Australian Grand Prix 2014, Melbourne - Race 1/19

Skeeter said:
True. We have discovered a load of new sounds. Thudding over curbs, the floor scraping on the ground, tyre squeel, and the crowd!

The grandstand here aren't that big. At some of the larger venues with the passionate crowds (Monza, Silvertone, etc) you will really get a feel for the track atmosphere through the TV coverage which is great.
Click to expand...

MagicBoy said:
... and the crowd.:D
Click to expand...

Definitely heard the crowd alright during one particular part of the quali session. :D ;)

Either my hearing has become as sensitive as a fox hound overnight or the Sky department have done some sound trickery, but I even heard the crinkle when the race engineer took of the driver's tear away visor and shoved it into his pocket.

Some chaps in the pit lane don't even feel the need to wear those ear defenders too.

Whilst I love the high revving V8's from last season, I just felt more connected to the overall atmosphere during the qualifying session because of the sound. Weird.
 
Flibster said:
Red Bull may have to make a change to their car.
Click to expand...

Yup the general thing is Charlie(and everyone) saying it's to the letter of the law but it's 100% clearly against the spirit of the law. With the rule intended to make everyone able to run the changing direction cameras when asked. RBR apparently hated running those as it gave the other teams way too much of a good look at the sidepod areas, under the car, and changing height at different speeds. I know why RBR did it, and it seems like they might change the rule to force the ickle winglets. Thing is I was never sure RBR wouldn't do it for aero improvement anyway at some stage.

Thomas. PLease. said:
Lets not get carried away now. He was behind him all the way through qualifying until Q3 when JB's lap got interrupted by a yellow. I've no doubt he's good, but I think the result flatters him more than perhaps it should.
Click to expand...

Not entirely sure how much of a JB fan boy you can be because Mag was 4/10ths ahead in Q1, was 1.2seconds ahead in Q2 when button went out, when Button wasn't in Q3. Ahead all the way through, no he was behind all the way through and the MASSIVE gap he was behind in Q2, lifting for 200 metres, which is all that is required now, is not enough to account for him being 1.2 seconds down, the gap shouldn't have been that large anyway and shouldn't have required the final lap to go through, but it was and he missed out and is using the yellow as an excuse for a really huge gap between him and his team mate.


I do however still continue to love the BBC, who are listing the full results with Ricciardo in second almost a second slower than Rosberg in third. The amount of mistakes on their website is shocking these days in sports results in general but really across the whole site.
 
majnu said:
Definitely heard the crowd alright during one particular part of the quali session. :D ;)

Either my hearing has become as sensitive as a fox hound overnight or the Sky department have done some sound trickery, but I even heard the crinkle when the race engineer took of the driver's tear away visor and shoved it into his pocket.

Some chaps in the pit lane don't even feel the need to wear those ear defenders too.

Whilst I love the high revving V8's from last season, I just felt more connected to the overall atmosphere during the qualifying session because of the sound. Weird.
Click to expand...

Yup, I really don't quite get the " I like it so loud that I need to place something between the awesome noise and my ears" thing. It's loud, wooo, I like my hearing and as you say, the connection to be able to hear more clearly what the car is doing, to literally hear the track, to hear mistakes, to hear running wide and to hear the vibe of the crowd really made it better for me.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Not entirely sure how much of a JB fan boy you can be because Mag was 4/10ths ahead in Q1, was 1.2seconds ahead in Q2 when button went out, when Button wasn't in Q3. Ahead all the way through, no he was behind all the way through and the MASSIVE gap he was behind in Q2, lifting for 200 metres, which is all that is required now, is not enough to account for him being 1.2 seconds down, the gap shouldn't have been that large anyway and shouldn't have required the final lap to go through, but it was and he missed out and is using the yellow as an excuse for a really huge gap between him and his team mate.
Click to expand...

Like the huge gap between Button and Magnusson in all three free practise sessions?
That's not how I would decode the qualifying at all - every single lap-on-lap button did was faster than Magnussons, it's all down to when he chose to Pit.

Button's qualifying however, has always been shocking. Last year he did something similar when a yellow flag appeared towards the end of a qualifying period and he reduced his speed accordingly. He then explained in the following interview that he had reduced his speed by a sensible amount, where others were only reducing by a tiny fraction. To the 'letter of the law', but certainly not in the spirit of the rule. 'Reducing your speed by a 100th of a second is not really on' he said (or words to that affect). He's being far too gentlemanly about it all, unfortunately.

What matters though are the results, and Button's qualifying record is pretty poor. We'll just have to see how the race(s) pan out to make any kind of judgement. I really would hate these threads to be like previous years one's bickering over driver favouritism and antagonisation - that wouldn't be good for anyone.
 
Last edited:
Kimi's radio transmission to his engineer in FP3 :
You're going to have be more precise in explaining the settings'
Click to expand...

And Kimi's explanation for crashing in Q3:
I was fiddling with a setting or something
Click to expand...

Of course had this been a rookie, we'd all be crying 'incompetent pay drivers are going to kill everyone', yet of course it's just Kimi's 'routine' :)
 
I think to a degree newer/rookie drivers may have grown up in an era of playing with settings in games and simulators behind the scenes, where "older" drivers grew up in a time with far far less settings to play with. Not really defending Kimi but I can understand that some guys will be natural with changing settings pretty much between every single corner, and some won't. I think changing teams this season makes that a bit harder also, unlearning the way the previous car was setup, learning the new car and with a huge amount of more input required this year.

That's why I think Hamilton moving last year made so much sense, gave him a good intro to the team to make the huge changes this year much easier to take on board.
 
Now TV box and 24hr Sky Sports pass works perfectly, I shall be getting more of these to watch the Sky only races.
 
drunkenmaster said:
I think to a degree newer/rookie drivers may have grown up in an era of playing with settings in games and simulators behind the scenes, where "older" drivers grew up in a time with far far less settings to play with. .
Click to expand...

Nothing to do with it. You can't say gaming now is harder than the 80's 90's when you used far more keys and far less peripherals. Hell Lewis hamilton went straight to Mercedes and hated all the buttons and needed his wheel simplified.

Microprose GP was far harder than Forza X :D

Kimi made hard work of that Lotus imo, the car was better than he made it look driving his nice safe races. He himself said they should have won races earlier and more frequently. I think he was fortunate to be along side a driver going through a terrible patch while they had a good car.

He will flounder to **** again at Ferrari like he did the last time when he had to work on car set up that was far from perfect. When it all falls into place for him on a friday he can be unbeatable, if it's not he's lost. His consistency last time at ferrari is testament to that. If the car is not the best on the grid and it's twitchy and has handling issues I doubt he will trouble Alonso.
 
The 'lol button' comments really do show how little some people know about Formula 1. Was he supposed to speed up under the yellow flag?

Just pure bad luck. Jenson I'm sure would have got 4th had Raikonnen not binned it as he's had the advantage over K-Mag all weekend...

Anyhow... Great first Qually session, THREE World Champions out in Q2!

Brilliant tactical battles between inter and wets and then Merc and RB at teh end, got goosebumps hearing the crowd cheers, and then jeers :D

Well done Ricciardo, utterly smashed Vettel :)
 
smr said:
The 'lol button' comments really do show how little some people know about Formula 1. Was he supposed to speed up under the yellow flag?

Just pure bad luck. Jenson I'm sure would have got 4th had Raikonnen not binned it as he's had the advantage over K-Mag all weekend...

Anyhow... Great first Qually session, THREE World Champions out in Q2!

Brilliant tactical battles between inter and wets and then Merc and RB at teh end, got goosebumps hearing the crowd cheers, and then jeers :D

Well done Ricciardo, utterly smashed Vettel :)
Click to expand...

Didn't Vettel get caught out by a yellow flag too?
 
Westyfield2 said:
Did anyone else noticed the CGI'd advert? On the corner that's normally a car park (turn 4 IIRC), with speed bumps on the infield if you cut it. On some camera angles they were CGI'ing a yellow Pirelli advert, but not on other angles.
Click to expand...

They have systems that do this automatically in live sports. You can go as far as having special advertising boards, then software that automatically CGI's ads on top of the video feed whenever it detects that advertising borad. It can also be sued to show different ads in different markets on the dame live event.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom