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IIRC, the new powerunit regs. will retain the same 1.6L turbo minus the MGU-H.
Am I right about that?
That is my understanding, but there is talk of more changes. IIRC, dropping the MGU-H was the idea in order to get more manufacturers into the fold, but since that hasn't happened, maybe it will change. Who knows...
If Haas were smart, they'd find a way to dump Grosjean for Ocon.
This has been a disastrous season for Grosjean, although when playing straight-up, he is still faster than Mags IMO.
Originally Posted by mattastick
That is my understanding, but there is talk of more changes. IIRC, dropping the MGU-H was the idea in order to get more manufacturers into the fold, but since that hasn't happened, maybe it will change. Who knows...
It is funny and sad none of this has attracted a new PU manufacturer.
It shows how unappetizing F1 really is.
They have to continue to simplify the powerunit spec. until it becomes attractive for others to join the sport.
If Haas were smart, they'd find a way to dump Grosjean for Ocon.
Can Mick even get a Superlicense? He's in F3 now, and has 25 points towards a SL, by my math (if his season ended today), which isn't enough to get the full 40 needed for a race seat next year. Could he use his 25 points + some testing miles in an older F1 car to cover it?
He has won 5 of the last 8 races in the European F3 Championship. He is 3 points behind the first place in the ranking, with 6 races to be contested. This move allowed him to obtain the super license but he has the choice : F2, with ART Grand Prix, of which Nicolas Todt, son of the president of the FIA, is one of the owners, ART was founded and owned by Frédéric Vasseur now at Sauber, a nursery of champions (Hamilton, Rosberg...) and DTM.
Ocon : a lot of hypocrisy on the part of the teams.
Renault: worked a lot behind the scenes like spies to return the Aussie. They preferred Ricci, who has known Renault since the promotion formulas, he has always had a Renault engine on his back.
McLaren : Brown had to sign Norris at all costs or risk seeing him go to RBR when he had trained him, supported him with million pounds, the deadline was September 30: they did it.
RBR : by not signing Esteban Ocon, voluntarily RBR kicks Mercedes because Mercedes didn't want to motorize them and Dr. Marko even if he has only one eye has a very good memory that works well. RBR has candidates: S. Buemi molded a cork in Faenza (STR)....
Summary : it is a false problem to say that Ocon cannot be signed by another team because it belongs to Mercedes, Toto Wolff said himself that he was ready to give his freedom to Ocon so that he has a bucket for 2019 but the fundamental question: is Esteban a Mercedes driver why Mercedes did not sign him instead of Bottas?
Williams : Claire Williams only wants a case of banknotes, whether it is pounds sterling or rubles, he thinks that Claire would be willing to sign Markelov or Mazepin as long as she has a suitcase of banknotes. What Mercedes could give in discount for PU would be much lower than the Russians' suitcases.*
Well, the rant that was published I thought was just another screed on the current state of affairs. BUT, the comments after the article were pretty good, especially the ones dealing with the issue of overall viewership of sports across the board reducing in size. Also the ones discussing the massive amount of work to change the direction of F1 (or any other established, mature racing series).
Anti-clockwise track. Track resurfaced in places and shortened by 2 m, exactly 5,063 km today.
- Fuel consumed per lap: 1.72kg
- Number of turns : 23
- Number of brake applications : 13
- Percentage of lap at acceleration : 49%.
- Percentage of lap under braking : 23%.
- Shift ratios per revolution : 70
- Length of the stand lane : 403m
-Distance from the start to the 1st turn T1 : 300 m
- Time to stop at the pits : 28,466sec (fastest stop in 2017)
Very bumpy track, 50° C in the cockpits, excessive humidity 80%. Wet weather but no rain forecast during the FP, Q and race at this time but rain forecast before and after the race, so probably washed out.
Mercedes will have to do with the HS and US that his car doesn't like, look at the difference in the choice of tires between Ferrari and Merco... . What is certain is that the SC will be released: in 10 years of presence in F1 in Singapore, the SC has been released 17 times !
Finally, V4 no longer has the right to make a mistake against the quiet beast Hamilton, it must avoid this...
Ferrari was seen with this in Singapore, a more technical way to bypass the request not to obstruct the camera's view, remains to be seen what the FIA will think.
A track where Merco had trouble finding the right settings and there the drivers seem to be comfortable in S and U, just 1h before the end of FP1, P1 and P2 Styres
Féfé found the good setups at 30 mn of the end P1 et 2.
Leclerc in the wall.
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It seems Merco has difficulties to find the optimum balance, you could see that when braking
FP2
INFO TRANSFERT LIVE FROM FREDERIC VASSEUR SAUBER : Kimi was fired from Ferrari, He (Vasseur) negociated immediately after firing, so Kimi is not a Ferrari pilot. In the agreement between Féfé and Sauber, Ferrari has the right to impose 1 pilot to Sauber.
So now, for me, the only pilot of the FDA available is...Giovinazzi, he works in the simulator. So you know now the 2nd pilot 2019 of Sauber, no official announce at this moment.
V4 brushes the wall on RF tyre first and after the RR tyre, a lot of pink liquid under the SF71H, hydraulic and radiator. Clearly, V4 is under pressure. End of session for V4, the car needs a lot of maintenance. Bad beginning of we for V4. In race, it would be a SC, 100% chance a SC minimum on sunday. Kimi is ahead, a bit but he is free in his mind.
At 15 mn of end session, since a moment, pilots are in race mode, no improvement in the classification.
Well, the rant that was published I thought was just another screed on the current state of affairs. BUT, the comments after the article were pretty good, especially the ones dealing with the issue of overall viewership of sports across the board reducing in size. Also the ones discussing the massive amount of work to change the direction of F1 (or any other established, mature racing series).
Have a good one,
Mike
Depends on how much of a gambling streak runs thru Liberty (probably not much).
A lot of new parts on the RPFI since L. Stroll arrived.
STR : announce at Sotchi of arriving of Kvyatt actually simulator pilot at Maranello with Giovi xill be at Sauber. Ferrari will need 2 pilots in the simulator.
I don't know if you've looked at the qualifications. Hamilton was 14th in Q1, almost eliminated.
Hamilton came out a round of anthology, stratospheric during the Q3 1st outing. Exploit of Hamilton. I don't know if we can explain that. Vettel, very angry.
2nd run and impossible for the other competitors, huge risk of Hamilton in Q3 with a car clearly down in quality vs Féfé, the perfect tour. Vettel is very angry, Hamilton is in a state of grace, the best tour of his career I think. A real exploit also of Verstappen, this guy is really amazing too.
All is possible tomorrow, with SC, 100% chance to see one at least. Strategy will be important with HS wich service life is between 10 18 laps among the car
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That was just an astonishing lap by Hamilton; I wish they would have shown it afterwards here in the US. Maybe Youtube or tomorrow during pre-race. 7/10ths of a second up on Bottas? Just amazing. Mercedes strategy on getting the tires up to temp properly paid off handsomely.
And I thought it was quite interesting that everyone and to go to HS to get out of Q2; that's going to throw long-term strategy out the window and see how the racers manage those gummy tires.
Brackley worked since Spa on the tyres, they found something about the tyres :
Allison has an excellent reputation since Lotus for the use of the tyres and at Monza, Hamilton was pursuing Kimi without excessive damages
a new rear rim design, you can find the pics I put somewhere above in a post about Monza
in certain circonstancies, Merco doesn't use the heat blankets for the rear tyres.
The observation is incredible, a feat:
Q3 Singapore 2017, Hamilton is 5th at 0.635 sec from Vettel
Q3 Singapore 2018, Vettel is 3rd at 0.613 sec from the UK poleman! And Bottas in 2017 was 1.319 behind the Vettel pole, today, Bottas almost jumped in front of Vettel!
Once again, Vettel was very excited, getting angry in his garage during Q3, not the best way to prepare to face the Alien UK who is a real beast. He will end up looking like the former Grosjean who did a good job of psychotherapy for him during the break...maybe with his wife?...he's 8th, great performance
Pirelli's strategy table does not take into account the uncertain timing of the SC's intervention, as there will necessarily be one. For me, it would be necessary to be able to hold the H until lap 18 in order not to risk being with too worn S at the end of the race because trying 2 pits in strategy seems suicidal to me so much the probability of an SC is high.
A little anecdote: in Q2, Ferrari wanted to switch to Q3 in U (unlike Merco); very quickly, Kimi realized that it was impossible. Moreover, Féfé's strategists should have realized that the Merco almost got eliminated in Q1 with the U (strategy assumed in order to preserve 2 sets of H for the drivers) but they did not learn the experience, surprisingly. Vettel, refused to let him in for the H's, there was a long discussion with the box so that we could convince him! As a result, Féfé lost track time in Q2 to understand the Hs at the worst possible time, just before the preparation of Q3. Hamilton took him out to simulate a Q3 in Q2 when his time was already assured: this is also part of the difference in performance between the 2 top teams.
In any case, the start will be explosive between the 3 LH, MV, SB.
Good GP guys !
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Lap 1 And the 1st SC, Perez did'nt see Ocon, and V4 jump Crashta before the light SC , good operation
Lap 15 V4 pit but in U, oh, he can go the flag with U ? I don't understand, it's a strategic mistake for me. Hamilton in pit with S P16, at pit bad 2.9 but Hamilton exit the pit ahead V4, Crashtap pits and exits before V4, V4 was delayed by Perez a long time, it's a cool situation for Hamilton
P1 Ricci Ham Ver and few rain lap 25. Lap 34 Another Perez thug steering wheel hit against Sirotkin, this guy has a very dirty mentality, K Mag bedide is a baby.
Lap 61, victory without any fault of LH#44. I now believe that Ferrari has a very big problem and that problem is called Hamilton. Féfé no longer knows how to do it and we see the strategists of the Scuderia trying to use dumb strategies to try to get ahead: U tyres. Vettel had to slow down to finish without making a second pit. Leclerc between 2 Renault and Nando P7, very good.
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