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Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton enjoyed a sunny Sunday afternoon at Monza where he led the Italian Grand Prix from start to finish. Valtteri Bottas completed the party for Mercedes by finishing in second, a long way ahead of Sebastian Vettel.
They can go back to previous iterations, the new rule is to prevent engine part stockpiling although the writing is a bit ambigous.Restomaniac wrote: ↑01 Sep 2017, 13:46I never thought of that point. I would then say that surely this weekend or last would be the place to take that penalty. Is that going to bite them? Although wait weren't the rules changed so that it isn't just an extra component thrown into the pool and the extra component is the only component you can use from then on? Surely if they have a TC that works with the new ICE then they can't go back to an old ICE with the then new TC that they then have to use.Big Mangalhit wrote: ↑01 Sep 2017, 13:41They have, but at the time it was because there was no time to change parts.Basically they put two new TC at the same time meaning they have little usage between them so they could maybe go to the end of the championship.
But on the other hand they might need to introduce a new TC with the new ICE, usually these components go hand in hand and so they probably will need to take a penalty then.
The penalty of changing only the TC is 10 places on the grid, not the worse but that would mean probably a 5-6 position
This is something more normal and what we could see tomorrow. Anyway Ferrari needs to close the gap a Little more because a front row for Mercedes would make imposible a victory for the scuderia.
Hopefully, you're right for their sake. With last year's Q3 time being a 1:21.1, you have to think there is a decent amount of time to be had in this year's cars, even with the lack of medium to high downforce corners. Mclaren will likely become exposed once again when the other team's turn the wicks up with the the Quali engine modes.
Ah fair enough but that wasn't how I understood the regs.Big Mangalhit wrote: ↑01 Sep 2017, 15:37They can go back to previous iterations, the new rule is to prevent engine part stockpiling although the writing is a bit ambigous.Restomaniac wrote: ↑01 Sep 2017, 13:46I never thought of that point. I would then say that surely this weekend or last would be the place to take that penalty. Is that going to bite them? Although wait weren't the rules changed so that it isn't just an extra component thrown into the pool and the extra component is the only component you can use from then on? Surely if they have a TC that works with the new ICE then they can't go back to an old ICE with the then new TC that they then have to use.Big Mangalhit wrote: ↑01 Sep 2017, 13:41They have, but at the time it was because there was no time to change parts.Basically they put two new TC at the same time meaning they have little usage between them so they could maybe go to the end of the championship.
But on the other hand they might need to introduce a new TC with the new ICE, usually these components go hand in hand and so they probably will need to take a penalty then.
The penalty of changing only the TC is 10 places on the grid, not the worse but that would mean probably a 5-6 position
They were, it was clear on the tv coverage.ChrisDanger wrote: ↑01 Sep 2017, 16:41BBC Radio 5 commentary suggested they were practising slipstreaming for qualifying tomorrow.
Other than the likely ERS deployment issues Mclaren have in races I think that they have another problem which hampers them greatly.ChrisDanger wrote: ↑01 Sep 2017, 16:41BBC Radio 5 commentary suggested they were practising slipstreaming for qualifying tomorrow.
Your welcome!Andres125sx wrote: ↑01 Sep 2017, 18:31I´m not sure when they did start to make video summaries of FP in the official F1 website, but the production smell like american... thank you Liberty!!