Australian Grand Prix 2016, Melbourne - Race 1/21

So, the way I read that is that the team didn't think they were allowed to tell a driver to stop because his wing is falling off, until the FIA told them they could, half a lap later.

How utterly stupid.
 
Skeeter said:
P1 was barely worth getting excited about, and now P2 looks like a washout :(. I could have stayed in bed.
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We saw some good running considering it started wet and had showers in FP1. Saw the cars, saw the new liveries on cars running around. Max was great throwing it around in the wet. He put down a really hard pushing lap about half way through, was power sliding, having the car kick out and bringing it back in, looked awesome. He's such an aggressive great driver to watch going for it. Throws the car around like a go-kart like Hamilton does.


Rosberg making a boob of it already. By the sounds of it Merc wanted to tell Rosberg to take it easy as it was probably full wet weather but couldn't due to the rules so Rosberg needed to judge the conditions himself and decide to push or come in for tires or change setup and put it in the wall instead.
 
Skeeter said:
So, the way I read that is that the team didn't think they were allowed to tell a driver to stop because his wing is falling off, until the FIA told them they could, half a lap later.

How utterly stupid.
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That is Croft being a giant idiot. The team wanted him to come back, Toto only said they were unhappy not because of the nose but they'll lose a lot or running. They wanted him to cruise to the pits, be damned of the wing falls to pieces. They said something like they wanted to tell him heavy wets, not sure if that meant they thought it was full wet tire running or a heavy wet setting/setup thing, maybe engine mode for 'heavy wet' is a lot less aggressive.
 
"FIA race director Charlie Whiting says it will simply be "bad luck" if a driver gets eliminated from qualifying by red flag timing in Formula 1's new 2016 system..."

Sounds like a great way to run a multi million dollar competitive sporting series, with "luck". :rolleyes:
 
Not if its thrown just 5 minutes in it wouldn't have.

Previously a red or yellow at the end of a session could screw you. Now, a flag almost any time during a session could eliminate 2 or 3 drivers instantly.

At longer tracks an early flag could leave the FIA having to eliminate people even though nobody has set a time.

It is also a system quite easily abused with strategic 'mishaps'.
 
I've noticed that the large front and rear facing thermal cameras on the air box of the Mercedes have been retained from testing.

Interesting choice to gather all that extra data that they then can't tell the driver :/
 
New RB duct spotted:

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is there anywere online to watch fp1 and 2 properly?


no matter, they are currently being replayed on sky sports f1
 
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Skeeter said:
I've noticed that the large front and rear facing thermal cameras on the air box of the Mercedes have been retained from testing.

Interesting choice to gather all that extra data that they then can't tell the driver :/
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Whos to say that the information from the cameras wont be available to the drives via the steering wheel?
 
Surely more data = good data as well?

So even if they use it to analyse between races, or even sessions, it helps.
 
Syla5 said:
Whos to say that the information from the cameras wont be available to the drives via the steering wheel?
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Pretty clever way to "advise" drivers if they get the data on the wheel. It's still up for them to interpret but there's plenty of visual ways you could aid their interpretation so that the message is conveyed.

You could do that for other areas of the car too like engine management.
 
Also I just watched some of the practice, and the huge camera pods were missing from the Merc, so assuming they are not there anymore and Skeeter is seeing things, or are detachable and the team don't intend to use them during the race?
 
Syla5 said:
Also I just watched some of the practice, and the huge camera pods were missing from the Merc, so assuming they are not there anymore and Skeeter is seeing things, or are detachable and the team don't intend to use them during the race?
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They were definitely on Hamilton's car at one point, so either taking them off or only running them on 1.
 
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