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Lewis Hamilton scored a dominant victory at the Chinese Grand Prix, leading the race from start to finish. Nico Rosberg recovered from a difficult start to finish second while Fernando Alonso secured Ferrari's first podium of the season.
Renault are now blaming their fuel supplier, Total. Supposedly there is something in Total's gasoline mixture that eats away at the rubber o rings leading to incorrect readings.Kiril Varbanov wrote:RBR has had fuel flow sensor issues again in Q1.
I think we are jumping conclusions way too quickly here....the cars (even the Merc) are not optimised in any way. Every weekend the cars perform with slight malfunctions. Especially the electronics play tricks all the time. I doubt that Raikkonen is a full second slower. He was a bit unclever by overtaking Massa, he should have waited on the straight already, warming up tires and go for it...beelsebob wrote:To be honest, as sad as it is, I think all we're seeing is that Kimi is maybe not quite as good a driver as we might have thought he was in the past. He's still a pretty damn good driver, he's just not up there on the level of Alonso and Hamilton.zeph wrote:I don't know the particulars of Raikkonen's struggles, but to be this far off the pace from Alonso begs the question, just how bad is that Ferrari really, or just how good is Alonso?
I have always rated Raikkonen highly, and perhaps he just has more trouble adjusting to the new formula, but I'd expected him to have sorted it out by now and draw closer to his teammate.
This is not correct, the FIA was the one that said it was a problem with the fuel. Also it doesn't cause incorrect readings, it kills the sensor completely.ecapox wrote: Renault are now blaming their fuel supplier, Total. Supposedly there is something in Total's gasoline mixture that eats away at the rubber o rings leading to incorrect readings.
I thought the FIA said the problem may be with teams altering the sensors? Specifically Red Bull making alterations to a tube between sensors and if it is not exactly right, makes the sensors faulty.dans79 wrote:This is not correct, the FIA was the one that said it was a problem with the fuel. Also it doesn't cause incorrect readings, it kills the sensor completely.ecapox wrote: Renault are now blaming their fuel supplier, Total. Supposedly there is something in Total's gasoline mixture that eats away at the rubber o rings leading to incorrect readings.
A driver's ability to drive around imperfections is a valid metric for comparing performance. If I race f1 drivers on the straightest track and I achieve the same lap time, am I somehow as good as they are?..no. Its the challenges that seperate the pretenders from the real deal.Mandrake wrote:I think we are jumping conclusions way too quickly here....the cars (even the Merc) are not optimised in any way. Every weekend the cars perform with slight malfunctions. Especially the electronics play tricks all the time. I doubt that Raikkonen is a full second slower. He was a bit unclever by overtaking Massa, he should have waited on the straight already, warming up tires and go for it...beelsebob wrote:To be honest, as sad as it is, I think all we're seeing is that Kimi is maybe not quite as good a driver as we might have thought he was in the past. He's still a pretty damn good driver, he's just not up there on the level of Alonso and Hamilton.zeph wrote:I don't know the particulars of Raikkonen's struggles, but to be this far off the pace from Alonso begs the question, just how bad is that Ferrari really, or just how good is Alonso?
I have always rated Raikkonen highly, and perhaps he just has more trouble adjusting to the new formula, but I'd expected him to have sorted it out by now and draw closer to his teammate.
The difference between a perfectly working car and one with some issues are huge. Other than the Merc there is always something. Hulk is not that much better than Perez, Ricciardo is not 6 tenths quicker than Vettel.
Yep. I read it incorrectly.dans79 wrote:This is not correct, the FIA was the one that said it was a problem with the fuel. Also it doesn't cause incorrect readings, it kills the sensor completely.ecapox wrote: Renault are now blaming their fuel supplier, Total. Supposedly there is something in Total's gasoline mixture that eats away at the rubber o rings leading to incorrect readings.
It's bothSiLo wrote:I thought the FIA said the problem may be with teams altering the sensors? Specifically Red Bull making alterations to a tube between sensors and if it is not exactly right, makes the sensors faulty.dans79 wrote:This is not correct, the FIA was the one that said it was a problem with the fuel. Also it doesn't cause incorrect readings, it kills the sensor completely.ecapox wrote: Renault are now blaming their fuel supplier, Total. Supposedly there is something in Total's gasoline mixture that eats away at the rubber o rings leading to incorrect readings.
irc://irc.quakenet.org/#f1technicalEmerson.F wrote:Morning everybody, im ready. Anybody else watching Sky?
I don't know about the other Ferrari-powered cars, but at the Ferrari team they do it every gpKiril Varbanov wrote:All the Ferrari-powered cars had spark plug changes overnight.
