The question is how effective the undercut will be. The last years it was not effective at Interlagos. Ham had the chance to come out first with a good inlap last year as it took too long to get the tires to a working temperature.PlatinumZealot wrote:Manoah2u wrote:I don't think Mercedes actually will allow Rosberg to attack Hamilton, with all potential dangers involved.Fulcrum wrote:Would Rosberg fight for the win, or give it up for a safe second?
At the very best, they might perform an undercut, but you can bet it'll be solid fiery hell fury if they pit nico
before lewis and then undercut him.
I think vice versa would actually happen. Dont forget they do want Lewis to maintain 'befriended' as he'll be
there next year too. They can put it on 'lewis was on another strategy and we needed to adapt to fend off the
danger of RedBull and Ferrari' so we decided to pit him early and that gave him an undercut or advantage over
nico which is why Lewis ended up first.
Nico will still come in 2nd and still can go into AbuDhabi rather confident to have that WDC. He only needs to
finish 3rd in Abu Dhabi and he'll be WDC.
I think personally, Lewis has found the edge back over Rosberg, and i think Lewis' biggest danger at this moment
really isn't either Rosberg or the RB's to guarantee a LOSS of WDC,
it's simply the reliability factor of his car.
Gearbox, combustion engine, ERS, electronics. it's all very very borderline.
Nico can permit having a DNF. Lewis CANT.
Makes me wonder.. I Lewis is leading by 2 seconds and Nico is under attack by Max. Do they give Nico the undercut?
Turn 6 and 7 change yes, others no. You're killing a switchback in turn 4 and changing it into drs hunting grounds. Last 2 changes also seem completely forced. More 90 degree turns ala abu dhabi and sochi? Thanks, but no thanks.Shrieker wrote:I've this idea for the circuit with a rudimentary drawing, although this kills the character and the flow somewhat. But it would make following other cars and aid overtaking a lot with the current formula, and probably a lot more with the new formula coming up for 2017. The race could be 1 or 2 laps shorter tho.
http://i.imgur.com/4qhpQW6.jpg
Sorry, lake.
Are we getting ourselves confused with the handicapped design of a Merc front, as a generic issue that applies to every other car, and hence Interlagos is bad?Shrieker wrote:The last 2 corners ( i mean the real last 2 corners) are extremely hard to follow another car, and severely impede any chance of an overtake on the main straight. A driver on fresh tyres chasing a car with worn tyres has difficulty attacking on the main straight; even with DRS assistance.
RB5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 had more than 200 bhp less horsepower, making certain corners easy flat and thus it didn't matter if you were in the dirty air. Turn 11 in brazil is a good example. Last year it wasn't flat even in quali (for mercs anyway, I don't know about other cars), whereas in the past they got trough with drs open.GPR-A wrote: Mercedes cars (W05, W06 and W07) have struggled to follow another car in most of the circuits, where overtaking is NOT EASY, but certainly not very difficult. I don't remember the RB5, 6, 7, 8, 9, with so much of down force, having struggled to follow the car ahead. Definitely not as bad as the Ws.