Not this again, just rewatch this damn race. "We quickly forget"? Indeed, you (plural) apparently forgot 3/4 of the 2014 race, the part you didn't like and 1/4 you remember you remember wrongly.ringo wrote:I don't think Rosberg will challenge lewis. We quickly forget that it was the safety car that even allowed Nico to see Hamilton's taillight and to make matters worse he could not pass him with faster tyres. So if all goes well and there are no safety cars then Lewis will continue to dangle a carrot in front of Nico.
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I just wanted to add that I wasn't basing my assumption of seeing a strong Nico on that last stint after the safety car. I was basing his strong performance on his good qualifying in 2014 and his very good first stint, in which he preserved a bit of tyres that enabled him to attack Lewis. Lewis fended him off and retained pit-stop priority which led to the switched strategies in the 2nd stint, in which Rosberg went on to the prime tyre, Lewis onto the option. That end to the race was something special, but there was already quite a fight at the end of that first stint that is easily forgotten.ringo wrote:I don't think Rosberg will challenge lewis. We quickly forget that it was the safety car that even allowed Nico to see Hamilton's taillight and to make matters worse he could not pass him with faster tyres. So if all goes well and there are no safety cars then Lewis will continue to dangle a carrot in front of Nico.
I would hardly call Monaco as begging for an out of sequence pitstop when Hamilton provided the answer himself immediately that he already knew what Merc's policy was. btw he wasn't asking for anything preferential as you would like to imply - http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2014/05/a ... pit-stops/ this explains it clearly. For example at McLaren, which also have a driver equality policy, they allow whichever driver is closest to the pit entry to pit first in a safety car situation. This makes complete sense because otherwise the team could potentially be screwing both drivers if the lead driver has just gone past the pit entry and they forced the second driver, who was behind the pit entry, to also do another lap to pit behind the lead driver. Both drivers would then end up at the back of the pack if everyone else was behind the pit entry and therefore pitted before them. Merc could afford to do that last year as their dominance was such but I bet you they wouldn't do the same this year. It makes complete sense for at least one driver to not get avoidably screwed by a safety car.iotar__ wrote:Like in Monaco begging for a stop out of sequence and preferential treatment or maybe like Rosberg in Barcelona/Bahrain? Overtake on track happened once in dry conditions (USA). Same old story theory=/practice: before the race - Hamilton will drive away 20 s in front, race - doesn't happen, 2s or loss, after the race - you see he "controlled' the race. Why do you all predict driving away all the time then?Just_a_fan wrote:Rosberg needs to get P1 and then control the race from the front. Then he can try to do what he accused Hamilton of doing. I think, however, that if he tries it he'll find Hamilton crawling all over him with a view to overtaking rather than bitching.arahman_93 wrote:After the china gp Lewis should go all out attack and finish 20seconds ahead of rosberg then rosberg wouldnt need to complain about lewis going slow
Lewis has actually learnt from Nico this year for qualifying. Nico is very good at optimising the settings of the car for each and every corner for qualifying. He uses practise sessions, especially P3, to tune the diff and brake balance settings, braking points, braking shape, lines and throttle application based on grip levels in P3. Then he and his engineers make an estimation for small track evolution and temperature changes for qualifying and then he continues to fine tune this during qualifying sessions. i.e they work out a very close baseline based on practise session and then tune that according to the conditions at the time. There is a lot of data that can be gathered about track friction co-efficients etc based on suspension loads etc. The big advantage for qualifying is that other variables that come up during race day are minimised, such as fuel weight going down, which changes car balance; taking different lines to keep maximum possible speed without damaging tyres while in another car's dirty air; changing braking points, braking shape, lines and throttle input to conserve fuel as required or alternatively push when required.dans79 wrote:I think last year Lewis was still trying to figure out how to deal with Nico analyzing and duplicating everything he did. This year Lewis is either hiding what he is doing better, or Nico just can't duplicate it.Phil wrote: This year though - I think Hamilton will do better (relative to him last year). Last year was still fresh with the new tyres - this year, I think they are more predictable. I think their pace will be more similar, so the guy on pole will have an advantage.