Australian Grand Prix 2014, Melbourne - Race 1/19

Glaucus · 14 Mar 2014 at 01:46

Are they saying Hammy crew broke curfew last night to fit the PU that just died? They weren't very clear.

Flibster · 14 Mar 2014 at 01:55

Shimmy said:
Ted's misunderstood the rules I think, car doesn't need to be legal in practice. Hence why you sometimes running with massive sensor rigs hanging off the cars on a Friday.

Only allowed to run sensor rigs in FP1.

As far as I was aware, the rest of the car needed to be legal.

Flibster · 14 Mar 2014 at 01:55

Ferrari have told Raikkonen to pit due to a MGU-K issue

Button also told to pit due to a problem.

Glaucus · 14 Mar 2014 at 01:59

Where you getting the info from?

muon · 14 Mar 2014 at 02:00

Amazed at how much you can hear the tyres. How did I not hear them in past seasons.

The_Abyss · 14 Mar 2014 at 02:00

It is all pointing to a podium for Chiltern. He'll be 10 minutes late, but he's got every chance at this rate!

Glaucus · 14 Mar 2014 at 02:02

You do have to wonder if one of the back teams will run at just 75% power after qualifying and just get to the end.

Flibster · 14 Mar 2014 at 02:02

Glaucus said:
Where you getting the info from?

F1 pit lane channel

Tried the pit lane radio option on the F1 app - causes my tab to go back to the launcher.

Glaucus · 14 Mar 2014 at 02:05

Oh god I didn't know about that, now I need two TVs
So that's one PU stopped, one ERS broken and one unknown issue. In 30minutes.

Ok I'll take my earlier statement back.

Flibster · 14 Mar 2014 at 02:06

Glaucus said:
Oh god I didn't know about that, now I need two TVs
So that's one PU stopped, one ERS broken and one unknown issue. In 30minutes.

Ok I'll take my earlier statement back.

If you have a Sky Go login.

http://www1.skysports.com/formula1/racecontrol/raceControlLogin.html#/Videos/3

Also have live timing options, driver tracker screen and a couple of onboard camera mixes as well as the normal live show.

Flibster · 14 Mar 2014 at 02:12

Button not getting any laptimes on the steering wheel.

Flibster · 14 Mar 2014 at 02:14

Nope. Don't really like it. My car sounds more interesting that these things onboard.

Glaucus · 14 Mar 2014 at 02:14

That was a great on board. Sounds good, the sound from trackside cameras sounds crap though.

Glaucus · 14 Mar 2014 at 02:19

Hamilton, sensor shut the PU down for no reason. So at least nothing wrong with the actual PU.

Glaucus · 14 Mar 2014 at 02:24

Wow that is awesome by rbr.

Camera is embedded into the nose.

Flibster · 14 Mar 2014 at 02:26

Really? That hole in the nose above the O in Casio is the camera?

Interesting.

From Mercedes - An oil pressure alarm led to an automated precautionary shutdown.

V F · 14 Mar 2014 at 02:32

stulid said:
Look at that double dong nose

More than one. Looks horrid that Toro Rosso and the Force India. Including the hoover Ferrari.

The_Abyss said:
Wow, those engines are not only quiet live at the track, they sound **** on the in-car feed.

The McLaren sounds not bad onboard. Sounds like a grunt growling MP4…

muon said:
Amazed at how much you can hear the tyres. How did I not hear them in past seasons.

Notice how loud and clear the driver radios are as well due to all this?

Flibster · 14 Mar 2014 at 02:32

And Chilton drives into his own pit equipment. :rolleyes:

Glaucus · 14 Mar 2014 at 02:36

Rbr onboard sounds very plain and boring compared to buttons on board, but yet the Williams sounds like the McLaren.

muon · 14 Mar 2014 at 02:38

Is it possible they have turned up the volume of microphones, without having very loud engines screaming down it?

You can hear so much more stuff.