Australian Grand Prix 2015, Melbourne - Race 1/19

More Button radio comedy.

'Struggling with these tyres'
'Understood. Ok to push the tyres now. Ok to push.'
'Been doing that since lap 1. Box this lap.'
 
Flibster said:
Nearly 30 laps on the soft tyres for the Mercs. That's a bit ridiculous. Should have been super softs and mediums.
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Paddy Lowe has said one of Merc's biggest advantages over the grid is tire knowledge. After poor tire wear in the previous years they dedicated a stupid amount of running in both testing to tire wear, learning everything about them. While the Merc's have done nearly 30 laps on used(in qualifying) softs. Ericsson pitted on the 27th lap for new softs after pitting for new softs on lap 2, then having what 3 laps or so under safety car.

Merc aren't a good barometer of tire wear as Pirelli have to think about the average cars. Most of them pitted earlier and most complained about the front lefts and several cars might do an extra pit stop if their tires fall off towards the end... we'll see.

Vettel's pace is really looking strong, though here is a not very 'Williams' track, higher downforce car here is better for sure.
 
Verstappen reports 'Smoke in the car'

Pulls off the track next to the pitlane entrance from a points scoring position.

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Radio 'My engine sounds heavy' (?)
'Stop the car, stop the car, stop the car on track'

Probably good that he's stopped. Must be almost his bedtime.
 
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Come on Nasr. Max and Kvyat had no luck this weekend but both looked very good when actually running and looked great in preseason. Nasr been very impressive, hopefully with a fairly rock solid Ferrari it will finish.
 
Flibster said:
Back up to 2.5s
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When, when will people get that Hamilton is just controlling him completely. He allows a gap to come down. Rosberg sub 2 seconds behind Hamilton means worse tire wear, hotter air, less clean air, slightly more difficult.

It's better for the car infront if the car behind is 1.5seconds behind than 3 seconds behind. If 3 seconds behind someone may save fuel/tires cruise around and maybe have stronger tires/fuel for the end of a race for a final attack. If someone follows closely behind the chances they'll have better tires than someone in clean air is almost non existent.

All last year, Rosberg ahead then Hamilton gains consistently then tries to pass. Hamilton ahead and Rosberg gets eased inside the 2 second window and controlled precisely there.

Rosberg talking about tires becoming iffy... again, would that be happening if Rosberg was cruising around three seconds back.


lol, Perez does a bad pit stop... and ends up behing Mclaren. How much have FI been paid by Mclaren to try and make Mclaren look less bad :p
 
Raikkonen gets a decent stop.
Mechanics didn't look so sure on the rear left tyre as he pulled away.

And Raikkonen retires from the race.

Didn't change the tyre?
Nope, it was changed, wasn't done up properly.

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