Lewis Hamilton has won the inaugural United States GP at Austin after passing Sebastian Vettel at two thirds of the race distance. The German finished second while Fernando Alonso is third at more than 40 seconds of the leading duo, keeping his championship hopes alive.
It's okey bro just don't let it happen again..mx_tifoso wrote:My apologies for making a big deal out of it and going off topic.. even though I still feel the same.
Now I just need to write some hate mail to Perez ...
Don't sweat it yet. Around here there's not much point in looking at any forecast until you're at least inside 1 week from the event start.60% chance of rain Thurs and Fri
Yes ,this logic works nowadays with the exception of Schumacher who has been competitive in rain the last three years with the exception of Malaysia 2012, which, by the way, was a very strange race.raymondu999 wrote:Actually, looking back at the past few years, it seems to me that a driver's influence on wet laptimes now has been diminished. A good wet car, or wet setup, now plays a bigger part.
If you were to look at the past few years, generally it's always been a single car (or two) that has won the wet races for the season, and the same cars tend to perform very badly over and over again. Cars & drivers also seem to fluctuate from season to season.
For example, if you looked at 2011 Canada, Button and Hamilton were very quick (at least until Hamilton's retirement). But this year in Malaysia race, GB or Germany qualifying, the Button/Hamilton-McLaren combo has been lacklustre. The Red Bulls weren't too hot in Malaysia race, but after their upgrade in Valencia, they were competitive in Silverstone and Hockenheim quali, pointing to a trend that those upgrades affected their wet weather competitiveness, meaning that the car still plays a big role, and is by no means equalised
If you were to put everyone in spec cars then IMO we would see bigger laptime differences between the drivers than in the dry (ie the driver makes more difference) but IMO that isn't enough to counter differences in a better wet car/setup nowadays.
That drivers who dominate wet races one year and are nowhere the next year IMO is a big sign of this. Lewis was imperious in the wet in 2008. Then comes 2009 and he wasn't anymore. So while people romanticise the wet as a car equaliser, I don't think that's true nowadays.
hairy_scotsman wrote:New venue map from COTA website:
Thanks red. Really appreciate that!Red Schneider wrote:Scotsman, I just wanted to say you've done an awesome job keeping us apprised of the goings-on. Thank you.
Quite frankly... Great! I think they're both beautiful, and mechanical looking. Great job CotA.FrukostScones wrote:
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