Chinese GP 2009 - Shanghai

[xpensive]

To Norman Bates & Freedom honda;
I for one can see exactly where Briatore is coming from, when saying the following;

"Since it's a new team, it has to follow all the regulations we followed when we entered with new teams. I will propose that to FOTA, then we'll see."

FOTA was trying to be nice to Brawn, pretending it was not a new tem, now that Brawn's neglection of "the spirit of the rules" is costing everybody else a ----load of money, he sees no reason for them to be any more "in spirit" than Brawn. =D>

[JamesS]

Any news on a penalty for the two planks who blocked Heiki?

Im dying to know the fuel loads, Lewis had pace in Q2 but then a relatively poor performance in Q3.

[Motley]

Fuel weights are up on FIA website,

Alonso is very light, Red Bulls are 15kg lighter than the Brawns, Lewis is 20kg heavier than the Brawns....

[leomax]

So alonso softs for first stint,it will be interesting to see how it will pan out.will he get stuck behind someone after first pits..

[Metar]

Fuel weights are up on FIA website,

Alonso is very light, Red Bulls are 15kg lighter than the Brawns, Lewis is 20kg heavier than the Brawns....

Where do they bring those?

[Motley]

Fuel weights are up on FIA website,

Alonso is very light, Red Bulls are 15kg lighter than the Brawns, Lewis is 20kg heavier than the Brawns....

Where do they bring those?

http://www.fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/f1 ... event.aspx

[Metar]

I've got a spreadsheet ready - what's the average fuel-usage?

I read somewhere it's around 2.6-2.7kg per lap... I've set a spreadsheet that estimates 2.65kg per laps, and 610kg minimum (fuel for warmup round, etc) - will post in a second.

[Project Four]

Which Red Bull was blocking Kovalainen? I'm expecting them and Rosberg to both get a penalty.

It looked like it was Webber, but there was a car in front of him that looked like it was blocking / slowing him. That car looked like it was Heidfeld, but it was not that clear.

[ESPImperium]

Heres my simulation:



All i need is some Chassis details and ill have it complete for this race.

I am thinking that the non-KERS cars have a advantage so far on this track.

[freedom_honda]

Fuel weights are up on FIA website,

Alonso is very light, Red Bulls are 15kg lighter than the Brawns, Lewis is 20kg heavier than the Brawns....

that would explain why the RedBulls are infront of the brawns

[hulmerist]

my guesses

• vettel 1 644 13
  alonso 2 637 11
  webber 3 646.5 14
  barrichello 4 661 20
  button 5 659 19
  trulli 6 664.5 21
  rosberg 7 650.5 16
  raikkonen 8 673.5 24
  hamilton 9 679 26
  buemi 10 673 24
  heidfeld 11 679 26
  kovalainen 12 697 33
  massa 13 690 30
  glock 14 652 16
  nakajima 15 682.7 28
  bourdais 16 690 30
  piquet 17 697.9 33
  kubica 18 659 19
  sutil 19 648 15
  fisichella 20 679.5 26

[Metar]

My shot at a table, taking into account a bit of fuel for the warmup lap, and a small safety-margin:

[djos]

Hmmm, so it looks like BoyWonder, Nando & Webbo are all going for a 1st short fast stint on the SuperSofts to get them outta the way and hopefully be there at the end on the Medium Compounds when everyone else is battling the SuperSofts.

[djos]

Fuel weights are up on FIA website,

Alonso is very light, Red Bulls are 15kg lighter than the Brawns, Lewis is 20kg heavier than the Brawns....

that would explain why the RedBulls are infront of the brawns

Well the RB5 seems to be faster on this circuit then the BGP01 anyway; just look at Q2 where Vettel and Webbo where easily the fastest.

[blobslosak]

Brawn GP are the king of long stints though. The rest will struggle to match their race lap times. Apparently in practice Jenson's last lap on super softs was only 0.3s slower than his fastest in a 9 lap stint. Not sure which other cars can do that.