The Mercedes F1 team has announced a new partnership with fan and motor provider ebm-papst. ebm-papst has developed off-board cooling solutions for the team's racing cars, in addition to working closely with the team to improve the garage working environment at Grand Prix venues through custom-built heat extraction and cooling solutions which will be introduced later in the 2014 season.
That's kind of my point, he might be getting results now, but imo if he continues to use "fear motivation" it will wear the team down.richard_leeds wrote: All TPs have their detractors but Wolff it is clearly getting results for team with his style regardless of whatever we think as outsiders.
Not really strange. Both drivers were racing quite hard, both have the same hardware and both shared almost the same failure. For what Lowe said, Lewis' brakes were overheating (braking too hard) and Nico had an ERS disconnection (perhaps too much current going into the batteries or the DC-DC converter was boosting the voltage too high). Both are related to too much energy available at the rear axle. Maybe Nico forgot to adjust his Harvesting settings during the race, thus, too much energy going into the system. Lewis might have adjusted his Harvesting correctly, but it overheated the brakes.kooleracer wrote:My positive of today, i became a Mercedes Fan. I normally only root for Lewis, but i was gutted when Riccairdo passed Rosberg. The record of winning all races has sadly gone. People that still think it all about the Mercedes engine got their answer today. That car has immense mechanical grip Rosberg did the same time 1 and 2 sector time as Ricciardo with 120-160 less horsepower (renault reportedly 40HP down, i think its much less, vettel was holding back the fastest car in a straight line the Williams behind him).
How can the CE fail at exactly the same time on both cars? Must be a software issue, because the chance of the same failure at same time on both car is impossible.
Do we know for sure it was gone completely at the end of race? The onboards would indicate the mgu-k was dead (you could no longer hear it), but when the problems first started they were doing 1:22's, by the end they were on 1:19s, and their speed down the back straight was higher.kooleracer wrote:My positive of today, i became a Mercedes Fan. I normally only root for Lewis, but i was gutted when Riccairdo passed Rosberg. The record of winning all races has sadly gone. People that still think it all about the Mercedes engine got their answer today. That car has immense mechanical grip Rosberg did the same time 1 and 2 sector time as Ricciardo with 120-160 less horsepower (renault reportedly 40HP down, i think its much less, vettel was holding back the fastest car in a straight line the Williams behind him).
How can the CE fail at exactly the same time on both cars? Must be a software issue, because the chance of the same failure at same time on both car is impossible.
The performance of the car was flattered by the very slow one stopping Force India's, and low straight line speed of the Red Bulls. If the Red Bulls had enough straight line speed to overtake the Force indias on any of the preceding 30 laps, Nico would have been third at best, and probably 4th as Massa should have been able to pass Perez in the closing laps, and then catch Rosberg easily.smlbstcbr wrote:What is impressive is Nico's handling of the situation, even without ERS, he managed to get to the finish in second place. What a machine they have developed. A severely compromised power unit, destroyed brakes and the machine was able to regain "some" performance instead of just shutting down completely.
They notified himWaikeCU wrote:Did the team let LH know that the brakes were overheating before it finally gave up? Haven't noticed in the race, but perhaps they don't show all radio messages on tv.
