Canadian Grand Prix 2015, Montréal - Race 7/19

Vertigo · 7 Jun 2015 at 20:31

Flibster said:
Rosberg goes 0.5 faster in the previous lap, Hamilton ups his pace and stretches the gap out again.

Rosberg really has suffered since the ban on driving technique discussion. He does seem to need to be babied around.

He can't compete with Lewis on even terms and he knows it. His only chance to get past him is using some kind of fuel/tyre/brake saving strategy in the hope he has more of those come the end but, now he can't get all the info on Lewis over the radio, he's totally lost.

Glaucus · 7 Jun 2015 at 20:34

Wow at fuel.
One of a few races they don't under fuel then.

V F · 7 Jun 2015 at 20:35

Vertigo1 said:
I'm actually moving beyond exasperation with McLaren and Red Bull and into pure annoyance. The former have managed to lock two ex-champions, one of whom is possibly the best driver out there, into a hopeless dog and the latter has neutralised the biggest star of last year and the only non-Mercedes driver to win a race.

Both teams should be utterly ashamed of themselves. Personally I'd like to charge them with bringing the sport into disrepute.

Did you see the Ted & Bernie interview sitting at the desk looking out the windows before the build up?

CaptainRAVE · 7 Jun 2015 at 20:35

Victory

utajoker · 7 Jun 2015 at 20:36

only one person has won more canada gps than hamilton, schumacher.

Flibster · 7 Jun 2015 at 20:36

Glaucus said:
Wow at fuel.
One of a few races they don't under fuel then.

Yup.

They stick more than 100kg in. Exploration laps, lap to the grid, warm up lap, cool down lap. Only for the 70 race laps does the 100kg start getting counted down.

utajoker · 7 Jun 2015 at 20:36

top 5 all use 99kg of fuel, they have max of 100kg!

Psycho Ned · 7 Jun 2015 at 20:37

Bit of a snoozefest by Canada standards. Merc are still miles ahead and Rosberg can't compete on a level playing field with Hamilton but we already knew both of them

Flibster · 7 Jun 2015 at 20:37

Ericcson told to top immediately as they have a problem.

"It's not fuel Marcus, we have a problem"

Vertigo · 7 Jun 2015 at 20:37

Doesn't there need to be a litre of fuel left in the tank for the FIA analysis? Looked like most wouldn't have that left.

EDIT: Ah Crofty just answered that one

Dimi · 7 Jun 2015 at 20:37

What a rubbish race that was, absolute borefest.

drunkenmaster · 7 Jun 2015 at 20:37

Glaucus said:
Wow at fuel.
One of a few races they don't under fuel then.

Yeah, keep forgetting Canada is the killer track for fuel, keep thinking it's aussie for some reason.

Said for half of last year and this year, basically need to just have a sensible situation in which a heavy fuel race gets 5-10kg more and places like monaco are 5-10kg(at least) less. It's not difficult to do a calculation and come up with sensible fuel usage for different tracks.

Wasn't a good race, it's really not helped by cars being out of position then you have what is normally anything from 1-8th Mclarens over the years who would lets say be fighting either Ferrari, Williams, Lotus or FI today are just missing. Mclaren being such a pos car means there is a hell of a lot midfield fighting.

V F · 7 Jun 2015 at 20:38

Psycho Ned said:
Bit of a snoozefest by Canada standards. Merc are still miles ahead and Rosberg can't compete on a level playing field with Hamilton but we already knew both of them

A bit? 21 seconds ahead of the rest.

Jono8 · 7 Jun 2015 at 20:38

Love how Hamilton showed up Rosberg in the last few laps. Easily had him covered all race

Vertigo · 7 Jun 2015 at 20:38

V F said:
Did you see the Ted & Bernie interview sitting at the desk looking out the windows before the build up?

No I missed that.

dannyjo22 · 7 Jun 2015 at 20:39

Flibster said:
Rosberg really has suffered since the ban on driving technique discussion. He does seem to need to be babied around.

Well he dominated Hamilton in qfy last year and I'm pretty sure they weren't having long conversations during hot laps. It's not that he needs to be babied around he just was never and will never be good enough. Sometimes the car just doesn't suit, sometimes the driver has been broken. Sometimes you just have a bad year like Hamilton did against Button. I think you are looking for things that don't exist.

Anyway I love watching Mclaren suck, team john major makes BAR supertech in 99 look good.

Flibster · 7 Jun 2015 at 20:39

Vertigo1 said:
Doesn't there need to be a litre of fuel left in the tank for the FIA analysis? Looked like most wouldn't have that left.

They can stick in 250kg of fuel if they want, they just can't use more than 100kg during the race.

drunkenmaster · 7 Jun 2015 at 20:40

So, 2016, RBR and TR to move to Merc engines, it's what the sport needs. Renault didn't have much excuse for last year, they have absolutely no excuse for this year.

Glaucus · 7 Jun 2015 at 20:41

dannyjo22 said:
Well he dominated Hamilton in qfy last year .

When did he do that.
One was he caused a yellow flag so ham could set a time.
Another hammy brakes failed, when you take it all into account not only did he not dominate qualifying he lost put to ham.

Flibster · 7 Jun 2015 at 20:42

What? Ted's doing the podium interviews?

Fantastic.

Oooh, nice trophy.