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The F1 Thread 2015 Season
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Bit harsh this interview with Lewis. Not his fault.
Williams ran an entire stint length with an odd tyre on and got away with a minor punishment, I'd class that as a much bigger technical infringement than .3 PSI in a tyre.
He's putting a brave face on it tbf, praising the team.Has Lewis not been disqualified yet, could not watch the race, worth watching later?
Not yet but he will be, not worth watching.
Would have been Hamilton's second Grand Chelem too.
So anyway, racing and stuff; Kimi had a great race to make it up to 5th after whatever happened at the start.
Feel for Button and Alonso now. When I used to race in a semi-serious online league I had to do a season with an underpowered car and obviously its not even comparable but there is nothing more depressing than sweating your bollocks off for 70 laps knowing the best you can do is not finish last and just generally annoy people until they get past on the straight bits.
Get your shit together Honda.
Get your shit together Honda.
Poor race but the last 10 laps or so were tense.
Vettel Seb interviewwhat was that whatever? update yet?
Only speculation of a 'false neutral' I think Brundle called it, essentially the cogs can clash with each other and not actually select a gear but the dash will shown it being in first.
Ferrari (amongst others) run a filter on their dash screens so that the on board camera can't see the readings so we don't know what was shown on his dash.
Apparently Ferrari have now said the clutch stuck and the system went into anti stall.
anti stall prevented the car from starting, oh well.
Kimi's or something else failed?
Sticking clutch so car error.
Same thing happened in GP2 race with pressure and they got disqualified. Expect the same to happen to Lewis.
Was in quali though, not quite the same.
Result stands.
Good.
Now we know why it took so long, they were waiting for the Tifosi to leave.
Shocked at that, thought a Disqualification was nailed on.
I agree.
So it's acceptable to piss about with tyre pressures, the other teams will go mad.
Wonder what the explanation will be.
I'd imagine its more like they will heavily review the process of checking them, Mercedes must have had a pretty good case to have gotten away with it, FIA usually just go full force.
expected
So there you go, they didn't even take the measurements under the same conditions on all cars.
Day just got worse for Rosburg.
Very surprised there was no punishment of some sort after all that. Post-race was more interesting than the actual race though, even if that ended up anti-climatic too. Definitely gonna be a shit-storm from some of the other teams now though.
Bit of an anti-climax.
Agree. Was hoping for a DQ, just to spice up the field a little.
watching the race highlights now and with the Hammertime comments they knew something was coming and thought they were getting a penalty.
I did say goo that no further action was taken , but know I am no so sure, Mercedes knew what they were doing and got wind of something coming their way, taking no action sends out the wrong messages, the rules are there and there for reasons.
I did say goo that no further action was taken , but know I am no so sure, Mercedes knew what they were doing and got wind of something coming their way, taking no action sends out the wrong messages, the rules are there and there for reasons.
It's odd though. You'd think it would be in the FIA's interest to disqualify Ham to liven up the title race, looking at it cynically.
unless there was very good reasons for FIA not to take any action.
I think their statement pretty much clears it up... cold tyres. Wouldn't that be a hindrance to the cars getting off the line?
Mercedes have excellent tyre warmup, so they likely build the correct temp up on the formation lap.
The FIA are obviously quite happy with the explanation given that the temperature of the tyre was lower than all other cars when the reading was taken therefore the pressures would be low. Soon as they get temp into the tyre its totally legal and its the process of when, where and how they check these new minimum pressures thats the issue. They admitted as much when they say:
That's basically an admission that "hey, we didn't actually state when we would check the minimums but we will in the future", be that as the cars leaves the garage, on the grid or whatever.
The FIA are obviously quite happy with the explanation given that the temperature of the tyre was lower than all other cars when the reading was taken therefore the pressures would be low. Soon as they get temp into the tyre its totally legal and its the process of when, where and how they check these new minimum pressures thats the issue. They admitted as much when they say:
That's basically an admission that "hey, we didn't actually state when we would check the minimums but we will in the future", be that as the cars leaves the garage, on the grid or whatever.