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She's already refused to acknowledge that this is happening. So its probably best to leave her with her rose tinted glasses and hope that nothing terrible happens over the weekend. She'll look a right tit if it does. that's a bit harsh. Rather than "refusing to acknowledge that this is happening", ...

Zoue

China is a front limited circuit which was a big factor in Mercedes keeping their rear tyres in nick (plus the low temperatures and their improved setup, the two factors most commentators have been mentioning). Note that Melbourne and Malaysia are both rear limited tracks. Does anyone know if Bahra...

Zoue

I wonder if the Bahraini's thought similarly about the British GP when they saw spontaneous fires sprouting up across London last summer? Why would they? Those spontaneous fires weren't going on for over a year and the police were not emptying bullet cartridges into the crowd. What? Do you actually...

Zoue

But Pironi was rarely ahead of Prost both in qualy and in races, as far as I remember. Usually it was Prost who was ahead, than his engine or injection blows (occasionally spins off), and Pironi get's the spoils. Soma factual examples: Kyalami, Jacarepagua, Imola, Monaco, Detroit, Zandvoort, Paul R...

Zoue

It's less than what it seems. If having fresher tyres throughout the duration of the race means that on average, you're 1 sec a lap faster, that's 50 secs over a 50 lap race, enough to do 2 extra pitstops. Only downside for the 3 stoppers is traffic, as demonstrated in the race yesterday. 3 stop is...

Zoue

In 1982 Renault had the best car, but it suffered miserable reliability. The field was split between turbo cars and normally aspirated cars, of which Williams and McLaren were the best. Prost was mostly unbeatable , Arnoux was there and Ferrari's followed with somewhat better reliability, and than ...

Zoue

Why then assume that the protestors are the good guys and the king is the bad guy? I can't make a qualified judgement about the protestors, but if you are a democrat, any absolute monarch is a bad guy. Is he an absolute monarch? Are the majority of Bahrainis democrat? How many protestors are there?...

Zoue

Thanks for this - really useful info. only thing I couldn't see was the total pit time - I can't seem to see it in the Pit Stops chart. Where are you seeing that? I picked the pit stop duration from formula1 website (tried to paste it here but the formatting got messed up) http://www.formula1.com/r...

Zoue

His tires were already f*cked when he was the leader of the train. He was able to hold his position for a reasonable number of laps. Out of turn 4 he had no grip (he was even using 3rd gear to get traction) which allowed Vettel to get ahead for turn 5. When Vettel cut in front of Kimi, Kimi lost fr...

Zoue

Thanks for this - really useful info. only thing I couldn't see was the total pit time - I can't seem to see it in the Pit Stops chart. Where are you seeing that? I picked the pit stop duration from formula1 website (tried to paste it here but the formatting got messed up) http://www.formula1.com/r...

Zoue

It is possible they converted a 3 stopper into 2 stopper - though that doesn't explain everything either. Prior to his pit stop around lap 28, he was putting in decent laps (i think .5 sec slower than Grosjean who was 5 secs behind him and on par with most others). There was no way he was going to ...

Zoue

I would love it to be like 82. However with reliability as it is now I think drivers will start to pull away. With any luck we could have another 2010 though. In 1982 the winning driver, Keke Rosberg, won only 1 Grand Prix the whole year. He averaged only 2.75 points per race over the season, equiv...

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It is possible they converted a 3 stopper into 2 stopper - though that doesn't explain everything either. Prior to his pit stop around lap 28, he was putting in decent laps (i think .5 sec slower than Grosjean who was 5 secs behind him and on par with most others). There was no way he was going to ...

Zoue

I know everybody is happy to blame the strategy (which was wrong) but Kimi's lap times throughout the later half of the GP were poor. Sure, i can blame some of that on being "held up" by Massa but, why are we talking about being held up? Pass the guy! That's what you have to do to be successful. Ma...

Zoue

it's a combination of things and as others have mentioned depends entirely on the track in question. The time to pit, including entry and exit to the pit lane, is the benchmark figure as that is what you will lose by coming in for an extra set of tyres. Then you have to factor in the ease of overtak...

Zoue

I've been very lucky and worked in Racing when I was younger so met many drivers ... Piquet (senior) Brundle .. Herbert..Ayrton Senna (when he was in F3 and I worked in Johnny Dumfries Team) ... Patrese... Etc etc etc... Now I'm luckily a leading member of the Mark Webber Supporters Club and have m...

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I've been very lucky and worked in Racing when I was younger so met many drivers ... Piquet (senior) Brundle .. Herbert..Ayrton Senna (when he was in F3 and I worked in Johnny Dumfries Team) ... Patrese... Etc etc etc... Now I'm luckily a leading member of the Mark Webber Supporters Club and have m...

Zoue

no.... Raikkonen was mainly as far up as he was because he qaulied 4th and raced at the front... if Lotus could have pitted him correctly he would not have been passed in the pits by 3 cars over two stops... they were HORRIBLE... 2 seconds longer than Ferrari on his second stop 2 seconds is a LIFET...

Zoue

Please, don't go so hard on Lotus :( We know they do their everything and I'm sure they are learning from each race, which goes for Kimi also. He has been away for 2 years and he has to learn all the new things there. All mistakes they do in the beginning of the season will pay off later on once th...

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Kimi seemed to lose heavily after each stop, first to Hamilton and Webber and second to Alonso, all of whom he was ahead of before his stops. Does anyone know if his stops were slow or did he stay out too long and lose time that way? I know in the first Hamilton gained time on Kimi coming into the p...

Zoue

Kimi's pace was fine, and could have placed him high. There were two obvious problems - the first one we saw were the pit stops. In both of his stops, he dropped behind the ones he had kept behind him before, and even more. On the first stop, not only did Hamilton pass, but Webber managed to get in...

Zoue

Kimi lost his race before the tyres fell off. Both pit stops were a disaster. In the first, he lost out to Hamilton and Webber, while after the second he ended up several seconds behind Alonso, who he was ahead of before their respective stops. He also struggled to overtake anyone to make up lost gr...

Zoue

I heard on Sky that they took all the upgrades off the car that they brought on Friday, as they actually made the car worse! Kimi's time looks pretty good then. I only hope that this doesn't mean they fall back in development

Zoue

Hmmm, at the risk of being a pedant I feel I need to take you up on a couple of points here. I admit I was a Nelson Piquet fan at the time so I might be just a little bit biased, but Schumacher did not beat NP by any points margin when in the same car. They only raced 6 races together, with MSC ret...

Zoue

They are not a human rights organisation We are all Human Rights Organisations , every single individual should respect and fight for the Rights of all Humans, everywhere. Lets get China out of the way, then Bahrain can fall under the full spotlight ....... Sorry, I mean no offence but I don't agre...

Zoue

Stats are for fun and are also food for thought. As for the "if senna hadn't died" scenario... Schumacher was already giving him a very hard headache. And Prost could have come back from retirement (remember, it's an imaginary scenario) Now back to the stats for even more fun... The race winners co...

Zoue

Before the FIA clamped down on rev limits, all the engine manufacturers were involved in an expensive war of ever increasing revs. Putting power production in a simple format, each cylinder makes a certain amount of power. But if you can make each cylinder do twice the revs, it (theoretically) can ...

Zoue

First off, I admit that I have very little knowledge of the actual current situation in Bahrain. However, this article from a former UK police chief seems to suggest that, while there are indeed issues, the actual state of play is not as bad as has been reported: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/mo...

Zoue

I've posted this in another thread - one of the many Bahrain ones! - but as this one says "official" I thought I'd post it here too :) This article in the Telegraph today seems to suggest that things are being blown out of proportion: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/9199269/B...

Zoue

Apologies if this has been covered before but after searching briefly I couldn't find the answer. Can anyone tell me why the engines are rev limited? I understand that it is all part of limiting costs but is there a specific reason? I would have thought that just limiting the number of engines and f...

Zoue

I've posted this in another thread - one of the many Bahrain ones! - but as this one says "official" I thought I'd post it here too :) This article in the Telegraph today seems to suggest that things are being blown out of proportion: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/9199269/Ba...

Zoue

First off, I admit that I have very little knowledge of the actual current situation in Bahrain. However, this article from a former UK police chief seems to suggest that, while there are indeed issues, the actual state of play is not as bad as has been reported: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/mot...

Zoue

What I don't get is how and why Piquet gets passed over so readily given his tenure in the sport, the time periods his tenure covered and all his accomplishments given the vast leve of top tier drivers in his time. Senna is no doubt great but I will always have an asterisk next to many of his wins ...

Zoue

And if Perez goes to Ferrari and struggles to adapt to the car? It potentially ruins his whole career. Sergio would be much safer staying at Sauber this year and proving his mettle against Kobayashi, rather than risking a completely new team with Alonso. This. Look what happened to Fisichella after...

Zoue

Thing that aannoyes me the most... Out of all great champions of F1 and talented guys... Most of people and some of people menton names such as... Kubica (LOL he won 1 race in his career so far and his already in Hall of Fame...hilarious) Kobayashi ( OMG) etc etc modern drivers... While forgeting n...

Zoue

Hi, hope this is the right place to post this. My message facility is disabled as I'm new to the forum. I had the devil's own time trying to register with this Forum at the weekend. The email link to send a message to the Board Administrator when in difficulty has the destination "noreply@planetf1.c...

Zoue

Hi all, first time poster here. there are so many exceptionally talented drivers from all eras that it seems so hard to choose who to leave out! Drivers like Fangio, Clark, Stewart, Moss, Villeneuve (snr) and Ascari, to name but a few, all belong up there in the pantheon of fame. However, I've decid...

Zoue

Hi all, as seems to be the case with a lot of people, I've been coming to the forums for a long time now but just haven't gotten round to registering. Thought I should contribute as I read it pretty much every day :-P I've been a fan of F1 since the early eighties, and I try to watch as many races a...

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