Nico Rosberg has won the first Mexican Grand Prix in its current shape, leading the race from start to finish. He led his team mate Lewis Hamilton throughout while Valtteri Bottas completed the podium in third place.
True, you can't curb ride like Berger used to, when you are constantly lifting and coasting to mind the fuel consumption. Curb riding means you are pushing as well, but nowadays you can't push or you'll just wear the tires down too soon.zeph wrote:These cars can do all of that. But the tires won't let them.
That, and they need to be mindful of fuel flow and consumption.
I think the best example of the weakness of the tyres is Bottas in qualifying in Austria last year. He was on a mega lap, but lost time in the final sector. When asked afterwards he said the tyres wouldn't last the whole lap, so because he was pushing 100% in the first half of the lap, he lost performance from the tyres in the second half. What kind of Formula is that? Tyres that can't even be pushed to the limit for a single hot lap...WaikeCU wrote:True, you can't curb ride like Berger used to, when you are constantly lifting and coasting to mind the fuel consumption. Curb riding means you are pushing as well, but nowadays you can't push or you'll just wear the tires down too soon.zeph wrote:These cars can do all of that. But the tires won't let them.
That, and they need to be mindful of fuel flow and consumption.
That's historically, exactly the kind of thing F1 has had. In fact, historically, we had qualifying tires, that deffinately could not get peak performance for a whole lap.Diesel wrote:I think the best example of the weakness of the tyres is Bottas in qualifying in Austria last year. He was on a mega lap, but lost time in the final sector. When asked afterwards he said the tyres wouldn't last the whole lap, so because he was pushing 100% in the first half of the lap, he lost performance from the tyres in the second half. What kind of Formula is that? Tyres that can't even be pushed to the limit for a single hot lap...WaikeCU wrote:True, you can't curb ride like Berger used to, when you are constantly lifting and coasting to mind the fuel consumption. Curb riding means you are pushing as well, but nowadays you can't push or you'll just wear the tires down too soon.zeph wrote:These cars can do all of that. But the tires won't let them.
That, and they need to be mindful of fuel flow and consumption.
I feel Mexico suffered a bit, because everyone was going for a 1 stop, which meant managing the tyres in both stints. The SC helped nullify that a bit.
Wow. Thank you. That was great!Mastudio wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0u1Jkpftbs
Excuses for mistakes in qualifying, being slower and missing the pole by Bottas are hardly a healthy indication of tyre characteristics. "He said it" so that's it? Interestingly enough every other driver not saying anything means nothing here. Some fine details of working range/performance that applied to everyone turned into usual poor drivers limited by evil equipment. Do you really believe it was tyres' fault not his? Same as Raikkonen collision in Mexico. (<- look, on topic!)I think the best example of the weakness of the tyres is Bottas in qualifying in Austria last year. He was on a mega lap, but lost time in the final sector. When asked afterwards he said the tyres wouldn't last the whole lap, so because he was pushing 100% in the first half of the lap, he lost performance from the tyres in the second half. What kind of Formula is that?
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