Nico Rosberg has led the Monaco Grand Prix from start to finish to take a perfect win at the most prestigious race of the season. The Red Bull drivers complete the podium after an eventful race that saw many drivers eliminated.
Thumbs up to Marko for playing the political chess game... hehe...Bomber_Pilot wrote:The most objective person in the paddock, Marko Helmut is apparently already talking to the press, saying that Merc only won today because of the tests after Barcelona and that if they had the same opportunity they would be a sec per lap faster.
On the one hand that surely is an advantage for them (How big: i don't know), on the other hand Pirelli might get a better understanding of the 2013 cars if they could define the test procedure and parameters (was that the case? I assume yes). This could in turn help them develop a better tyre that doesn't continue to spoil races they way they are doing ATM (Hint: SV's fast lap towards the end was about 4 - 5s faster than the managed race pace that prevailed throughout the GP (1:20,0 - 1:21,5).Overdriving wrote: They got 1000km of free testing of the current car with the current drivers. How is that not an unfair advantage? Anyone who is not a Merc/Lewis/Nico fan can see it.
Except I am a mclaren fan.Overdriving wrote:They got 1000km of free testing of the current car with the current drivers. How is that not an unfair advantage? Anyone who is not a Merc/Lewis/Nico fan can see it.turbof1 wrote:What a genius. Nobody would believe that. Completely different tyres, completely different track.Bomber_Pilot wrote:The most objective person in the paddock, Marko Helmut is apparently already talking to the press, that Merc only won today because of the tests after Barcelona and that if they had the same opportunity they would be a sec per lap faster.
They are making too much a fuss about it.
LOLFerraripilot wrote:Pirelli stated the testing had 90% to do with 2014 tires. And Pirelli asked other teams to participate too but only Mercedes did.
Sky Sports had Anthony Davidson break down the safety car pit stops with some Oliver Stone, JFK type graphics. "Back, and to the left.komninosm wrote: Where did you hear Hamilton say that? What do you mean sky sport investigated it?
Also did anyone else think Briatore-Gate when Massa crashed right after Alonso pitted?
" A somber Lewis Hamilton accepted responsibility for his pit stop in a post race interview.I'm all for Pirelli tyres getting better and allowing actual racing, but using one team to test the new tyres is not okay, especially since they used Lewis and Nico instead of the test drivers. Even tyres aside, there's a matter of 1000km of testing. Running any tests during season of the current car is illegal under FIA regulations, no matter which way you spin it. If anyone can show me where it says you can run a 2013 car on 2013 tyres outside of grand Prix weekend, I'll admit Mercs and Pirelli have done nothing wrong.henra wrote:On the one hand that surely is an advantage for them (How big: i don't know), on the other hand Pirelli might get a better understanding of the 2013 cars if they could define the test procedure and parameters (was that the case? I assume yes). This could in turn help them develop a better tyre that doesn't continue to spoil races they way they are doing ATM (Hint: SV's fast lap towards the end was about 4 - 5s faster than the managed race pace that prevailed throughout the GP (1:20,0 - 1:21,5).Overdriving wrote: They got 1000km of free testing of the current car with the current drivers. How is that not an unfair advantage? Anyone who is not a Merc/Lewis/Nico fan can see it.
If it helps reducing this mysery I'm OK with the test.
While the FIA will likely just explain the situation to other teams, the annoyance is clear, particularly because nobody was informed about this test either, with Christian Horner actually getting the news from journalists in the Monaco paddock on Saturday.Ferraripilot wrote:Pirelli stated the testing had 90% to do with 2014 tires. And Pirelli asked other teams to participate too but only Mercedes did.
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Lies. He said they werent packing when everyone else was. They didnt run 200mph on track at the time for everyone to see like you're putting it here.Lurk wrote:Brawn just said on Sky that the test was conducted while the others were still packing up, so it was not secret at all.
We know that, dont try to be too much smart. It's illegal to test with 2013 car, you can only have 100 km straight line test's with this year car like Force India, Caterham and Lotus did. Ofcourse you can test how much you want with 2 years old car but this was not the case.Lurk wrote:Brawn just said on Sky that the test was conducted while the others were still packing up, so it was not secret at all.
Hangaku wrote:Everyone forgetting that the FIA told Mercedes that it was OK? I can't understand any other discussion about it.
