Oh dear. After the slating he's been giving the team about qualifying mistakes this will make him so cheerful.
British Grand Prix 2013, Silverstone - Race 8/19
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Oh dear. After the slating he's been giving the team about qualifying mistakes this will make him so cheerful.
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Sounds like when he was weighed by the FIA he was 1.5kg under weight and yet weighed by the team "later" he was the right weight.
Will be interesting to see if there is any more to this going to come out - but its strange for the driver to be causing the weight difference (of this much).
Pity for him, as it wouldn't have made a difference to q3.
Looks like Merc did it again......not that tyre-gate made any difference of course
Sounds like when he was weighed by the FIA he was 1.5kg under weight and yet weighed by the team "later" he was the right weight.
Will be interesting to see if there is any more to this going to come out - but its strange for the driver to be causing the weight difference (of this much).
Pity for him, as it wouldn't have made a difference to q3.
Looks like Merc did it again......not that tyre-gate made any difference of course
The FIA scales were checked with 600kg and they weighed at 599.5kg so scales were under weighing by half a kilo. SFI couldn't add or remove anything as the car is in Parc Ferme.
Ted's notebook.. from the temporary air traffic control unit 
http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/8798542/british-gp---ted
http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/8798542/british-gp---ted
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Looks like Merc did it again......not that tyre-gate made any difference of course
Merc were getting poles before the pirelli tyre test
In fact Merc got pole in the three races before the test..
Soldato
This is possibly a really dumb question, but if the scales potentially misweighed di-resta then why didnt they check the scales with something known to weigh something similar to di-resta's weight? it isn't beyond the realms of possibility that the error from the scales was not a constant or even a linear error, so a 0.5kg error for a 600kg weight does not necessarily mean a 0.5kg error at whatever di-resta's weight is (or even a 0.083% error if it was a linear error)
if they do have to make up the weight then is there anything stopping di-resta from just wearing incredibly heavy shoes, or eating every burger at silverstone to put on the weight?
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Merc were getting poles before the pirelli tyre test
Don't spoil stuff with facts.
One of there scales must be wrong, either FIA or force indias.
Apparently another car weighed less than the team expected, but wasn't under the weight limit.
I'd suspect that it is Force India's scale that's out. Otherwise you'd hear about all the cars being under expected weight and lots of protesting.
Soldato
Hope Lewis can pull through this time with a win!
How about this for a prediction: Lewis, Vettel, Ricciardo
Or how about Webber just to troll F1 from here on in and beat Seb most races.
How about this for a prediction: Lewis, Vettel, Ricciardo
Or how about Webber just to troll F1 from here on in and beat Seb most races.
Soldato
Hammy has to win to make it a British hat-trick at Silverstone.
I reckon he can do it.
I reckon he can do it.
Soldato
We will know if Merc has the race pace after one lap as Lewis should go like a bat out of hell for the first 4 laps
that's the only way he is going to beat rb today.
that's the only way he is going to beat rb today.
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Would love hami to win, but Vettel is going to drive off into the distance.