British Grand Prix 2011, Silverstone Circuit - Race 9/19

ukpolska · 8 Jul 2011 at 13:48

JTrickle said:
Its crashing my firefox today, but I'm not going to start trying to diagnose that right now.

That will be flash more than likely i.e. corrupt install or something like that

CaptainRAVE · 8 Jul 2011 at 13:50

mmj_uk said:
The Silverstone pit lane looks really nice, I love the grassy area between the pit lane and pit straight.

Agreed, great to see it getting updated.

arknor · 8 Jul 2011 at 13:54

AcidHell2 said:
Gascogne is saying their weather forecast is looking much better tomorrow and Sunday and that there is no point running as it's so wet it would be at least SC or red flag in the race.

Im really liking twitter, never got the point of it. But do now, not that I post much.

lol its not even that wet....

Glaucus · 8 Jul 2011 at 13:54

arknor said:
lol its not even that wet....

There's or at least was a fair amount of standing water and it was coming down pretty heavy.
A few people out now.
More rain in 9mins.

Flibster · 8 Jul 2011 at 13:59

Why produce the extreme tyre anymore if they're not going to run when it's wet.

They then complain when it's wet in the race, saying they haven't had much running in the wet.

Glaucus · 8 Jul 2011 at 14:02

I blame fia rather than the teams. Why bother compromising the car all season for rain and why run in the rain, when they know ita going to be SC or red flag.
Fia need to grow some testicals and say well if it rains you can tip toe around in first gear at 5miles an hour. Oh and they need to get rid of parc ferme if it's dry qauli and a wet race start. So they can change set up.
Then we would see teams trying.

CaptainRAVE · 8 Jul 2011 at 14:04

AcidHell2 said:
I blame fia rather than the teams. Why bother compromising the car all season for rain and why run in the rain, when they know ita going to be SC or red flag.
Fia need to grow some testicals and say well if it rains you can tip toe around in first gear at 5miles an hour. Oh and they need to get rid of parc ferme if it's dry qauli and a wet race start. So they can change set up.
Then we would see teams trying.

+1

All in the name of "driver safety" - it annoys me even more when you have drivers like Webber crying about how much it is raining. Get on with it!

arknor · 8 Jul 2011 at 14:07

AcidHell2 said:
There's or at least was a fair amount of standing water and it was coming down pretty heavy.
A few people out now.
More rain in 9mins.

most of it would be cleared up pretty fast if everyone was out doing lap ,even in the last few years they have raced in much worse..

its almost as if no one wants to race unless theres a dry lane

Skeeter · 8 Jul 2011 at 14:08

Im not getting into another argument around the physics of driving and F1 car in the wet.

But I will say, my understanding is that the Inter tyre from Pirrelli goes a lot further into very wet weather than the Bridgestone did, which means the window between racing on the Wet and stopping the race is a lot smaller, which explains why we hardly ever see them on it.

Fanatic · 8 Jul 2011 at 14:08

Really liking that zip line camera angle

Skeeter · 8 Jul 2011 at 14:09

Fanatic said:
Really liking that zip line camera angle

Its great isn't it.

Skeeter · 8 Jul 2011 at 14:20

I love 5Live

"Adrian Newey can visualise wind"

Dr Who · 8 Jul 2011 at 14:31

Interesting, Button was on a flyer and then he abandoned it in the last few corners and coasted across the line.

mmj_uk · 8 Jul 2011 at 14:33

Kamui 'Careful' Kobayashi 3rd fastest, rain master.

Dr Who said:
Interesting, Button was on a flyer and then he abandoned it in the last few corners and coasted accross the line.

He must have made a mistake just before the camera cut to him.

Shimmy · 8 Jul 2011 at 15:04

adamcooperf1 said:
#F1 One team source tells me that today the FIA ruling changed from 10% throttle to 68%, which he says is 'close to full cold blowing'
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LUL WUT

TaKeN · 8 Jul 2011 at 15:14

They'd better not start moving the goalposts again! :mad:

CaptainRAVE · 8 Jul 2011 at 15:36

Typcial!

Shimmy · 8 Jul 2011 at 15:43

F1Photographer said:
#Ferrari Domenicali to #McLaren Whitmarsh in #F1 P2 re; #redbull blown diffuser. "The ****ers are doing it again"

Apparently Horner and Whitmarsh are having a heated debate in the press conference regarding another change in off throttle blown diffusers.

Edit: James Allen just said that the Renault engines are still using 50% off throttle..

..which ties in with what people said in FP2, some had noticed that RBR could be heard blowing their diffuser as in previous races.

Glaucus · 8 Jul 2011 at 15:51

Shimmy said:
Apparently Horner and Whitmarsh are having a heated debate in the press conference regarding another change in off throttle blown diffusers.

Edit: James Allen just said that the Renault engines are still using 50% off throttle..

..which ties in with what people said in FP2, some had noticed that RBR could be heard blowing their diffuser as in previous races.

Any links to any of this, I know people have been saying that. But they would be disqualified.

Blackvault · 8 Jul 2011 at 15:51

Shimmy said:
Apparently Horner and Whitmarsh are having a heated debate in the press conference regarding another change in off throttle blown diffusers.

Edit: James Allen just said that the Renault engines are still using 50% off throttle..

..which ties in with what people said in FP2, some had noticed that RBR could be heard blowing their diffuser as in previous races.

Surely when the cars are scrutinised they will fall foul?

Blackvault