2014 Malaysian Grand Prix - Sepang

[Juzh]

Rosberg had a front suspension failure in china from a net 5h place (?). It's not clear if this caused him to be slow from the beginning.

[andrewf1]

Right, that's why Rosberg has had 3 reliability-related retirements last year, as opposed to zero for Hamilton

Retiring from pole or having your tire blow up in the lead whilst your teammate goes on to win the race in your place is definitely not the same as retiring from 5th and 6th.

[SectorOne]

Right, that's why Rosberg has had 3 reliability-related retirements last year, as opposed to zero for Hamilton

3?

I remember one (Hungary when he retired from 8th) but F1Fanatic says only 2 retirements.

Australia, China, Hungary. It probably doesn't count the latter, because technically he was still classified since the engine blew only five laps before the finish.

Yup i think you are spot on, nice one.

[dren]

Hamilton
Rosberg
Vettel
Button
Massa

[subasurf]

Quite possibly, actually.

Look up and do some reading if you want on morphogenetic fields, Rupert Sheldrake, imaginal cells and Bruce Lipton. The human mind is capable of much more than simply bowing to Newtonian physics, and aligning to the sensorial oriented experience.

Surely you're not being serious? Are you suggesting that Hamilton's mental frame may have an effect on how reliable the power unit will be?

Medium-Hard, as always.

...maybe intermediates

[SamH123]

Anyone concerned about the gear ratios of the merc on these long malaysian straights?

Do you know what gear ratios each team has chosen?
Why would anyone be concerned by Mercs gear ratios for Malaysia, I was under the impression they had long gears because they often topped speed traps in Aus

[beelsebob]

Anyone concerned about the gear ratios of the merc on these long malaysian straights?

Do you know what gear ratios each team has chosen?
Why would anyone be concerned by Mercs gear ratios for Malaysia, I was under the impression they had long gears because they often topped speed traps in Aus

I believe what he means is concern that Merc will run away with it because they appear to have very long gears, not concern for the team.

[the EDGE]

Anyone concerned about the gear ratios of the merc on these long malaysian straights?

Do you know what gear ratios each team has chosen?
Why would anyone be concerned by Mercs gear ratios for Malaysia, I was under the impression they had long gears because they often topped speed traps in Aus

I believe what he means is concern that Merc will run away with it because they appear to have very long gears, not concern for the team.

According to Peter Windsor, of the Merc teams, FI run the longest ratios, Williams the shortest, and Mercedes & McLaren are somewhere in the middle

around 5.40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5E3PLPkWxI

[tomazy]

Regarding gear ratios, this video of bottas is interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_rapabFBaI

I didn't analyse it frame by frame, but I got that the Williams (suposadly the shortest gearing, but I think that they just run higher gears to keep revs and consuption low) is dooing 318km/h with about 11300RPM (in 7th gear ?). If my math is correct, that would mean 422km/h at 15000RPM, witch it is more than enough for Monza I would imagine. Are there any other such videos of other cars out there?

Sorri for beeing a bit off topic.

[heidenreich27]

Maybe fia can force them to use atleast 13.000 rev?

[Sulman]

Maybe fia can force them to use atleast 13.000 rev?

They'd need to relax the fuel flow limit to make that possible.

[De Jokke]

Anyone concerned about the gear ratios of the merc on these long malaysian straights?

Do you know what gear ratios each team has chosen?
Why would anyone be concerned by Mercs gear ratios for Malaysia, I was under the impression they had long gears because they often topped speed traps in Aus

I believe what he means is concern that Merc will run away with it because they appear to have very long gears, not concern for the team.

No I mean (looking at last years car topspeed and gear ratios), are we going to be okay on the straights in Sepang?

[Sulman]

Have you ever heard of the law of large numbers?

No, but I did hear about Murphy's law..

Crikey, this reminds me of the endless debates about Ralf Schumacher & Montoya and the case of the grenading BMW's.

[beelsebob]

No I mean (looking at last years car topspeed and gear ratios), are we going to be okay on the straights in Sepang?

Huh? Merc were hitting 335km/h in Bahrain testing, they stated they thought they could probably do 360km/h at Monza... Of course the car is geared long enough for Malaysia.

[De Jokke]

No I mean (looking at last years car topspeed and gear ratios), are we going to be okay on the straights in Sepang?

Huh? Merc were hitting 335km/h in Bahrain testing, they stated they thought they could probably do 360km/h at Monza... Of course the car is geared long enough for Malaysia.

Guess I'm still a bit non-believing after the surprisingly low top speeds last year... Still don't understand how they could mess that up with the best engine. Every race faulty gear ratios?