WilliamsF1 wrote:Read somewhere that Hamilton has perfected lift and coast while making the deficit time in the corners. If he manages to lift for about 200 m (about 15m every corner) every lap that would mean 2 laps fuel through the race distance.
This is getting weirder and weirder as always when it's about Hamilton
- perfected lift and coast, what's there to perfect? Are you sure it wasn't about some regular throttle application, down-shifting, longer gears, style etc.= micro "lifting and coasting" (not really) that cumulates into fuel savings?
- he doesn't use fuel in corners? if he uses less wouldn't that be a separate issue (from "perfect lift and coast")? Not only corners of course, gear-changes, throttle, lines, braking - everything else apart from end of straight coasting, like Monaco for example when there's no place to do that.
- it didn't help him every time Rosberg was faster in races, many times
- we're talking about stages of races when fuel is an issue - lifting and coasting, longer gears (as Rosberg in did in Monaco), fuel setting independent from drivers and stages when it's not and they drive without corrections
- I would say it's more about style to run at maximum pace comfortably (shifting, throttle, lines etc.) and trade off with power/fuel saving. End result is those 2 kg or whatever it is on average between them. Tyres also dictate pace, they don't drive as comfortably as they want all the time.
- shouldn't almost certain safety car make it less problematic in Singapore? That's the issue, I think : dividing race into stages when you don't care and care about fuel, they can assume safety car happens but it might be risky when you don't know when. That's why all this monitoring and letting driver know was important from strategy point of view.
- good to see that the first topic after banning communication is who uses more fuel - focus on the right thing FIA/FOM
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