Nico Rosberg has secured his first ever Formula One race win in dominant fashion. While his closest competitors had trouble in the pits or abandoned, Nico stayed out of trouble and won the race comfortably. Jenson Button finished second, Lewis Hamilton third.
Would that mean this fight will be between:raymondu999 wrote:Something strikes me as just weird about the circuit. Really the quickest car of the year just about has never won here - other than 2004.
2005 - Alonso won - McLaren/Raikkonen quicker
2006 - Schumacher won - (arguably) Alonso maybe quicker. Maybe.
2007 - Raikkonen won - McLaren quicker
2008 - Hamilton won - Ferrari quicker
2009 - Vettel won - Brawn quicker
2010/2011 - McLaren won - Red Bull quicker
Yes but the REd Bull was the quicker 2011 car. My point is not that the weekend's fastest driver+car doesn't win, it's that the fastest car of the year rarely wins here.SiLo wrote:You say that, but in the race last year Hamilton saved up those tyres and got past, he was also very quick all weekend.
Generally the front left gets a beating. Turns 1 and 2 will grain the life out of it; before the driver has a fast entry trailbraking job into the fast right tightening corner; and then the front left will be under stress again through the second snail.SiLo wrote: I don't know what the tyre degradation is like there.
I wouldn't discount Red BullHail22 wrote:Would that mean this fight will be between:
Lotus
Ferrari
Mercedes?
Menang undian Global TV?ParanoiD wrote:I hope I won a local competiton which reward attending this race! Announcement on the 6th of April. *fingercrossed *praying
Malaysia probably has a greater percentage of the lap as straight though. The way I see it the Mercedes f-duct/fandango super duct isn' necessarily good for the straights. In quali it just means you have a super-efficient rear wing; as Mercedes could always choose to go for a bit more downforce, or a bit less drag. Most probably we'll see them shine in places like China, Sepang, Catalunya where you have demands for both high downforce as well as low drag.n smikle wrote:Those long straights.. Mercedes is good pole bet.
There are several theories on what it does. But the advantage will lie in corners where the car clearly has more than enough downforce; but opening the DRS would cause too much twitchiness.scarlet wrote:Mercedes DRS advantage is more abouto being able to open it earlier whilst maintaining balance I thought? In which case they'd get the most advantage on tracks with lots of short straights.
Agreed, but these corners are few and far between. Were they running with DRS open on t13 Sepang? McLaren were.raymondu999 wrote:There are several theories on what it does. But the advantage will lie in corners where the car clearly has more than enough downforce; but opening the DRS would cause too much twitchiness.scarlet wrote:Mercedes DRS advantage is more abouto being able to open it earlier whilst maintaining balance I thought? In which case they'd get the most advantage on tracks with lots of short straights.
