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Daniel Ricciardo has bagged an extremely unexpected win at today's Azerbaijan Grand Prix, recovering from an early stop to navigate through the field while benefiting from crashes and penalties of others as well. Valtteri Bottas finished second ahead of Lance Stroll who becomes the youngest podium finisher in the sport at 18 years and 239 days.
Basically. I think they also make use of specialists when they require external expertise on things that the F1 base can't handle.
I might be mistaken but I thought that some drivers complain that the massive straight was a bit bumpy. Do you think the bumps will only influence on corners when tyres are loaded?godlameroso wrote: ↑16 Jun 2017, 15:30Ferrari is still the faster car overall in race conditions, and Baku will be much different to last year. I still think Mercedes has a better shot at winning than Ferrari because the road is not bumpy like Monaco. That is the difference I believe, because the reason Ferrari was faster than Mercedes in 2015 Singapore, and was competitive in2016 is because that track is very bumpy. I hope Mercedes capitalizes on it's straight line advantage because Austria is not a track that Hamilton qualifies well on, those two final corners are tricky for him, which means that if Vettel takes pole in Austria, bar any reliability issues or race incidents he should take the win as well.
Ferrari changed Vettel's ICE in Spain.
Yes, the bumps affect traction out of corners, as well as on entry. Going through the corners itself is not the issue, it's on entry and exit. Where Hamilton suffers is that he can't feel the threshold of grip when the track is excessively bumpy on entry, this is because Hamilton's style is all about braking as late as possible, and taking a geometrically perfect line.Big Mangalhit wrote: ↑16 Jun 2017, 17:01I might be mistaken but I thought that some drivers complain that the massive straight was a bit bumpy. Do you think the bumps will only influence on corners when tyres are loaded?godlameroso wrote: ↑16 Jun 2017, 15:30Ferrari is still the faster car overall in race conditions, and Baku will be much different to last year. I still think Mercedes has a better shot at winning than Ferrari because the road is not bumpy like Monaco. That is the difference I believe, because the reason Ferrari was faster than Mercedes in 2015 Singapore, and was competitive in2016 is because that track is very bumpy. I hope Mercedes capitalizes on it's straight line advantage because Austria is not a track that Hamilton qualifies well on, those two final corners are tricky for him, which means that if Vettel takes pole in Austria, bar any reliability issues or race incidents he should take the win as well.
Has for the fastest car I am really happy this year we need to wait to see which car is faster and even then they are so close that strategy and drivers have the final saying.
in gods name for what?
http://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewto ... 11#p701511Gilles27Kimi7 wrote: ↑17 Jun 2017, 17:18Baku is strange, bit I don't think it's all that bad. There's a first sector which is all 90°, but there's nothing that could be done there, a second sector up and down the Hill around the old city and a full straight third sector. Valencia was much worse.
Beside that, shouldn't Pirelli have brought US/SS/S?
