2015 Chinese Grand Prix - Shanghai, April 10-12

[SilverArrow10]

Regardless of what Nico says, we all know if Lewis was behind and in the same situation, he would have closed up as close as possible and attacked. Maybe not sustained but for a couple of laps before backing off and trying again later. Think about this:

1. How many times did Nico competitively pass and make it stick on Lewis last year?
2. Now the same for Lewis on Nico?

I'm not sure Nico did it once and we can't count Spa.

Lewis overtook Nico on track several times in 2013 and 2014 - as far as I can remember Monza 2013, Brazil 2013, Bahrain 2014, Monza 2014, US 2014, and was about to pull off a pass in the braking zone at the end of the straight just before the chicane in Canada 2014 just as his brakes failed. Any I've forgotten?

Nico never passed Lewis on track in either 2013 or 2014 as far as I'm aware. Anyone else have examples where he had?

Korea 2013 I think. Don't take my word for it. I think Rosberg passed Hamilton and his front wing fell off right after in astonishment

[Roman]

Does anybody know why this year's fastest lap was 1.8 sec slower than last year's (42.2 v. 40.4)? The 2015 cars should be faster than the 2014 cars. Or were all drivers in front just cruising?

[Harsha]

Does anybody know why this year's fastest lap was 1.8 sec slower than last year's (42.2 v. 40.4)? The 2015 cars should be faster than the 2014 cars. Or were all drivers in front just cruising?

all drivers in front just nursing the cheese burgers

[Artur Craft]

They should be faster this year, but they were already slower, on one lap pace, in Sepang, so it's the second time they can't improve on last year...

Anyway, I didn't watch the race nor read this thread but I just would like to share the tv ratings of the past weekend's racing events, on USA:

Series x1000 viewers
Friday:
NASCAR XFINITY SERIES L 1172
NASCAR SPRINT CUP QUAL L 678
NASCAR XFINITY QUALIFY L 302

Saturday
NHRA QUALIFYING 318
F1 RACING L 211
INDYCAR QUALIFYING 164
F1 QUALIFYING 70

Sunday
NHRA DRAG RACING 589
INDYCAR SERIES L 341
MOTOGP WORLD CHAMP L 231
MOTOGP MOTO3 L 178
MOTOGP MOTO2 L 159
FIA WORLD ENDURANCE CHP L 121

Last year's F1 season finale had 473 000 viewers, for reference. Still quite less than NHRA Drag Racing in the past weekend

[Moose]

Last year's F1 season finale had 473 000 viewers, for reference. Still quite less than NHRA Drag Racing in the past weekend

You should probably clarify that this is 473k viewers in the US - by comparison, last year's F1 finale had 5 million viewers in the UK alone, a country with 1/5 the population of the US.

[dans79]

Last year's F1 season finale had 473 000 viewers, for reference. Still quite less than NHRA Drag Racing in the past weekend

You should probably clarify that this is 473k viewers in the US - by comparison, last year's F1 finale had 5 million viewers in the UK alone, a country with 1/5 the population of the US.

You might want to consider the air time, in the US. To watch a race live, I usually have to stay up late, or get up damn early. The real question is do the numbers include DVR?

[SectorOne]

Last year's F1 season finale had 473 000 viewers, for reference. Still quite less than NHRA Drag Racing in the past weekend

What´s your point exactly?

That viewership is low in USA (although rising) and extremely high in the rest of the world by comparison or something else?

[TAG]

They should be faster this year, but they were already slower, on one lap pace, in Sepang, so it's the second time they can't improve on last year...

Anyway, I didn't watch the race nor read this thread but I just would like to share the tv ratings of the past weekend's racing events, on USA:

Series x1000 viewers
Sunday
NHRA DRAG RACING 589


Last year's F1 season finale had 473 000 viewers, for reference. Still quite less than NHRA Drag Racing in the past weekend

How many viewers do you think they'd have if they had to get up at 2AM to watch the race?

[markp]

This years race was 1 minute 14 second slower despite 2 more laps than last year 2 of them behind the safety car. Fastest lap was 7 seconds off pole which is large even for current rules. Maybe higher temps meant knowone wanted to push really hard on one lap incase tyres fell off the cliff?

[giantfan10]

it was slower because we had the person in first cruising ... the person in second not wanting to ruin their tires by pushing the person in first and the person in third ruining their tires pushing to catch the person in second .. the person in fourth ran out of time to catch the person in third.
thats pretty much it for the chinese gp a borefest

[djos]

Does anybody know why this year's fastest lap was 1.8 sec slower than last year's (42.2 v. 40.4)? The 2015 cars should be faster than the 2014 cars. Or were all drivers in front just cruising?

all drivers in front just nursing the cheese burgers

2 things, crap tires and too few PU's per season!

[Juzh]

1.8s though. That's a lot. It's not like tires last year were 2010 bridgestones.

[djos]

1.8s though. That's a lot. It's not like tires last year were 2010 bridgestones.

I think the PU situation is the biggest issue, that and the Renault powered cars from RedBull are mia lowering the competitive pressure.

Ps Renault have admitted they've found a major design flaw with their piston. Says a lot considering the arguments that have been raging around here recently.

[raymondu999]

Ps Renault have admitted they've found a major design flaw with their piston.

This is a race thread, not an engine thread

[raymondu999]

I kept on asking myself why they didn't just pick up the front of the car and pivot it when they were recovering Verstappen's Toro Rosso.

Because 340 kilos?