It's nice to read this: it's not about the wellbeing of people in the paddock, it's about the wellbeing of people and organizations that are not directly there but are affected by any change in the covid supply chain of sorts.PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 14:25I got Covid too, took a month to clear up fully. I still see the need for for masks and for persons to isolate when they are positive bacause I don't wish Covid on anyone. That's my personal feeling though. If they were in England Seb might have gotten away with it - racing and chatting about with other people spreading his Covid into next week. If he had contact with 1000 people over that time according to your numbers he would have "killed" 2 persons.scheffers wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 14:03It's survivable for most people to say the least:PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 14:00It's very survivable for most persons, but very unpleasant. I could imagine if say, a quarter of the crew had caught it then it would affect performances.And if you look at it in age perspective, the restrictions they run in the paddock are totally unnecessary.confirmed since December showed the Omicron variant’s severity and death rates averaged 0.38% and 0.18%, respectively, compared with 1.4% and 0.7% for the Delta cases
Of course it will affect performance, but that has nothing to do with any restrictions and how long they are willing to keep up with them. I recon a lot of crew members already have had Covid in their winter-stay at home, as do a lot of people elsewhere in the world.
Glad to see Hulk back in the car. Hmm... the Covid strike-rate is pretty high so far int he paddock. I am sorta expecting more positives not driver but other team personnel, and then we will see more persons masking up again.
It has different effects and symptoms for a lot of people, I had it and was vaccinated with mild symptoms. Still feel my stamina is down months later….NicoS wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 15:29Not unpleasant at all. Was told I "had" "it" apparently my wife had it also, could have fooled us.PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 14:00It's very survivable for most persons, but very unpleasant. I could imagine if say, a quarter of the crew had caught it then it would affect performances.
wasted a whole week at home... Pathetic really.
Have the cars really lost -lift, though? I wonder because Max and Russel were capable of doing 202 kph on T5 during testing while Max was doing 212 kph on his 2021 Bahrain pole. That relatively small gap could be solely due to the 50kg extra weight (mass, actually)Stu wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 08:49Even if the drag has not altered much, if (negative) lift has reduced the L:D will not be as good as previously.
Unless you are specifically try to ‘cheat’ the air (LSR-style) in trying to manipulate it to your own aero benefit (for reducing lap-time), you will create drag.
Will be interesting to see Hulk v Stroll. I know Hulk will not have had preseason, but still a nice comparison to a non world champ driver.Mandrake wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 11:56I am very happy to see Hulk back, but this will be very tough for him. Almost no time to prepare for the new car he has never driven. But also a chance to show his qualities again
EDIT: Now just imagine the Aston was the fastest car and Hulk could snap his first win
Obviously, they are not.
The pandemic is ongoing and if you want F1 races to go ahead then the FIA, F1 and teams have to follow the local laws and regulations that pertain to controlling the pandemic in that country.AeroDynamic wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 11:57Thats disappointing for Vettel. When are Formula 1 going to relax these covid measures?
It is what it is, if it impacts the championship ? Not much anyone can do about it. I'm going to enjoy the races and worry about the championship later on in the year.I don't want to see a Championship decided by covid. The pandemic has influenced the championship enough already.
Edit: not sure about this data nowArtur Craft wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 18:03I´ll take this as an opportunity to share the cumulative gap, relative to Red Bull, throughout all of Bahrain´s corners:
Mercedes +0.8s
Alfa Romeo +1s
Alpine +1.1s
Mclaren +1.2s
Ferrari +1.2s
Haas +1.7s
Aston Martin +2.2s
Alpha Tauri +3s
Williams +3.3s
Note that these were calculated from "Driven by Data"´s graphs that were shared on twitter. It also only involves each teams fastest run on each corner segment, so these numbers do not take into account the time each car gains/loses on the straights
Did they publish how they calculate those numbers? From telemetry I calculated on their fastest laps Ferrari was ahead in most slow corners, but if you included the straights in between they would be behind due to top speed. For example Ferrari is way faster in T1 (4kph more for FER), T10 (2kph more), T13 (3kph more) as far as lowest speed in the corner goes, Ferrari paid some speed (5kph) to Verstappen but not Russel (3kph more than Merc) on T14. Would be interested in knowing the methodology of the analysis, but I doubt it's just corners, I think it's a whole section of the lap. Looking at corner performance only it would seem RBR and FER are quite close, but all depends on fuel load.