Slow starts from the lights are an Aussie thing, we don't want to get booked for hooning
Slow starts from the lights are an Aussie thing, we don't want to get booked for hooning
U joke, but its true.. why do you think Button (P2) beat Lewis (on pole) into T1 at the 2012 Aus GP?? after his hooning antics the year before he didnt wanna get done again so pulled away slowly and lost the lead...Originally Posted by 260DET
Slow starts from the lights are an Aussie thing, we don't want to get booked for hooning
/csh Racing
But at the back of the pack its so easy to lose a front spoiler or a rear puncture. This happened to him once or twice. Perhaps he is uber cautious. Either way, I think it bodes well for Webber to remain in that seat for next year I reckon.
Incredible! HRTr have scored the same number of points in EVERY Grand Prix they've competed in!
Token's secret
F1: Report reveals McLaren tyre temperature trick
Jun.14 (GMM) McLaren is the inventor of a clever system that is helping Lewis Hamilton at the front of the F1 field at present.
Germany's Auto Motor und Sport, with the collaboration of renowned F1 technical illustrator Giorgio Piola, said the British team is using a system that controls the flow of heat from the brakes into the difficult-to-manage Pirelli tyres.
So in a season in which a degree or two in temperature can bring a tyre in or out of Pirelli's tiny 'window' of performance, the McLaren trick is "ingenious", German journalist Tobias Gruner explained.
The team's mechanics adjust the rear braking system in the pits with a screwdriver, the screw being located near the driver cockpit opening.
As Piola's drawings show, the infinite adjustment affects the rear braking system and the flow of braking heat to the tyres.
But it has not been all good news for McLaren, whose Jenson Button is suffering arguably the grimmest period in his entire F1 career at present.
It might have something to do with the FIA's recent clampdown on the MP4-27's floor.
Reportedly after the Chinese grand prix, the governing body ruled that the British team had stepped over the line with its interpretation of the rules regarding flexibility.
Scratches had been found underneath the extremes of the front wings, to which McLaren argued that the floor bending was within the allowed tolerances.
"The tolerance is there to account for manufacturing defects," Charlie Whiting is quoted as saying, after ruling that McLaren's system deliberately exploited those tolerances.
Auto Motor und Sport said: "The seemingly minor change had major implications for McLaren."
Particularly Button. The team's subsequent technical changes, including the higher nose and the modified rear suspension geometry, seemingly worked for Hamilton, but not for the struggling 2009 world champion.
Getting the 2012 car to work for Button again is now a high priority for McLaren.
"The problem is very complex," technical director Paddy Lowe said. "Our car is good, it just has to be set up perfectly."
And at the heart of all the F1 teams' quests for performance at the moment is the mysterious Pirelli tyres.
"I'd say we understand 30 per cent," admitted Lowe.
Yeah that've been running that setup for the last couple of races.
http://scarbsf1.wordpress.com/2012/0...r-brake-ducts/
I reckon you need to go the other way. Make everyone in the field think you're a c*** and AREN'T afraid to run them off the road. That way they'll think twice about going for that dive down the inside and give you more room. Or if you see them in your rear view, you move over quickly. This is what Schumacher did best.
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough horsepower." - Mark Donahue Penske Porsche 917
"In Japan we no give fark for Subaru" - Trust Japan Technical Director
(TM - AVENGE)
"You can never have enough power. I remember when we had Group B cars... THEN we had enough power!"
Juha Kankkunen - Rally of Argentina '02
Got a link?
Geez we're a bunch of softcocks...we have a 911 and we're obsessing over non-functional ducts and indicator colours
I watched it on the stream, about an hour before the race.
If you find a really big file for the race it may have it there.
.... because every driver experiences the destructive potential of the effortless surge of power available through the smallest of body movements.
Dr Hoon.
DrNick is king!!!! No, Mark Webber is now! Long live the king!
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