Lewis Hamilton has won his first Grand Prix of the season thanks to a solid three stop strategy. Kimi Raikkonen fended off a hard challenge from Vettel to finish third while Vettel does another great job for the championship.
It's an advert indeed. By the way, Hamilton did a fantastic job, don't understand the negativism here.beelsebob wrote:Haha, weird... My guess would be that that's a rolex advert, but I don't know for sure.AnthonyG wrote:Is he driving with a watch on his wrist or is that just a print?beelsebob wrote:
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Fair play, thanks for the insight =D>GrizzleBoy wrote:Watching the 2012 lap seems more impressive to me, simply because he looks in total control of his machinery. Even when it seems he isn't.
And the entry/exit lines are just clearly better from a 'nailed it' point of view.
People think it's a great lap because it just is. Unless the vast majority of us duped ourselves into thinking the red bull was the stronger car going into quali this weekend. Race car drivers aren't computerized robots...for them everything hinges on feel....and that imposes limitations on how much time one can spend on the absolute limit of static friction..and on the rare occasion, the fringes of kinetic friction. A computer can better approach this limit due to its sheer processing power but even then ABS systems, which have been in existence for decades, criss cross this fine line as frequently as possible to achieve some semblance of riding the limit because riding the limit is practically impossible. So the idea that a driver stays on the absolute limit(combined max of linear, rotational and angular accelerations....all these being a dissection of available traction) for a considerable amount of time let alone for the whole delta time it takes to position the car for the apex, mug it and exit is a myth. Sometimes one clips the apex at the expense of acceleration or vice versa. Some tracks by the nature of their turns reward speed over line precision. Hungary is just one such track as many of the turns on this track have little fluidity to them, coupled with attitude changes, and as such being overly concerned with hitting apexs very often can be slower considering the limitations of our mental reserves and motor skills(if you don't believe me, watch Senna's the pole laps..many weren't spatially perfect but rather, he concerned himself with his strength..which was criss crossing the limits of adhesion more so than his competitors could and so people often got the feeling he would crash any moment). On a track like monaco where precision is more important, you see people very often hit the apexes and they are rewarded because if you find yourself not well position for the next turn, you have to send the car into a combination of accelerations that is impossible to achieve. Ever wondered why some tracks don't bring much differences in laps times even when the drivers are obviously using different lines? yet those same drivers stick to a rigid line on another track?Juzh wrote:Pole lap:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrPhV5pRDK0
He clearly missed apexes on numerous corners and that is not the fastest way around the track no matter how you spin it. He is fast, no doubt about it, but why do people praise this lap as some kind of miracle is beyond me. If you want to see real fast lap around hungaroring you should check 2010 pole, much more impressive than this.
