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10 Apr 2022, 12:55 (Ref:4106136) | #51 | ||
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Lando Norris edging out Daniel Ricciardo to take fifth place made it three British drivers in the top five for the first time since the 1999 British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
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Williams in the points.
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10 Apr 2022, 20:48 (Ref:4106186) | #55 | ||
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Stewards flag need for change of SC protocols.
The footage from MSC's car of that one showed just how close it was - if change needed to avoid it, then hopefully the change comes soon. |
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10 Apr 2022, 21:32 (Ref:4106198) | #56 | |
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I never thought I'd think this let alone type it: F1 needs a restart zone. Everyone closes up, and if they're all in the box, bingo - green.
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10 Apr 2022, 22:22 (Ref:4106211) | #58 | ||
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Can you imagine what Christian Horner would be saying if they were still using Renault engines and had three failures in three races?
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Yeah, I always thought he had it in for Renault, but Honda has always escaped his ire.
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Then he had tried something different by putting hard's on for the start. Couldn't get enough heat into them. His off was precipitated by an electrical gremlin in his steering wheel before the start and it had to be replaced. The replacement didn't have all his settings programmed into it and activated the anti stall. Basically a weekend where lots of things that could be programmed into making your life difficult was evident. |
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Funny, you don't normally have the car on fire from that sort of problem! |
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11 Apr 2022, 07:40 (Ref:4106242) | #66 | |
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Is there a problem with the softer Pirelli rubber?
Previous seasons driver learned to stay out of the dirty air because your tire would be go off the cliff pretty rapidly if you tried to compensate the lack of downforce/stability with more work from the tires. This year the downforce and balance in the dirty air is much better, temping drivers to stay close and see if they can get a shot. Problem seems to be the softer compounds can't hold up. Yesterday 50 lap old C2's after ten or so laps started to outperform brand new C3's. Also previous races only the harder compound could keep up. Looks like the aero is making staying close more attractive, but the softer compounds can't handle it. Would there still be time for Pirelli to change the tires to a harder allocation the second half of the season? |
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11 Apr 2022, 07:57 (Ref:4106243) | #67 | ||
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11 Apr 2022, 08:02 (Ref:4106245) | #68 | ||
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It was interesting hearing the Albon interview after the race. Basically the hard tyre for them performed very well , being quick and durable - so well that rather than tip-toeing around looking after the tyres as you might have expected, he was actually pushing hard like he was in a qualifying session lap after lap (which I think is what we like to see).
I don't know whether this was a one-off thing that only worked for Williams at this particular track, or perhaps we will see the same elsewhere. Either way, I'm sure that the strategists for other teams will be looking very closely at that. |
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It reads like you are suggesting that a 50-lap old C2 was quicker than a brand new C3? If I look at who ran the C2s for the longest:
* - Alonso fitted a second set of C3 tyres on lap 53. His fastest time on the first set of C3 was 83.53s on lap 44. ** - Albon put on a set of C5 for his final lap. Albon's time of 82.589s on lap 54 would have been on really light fuel, and he was pushing hard for a point at that time. Compare that to everyone else's fastest lap, and I don't see that 50-lap old C2s were quicker:
Personally, I think the fuel load was more of a factor than the tyre deg in determining lap time - particularly when you look at the comparison between Alonso and Norris. Alonso was on new C3s, and able to lap 2 seconds quicker than Norris on 35-lap old C2s. |
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11 Apr 2022, 09:55 (Ref:4106277) | #70 | ||
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Previous races, compounds other than the hardest were also breaking apart. |
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Magnussen: Put on a set of C3 tyres on lap 40. His fastest lap on them was a 83.071s when they were 4 laps old. When they were 15 laps old, he was still able to put in an 83s lap. Alonso: Put on a set of C3 tyres on lap 40. His fastest lap on them was a 83.53 when they were 4 laps old. He was then in a battle for 9th with Guanyu, Schumacher, Bottas, Gasly and Stroll for a few laps, so I don't think the lap times are indicative of true pace. |
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11 Apr 2022, 11:19 (Ref:4106292) | #72 | ||
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Oddly enough, the 1997 Williams Renault Laguna used to perform better on harder tyres than the softer range.
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11 Apr 2022, 12:46 (Ref:4106310) | #73 | ||
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A couple of years away, new tires and compounds, plus track changes…feel like they took an odd route with the tires by going for the unusual step between C5 softs and C3 medium and C2 hard.
Many don’t like an over reliance on tires and pit stops but the one stop that this selection allowed for is probably the reason for the processional nature of this race? Despite some issues with getting the tires up to temperature, I would say the tires lasted too long no? Last edited by chillibowl; 11 Apr 2022 at 13:00. Reason: Typo |
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https://en.mclarenf-1.com/2022/gp/s8...times/843-239/ Same thing for Albon vs. Magnussen where Albon keeps going faster on 50 lap old C2's while Magnussen pace on the C3's stagnates and then drops off after about ten laps on the C3's. https://en.mclarenf-1.com/2022/gp/s8...times/843-813/ These are just two example. As said also in previous races, the softer compound were not able to endure the closer racing for that many laps. I can imagine they didn't test the way they would cope specifically with regards to close racing for so long in pre season testing. |
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Alonso was in a train of six cars covered by less than 3.5 seconds from about lap 42, so it is impossible to know the true pace. Magnussen was not on new C3s, he only took one set of used C3s into the race. They were more than 10 laps old, and were in the region of being 20+ laps old when he managed to overtake 4 other cars on C2 tyres. |
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