It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Having said that I don't see this as any more unfair than a real safety car wiping out a big lead that someone has spent the whole race creating and destroying their race strategy. Both are just luck as to where you are on the track, your track position and what your pit stop strategy is when the incident happens . If Vettel had already done his stop then he would have gained nothing. It should be pretty obvious that if the cars are going round slower then the time loss from a pit stop is proportionately less. I haven't seen Mercedes complaining about it - they know it was luck and part of the swings and roundabouts of the VSC/safety car.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
One possible solution could be to work out a minimum pit stop time if you do pit under a VSC. In the Blancpain GT Sprint Series, the races are one hour with a driver change. Occasionally one driver will do a whole stint due to injury or illness to the other driver. In that situation, there is a minimum pit stop time to simulate the time taken to change drivers in addition to tyres. I have no idea what the formula for a minimum pit stop time in F1 under the VSC would be but I doubt it'd be easy to work out.
Processional was my verdict on yesterday. It says a lot that you have a faster car in second who ends up turning down the power to protect the engine. An excellent qualifying session was good but that counts for nothing if the main event is dull. It's like congratulating Usain Bolt for a fabulous warm up before he goes and runs a 20 second 100m.
Still, two weeks until the BTCC and some proper racing starts
If you look at Hamilton's quali lap Kimi was actually faster along the straits. According to Vettel the pole lap was down to Hamilton not the engine mode and the 7 tenths was made up in two corners (Ferrari have the data to prove this). In race trim the Ferrari is on a par with Mercedes (Hamilton thinks this is the case).
The problem with yesterday's race is the track ... boring and impossible to overtake.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Well done to Ferrari, Vettel did well. But Albert Park is simply a crap track, only beaten by Hungary in my view,and aside from a Ferrari win, it wasn't the most entertaining race by a long chalk.
WTF was going on in the Haas pit, though? I expect they'll be some serious arse-kicking going on.
It wouldn't surprise me to see him take Kimi's seat next year (assuming RB and Merc both hold station, which is the likeliest option, I think)
Gutted for them - let’s hope they keep that good form going forwards!
How dodgy did Williams look? I hope it’s just early season woes and they get back in shape soon.
http://www.planetf1.com/news/marko-mercedes-playing-with-everyone/
I can’t help but notice that the Mercedes customer teams are languishing in the lower half of the grid. If the Merc engine is as dominant as Marko thinks, Williams and Force India must have screwed up magnificently on the chassis front.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Apart from anything else, it would probably suit Merc a whole lot better to have Williams and Force India further up the grid and taking points off Ferrari and Red Bull.
Also agree about Grosjean consoling the mechanic, that was good to see.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!