Ferrari team boss Maurizio Arrivabene kept his emotions in control while his driver Sebastian Vettel was storming to the race win at the Malaysian GP, but the Italian could not hold his tears back when he got a message from Switzerland.
Thank you very much!.Just_a_fan wrote:I reported it to the mods a while back because of the fanboy/hater stuff. No doubt they'll get here soon and give it a good sweep out!
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He was kind of unlucky.
Passes will be made in other areas where the mercedes will have better grip and acceleration out of turns. I think Vettel may have his hands full if he is P1 after DRS is activated. getting that 1 second gap will prove difficult.Moose wrote: With that dealt with, lets talk about the race.
My bet would be that if Hamilton makes it into the first corner in the lead, he'll win. If Vettel makes it into the first corner in the lead, Hamilton will have no ability to pass the faster-in-a-straight-line Ferrari.
If the race sims are to be believed then, if he can stay ahead for a few laps (presuming he gets ahead at all), he may then begin to pull away because of better tyre deg. There's a big *if* there, but we've not seen enough this year - at a track with high deg - to presume it's definitely not the case.ringo wrote:Passes will be made in other areas where the mercedes will have better grip and acceleration out of turns. I think Vettel may have his hands full if he is P1 after DRS is activated. getting that 1 second gap will prove difficult.Moose wrote: With that dealt with, lets talk about the race.
My bet would be that if Hamilton makes it into the first corner in the lead, he'll win. If Vettel makes it into the first corner in the lead, Hamilton will have no ability to pass the faster-in-a-straight-line Ferrari.
50% correct Sir! Now let's wait for the raceME4ME wrote:Same as last year!
Q: HAM-VET-ROS (wet)
R: HAM-ROS-VET (dry)
let me correct your whole post for youJust_a_fan wrote:The Ferrari was quicker than the Merc only in the last sector. That sector has the long straight on it and only 3-4 corners. In the "twisty" second sector the Mercedes was quicker by 4 tenths. Also slightly quicker in the first sector which has the slow T1-2 complex. The implication from that, along with comments from Massa about the Williams losing the top speed advantage over Ferrari, is that the Ferrari has found a chunk of high speed performance but not quite as much in the lower speed stuff. Or, to put it another way, the Mercedes has a better chassis.Jonnycraig wrote:Also good to see the myth of the Merc super chassis blown apart in only the second race.
Anyway, it's good to see a Vettel fan happy for once, after his dismal year last year.
Some interesting insights in to a driver's mind and how he thinks his way around the lap. I like the idea of the little notebook full of "secrets" too.arahman_93 wrote:Lewis talking to martin brundle about lap.
A few funny moments.
http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/s ... the-skypad
At risk of going off topic again, how does one separate "chassis" from "downforce" in an aero-dominated series? If a car is quicker in twisty bits then that is going to be some combination of aero-grip and mechanical grip along with engine tractability. How do you say that one car is doing well because it has a better "chassis" but another is doing well purely because it can strap on more downforce because it has a good engine? If both are equally quick over a lap there is no way for an external observer to distinguish between the two. However, the fact that tyres aren't being worn out at a silly rate suggests that the car's chassis isn't bad at all.giantfan10 wrote: let me correct your whole post for you
mercedes is running more downforce... period!
they have a more powerful engine and can afford to run more downforce with the added drag being negated to some extent by engine power... the end
stop with this mercedes super chassis nonsense....
No let me correct yougiantfan10 wrote:let me correct your whole post for you
mercedes is running more downforce... period!
they have a more powerful engine and can afford to run more downforce with the added drag being negated to some extent by engine power... the end
stop with this mercedes super chassis nonsense....
, 1. Allison: engine and chassis are equally responsible for distance to Mercedes 2. Symonds: over one lap Ferrari engine is as good as Mercedes (or something like that from memory)
