Nico Rosberg has won the inaugural Grand Prix at Baku, leading the race from start to finish. Sebastian Vettel finished a distant second, and he too was unthreatened in that position. Perhaps the happiest man on the podium was Sergio Perez, who followed up on his podium finish at Monaco some weeks earlier.
Yes, but a good start and they have a good chance the Mercedes at bay for the rest of the race.BanMeToo wrote:idk, qualifying will be a big hurdle for them, they'll lose plenty of time in the middle of the lap.
Some days ago I was afraid about FIA installing a chicane half straight. Now I´m almost sure that straight will never be that straight, specially after watching pictures showing curbs wich made some corners tighter than we saw on that onboard lapFrukostScones wrote: also: Pirelli fear for its tyres on the long straight.
http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/pirel ... ts-782624/
Ok... but they didn't make it to Q3 and scored just a single point. I know the race was wet but Williams are slow on 'street circuits' (low speed), it is hard to argue that.AnthonyG wrote:Yes, but a good start and they have a good chance the Mercedes at bay for the rest of the race.BanMeToo wrote:idk, qualifying will be a big hurdle for them, they'll lose plenty of time in the middle of the lap.
Their pace in Monaco was encouraging for the slow sector.
I don't know, depending on what speed turns 18 through 20 can be taken at, overtakes might be inevitable once someone gets into DRS range.AnthonyG wrote:Yes, but a good start and they have a good chance the Mercedes at bay for the rest of the race.
http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/pirelli-fears-standing-wave-issues-on-baku-s-straights-782624/ wrote:
Pirelli boss Paul Hembery admits that the tyre company is concerned about Baku's long straights potentially generating a standing wave issue, which, in an extreme case, could lead to failures.
Standing waves can become a threat to the integrity of tyres under certain combinations of high speeds and cornering forces.
They created the problems suffered by Michelin at the 2005 US GP, and again became a talking point after last year's Belgian GP, where Sebastian Vettel suffered a failure.
I just looked at those, and I don't see how turns 18 and 19 can be taken flat!ChrisDanger wrote:More pictures anyone? 87 of them, of an AMuS track walk:
http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/form ... 49197.html
I hear the best way to navigate that corner is to turn the steering wheel towards the left.Vasconia wrote:I love castles and F1, can I ask for more? hahaha. This corner looks tricky.dodds_turbo wrote:Brilliant link. The corner everybody is talking about (T10) looks like this:Sevach wrote:Way too many pics, so i'll just post the link.
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2016/06/15/f ... -pictures/
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/u ... _HiRes.jpg
Sure. I really enjoy seeing these kinds of pre-race photos.Sonador wrote:Very cool photo!
Thanx for posting it =D>
