63Corvette

The new F1 rules were designed to SLOW the cars down.....right? Someone got it wrong

TLGunman

No, the engineers just got it more right

drivinhard

Loved Hamilton's expression during the podium interview when they said RB never used KERS for those qualy times

Zoxxo

I'm not sure the rule changes were meant to slow things down as much as they were meant to eliminate costly, pointless duplication throughout the field. Banning the f-duct and double-diffuser (which was semi-illegal from the beginning) was really just a "let's quit spending money on these gimmicks since everyone has them" thing. I have no recollection of anyone discussing the need to slow things down last season.

To me, it's more surprising that, despite all the hand wringing and moaning about the Pirelli tires, Vettel managed to do just fine with them (as opposed to Ferrari) and, in fact, trounced last year's pole time by a fair bit. Ya gotta love Newey Of course, that's qualifying - the race can/will/should be a different thing, especially with all the marbles that will be on the track the second half of the race I fully expect to see Vettel drive off into the distance but behind him it should be interesting.

Watching Vettel do his qualifying laps through the onboard camera is just thing of amazing beauty.

I just read this bit that's quite interesting re: Red Bull and their KERS system:

http://adamcooperf1.com/

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