Formula 1 - 2014 Season
- Thread starter Dave Baumann
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It was an entertaining race with a lot of action. Too bad Alonso had to retire.
Ricciardo was masterful in his overtaking. Bottas had to practice a bit before his moves stuck.
Hamilton did well to overcome his start problems, but Rosberg's basically unforced errors were a bit pathetic really.
Ricciardo was masterful in his overtaking. Bottas had to practice a bit before his moves stuck.
Hamilton did well to overcome his start problems, but Rosberg's basically unforced errors were a bit pathetic really.
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Rosberg is still in pretty good situation. If he wins the last race, he can be second in every race until then (5 races) and still take the title with one point. He has more engines left, if I'm not mistaken and at the moment basically can still afford one catastrophe. Hamilton of course still has a good chance to take it and things can change quickly, but from now on he needs to pretty much max every race.
But now we know Rosberg can crack under pressure. It will give Hamilton added confidence.
There's all to play for.
So we can now conclude that both can crack under pressure, excellent
I don't recall Hamilton having such unforced errors in a race this year.
He made one in the same race, ohh right he wasn't under pressure so i guess that makes it ok?
What was that? The start?
http://www.speedweek.com/formel1/ne...aeikkoenen-geschmolzen-Ferrari-zu-schwer.html
Interesting, if true
Interesting, if true
Apparently he didn't brake as much. Evidently his pole lap had an apex speed around one of the chicanes as 15kph faster than Rosberg. He was also hitting up to 17kph faster in the speedtrap on the straights.
In the race Lewes was a lot quicker in sector 2 and usually slower in sector 1 with sector 3 being very close for both drivers. This suggest Lewes took more downforce than Nico.
Again, it makes sense when you consider lack of track time for Rosberg forcing him to be more conservative with setup.
On the other hand it is really hard to figure it out completely as both cars might have been using different ERS deployment strategies shifting sector time advantages. This extra 160BHP can't be used fully every lap as according to team engineers they usually have 1 full power lap followed by 1 regeneration lap in qualifications. Race deployment should be more balanced for drivers not fighting on track and strategically used for the others.
That must be why I noticed some cars defending very well on straights for 1-3 laps and eventually passed easily as if they lost 100BHP+.
Actually they both had similar amounts of time in free practice. Lewis lost ~1 hour in Friday FP2 while they sorted the electrical system after they had installed the fixed engine that lunched itself in quali a few races back (start issues are probably related to this) and Saturday practice is only an hour anyway, so they both had similar practice time; over all three sessions Lewis completed 64 laps and Nico 67. As Lewis stated they both have similar styles and likely setups so they just learn from each others data.
The fact that Lewis is faster in the straights would suggest less downforce, though this may also just be a consequence of a faster apex speed translating to a higher speed if they are not rev limited at the point of the speed trap.
Close to the end he made a huge mistake under breaking, I guess he was busy hunting the best lap time.
I heard about Formula E for the first time today. Really like the idea, was thinking about hybrid feasibility for F1 while cycling only last Wednesday, and this fully electric setup could well replace my (long fading) interest in F1. And it could give a nice boost for new city based tracks to drive virtual laps on too. 
