Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2013, Yas Marina - Race 17/19

Grosjean trying to push Van Der Garde off the track there.

Everyone is leaving the track limits. Rosberg did at least twice. Alonso did a couple of times too. *sigh*

Whats the point...
 
If they are as it stands Hamilton would breeze pole as he's the only one making sure he's inside the line on both corners. Rosberg wasn't close, Vettel we'll see soon enough hopefully but he tends to go wider than most when allowed. Was way out last week in both sections most people were going off the track.
 
I'm not entirely sure where they are looking but they made a very specific point of saying don't do it at 21, that doesn't necessarily mean they won't look at other corners, just there tends to be a corner they all like going over and they tell them either they can or can't. They went out of their way to say they can't, so seems very silly for so many to go over the line.

He's on course to match Massa(he says with 5 seconds to go)....... goes half a second faster. Hamilton takes it noticeably easier in the final corner and seems to be the safest in terms of inside that white line.

Of course most of the guys on softs weren't looking to burn up their softs and weren't pushing as hard as possible so easier to stay on the correct side of the line. Not surprisingly the slowest cars, I think say Ferrari/Williams, who were actually still under pressure were pushing harder and went out wide. Was it Maldonado who went absolutely miles wide and took ages to come back on the track as well?
 
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utajoker said:
track sped up so much over the session, looks like last driver across the line will have the best chance of pole.
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They say this most weeks and it's 80% due to Vettel/Webber/Hamilton and co doing a time, then getting beaten by seemingly much less good cars, but this is purely those guys saving tyres, they'll almost always reuse the tyres once in the next session. IE Massa blows Vettel away 4 minutes after Vettel goes fastest, they go "track evolution, zomg", when in reality Vettel was cruising and just putting in a safe lap with every intention to use those tyres in Q2 as well while Massa/Hulk/Maldonado were pushing 100% to make sure they get through.

Hamilton's time was because unlike Vettel who had time to make a mistake, do a slow lap and come back out to fix it, Hamilton left it late, had one shot and had to make it count so had to push a bit harder than he wanted.

We've also had qualifying where Q3 was fastest in the first minutes, forget which track, where the temp dropped too much by end of session and no one, including Vettel could get close to the times from 7-8 minutes earlier, this has definite potential for that situation due to the approaching nighttime/dropping temps situation.
 
it like they are just to scared of causing controversy where there shouldnt be any room for debate with something like this
 
IF they are going to get people for going off track, Rosberg is going to be the highest casualty, every single lap he's done has been way off in that final corner.

This will be the more interesting time now, will the track start to fall away in times, if the guys struggle to do faster laps towards the end of this session then they need to adjust to that and go out the second Q3 starts with fresh tyres to do their best. I forget which race Vettel did that but no one came close for the rest of the session.
 
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