Korean GP 2010 - Yeongam

[andrew]

On paper it doesn't look too spectacular but I have not yet seen any footage of the practice sessions so will reserve full judgement until I have seen the race on Sunday.

[Sean H]

Turn 1 should be exciting.

They should also put much taller curbs on all tracks. Make it hurt the car or at least the lap time if you go over it.

I personally like the track. So it should be interesting to see some cars battle it out on there Sunday.

[univex]

Thanks to Jon Noble twitter @NobleF1
Lots of work going on tonight at the Korean track. Here is the wall being moved back at Turn 16.

Here is the work going on at Turn 16 to raise the kerb.

[WhiteBlue]

FP3 is now on.



The driver's hotel



42 min to go Alguersuari is the first driver on a flying lap with hard tyres. The grip is low ad the temp is only 19°C. The curbs have mainly been improved with a big bump in turn 16 to fill the hole. 1:45.671

37 to go Sutil has a huge off dragging a lot of dust on the track.


22 to go and Hamilton goes off but takes P1 39.705 on hard tyres

Alguersuari has problems with his rear tyres graining. He may have problems to get heat into the tyres at the low temperatures. Toro Rosso not actively using the F-duct.

29 to go Hamilton and Massa come out to play.

26 to go ALO goes P1 with 40.795 on hard tyres

23 to go Hamilton goes off and takes P1 with 39.705 on hards to be pipped immediately by ALO 39.217

19 to go Button takes over with 38.939 and gets pipped by HAM with 38.540



The final after the hard tyres are done.

7:3 minutes to go Button goes out with soft tyres as the first top man.

3 to go Hamilton goes off several times and too much traffic

2:2 to go Button goes P1 with 38.419 pipped by Kubica 37.932

1:2 to go Vettel goes rally and messes up a fast lap

10 s to go Kube goes 37.354

Vettel does not get a lap together



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[Mr Alcatraz]

quali should be a real cracker WB!

[raymondu999]

Ok, either I failed primary school maths, or live timing did.



53.3+25.0+20.5 = 98.8 AFAIK

I'm surprised WB didn't catch that

Or am I missing a step in how the live timing is calculated?

[Shrek]

3 things learned from this session
1. the drivers want whitewall tires with a little red
2. Vettel likes to race rally cars more than f1
3. Alonso's nickname should be happy

[Sean H]

Ok, either I failed primary school maths, or live timing did.



53.3+25.0+20.5 = 98.8 AFAIK

I'm surprised WB didn't catch that

Or am I missing a step in how the live timing is calculated?

you are leaving out the 53.3xx + 25.0xx + 20.5xx, the x's add up.

I have also seen the live timing mess up before and not reset after sector 1 has been started.....

[raymondu999]

I didn't. Let's assume 0.1 tolerance on all 3 counts. That's 0.3. He should still list as 99.1, which is 1:39.1. The tolerance would NOT add up to a second.

[Sean H]

no worries, he wasn't that fast anyway.

maybe you need to be on the track and not dirt to trip the sector times accurately?

[ringo]

so what's the official p3 results? I missed the last 15min.

[raymondu999]

That's beside the point. That time was set a LONG time ago before his gravel trip. Even if that WAS on his gravel trip, the sector times would not be counted and wouldn't be put up on live timing. Live timing uses the sector times from the driver's single fastest LAP, not 3 fastest SECTORS.

[univex]

I didn't. Let's assume 0.1 tolerance on all 3 counts. That's 0.3. He should still list as 99.1, which is 1:39.1. The tolerance would NOT add up to a second.

My guess is that it doesn't round the number, merely truncates the last few digits. Therefore the error could be 0.099 for each sector. Max 0.27 secs per lap.
Also, when they pit the times revert to their fastest individual sector times. No relation to the fastest laptime.

[WhiteBlue]

The front runners finished the hard tyre running with 18 minutes to go and then spend collectively 11 minutes doing nothing. They were all on track for the last minutes and many good laps got wrecked.

Vettel's off was 1:29 to go with 4 tenth off the pace. most drivers like Button needed four laps to get the tyres on temperature. I reckon that cold tyres together with traffic wrecked many attempts.

[Sean H]

I didn't. Let's assume 0.1 tolerance on all 3 counts. That's 0.3. He should still list as 99.1, which is 1:39.1. The tolerance would NOT add up to a second.

My guess is that it doesn't round the number, merely truncates the last few digits. Therefore the error could be 0.099 for each sector. Max 0.27 secs per lap.
Also, when they pit the times revert to their fastest individual sector times. No relation to the fastest laptime.

there is the answer, once in pit, it just shows the fastest sector times, not the fastest lap overall.