2019 Singapore Grand Prix - Marina Bay, 20-22 September

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tomazy
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Just saw the Grosjean Russell incident and I think that it is all on Grosjean this one, he had more than enough room to avoid the crash.
stewards wrote:As the cars exited Turn 8, the Stewards determined that both cars held their line, but
that those lines converged and with both drivers racing hard, the collision resulted. The
Stewards determined that both drivers contributed to the incident, and that both drivers
could have mitigated the incident.
Both drivers are on the limit of traction, to avoid collision one has to turn more and one has to turn less, witch is esier done in this situation?

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Picture of the situation one frame before contact.

Just_a_fan
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Agreed. 100% Grosjean at fault. He was trying to go round the outside of a corner that has a wall as the track edge. It was always going to end in tears. He got away with it and his opponent ended up in the wall.

It wasn't a racing incident, it was pure ham-fisted idiocy from Grosjean.
If you are more fortunate than others, build a larger table not a taller fence.

Just_a_fan
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Kvyat taking out Kimi was likewise ham-fisted idiocy. He dive bombed Kimi from several car lengths behind. In Kimi's onboard, you can see him look left before turning in. Presumably he either saw in the mirrors that Kvyat was well behind him, or even couldn't see him as he was so far back. Kvyat came steaming and probably would have had to use the escape route had Kimi not acted as a crash barrier.

As with Grosjean/Russel, the guilty party didn't get taken out.
If you are more fortunate than others, build a larger table not a taller fence.

NL_Fer
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Grosjean frontwing was next to Russel’s frontwing. He knew he was there, he shouldn’t have squeezed Grosjean. Still stupid overtake by Grosjean. 50/50

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yelistener
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Juzh wrote:
24 Sep 2019, 21:24
I just wanted to point out how much BS are new analysis type videos that f1 puts out for pole laps since monza onwards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71SOTTBUKh4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71SOTTBUKh4

I knew already in monza they are completely wrong, but this time it's much easier to prove since we have a clear sight on the in-car speedometer.
Check and compare speedos on either telemetry or the steering wheel with the supposed speed presented by the analysis clip

first measure point: 258 kmh - actual speed 223 (per in-car speedometer)
https://i.imgur.com/Opo6WZO.jpg

second measure point: 209 kmh - actual speed 225 kmh (per in-car speedometer, telemetry overlay is off by a bit here because interpolation has not caught up yet)
https://i.imgur.com/TmptYb5.jpg

What are they trying to achieve by posting clips like there which are so easily proven wrong is anyone's guess. Maybe they're just trying to play the narrative and ponder to average casual pleb in youtube comments or something, I dunno.
On the bright side, at least FOM are now willing to share more stuff like that. I mean, the FOM people in charge doing this kind of vids probably don't dig the onboards as much as we nerds do, but at that's a start. I just they will get better and better from this.

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IMHO this race showed us that rearward visibility is inadequate. Especially this being a night race.
There were couple of accidents were car turned into other car. I believe these happened because front car was unaware of overtaking car.
For example Vettel accident and especially Kimi accident. I think both collided with TR drivers.

Mandrake
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I have skimmed through the data feed from F1TV and it seems that this race, unlike a normal race there was no comparison for the effectiveness of an undercut.

Perez and Raikkonen did a stop before Ferrari, but they came out right behind Kubica, so no conclusion could be made on how much the undercut is worth.

On his inlap, Vettel made up .5 of a second compared to LEC (only looking at S1 and S2). LEC upped his pace the lap after to a similar pace as VETs inlap. But I believe his tires were done. Hamilton was able to go much faster once LEC pitted. HAM did a 1.47,0 whereas LECs lap before the pitstop would have been like a 1.49.0 max. That's 2 seconds difference. This might also be the reason for Merc to think they had a chance in combination with VET and LEC having to dart through traffic.

I believe VET has all the right for that victory, he did an amazing job using the hard new tires to the max and compensate for the .3 seconds lost in the pitstop and the gap he had to LEC. BOTs outlap was .8 of a second slower in S2 and S3. S1 matched. So VET really pushed it!

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Just_a_fan wrote:
25 Sep 2019, 01:17
Kvyat taking out Kimi was likewise ham-fisted idiocy. He dive bombed Kimi from several car lengths behind. In Kimi's onboard, you can see him look left before turning in. Presumably he either saw in the mirrors that Kvyat was well behind him, or even couldn't see him as he was so far back. Kvyat came steaming and probably would have had to use the escape route had Kimi not acted as a crash barrier.

As with Grosjean/Russel, the guilty party didn't get taken out.
Was Kvyat penalised in any way? Can't remember, but I think he kept going while Kimi was out.

It should be a 3-places grid drop IMO, but those new rules of engagement are too lax for this.

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Bill_Kar wrote:
25 Sep 2019, 12:40
Just_a_fan wrote:
25 Sep 2019, 01:17
Kvyat taking out Kimi was likewise ham-fisted idiocy. He dive bombed Kimi from several car lengths behind. In Kimi's onboard, you can see him look left before turning in. Presumably he either saw in the mirrors that Kvyat was well behind him, or even couldn't see him as he was so far back. Kvyat came steaming and probably would have had to use the escape route had Kimi not acted as a crash barrier.

As with Grosjean/Russel, the guilty party didn't get taken out.
Was Kvyat penalised in any way? Can't remember, but I think he kept going while Kimi was out.

It should be a 3-places grid drop IMO, but those new rules of engagement are too lax for this.
- They are too lax if you don't like them, if you do they're fine e.i. Leclerc - Hamilton absurd flag warning,
- Or correct penalty for Vettel in Canada
- Or no penalty for Verstappen in Spa
- Or team fine for blatant unsafe release.
- Or Hamilton taking out Rosberg in Barcelona and getting no penalty whatsoever =P~ .

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iotar__
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tomazy wrote:
24 Sep 2019, 21:39
Just saw the Grosjean Russell incident and I think that it is all on Grosjean this one, he had more than enough room to avoid the crash.
stewards wrote:As the cars exited Turn 8, the Stewards determined that both cars held their line, but
that those lines converged and with both drivers racing hard, the collision resulted. The
Stewards determined that both drivers contributed to the incident, and that both drivers
could have mitigated the incident.
Both drivers are on the limit of traction, to avoid collision one has to turn more and one has to turn less, witch is esier done in this situation?

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Picture of the situation one frame before contact.
Worst image to judge the situation. I\m not saying it was easy, you need talent for that, but it all happened earlier, no intent/skills from Russell to take the corner wheel to wheel, meaning correction, something Grosjean did and he was quick enough/early enough through the corner to do it. If he hadn't gone as wide as possible they would have collided earlier.

Why bother when you can slide across and count on taking out the other driver (MV's (TM)). Then cry when it doesn't work out. Even with the monumental driver bias calling for a penalty is silly, ten examples in this very race.

Speaking of monumental - Brundle calling Sainz's line vs Hulkenberg - "normal" racing line. Judging from the cars in front he was the only driver taking "normal" line. Clarification: I'm claiming it was all Sainz's fault, don't care =P~ enough to think about it but that was not - "he took a normal line and that's all folks".

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sosic2121 wrote:
25 Sep 2019, 10:06
IMHO this race showed us that rearward visibility is inadequate. Especially this being a night race.
There were couple of accidents were car turned into other car. I believe these happened because front car was unaware of overtaking car.
For example Vettel accident and especially Kimi accident. I think both collided with TR drivers.
Both were divebombs where the driver behind should have been penalized. Had nothing to do with viability, only stupidity.

sosic2121
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ENGINE TUNER wrote:
25 Sep 2019, 13:54
sosic2121 wrote:
25 Sep 2019, 10:06
IMHO this race showed us that rearward visibility is inadequate. Especially this being a night race.
There were couple of accidents were car turned into other car. I believe these happened because front car was unaware of overtaking car.
For example Vettel accident and especially Kimi accident. I think both collided with TR drivers.
Both were divebombs where the driver behind should have been penalized. Had nothing to do with viability, only stupidity.
Maybe, maybe not, but that's irrelevant to my point.

IMO there is no way Kimi would turn in and crash with overtaking car. I believe he simply didn't know car was there.

I believe rear view mirrors should be standardised, both shape and position.
Now they are exploited as aero tools.

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sosic2121 wrote:
25 Sep 2019, 14:08
ENGINE TUNER wrote:
25 Sep 2019, 13:54
sosic2121 wrote:
25 Sep 2019, 10:06
IMHO this race showed us that rearward visibility is inadequate. Especially this being a night race.
There were couple of accidents were car turned into other car. I believe these happened because front car was unaware of overtaking car.
For example Vettel accident and especially Kimi accident. I think both collided with TR drivers.
Both were divebombs where the driver behind should have been penalized. Had nothing to do with viability, only stupidity.
Maybe, maybe not, but that's irrelevant to my point.

IMO there is no way Kimi would turn in and crash with overtaking car. I believe he simply didn't know car was there.

I believe rear view mirrors should be standardised, both shape and position.
Now they are exploited as aero tools.
Kimi didn't turn in and crash, he turned into the corner because Kvyat was way too far behind, but Kvyat divebombed him.

The mirrors have a standard size/area which is bigger in 2019 than in some previous years. Their position and area is regulated and the drivers are given a rear mirror vision test before the cars are allowed to race. The only thing exploited as aero tools are the mountings that hold the mirrors, which don't effect viability.

The blame is not on the mirrors, the blame is on the idiotic moves by habitual crash offenders like KVY, VET, GRO, etc.

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Juzh
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Anyone have a clue what kubica was up to this race? It's not like he was in any kind of traffic. Everyone was driving away from him and russel was catching him at enourmous pace in the same car. Did he have damage or just being plain slow? Because if there's nothing else to it other than just being slow, then imo he should be out of the car by sochi, not end of the year. Abysmal performance.

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Probably driving to a one stop where Russell would have pitted twice so he had no real reason to save tyres

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