2014 Canadian Grand Prix - Montreal

[mnmracer]

[dans79]

I just want to know how nico is going to handle it when he eventually gets a dnf.

[johnsonwax]

He closed 25 before and got ahead. This time it's 22. He won't need the double.

Yeah, I think he will. Canada was supposed to be a gimme for Lewis.

[Spacepace]

He probably won't have one the way this year has been going

[beelsebob]

He closed 25 before and got ahead. This time it's 22. He won't need the double.

Yeah, I think he will. Canada was supposed to be a gimme for Lewis.

Canada would have been Lewis' if not for a failure.

[johnsonwax]

I just want to know how nico is going to handle it when he eventually gets a dnf.

I'm wondering how many more of these Lewis will put up with before he 'donates' a DNF to Nico.

[jz11]

I don't think Rosberg's car came, back, Mercedes just went down to the other cars' performance level. So their secret is basically that their ERS.

I'm just hearing from Paddy Lowe that Lewis failure was a brake failure. Rosberg had no KERS.

the really interesting bit is that - considering they couldn't pretty much harvest any energy from the brakes for half of the race, have no top end power for the straight line speed, how would that impact fuel consumption?

there was even a radio message before the start that ROS has to take extra care to manage fuel, then there was the safety car, but I don't believe they could save so much in those 8 or so laps to last half the race with little or no hybrid power at all at that pace

[johnsonwax]

He closed 25 before and got ahead. This time it's 22. He won't need the double.

Yeah, I think he will. Canada was supposed to be a gimme for Lewis.

Canada would have been Lewis' if not for a failure.

I know. My point being that if Lewis needed to pick up points, here is where he should have been picking them up, not losing them.

[dans79]

He closed 25 before and got ahead. This time it's 22. He won't need the double.

Yeah, I think he will. Canada was supposed to be a gimme for Lewis.

Canada would have been Lewis' if not for a failure.

I agree, Lewis was attacking and then recharging. Without the issue, I think Lewis would have passed nico for sure.

[beelsebob]

I agree, Lewis was attacking and then recharging. Without the issue, I think Lewis would have passed nico for sure.

He had already passed Nico when he had the issue.

[komninosm]

Thoroughly pissed about Lewis......

This is why, as posted in another thread, some of us feel that the best 17 out of 20 races should make up the championship. So far the only reason why Lewis is not first is because of mechanical problems with his car.

Wasn't it like this a few decades ago? I might be remembering something else.

[markn93]

Yeah, I think he will. Canada was supposed to be a gimme for Lewis.

Canada would have been Lewis' if not for a failure.

I agree, Lewis was attacking and then recharging. Without the issue, I think Lewis would have passed nico for sure.

He did pass Nico.

[beelsebob]

Thoroughly pissed about Lewis......

This is why, as posted in another thread, some of us feel that the best 17 out of 20 races should make up the championship. So far the only reason why Lewis is not first is because of mechanical problems with his car.

Wasn't it like this a few decades ago? I might be remembering something else.

Indeed it was. It does seem like Hamilton gets this kind of thing more often than most. He for example only lost the 2012 championship due to mechanical issues too.

[dans79]

I agree, Lewis was attacking and then recharging. Without the issue, I think Lewis would have passed nico for sure.

He had already passed Nico when he had the issue.

The issue started before the pass, when he said he lost power, then he jumped nico in the pits.

[AnthonyG]

I don't think Rosberg's car came, back, Mercedes just went down to the other cars' performance level. So their secret is basically that their ERS.

I'm just hearing from Paddy Lowe that Lewis failure was a brake failure. Rosberg had no KERS.

the really interesting bit is that - considering they couldn't pretty much harvest any energy from the brakes for half of the race, have no top end power for the straight line speed, how would that impact fuel consumption?

there was even a radio message before the start that ROS has to take extra care to manage fuel, then there was the safety car, but I don't believe they could save so much in those 8 or so laps to last half the race with little or no hybrid power at all at that pace

Perhaps the lack of harvesting put more stress on the brakes, causing them to fail.