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PacificBeach

Not sure what lap chart you are referring to but the FIA chart shows Nico P4 and Lewis P13 after the first safety car; with Hamilton making up one place through the safety car. And a 1.5 sec gap with 7 cars in between sounds a little suspect. And I seem to recall Alonso coming in behind Nico on the...

PacificBeach

Rosberg did not have just problematic race but indeed 3 races: He had the "same" problem as Hamilton in Canadian race and managed to bring the car in 2nd place. In Hungary, the safety cars ruined his race together with Bottas and Vettel. The SF pretty also much already reset and neutralized the Rosb...

PacificBeach

As for the anology with Messi and Ronaldo analogy, it has been Vettel and Alonso that has been chosen as the best driver and the 2nd best driver in each of the last 5 seasons (Vettel best 3 times and Alonso twice)! Just as in soccer in one year Messi gets chose as the player of the year and in the o...

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He made many mistakes in 2010? He did as much as other contenders. Vettel's own mistakes ruined 2 races (Turkey, Spa) and ended up with no points. Got a drive thru in Hungary due to dropping behind safety car (cost him a win instead of P3) For Alonso: He jumped the start at China and got a drive-thr...

PacificBeach

He barely won the championship in a dominant car. I think you are confusing dominant car with best car that season. That season the cars were a lot closer in pace. These are the delta's between RBR and fastest non RBR car in quali in 2010. As far as I remember Ferrari was even closer in race pace t...

PacificBeach

Hamilton didn't have the best car in 2012. Reliability has to be taken in to account. He performed very well in 2012. His best performance to date. RBR was as unreliable as well. That is why I listed the mechanical DNFs of 2012 for Vettel and Lewis for your bogus claim that Lewis would have won 201...

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You don't become a 4 time WDC without being special.. But if you were special, it wouldnt take you three quarters of a season to get used to qualifying a car, let alone not be up to speed with it, STILL, in the race. :lol: If you are special, you don't get outscored by Button or fail to anything be...

PacificBeach

Wasn't Vettel P6 when he retired in Monza? I checked... you are right he was P6 when he retired. Vettel was 5.5 seconds in front of Micheal and 1.5 seconds behind Kimi. Micheal finished 1.5 secs behind Massa in P6. The lap times suggest Micheal has been lapping 6 tenths faster than Vettel as well, ...

PacificBeach

And Hamilton would have won in 2012 if he'd had a car as reliable as Vettels Red Bull. I see that it has been business usual in this forum :) Hamilton would not have won in 2012 if he had a car as reliable as Vettel in 2012. Not even close.... Hamilton finished the season 91 points on Vettel. Vette...

PacificBeach

Well done Rosberg, Daniel and Kimi

PacificBeach

Can somebody confirm his pace. Kept with Vettel all the first stint and then dropped to 6.5 seconds behind at what lap? Over half distance. That is much better than Webber has managed since 2010 baring the patch of good races he had in the first half of 2012. After the end of first pit stops Vettel...

PacificBeach

Hopefully Hulkenberg can get the 2ns RBR seat in the future, he deserves it. Considering what they've done to Ricciardo when it looks like he might challenge Vettel on equal points, I can't see that being better than Force India What race are you watching? Ricciardo was consistently 4/5 tenths slow...

PacificBeach

Hopefully Hulkenberg can get the 2ns RBR seat in the future, he deserves it. Considering what they've done to Ricciardo when it looks like he might challenge Vettel on equal points, I can't see that being better than Force India What race are you watching? Ricciardo was consistently 4/5 tenths slow...

PacificBeach

Hopefully Hulkenberg can get the 2ns RBR seat in the future, he deserves it. Considering what they've done to Ricciardo when it looks like he might challenge Vettel on equal points, I can't see that being better than Force India What race are you watching? Ricciardo was consistently 4/5 tenths slow...

PacificBeach

Hopefully Hulkenberg can get the 2ns RBR seat in the future, he deserves it.

PacificBeach

He is dropping back because he is 4 tenths a lap slower...

PacificBeach

The RB looked extremely strong in S2 where aero>engine. If Renault can find some extra performance from the engine they could well be at the sharp end again. I dont think they are as close to Merc right now as todays qualy would have us believe, the rain has levelled out the field to some extent. I...

PacificBeach

For 2004 list of all quali and race result between Schumacher and Rubens. There are also quite of bit of races where they are far apart in quali/race. Negative number means Micheal faster and vice versa. Quali Australia.. -0.074 Malaysia.. -0.682 Bahrain... -0.391 Imola...... -0.440 Spain...... -1.2...

PacificBeach

RBR did use the FIA supplied meters! The flow meter was in the car and supplying the values to FIA data logger. Otherwise how did stewards got the real time data during the race and gave warnings to the team? So they are compliant with the following: 5.10.3 Homologated sensors must be fitted which d...

PacificBeach

Like it or not Rosberg and Hamilton are very well matched.

PacificBeach

Rosberg. People frequently tend to ignore the fact that although Schumacher was certainly past his peak, Rosberg consistently out-drove him throughout the entire time they were team-mates - and not by a slim margin. Roy Rosberg did not consistently outdrive Schumacher especially in 2012 when it was...

PacificBeach

The fuel flow meter given is the same for each car (obviously, difference physical units, but the same model, type, design) and they all operate to the same error tolerances. Clearly, it would be impossible to make each car use exactly the same physical unit. The analogy is not invalid in any way b...

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ter. This is a bit like if the scales used to weigh the cars were known to read 5kg underweight. All the teams know of the variability and are told before the race their car has been weighed 5kg underweight and if they don't want to be disqualified they have to add 5kg of ballast. All the teams add...

PacificBeach

If they backtrack on this then the rest of the teams may as well burn the rulebook when it comes to FIA homologated equipment because they can all argue that its not up to the job. The point is not whether they can argue but whether they can prove it or not. If they prove their assertions no proble...

PacificBeach

If they backtrack on this then the rest of the teams may as well burn the rulebook when it comes to FIA homologated equipment because they can all argue that its not up to the job. The point is not whether they can argue but whether they can prove it or not. If they prove their assertions no problem.

PacificBeach

Cheaters getting caught with their pants down. Nice surprise after countless cases in last few years, when they got away with illegal slots in floor, illegal mappings or illegal possibility of changing ride hight with bare hands. Countless cases of RBR not violating the rules, with FIA having to ch...

PacificBeach

Well done Nico and Ricciardo.

PacificBeach

I don't see any issues in the Red Bull team upto now 1 car is sh*t hot, the other car is sh*t pretty normal stuff for them just switched the drivers thats all :D LOL. Yes but if RBR is this close this early this year I look for them to catch up and pass Merc before too long. 7/8 tenths is not that ...

PacificBeach

Last year Rosberg had 3 mechanical DNFs Lewis 1. No team will sabotage their highly paid drivers.

PacificBeach

What we need is a amendment like "Freedom of sector time information act"

PacificBeach

Fiki, my friend, you are simply seeing things in your usual negative light when it comes to Ferrari/Schumacher. You are consistent though, I give you that. ;) I do ask though... where did the rumours about Raikkonen's loss of motivation come from 4 years later? I don't recall ever hearing precisely...

PacificBeach

Monaco is all about commitment, the cars rarely go fast enough for the aerodynamics to play a major role. As for your sector time analysis its kind of irrelevant, Webber said that while he did have an advantage in the faster corners he couldn't maximize it due to the nature of the Pirelli tyres, to...

PacificBeach

If Webber was really that successful in high speed corners, I think it would have shown most in Suzuka qualis (S curves, Dunlop, Degner, Spoon, 130R ... with average lap speed of 230km/h). We would have seen Webber outqualify Vettel on merit there. However Vettel has beaten Webber 4-1 there in qual...

PacificBeach

If Webber was really that successful in high speed corners, I think it would have shown most in Suzuka qualis (S curves, Dunlop, Degner, Spoon, 130R ... with average lap speed of 230km/h). We would have seen Webber outqualify Vettel on merit there. However Vettel has beaten Webber 4-1 there in quali...

PacificBeach

F1yer wrote: No one has ever beaten Webber while being teammates except Vettel.

Actually , all current drivers have been beaten by their teammates BAR vettel and Webber (who was only beaten by Vettel)

Webber was beaten by Coulthard in 2007.

PacificBeach

Numbers can say whatever you want them to say. There are simpler ways to estimate Vettel's car advantage. We will use Webber as a constant in our calculations. Webber is barely faster than a David coulthard when driving the same cars. You definitely don't know what you are talking about... I believ...

PacificBeach

Lewis ahead 5-3 using your cherry picked 8 races. When did JB beat Lewis. Malaysia when Lewis was a long way ahead but tried to win the race, burnt out his tyres and needed an extra stop. Fair play JB was better. Monaco, when Mclarens team error meant Lewis did not set a time, starting 10th in Mona...

PacificBeach

Whilst I agree Lewis was beaten by Button in 2011, the adaptability thing does not hold. Lewis was stronger than Button in the first half of 2011, it was the second half of 2011 were Jenson massively out scored Lewis largely due to Hamilton receiving 6 penalties in 8 races, although Jenson beat him...

PacificBeach

Well with the updated Newey car in 2008 Bourdais managed to outqualify Webber 4-3 and outqualify DC 7-1, so i think its plain to see which was the better car even in the hands of Bourdais ??? AFAIK, Webber outqualified Bourdais 15-3 in 2008 with the second half of 2008 being 6-3 . I don't think Bou...

PacificBeach

Scumback in action... They should charge these kind of individuals and make them spend some time behind the bars.

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