Australian Grand Prix 2012, Albert Park Circuit - Race 1/20

Flibster said:
Great. They know fuel consumption in different temperature conditions on a different track.

Useful...
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Yeah they just made a guess at how much fuel they need for a lap round Albert Park.

Makes you wonder why they do fuel consumption tests at all, really :) it's not like they can adjust the figures to suit different temps and tracks/gearing, no way that's far too technical for F1.
 
I think they're talking a lot about the blue flags showing on their dash more than physical blue flags. Nearly every Mclaren radio message tells them to save fuel. That video is great by the way, cheers for the link.

Mr Men, you should really get on the phone to McLaren and tell them how to calculate fuel, they were out by a very small margin but obviously you could do better.
 
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Great race, great to see so many teams showing promise.

Cracking performance from Button, and Lewis's race was scuppered from there. Vettel got lucky with the safety car, otherwise I think it would have been a McLaren 1-2. After last season it's nice to see well matched cars at the front, hopefully it'll carry on through the season.

I'm glad the Ferrari showed better race pace, that bodes well. Gutted for Williams/Maldanado - he deserved better than a silly mistake that close to the line, but it's such a delight to see Williams returning to somewhere near the front. Great race from Raikkonen; that Lotus is looking like a great car, pity about Grosjean, he also deserved better.

The real disappointment was the BBC coverage, watching without live timing robs you of so much information about what is going on. And I'm not impressed by the new commentator. Not sure I'll bother with the rest of the highlights-only races, in fact.
 
Don't know why hami is getting stick. Bad start but got screwed by the sc. Would a hami of past 2 years try to over drive and crash like has happened before?
 
Thought it strange at the end of the race when the tope three were together.
Jensen and Lewis barely looked at each other, both them would happily talk to seb....
And seb and jensen having a good old hug and a laugh. No such love between team mates, could be an interesting year :)
 
Yup LH got whupped today to be fair...as I've said I can't remember anyone driving away from LH in the same machinery as Button did...
 
Lap 10 they toild jenson "We are in the window, we are in the window" Remember they have a tonne of codewords. Also there is no way that is all the audio. The radios would have been going mental on the first corner incident.
 
dannyjo22 said:
Haha Button on the radio complaing about Blue flags, did that make the race edit?

They are waving them at him when he's on his own :D
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Yeah, makes Kimi look less silly when it was apparently a problem affecting several drivers. :p

Felt sorry for Pic, sounded like the Marussia fell apart at the end of the race there. Forcing him in with only one lap left! Must have been bad.
 
3dcandy said:
Yup LH got whupped today to be fair...as I've said I can't remember anyone driving away from LH in the same machinery as Button did...
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Erm, he lost out because of the safety car timing. Also if Mclaren hadn't messed up the fuel strategy he probably could have had a go at Vettel.

IMO the 'lapped cars may pass' thingh should be scrapped. They should move to the position they have in the race so everyone on track is in order, but I guess that might take more time to sort out.
 
MissChief said:
Erm, he lost out because of the safety car timing. Also if Mclaren hadn't messed up the fuel strategy he probably could have had a go at Vettel.

IMO the 'lapped cars may pass' thingh should be scrapped. They should move to the position they have in the race so everyone on track is in order, but I guess that might take more time to sort out.
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I think Weebul was talking about LH being whipped by his own team mate, which he comprehensively was, through all stages of the race

While I HATE the fact that back markers are mixed in with leaders during SC periods, its primarily for safety reasons that they dont let them go I understand.
(FIA dont want back markers speeding through the accident zone with marshals potentially in life -threatening positions.)
 
Hamilton made next to no inroads on either Button or Vettel, safety car or no safety car. Still a good result.
 
Mr Men said:
This claims to be all the radio from the GP - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xp...rand-prix-pit-channel-team-radio-feature_auto

Not got time to watch it, so I guess we will hear McLaren radio telling them to conserve fuel from lap 8 :)
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Very interesting radio chatter - a couple of things I found interesting with JB's chatter;

1) Relatively early on JB's engineer says something about -3 in a positive manner (but not relating to time seemingly), would be interesting to know what this was alluding to

2) mid race - around lap 30's , JB is told to keep his KERS warm, so I guess he wasnt using this for quite some time before that which makes the time he was building / staying ahead even more impressive imo

3) Im also sure that the engineer says about the same time that fuel consumption is good, so it sounds as if fuel on his car wasnt that marginal for the whole race after all


The worst thing about yesterday was the 6 hours or so between the end of the race and the highlights starting , which was incredibly painful (and REALLY hard not ot see/find out the result before hand)
 
FrankJH said:
Very interesting radio chatter - a couple of things I found interesting with JB's chatter;

1) Relatively early on JB's engineer says something about -3 in a positive manner (but not relating to time seemingly), would be interesting to know what this was alluding to

2) mid race - around lap 30's , JB is told to keep his KERS warm, so I guess he wasnt using this for quite some time before that which makes the time he was building / staying ahead even more impressive imo

3) Im also sure that the engineer says about the same time that fuel consumption is good, so it sounds as if fuel on his car wasnt that marginal for the whole race after all


The worst thing about yesterday was the 6 hours or so between the end of the race and the highlights starting , which was incredibly painful (and REALLY hard not ot see/find out the result before hand)
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The last 2 points occured behind the safety car.

Jenson enquired about his brake temperature as they will get cold behind the safety car, his race engineer then informed him to use KERS as it was a bit cold from not being used behind the safety car.

His fuel consumption dramatically improved behind the safety car for obvious reasons.
 
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