F1 2019

[bob6600]

Gotta give a shout for Lando Norris. Really solid drive from him.

Definitely! Norris did an exceptional job and Sainz would have potentially been in the top 10 too! Why is it when Alonso leaves a team they get better? lol. He was watching on the pit wall and must be thinking 'I'll b back!'

I'm taking a real dislike to who ever controls the camera views with Sky. There was action upfront with SV catching LH and they were showing mid fielders plodding around not doing much.

I'm not sure it's Sky who control that, it's the 'world feed' from the FIA. But, I do agree with your point, there was Seb vs Lewis which was almost missed and also when Hamilton came into the pits they missed most of his (crucial) stop.

 

[Dryce]

I know very little in life is fair, but I really think the grid penalty for exceeding replacement parts is unfair on the driver, as it’s the constructor (or more strictly engine provider, but they don’t have a separate championship) at fault.

... but the driver benefits from the replacement parts.

The issue with replacing stuff is that it is an attempt to stop the rich teams running away with new developments. So penalising the team but not the driver would allow a wealthy constructor to push to get the Drivers' Championship at the expense of their position in the Constructors' Championship.

Some would be tempted to do that. While the WCC gets them money and some people claim the WCC means more to the teams - the reality is that if you are MB and win the WCC while Ferrari win the WDC then everybody outside the inner circles of F1 will remember 'Ferrari won' the champiionship with their driver while MB will be forgotten. So the WDC carries the public kudos.

 

[Bellow]

Re the engine situation. The engines reportedly cost £1m each and five are permitted for each car. So £10m from an operational budget of close to £300m for the top teams. Restricting them to five units sure is saving the teams a bucket full of money.

Yesterday. Leclerc impresses. Vettel worries. As do I re lack of form at Red Bull. At least RB are self funding in a sense that other teams relying on external sponsors (who will walk to where the results are) are not. Usually the top a slippery slope.
Notably, the talk here is of Ferrari's straight line speed being attributable to 'turned up' engines. Maybe. Or maybe their aero philosophy is working better. In which case, will we see hasty redesigns at Mercedes etc? Only two races in, too early to tell I guess.
Claire Williams comments about other teams collaborating. Sour grapes or opening a window on something more sinister?

 

[Stratman]

I can sort of understand FI TV showing midfield cars, the sponsors demand it. What I can't fathom is endless shots during the race of nonebrities gurning in the garages.

 

[rf065]

Well that was a really boring race today. Very little overtaking, very little real racing and hardly any unexpected twists in the plot.
I wouldn't bother watching it if you haven't already.....

Due to the new TV rights on showing it live, or rather not showing unless you pay for it, I can no longer watch anyway. By the time the highlights came on later in the day I knew the results so didn't even bother watching the CH4 coverage. Only two races into the season, I've not seen a single second of it live or recorded highlights and already I've became indifferent to F1 and starting to not care if I see it again, how can that be good for the sport?

 

[Stratman]

I keep hearing 'unlucky for Leclerc', but he let slip something after the race which I haven't seen picked up elsewhere, namely that he was worried about running out of fuel before the power failure. I wonder where he would have finished had he driven to ensure he had sufficient fuel left to satisfy the post race inspections?

 

[GeeJayW]

I keep hearing 'unlucky for Leclerc', but he let slip something after the race which I haven't seen picked up elsewhere, namely that he was worried about running out of fuel before the power failure. I wonder where he would have finished had he driven to ensure he had sufficient fuel left to satisfy the post race inspections?

Missed that... interesting.

 

[bob6600]

I keep hearing 'unlucky for Leclerc', but he let slip something after the race which I haven't seen picked up elsewhere, namely that he was worried about running out of fuel before the power failure. I wonder where he would have finished had he driven to ensure he had sufficient fuel left to satisfy the post race inspections?

I heard that too and at first I wondered if he was working the engine harder to try and get more power out of it ie full throttle for longer than he would have if the MGU-H hadn't failed? I could be completely wrong though

 

[Dryce]

Missed that... interesting.

Logically - fuel consumption may well go up if there is no energy recovery.

 

[GeeJayW]

Logically - fuel consumption may well go up if there is no energy recovery.

True.

 

[baxlin]

Due to the new TV rights on showing it live, or rather not showing unless you pay for it, I can no longer watch anyway. By the time the highlights came on later in the day I knew the results so didn't even bother watching the CH4 coverage. Only two races into the season, I've not seen a single second of it live or recorded highlights and already I've became indifferent to F1 and starting to not care if I see it again, how can that be good for the sport?

Tbh, I don’t care if I know the result in advance, if I get chance to watch it I will. If not, so what. But that applies to most programmes we record.

Today, for instance, Mrs B was out, so I watched the C4 highlights I’d recorded while doing the ironing. Who said blokes can’t multitask!?

 

[Chrishazle]

Isn't Ironing the I in WIFE (Washing Ironing, F, Etc.??)

 

[bob6600]

Apparently, the Ferrari's MGU-H didn't fail and there was a problem within one of the cylinders so was an engine or Power Unit. Still to be investigated.

With Ferrari ruling out an MGU-H fault despite radio messages to Leclerc during the race having initially suggested otherwise, Binotto explained what the team knew so far.

"We are checking the engine now, we do not have yet a clear explanation for what happened," he said. "It is an engine problem. We had miscombustion on one cylinder.

"The engine will be back in Maranello for careful checks. The engine was running at the end of the race, so we will use it on Friday in China and we have an entire Friday to assess its behaviour, functionality and performance."

Binotto added: "It is a single problem that will be easily addressed. It's not the way we are using the engine or mapping or whatever, it's a single component failure that we'll find out."

 

[Deleted member 126251]

Yesterday. Leclerc impresses. Vettel worries. ?

SV slowly losing his edge to the young guns coming in and probably taking chances he shouldn't to try and compete.......??

 

[Deleted member 126251]

Who said blokes can’t multitask!?

Who says blokes do the ironing ?

 

[Dryce]

SV slowly losing his edge to the young guns coming in and probably taking chances he shouldn't to try and compete.......??

I think the conditions at Bahrain this weekend suited LH and CL more and exacerbated some of the aspects of their skills rather better - they deal with changing conditions (wind, dust) and grip better - whereas SV can be awesomely fast but needs to find a sweet spot for the weekend and the race that suits him and lets him dominate.

The problem for SV is that if CL is getting to grips with things more dynamically and early each weekend then the team will build a strategy around him and if SV gets deprioritised it will make him look disproportionately worse in any race where this happens.

 

[Deleted member 126251]

I think the conditions at Bahrain this weekend suited LH and CL more and exacerbated some of the aspects of their skills rather better - they deal with changing conditions (wind, dust) and grip better - whereas SV can be awesomely fast but needs to find a sweet spot for the weekend and the race that suits him and lets him dominate.

The problem for SV is that if CL is getting to grips with things more dynamically and early each weekend then the team will build a strategy around him and if SV gets deprioritised it will make him look disproportionately worse in any race where this happens.

As a life long Ferrari supporter I'm almost looking forward to this season. I've become a little jaded with the one-horse race it has become.

 

[Bellow]

SV slowly losing his edge to the young guns coming in and probably taking chances he shouldn't to try and compete.......??

Just surprised that SV made such an error (spin) this early in the season before there's any real pressure.
Maybe more to it than is apparent, what with the new regs that have influenced how the cars behave close to each other. There's enough going on already to make this season compelling I think.

 

[GeeJayW]

As a life long Ferrari supporter I'm almost looking forward to this season. I've become a little jaded with the one-horse race it has become.

SV lost his way last year and with it the title. He buckled under the strain again last weekend. When he is out front in a faster car, he can win races (obviously). When he is under pressure and needs to battle, he has shown on several occasions that he is less able to deliver the results needed for a championship.

In Charles LeClerc, Ferrari have a driver that will very likely win a world championship. If the can put the right car under him and consistently get their race strategy right, that will probably happen in a Ferrari. SV has a target on his back.

 

[Bellow]

SV lost his way last year and with it the title. He buckled under the strain again last weekend. When he is out front in a faster car, he can win races (obviously). When he is under pressure and needs to battle, he has shown on several occasions that he is less able to deliver the results needed for a championship.

I read - at the time he was still with Red Bull - that he used to gear the car short, lead from pole and use the short gearing to break the DRS one second gap before it applied. And never needed longer gearing as it is only needed for DRS passes which, from the front, he wouldn't need.
True or not, I know not, but he did win a lot of races in circumstances as above.

In Charles LeClerc, Ferrari have a driver that will very likely win a world championship. If the can put the right car under him and consistently get their race strategy right, that will probably happen in a Ferrari. SV has a target on his back.

Yep, pressure from the other side of his garage for sure.