Sebastian Vettel has won the Bahrain Grand Prix, getting past both Mercedes cars towards a reasonably comfortable victory. Lewis Hamilton finished in second position while pole sitter Valtteri Bottas completed the podium for Mercedes.
It would be nice, not for precipitation, but for the wind (how much sand on the circuit) and temperature (it could be as low as 26 Celsius).godlameroso wrote: ↑13 Apr 2017, 01:38Do we really need a weather prediction for the desert? I mean last year I predicted it would rain the Wednesday before the race and it did, but no such luck this year.
China has the racing line go diagonally across the grid spaces. And because of qualifying they tend to stay to the right so actually there isn't really a "cleaner" side there.George-Jung wrote: ↑12 Apr 2017, 22:06Ferrari has only started on the dirty side this year, so not sure yet if Ferrari has lost their edge on starts..
In that case, wind blows towards the north west or north north west on Friday and Saturday, around 7 knots, Sunday it gets interesting because it will be quite windy ~15 knots, but blowing towards the south east. So for Friday and Saturday wind won't be much of an issue, and cars will have a slight tailwind on the main straight, and head wind down the other DRS zone. Sunday will be much trickier with heavier winds and no doubt more sand on track, cars will have a headwind down the main straight and tail wind down the other DRS straight. Naturally the cross winds will make braking for the other two straights rather tricky.Bill_Kar wrote: ↑13 Apr 2017, 11:11It would be nice, not for precipitation, but for the wind (how much sand on the circuit) and temperature (it could be as low as 26 Celsius).godlameroso wrote: ↑13 Apr 2017, 01:38Do we really need a weather prediction for the desert? I mean last year I predicted it would rain the Wednesday before the race and it did, but no such luck this year.
That's some rather helpful information, good work on that.godlameroso wrote: ↑13 Apr 2017, 15:51In that case, wind blows towards the north west or north north west on Friday and Saturday, around 7 knots, Sunday it gets interesting because it will be quite windy ~15 knots, but blowing towards the south east. So for Friday and Saturday wind won't be much of an issue, and cars will have a slight tailwind on the main straight, and head wind down the other DRS zone. Sunday will be much trickier with heavier winds and no doubt more sand on track, cars will have a headwind down the main straight and tail wind down the other DRS straight. Naturally the cross winds will make braking for the other two straights rather tricky.Bill_Kar wrote: ↑13 Apr 2017, 11:11It would be nice, not for precipitation, but for the wind (how much sand on the circuit) and temperature (it could be as low as 26 Celsius).godlameroso wrote: ↑13 Apr 2017, 01:38Do we really need a weather prediction for the desert? I mean last year I predicted it would rain the Wednesday before the race and it did, but no such luck this year.
Temperatures will be around 31-26c for most of the weekend during the times the cars will be on track.
I personally think we`ll see a Ferrari on the top step, probably Vettel who`ll qualify behind at least one Merc. Reason being Merc still haven`t got their tyre deg sorted in higher temps due to losing the "trick" front suspesion...FrukostScones wrote: ↑13 Apr 2017, 16:01i have this feeling... BOT will win this, not on entirely on merit but still....
I have a feeling those entirely by merit wins are the drivers you like and not entirely you don't. Was Australia win entirely on merit? Were 2 Ham's Merc championships? Vettel's with Red Bull? You might say 'not entirely'FrukostScones wrote: ↑13 Apr 2017, 16:01i have this feeling... BOT will win this, not on entirely on merit but still....
. Belittling drivers even before events.
