2018 British Grand Prix, Silverstone, July 6-8

[MtthsMlw]

Chassis change for Grosjean..

[F1NAC]

Vettel was blinding fast at the end of FP1, doing laps on high 1.31,... sec whereas Kimi doing 1 sec. and Bottas was 1.3 sec slower ...

And also worth to mention that Vettel tested the spoon wing and Kimi a standard one ...

In conclusion, Ferrari is splitting their workload between the drivers, with Vettel testing for the 2 stops strategy and Kimi went for the 1 stop one...

What are you talking about?

[atanatizante]

Maybe not representative times but for a short race sim here they are:

[F1NAC]

TIL that race sim == 2 laps

[mkay]

Maybe not representative times but for a short race sim here they are:

https://postimages.org/

1. This is not a race sim at all. Can't extrapolate that from 2 laps of data.
2. FP1 is not representative of race weather conditions. It's likely to be much hotter at 2pm on race day than at 10am today.
3. With qualifying pace likely in the 1:25s for Mercedes/Ferrari, I'd expect the leaders' race pace to be firmly in the 1:31-1:32s...

[seventhsin]

Watching Hamilton's on-board lap, he manually closes DRS in the braking zone with his left thumb. If DRS is automatically closed when a driver lifts off/brakes, why would he cancel it himself?



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[Sierra117]

Watching Hamilton's on-board lap, he manually closes DRS in the braking zone with his left thumb. If DRS is automatically closed when a driver lifts off/brakes, why would he cancel it himself?

Lewis always operates the DRS manually. His preference. Plus, sometimes you may want to close it to get that downforce well before a certain turn, which may leave you with less grip if you lifted off, because lifting off means downforce + loss of power = spending more time at the turn.

If you saw him do that in the new DRS zone, then it's because of a technicality that came with the new zone, where you have to keep your foot planted through the turn in order to reopen the DRS flap. This is for safety, because if cars don't have enough mechanical grip to go flat out with the DRS open, they will lift off (which will close the DRS and you cannot reopen it). If your car has the mechanical grip, then you can manually close it, keep foot planted, then reopen it.

I think someone else can articulate it a bit better than me

[GrandAxe]

Chassis change for Grosjean..

That's easily close to a million Dollars worth of Damage Grosjean did then, and in P1 too, not even Q1 yet.
The clock has to be ticking for him.

[Big Tea]

Watching Hamilton's on-board lap, he manually closes DRS in the braking zone with his left thumb. If DRS is automatically closed when a driver lifts off/brakes, why would he cancel it himself?



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It takes a couple of fractions to re-attach after closing. He can hit the peddle a fraction later if he closes it himself

[rscsr]

Chassis change for Grosjean..

That's easily close to a million Dollars worth of Damage Grosjean did then, and in P1 too, not even Q1 yet.
The clock has to be ticking for him.

how in the world do people come up with such numbers?
But I do agree, I think he certainly has to score about as much as Magnussen to have a chance for a cockpit next season. But who would be available (except for Leclerc, should Ferrari decide to want him not in the Ferrari yet)?

[rscsr]

And Verstappen crashed again.

[GrandAxe]

Max Crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrashtappen!
I expect there's a gearbox change in there ... Costly.

[Zynerji]

Chassis change for Grosjean..

That's easily close to a million Dollars worth of Damage Grosjean did then, and in P1 too, not even Q1 yet.
The clock has to be ticking for him.

how in the world do people come up with such numbers?
But I do agree, I think he certainly has to score about as much as Magnussen to have a chance for a cockpit next season. But who would be available (except for Leclerc, should Ferrari decide to want him not in the Ferrari yet)?

I recall an article from a year or 3 ago that put a chassis at 900k$. Maybe they are less expensive now?

[santos]

Guess who crash? Crash again. Crashappen is back. Tell a friend.

[GrandAxe]

That's easily close to a million Dollars worth of Damage Grosjean did then, and in P1 too, not even Q1 yet.
The clock has to be ticking for him.

how in the world do people come up with such numbers?
But I do agree, I think he certainly has to score about as much as Magnussen to have a chance for a cockpit next season. But who would be available (except for Leclerc, should Ferrari decide to want him not in the Ferrari yet)?

I recall an article from a year or 3 ago that put a chassis at 900k$. Maybe they are less expensive now?

Indeed. The most recent articles say about 1 million Dollars, slightly older ones range around $700k.