If carbon brakes hadn't given advantages, teams wouldn't have used them.
Your understanding is misshapen. In stops from high speed aerodynamic drag accounts for maybe 20 to 25% of the retardation initially, dropping to a much lower proportion as the tyre contact force tends towards the vehicle weight at low speeds.
Hamilton's points through the first 4 Grand Prix, assuming the current points structure. I've bolded the Championship years, and this year.Wass85 wrote: ↑01 May 2017, 09:47Bottas was on fire in that opening stint, it's safe to say he's a genuine title contender. Hamilton? This is the worst start to a season I can remember from him performance wise, very average so far from him. If the performance of the cars stays this equal then Vettel will walk it I feel.
Absolutely 100% correct.dans79 wrote: ↑01 May 2017, 03:32Parts can't be upgraded, I don't know why people think they can be, they can only be replaced or reused. Additionally, you only get 4 total for the entire season.giantfan10 wrote: ↑30 Apr 2017, 12:11There is exactly one damaged turbocharger which was on Kimis car... according to Ferrari the turbos they changed out other than the one that kimi damaged was planned and can be reused and upgraded in the next upgrade cycle.. much ado about nothing....or is it a Mercedes fan grasping at straws? : )
Stats show nothing of driver performance, he's been very average so far this season and needs to up his game big time.Fulcrum wrote: ↑01 May 2017, 10:10Hamilton's points through the first 4 Grand Prix, assuming the current points structure. I've bolded the Championship years, and this year.Wass85 wrote: ↑01 May 2017, 09:47Bottas was on fire in that opening stint, it's safe to say he's a genuine title contender. Hamilton? This is the worst start to a season I can remember from him performance wise, very average so far from him. If the performance of the cars stays this equal then Vettel will walk it I feel.
2007 - 69
2008 - 50
2009 - 26
2010 - 49
2011 - 59
2012 - 49
2013 - 50
2014 - 75
2015 - 93
2016 - 57
2017 - 73
Hamilton has had a very good start to the year, even by his own extremely high standards, as measured by points.
Were he to replicate this throughout the season, he'd end up with 380-385 points, which, considering the increased competition, would give him a great chance of securing a 4th Championship.
I made this same mistake some time ago, assuming carbon brakes reduce the braking distances, but someone did explain me carbon brakes only reduce the weight, significantly, but that´s their only/main advantage. They dont reduce braking distance significantly, and he told me HRT was using steel brakes because of costs and they didn´t have to brake 50m earlier as I was thinking, far from that.Xwang wrote: ↑01 May 2017, 09:15If carbon brakes hadn't given advantages, teams wouldn't have used them.
Moreover if carbon brakes had given only slight increase in performance, it would have been silly to continue to spend so much in this area.
Drag is not F1 stopping power (see Verstappen incident with a brake failure in Bahrain).
I like trolls and their ability to jump randomly from one state to another within an argument, belying every bit of a fact, ignoring context and most importantly, genuinely beleiving in their own imaginery world, regardless of how mediocre it seems from outside.Wass85 wrote: ↑01 May 2017, 10:16Stats show nothing of driver performance, he's been very average so far this season and needs to up his game big time.Fulcrum wrote: ↑01 May 2017, 10:10Hamilton's points through the first 4 Grand Prix, assuming the current points structure. I've bolded the Championship years, and this year.Wass85 wrote: ↑01 May 2017, 09:47Bottas was on fire in that opening stint, it's safe to say he's a genuine title contender. Hamilton? This is the worst start to a season I can remember from him performance wise, very average so far from him. If the performance of the cars stays this equal then Vettel will walk it I feel.
2007 - 69
2008 - 50
2009 - 26
2010 - 49
2011 - 59
2012 - 49
2013 - 50
2014 - 75
2015 - 93
2016 - 57
2017 - 73
Hamilton has had a very good start to the year, even by his own extremely high standards, as measured by points.
Were he to replicate this throughout the season, he'd end up with 380-385 points, which, considering the increased competition, would give him a great chance of securing a 4th Championship.
Wass85 wrote: ↑01 May 2017, 10:16Bottas was on fire in that opening stint, it's safe to say he's a genuine title contender. Hamilton? This is the worst start to a season I can remember from him performance wise, very average so far from him. If the performance of the cars stays this equal then Vettel will walk it I feel.
Australia: Hamilton had a pretty flawless weekend. Beat Bottas
Carbon-carbon brakes should have higher friction coefficient and should cope better with wear.Andres125sx wrote: ↑01 May 2017, 11:49I made this same mistake some time ago, assuming carbon brakes reduce the braking distances, but someone did explain me carbon brakes only reduce the weight, significantly, but that´s their only/main advantage. They dont reduce braking distance significantly, and he told me HRT was using steel brakes because of costs and they didn´t have to brake 50m earlier as I was thinking, far from that.Xwang wrote: ↑01 May 2017, 09:15
If carbon brakes hadn't given advantages, teams wouldn't have used them.
Moreover if carbon brakes had given only slight increase in performance, it would have been silly to continue to spend so much in this area.
Drag is not F1 stopping power (see Verstappen incident with a brake failure in Bahrain).
What makes F1 cars to brake so fast is grip, wich is that high because of downforce. The only way to lenghten braking distances would be reducing downforce
Same driver, similar level of performance. The difference is: competition on similar or quicker level (Ferrari) that creates various circumstances, in both directions like China, and makes comparisons to previous seasons pointless. Plus 4 races sample.
I always wished for things to be this way in the last 3 years. I would have liked to see how many cars could have got in between those 3 tenths (at some places it was half a second) space that existed between Lewis and Nico in qualifying. You are right, it is irrelevant now.
We've got competition this year guys, enjoy. In any case, gift horse yesterday, Mercedes leaves Sochi with the WCC lead.One day when Dongshan and a monk were washing their bowls by the river, they saw two crows fighting over the carcass of a frog. The monk asked, “Why does it always come to this?” Dongshan replied, “It’s only for your benefit, honored one.”