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Jenson Button has masterfully driven to his first win of the year, his first for McLaren. In the early stages he switched tyres at the right time while he succesfully nursed his option tyres to the end of the race. Robert Kubica is a happy second for Renault, followed by Felipe Massa.
This and the 2(3) stop strategy ruined it for him todaydave34m wrote: Didnt really see Schumacher doind much in the whole race. Maybe damaged the car
It's not that simple I'm afraid because you can never be sure how and where teams are getting their lap time from their tyres at any given time. That's the whole grey area in the new rules which make tyres the ultimate variable. We also got large variances in temperature and conditions in relation to other tracks.Just_a_fan wrote:Webber and Hamilton set their fastest lap times on lap 47 and Webber was 0.15 seconds faster. Webber's tyres were only 2 laps older than Hamilton's. So the "conserving tyres" thing looks like guff to be honest.
I'm afraid not.Hamilton was very quick today and was all over (and passing) other, supposedly superior, cars all race until the last few laps. On similar tyres he drove away from Webber in the chase after the Ferraris.
I'm afraid not. McLaren is missing a chunk of downforce in relation to the Red Bulls and Ferraris (you don't just lose the best part of a second of ultimate pace by ignoring qualifying) and as I've explained, the tracks they have been at so far have rather mitigated any disadvantage they have during the race because they have an advantage in straight line speed elsewhere. Once downforce becomes the primary factor at many high speed tracks then we'll really know where they are.The Red Bull is obviously the quickest car so far, but over the duration of a race the McLaren is right up there as a front runner.
They're not I'm afraid. We had large variances in conditions and temperature relative to other tracks, and people make the huge mistake of comparing different cars using tyres differently and wearing them at different rates. The McLaren also gains most of its speed in a straight line relative to everyone else.volarchico wrote:Why does no one else seem to see this? The car during the race was just as fast as Ferrari, and faster than Webber's RB.
That would seem to sum it up. The variety of problems they have had, not just in the two races we've had, but also in winter testing as well, would suggest some QC issues. They all seem to be unrelated, but they've had so many issues now that there must be some common cause several steps down the line.Giblet wrote:Maybe RB has QC issues.
I think that's a bit of a stretch. The kerbs aren't that lethal and Webber loves to aggressively drive the car to the kerbs and move it around rather a lot as well - perhaps even more so. I think we're clutching at straws as to a causation there. Webber had some reliability issues in winter testing himself. I just can't see that correllating.ringo wrote:Vettel loves to swing wide on the curbs to keep up his speed.....The low and delicate RBR doesn't like curbs very much and this is why Webber never seems to have as much reliability problems even when he is straining the car fighting in the midfield.
MIG should have to pay for that.Great picture! I wonder if Ferrari will be incorporating that "aero bit" into future cars...they seemed pretty quick out there.Ganxxta wrote: This and the 2(3) stop strategy ruined it for him today
A few pages back, someone posted some pictures of the asymmetric exhaust from practice. Other's speculated they were just testing "fairly" so that neither driver had one style or the other and from the data they would choose the better option (smaller or larger). Looks like that speculation has been debunked, and now is the time for others to speculate why they are running different sized exhausts.Giblet wrote:The car:
Were the asymmetrical exhaust opening on the Mclaren new to this race? I have not been following the car development that closely, as this thread keeps getting hijacked.
