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Sebastian Vetel has won the Japanese Grand Prix thanks to a masterful drive all the way from the start to the finish. Button's championship lead is now cut to 16 points and everything is still possible. Jarno Trulli finished second, Lewis Hamilton third.
andartop wrote:Well, Islam, I have to admit you re right: according to the press conference, Lewis himself doesn't know whether the KERS malfunctioned before or after the pit stop. (Guess that might indicate it didn't make that much of a difference, as he would probably remember if it did!)
He also describes how he was generally struggling with the car a bit at the last stint due to the lighter fuel load.
Oh, and he admits that despite the KERS problem, he didn't manage to exit the last corner close enough to Jarno at the restart after the SC to have half a chance of overtaking.
With all said and done, I respect that you are convinced that without the KERS problem Lewis would have finished second. I have my doubts, but I have no problem to admit that might as well have been the case.
In any case, either right in front of him or right behind, the thing is that this race proved either a) that the "Trulli train" can be as fast as "The Boss", or b) that "The Boss" can be as slow as the "Trulli train"!
What happened at your second pitstop?
"Just before my second pitstop, I lost KERS, and then coming out of the pitlane I got up to the limiter and all of a sudden the gearbox went into neutral. I didn't realise that for a couple of seconds, so I lost a little bit of time at the exit of the pits, which probably lost me the bit of time which ended up with Jarno coming past me.
"I think it's the first time all year that we've had KERS switch itself off during the race. We couldn't get it back on and don't know exactly what was wrong with it, but I lost a good three tenths a lap because of it.
I have a BSc in Maths and still can't figure this graph out, please somebody explain!n smikle wrote:Yep, the KERS stopped before the second pitstop.
Here have a look..his gearbox also stopped working momentarily for a second or two after he exited the pits. You can see the higher peak on the graph for Hamilton on the pitlap vs Trulli's. Yes Hamilton is that good.. =D>
taken from
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2009/10/04/r ... -analysis/
According to F1 fanatic he could have came out before Trulli with a 0.3 second gap lead. But then again Trulli was very fast in the third stint.. he would have pressure Hamilton to the end.
Awesome I get it, thanks a lot.James wrote:oh if "the leader" pitted on lap 40 I kinda get it
unless he wasn't the leader at that point? I'm going to stop looking at this now, I'm sure it's quite simpleJames wrote:Awesome I get it, thanks a lot.James wrote:oh if "the leader" pitted on lap 40 I kinda get it
Sebastian really dropped them both after the pit stop then
He's a miiiiiillllllllllion times better than the itv chap james allen!richard_leeds wrote:Anyone but Legard petition...
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/legard-out.html
Q. We saw this weekend quite a few big accidents, mainly from rookies. Some drivers complain that this is a bit of a dangerous circuit. What do you think?
Kimi Raikkonen: I think it is a dangerous sport. This is more a kind of old-style circuit. The new circuits have a lot of run-off with asphalt, so it makes no difference if you make a mistake, you can usually get back on the circuit. Here, if you make a mistake you are usually going to hit the wall and I think that is how it should be. You get punished for the mistakes and it makes it more exciting, and I think you need to be more precise.
Ive heard Martin Brundle literally berating those run off areas for softening the sport...mx_tifosi wrote:From autosport.com
Q. We saw this weekend quite a few big accidents, mainly from rookies. Some drivers complain that this is a bit of a dangerous circuit. What do you think?
Kimi Raikkonen: I think it is a dangerous sport. This is more a kind of old-style circuit. The new circuits have a lot of run-off with asphalt, so it makes no difference if you make a mistake, you can usually get back on the circuit. Here, if you make a mistake you are usually going to hit the wall and I think that is how it should be. You get punished for the mistakes and it makes it more exciting, and I think you need to be more precise.
