Driver styles/preferences

[timbo]

Mark Hughes has another fantastic piece: http://www.racer.com/racer-special-f1s- ... le/219407/

And here's another piece I don't see mentioned here:
http://www.racer.com/racer-special-f1-t ... /201028/2/

[raymondu999]

Mark Hughes has another fantastic piece: http://www.racer.com/racer-special-f1s- ... le/219407/

And here's another piece I don't see mentioned here:
http://www.racer.com/racer-special-f1-t ... /201028/2/

Thanks for that Timbo. I would have if i had seen it! Cheers

[timbo]

Mark Hughes has another fantastic piece: http://www.racer.com/racer-special-f1s- ... le/219407/

And here's another piece I don't see mentioned here:
http://www.racer.com/racer-special-f1-t ... /201028/2/

Thanks for that Timbo. I would have if i had seen it! Cheers

Thanks for heads up for that magazine! There's a whole lot to read there!

[mariano]

Please, can you put this article when it is uploaded into the Internet (if you see this article somewhere, please post it):

"we have not even begun to get into the different technique over kerbs enabled this year by exhaust-blown diffusers. That will have to be left for another day".

Mark Hughes had to write that article at the moment of pubishing this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/formula ... 926791.stm

Thank you,
mariano

[mariano]

Thanks all for the three pages!!! They are the best!!

[raymondu999]

Mark Hughes in the latest Autosport published a very thorough piece on driving styles - well worth a read IMO

[mariano]

Can you put it here please?
I can't buy Autosport.
Thank you,
mariano

[radosav]

''The Pirelli delivers its single 'golden-lap' grip in a very narrow peak, it is prone to overheat its surface in long corners and in a race its performance degrades faster the harder a driver uses it.

Combine that with the traits described earlier - and those of the Red Bull RB7, a car with devastating performance but not very raceable on account of lack of straight-line speed and a weak Kers power-boost system. That is one very tricky package to maximise.'' since when RB7 had tricky package to maximise? not very raceable? has mark hughes ever watched RB7 lap from onboard cam?

[raymondu999]

''The Pirelli delivers its single 'golden-lap' grip in a very narrow peak, it is prone to overheat its surface in long corners and in a race its performance degrades faster the harder a driver uses it.

Combine that with the traits described earlier - and those of the Red Bull RB7, a car with devastating performance but not very raceable on account of lack of straight-line speed and a weak Kers power-boost system. That is one very tricky package to maximise.'' since when RB7 had tricky package to maximise? not very raceable? has mark hughes ever watched RB7 lap from onboard cam?

What he means is the circuits with fast corners - the Silverstones/Catalunyas/Suzukas. The RB7 has so much downforce that it's carrying so much speed through the speedy bits that the tyres are getting finished.

[banibhusan]

Just came across this article on the driving style of few drivers on the 2012 Pirelli rubber.



It's in spanish. So anyone care to translate please.

[raymondu999]

Looks Italian to me. Do you have the text? At least we could then dump it into Google Translate.

[banibhusan]

That was a tweet by @joseluisf1. I don't have the full text.

I just tried to translate his other tweets related to this article and google said its Spanish. The article talks about how Alonso is a magician with the 2012 tires and how Hamilton had to change his driving style etc etc.

[raymondu999]

Spanish and Italian are rather similar. To the point that fluent Spanish speakers can understand Italian and vice versa. That could be throwing Google off. I'm quite sure it's Italian

[banibhusan]

May be you are right. I just hope someone can translate it. I am really curious to know.

[raymondu999]

Well a while back I read that they slowed down Alonso's steering rack because his old "throw the steering in" technique was no good for the Pirellis, and the slower rack was to slow down or "soften" his inputs.

Disclaimer: that was what Peter Windsor said - so take with a grain of salt. The steering rack is quite slow as we can see in the Vettel/Alonso lap comparison in Canada 2011 qualifying. But is it for this reason?