2016 Bahrain Grand Prix - Bahrain, April 01-03

[Hail22]

Is there a video of Hamilton's pole somewhere?

Nicole Scherzinger probably still has one.

Haha, where would be without you Bhall? Now that Raymundo, Crucial etc have gone missing!

[flickerf1]

Is there a video of Hamilton's pole somewhere?

Here: http://youtu.be/lRtJGXvpfWg

[DiogoBrand]

Is there a video of Hamilton's pole somewhere?

Here: http://youtu.be/lRtJGXvpfWg

I'm guessing it wasn't on this lap that he put 4 wheels off track, was it?

[Poleman]

Is there a video of Hamilton's pole somewhere?

http://www.formula1.com/content/fom-web ... hrain.html

[flickerf1]

Is there a video of Hamilton's pole somewhere?

Here: http://youtu.be/lRtJGXvpfWg

I'm guessing it wasn't on this lap that he put 4 wheels off track, was it?

No. Sorry about that.

[FrukostScones]

Pirelli:
"- A three-stop strategy is theoretically quickest for the 57-lap race: start on supersoft, change to soft on lap 14, soft again on lap 29 and soft again on lap 43.
- If a driver has enough new supersofts available (around a second per lap faster than the soft) another effective strategy would be: start on supersoft, then change to supersoft again on laps 12 and 27, then a final stint on soft from lap 42.
- The fastest two-stopper would be start on supersoft, medium on lap 12, then soft from lap 37. However, this carries a significant pace disadvantage."
http://www.pitpass.com/55789/Bahrain-GP ... es-Pirelli

No SS - S-S, I somehow got stuck on two stops on softer tyres. Shows what I knew , even though they sometimes overestimate number of stops. At least medium part was somehow closer to reality.

let's see what Williams will do with the meds..

Prop they do SS-M-S

has Ferrari enough tyres for SS-S-S-S ?

[giantfan10]

Pirelli:
"- A three-stop strategy is theoretically quickest for the 57-lap race: start on supersoft, change to soft on lap 14, soft again on lap 29 and soft again on lap 43.
- If a driver has enough new supersofts available (around a second per lap faster than the soft) another effective strategy would be: start on supersoft, then change to supersoft again on laps 12 and 27, then a final stint on soft from lap 42.
- The fastest two-stopper would be start on supersoft, medium on lap 12, then soft from lap 37. However, this carries a significant pace disadvantage."
http://www.pitpass.com/55789/Bahrain-GP ... es-Pirelli

No SS - S-S, I somehow got stuck on two stops on softer tyres. Shows what I knew , even though they sometimes overestimate number of stops. At least medium part was somehow closer to reality.

let's see what Williams will do with the meds..

Prop they do SS-M-S

has Ferrari enough tyres for SS-S-S-S ?

i think they have enough for SS-S-S the rest is used except for one medium

[giantfan10]

Pirelli:
"- A three-stop strategy is theoretically quickest for the 57-lap race: start on supersoft, change to soft on lap 14, soft again on lap 29 and soft again on lap 43.
- If a driver has enough new supersofts available (around a second per lap faster than the soft) another effective strategy would be: start on supersoft, then change to supersoft again on laps 12 and 27, then a final stint on soft from lap 42.
- The fastest two-stopper would be start on supersoft, medium on lap 12, then soft from lap 37. However, this carries a significant pace disadvantage."
http://www.pitpass.com/55789/Bahrain-GP ... es-Pirelli

No SS - S-S, I somehow got stuck on two stops on softer tyres. Shows what I knew , even though they sometimes overestimate number of stops. At least medium part was somehow closer to reality.

let's see what Williams will do with the meds..

Prop they do SS-M-S

has Ferrari enough tyres for SS-S-S-S ?

i think they have enough for SS-S-S the rest is used except for one medium

i'm willing to bet its going to be SS-S-M temperatures will be pretty low and dropping for the entire GP.. graining on softs may screw up a lot of strategies

[godlameroso]

You lose 24 seconds in the pits, the difference between the medium and the super soft is around 3 seconds, and the softs are 1.7 seconds faster than the medium in ultimate pace. However, the degradation cross over for the tires means the medium tire will be faster than the SS and S tires after 10 and 15 laps respectively. So a three stop will work, but only, and only if they can control the graining on the soft tire.

Also temperatures will be the highest they've been all weekend during the race, however this is all relative, we're talking 19-20C. Compared to 16-17C during P2 and qualifying.

[PlatinumZealot]

HAM as his car set up to a higher top speed than Nico. I think HAM is taking the 2 stopper too. should be a good battle.

[flickerf1]

Here: http://youtu.be/lRtJGXvpfWg

I'm guessing it wasn't on this lap that he put 4 wheels off track, was it?

Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vba8VOPmIk0

[ChrisDanger]

Can someone just work this out, I watched the timing on the Qualy and Lewis went Purple in all 3 sectors on his last run.
Yet if I add his fastest sector times up, it is faster than hos pole lap ?

He went purple for the session, i.e. Q3. There may have been faster sectors in Q1 and Q2 but it all gets reset between each session.

[superdowg316]

Well that's annoying, really thought JB could get into the Top 10. Maybe a miracle in the race?

[i70q7m7ghw]

Well that's annoying, really thought JB could get into the Top 10. Maybe a miracle in the race?

I think he could have, he just had a bad lap, and the qualifying format only really gives you a chance for 1 lap.

[f1316]

OK so this is the bit that struck me at the time:



You can see on the left that this is after first runs in Q3 and yet, looking at the bottom right, you see Ham has fastest S3 time. That seems to me that going wide in the final corner was either a. an advantage or b. certainly not a disadvantage that should have resulted from an error.

I don't care and I don't want to see someone knocked out of Q3 - the 'proper' qualifying format would have given him the other run anyway, during which he went faster - but just haven't seen anyone picking up on this yet.