Turkish Grand Prix 2011, Istanbul Park - Race 4/19

Well I agree they aren't totally caught up but certainly in that race they are now in the ball park.

As for strategy, other than a mess up or a bad pit, it's not really a game changer as they all have to do the same, due to the tyres. The early promise seems to of died as as they gather more data will die even more.
 
Even if McLaren/Ferrari do catch RBR, and I am not convinced they will (remember RBR have upgrades on the way shortly), RBR are going to already have too much of a lead. Look what they did with the season last year, and that was filled with mistakes and unreliability. The problem this year is that the pace is all over the place - one minute it looks like RBR are seconds ahead of everyone else, the next they are getting chased down. Vettel seems to be doing an excellent job so far though, and in his current form I don't think anyone can catch him.

I would love to see a team catch RBR, it would be great for us watching. The problem is, if Ferrari manage to catch McLaren and start taking points of them, as I have said already it makes RBR's job even easier.
 
Surely though, at Monaco, there won't be many areas where DRS can be used? If so, I suspect that DRS won't really be a factor there.
 
Just home after visiting Norfolk on a flying trip.

Team Lotus are wonderful chaps and ladychaps. :D Really friendly and the tour is well worth doing as you get into many of the areas you're normally kept out of. Oh, and the dogs are utterly spoilt. ;) Team members were happy to answer questions and we got to nose around the race cars which were then being built up for Spain. Nice chat with Trulli race engineer.

Ok, it was £80, but for nearly 2 hours worth of time, plus goodiebag at the end. Lotus T128 USB stick, Team Lotus lanyard and most impressively... A damn good book. This one in fact. Not released until June.

Would have been even lovelier, but I've already got one from the media event at Duxford *and mine is kinda unique, many signatures of team members inside. ;)*

Still absolutely worth the trip. Also learnt some insteresting things from a friend about Group's plans... possibly more on that later if I can find something online that talks about it. *not sure if it's public yet*
 
dannyjo22 said:
I go to about A2 size with that max, unless I was putting it on canvas then I'd go much higher.
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I was thinking about a canvas. I have an A2 print from the McLaren shop (the Eau Rouge one from last year) and its nice, but its £25 for the print plus a frame (which arent easy to find in A2). A canvas could go bigger, and work out cheaper.
 
Just got back from Istanbul earlier today, and thought I'd drop a note with a few photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregkingston/sets/72157626707009580/

Decent grand prix - no action at the front but plenty going on behind Vettel. Seeing it live gives a different perspective, and the Red Bulls were mighty. We sat in the last complex before the start / finish straight, and they were so much smoother through there than any other team.

The only other quick observation from the weekend is just how awful the Lotus and Renault sound under low revs / traction control. Like dropping a bag of spanners onto some firecrackers. In the dry it is just about bearable, but on Friday in the wet it was terrible!

JB had a storming weekend that his position didn't show. He must have overtaken and harried far more than any other driver.

Looking forward to Montreal - hoping to get there next.
 
http://www.crash.net/f1/news/169173/1/whitmarsh_hamiltons_aggression_doesnt_always_pay.html

Interesting bit from Whitmarsh on how Hamiltons aggression costs him places. Again for me it highlights that F1 currently needs DRS if the tyres are so delicate that a laps hard battling can ruin your race.

Imagine these tyres without DRS, you would attack for a lap then fall back again. The trouble is the general public seem to love these tyres so they won't change them :(
 
dannyjo22 said:
He's not looking at buying it from them I presume, but using the picture linked in the thread earlier that was 1680x1120 :)
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Canvas print companies don't think it will go any bigger than A2 anyway :(

Its a shame. I might have to get it in A2 though to go with my other one. But £25 for the print plus £25 for the frame makes it an expensive picture...
 
Interesting article.

It attempts to balance out the argument against his return.

The article seems to suggest that compared with Button, he didn't do too badly. Fair enough.

What the article doesn't go into is the fact that MSc's team-mate has outperformed him, over the last 21 (?) races. The best way to use statistics is by looking over a long period of time (ignoring micro trends, ie. individual races). The last time MSc was out performed by his team-mate, in a long series of races was...err....never.
 
dannyjo22 said:
The trouble is the general public seem to love these tyres so they won't change them :(
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I'm loving these tyres. 4 pitstops in a race increases the likelihood of chaos and makes the race unpredictable.

If we go back to the system of last year, where a race tyre could last the entire race, Vettel will hit the front and stay there for the entire race. The one race which Vettel lost was because his tyres didn't allow him to stay on them for a long duration.

I can't understand why anybody would want to make the races more predictable.
 
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