying when Horner transforms it to an event like the Red Bull Air race.
no, you don't sacrifice track position if you don't have to. Rosberg's error meant Kimi was able to pass him, without that it was questionable whether he would have made it at all. They had no guarantee that their tyre wear was better than Kimi.
Fox Mulder
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He probably wants every race in the middle east.
So did I and, apparently, Azerbaijan is geographically half in Europe and half in Asia, despite being next to the Caspian sea... The more you know !
Hermann Tilke track though... so still fuck you Bernie !
Looks like those awful formula e street courses.
The FIA can't do anything because the top teams keep rejecting any proposals they make. Jean Todt has spoken in the media about this ad nauseum. I know we all like to hate Bernie, but the reality is that the teams are now equally as much to blame for the state of the sport.
marvelharvey
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Street Circuits always seem 25% longer than necessary. Send them to Norrissring!
I'd like to see him back at his McLaren level. He was ridiculously fast back then and was a joy to watch. McLaren's reliability really cost him.
Myoclonic Jerk
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Just before the first turn kimis gap increased from 1.1 to 1.4 so it was over.
Until I saw Rosberg overshooting the breaking point
I don't think kimi would've passed if Rosberg didn't crack
Kimi would not have passed, and Rosberg did not crack. His brakes failed. Hamilton got the warning of that, just before his own brakes failed.
Probably a temperature thing, it builds up and then both cars get hit at similar times.