European Grand Prix 2016, Baku - Race 8/21

Jester* said:
The track is going to have some very high speed parts. Definitely down the main straight and heavy braking into turn one. Some great elevation changes and a really tight few corners by the castle in old town. But it does open up in many places and get narrow in a few.

I've done about 15 laps of it so far. So don't write it off just yet. I'm quietly optimistic.
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rFactor?
 
Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg said parts of the track in the Azerbaijani capital were "really not looking good".
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Button- "It's just that on certain corners here, it looks as if there is not a lot of run-off. Hopefully I'm wrong."
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Vettel and alonso
SV: No, actually I don’t understand why this has been the second type of question of the same nature. I walked the track and I was looking on the track, not so much on the runoffs. I think it looks exciting. I’m thrilled to get in the car tomorrow and excited to get out and get a feel. Pit entry looks a challenge – but then again I think that’s why we’re here. And, as I say, I certainly have the plan to stay on track and not use the run-off or the off-track.

FA: Same. Let’s see in the car, how it is. Similar to Brazil a couple of years ago maybe, and some other pit entries. It was no problem.
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Got to be honest much prefer vettels and alonso attitude. This is racing.
 
Just done a few virtual laps in Rfactor2 with the Formula Renault 3.5 with a WIP version of Baku, it feels very wide for a street circuit, but the driving is pretty dull besides T17/18 leading to that long straight.

Oh well, lets see what happens in Practice 1!
 
I thought the same thing about the safety aspects when I first saw a lap of the track, very little run off, very tight and twisty in some parts but the high speed parts, a failure at the end of them.... I'm surprised the track passed on safety grounds.
 
Boullier finally confirmed what I've said for a while, quite surprising the way he said it so bluntly as well. They were asking him about Alonso being high up and he basically said all the other engines run detuned on a Friday but we(Mclaren) can't.

Testing I guess, with only one pair of cars running data wise they are getting so much less information than other teams they can't afford to run any sessions detuned.

At a track with ridiculously long straights and at full power compared to other teams it's not at all surprising they are that high up. They always fall back from FP2 top times to qualifying. This race will be a big issue for fuel and that will push Mclaren back even further, again Boullier was quite open saying Sunday will be bad because of fuel.

Other tracks they don't gain as much on a friday as most tracks aren't as stop/start and heavy on engine power for speed. That they are so far down on Merc on a Friday at a track like this really doesn't bode well for qualifying when everyone turns their engines up though.
 
Yh not surprising the top teams run de-tuned. No point stressing parts when they can get the majority of the data they need to run their models overnight and run full steam in FP3 & Q.
 
I mean I've been saying it for a year because people keep getting overhyped about Mclaren in FP2 being in the top 10. I'm just a bit surprised to see Boullier say in a live interview in such a matter of a fact way that they can't run detuned on a Friday and he pretty much said expect nothing for Sunday and they'll always move back after a Friday.


Currently track problems, Charlie on track during GP2 red flag, playing with corners. I started watching and a red flag had everyone coming in but there was no crash. Sounds like F1 teams reporting problems with left sided tire damage(judging by where Charlie is on track, inside curb of left turn) and enough teams had it to make them believe it was a track issue.

They showed images of people jumping up and down and feeling bolts on all the curbs, but now Charlie and others are molesting the hell out of a specific corner, can't work out which one. Certain seems like they've found a problem though.
 
I recall they only finished the track recently right? Probably should have had a few races here before you get F1 cars going through (as in well in advance not the GP2 support races).
 
drunkenmaster said:
Boullier finally confirmed what I've said for a while, quite surprising the way he said it so bluntly as well. They were asking him about Alonso being high up and he basically said all the other engines run detuned on a Friday but we(Mclaren) can't.

Testing I guess, with only one pair of cars running data wise they are getting so much less information than other teams they can't afford to run any sessions detuned.

At a track with ridiculously long straights and at full power compared to other teams it's not at all surprising they are that high up. They always fall back from FP2 top times to qualifying. This race will be a big issue for fuel and that will push Mclaren back even further, again Boullier was quite open saying Sunday will be bad because of fuel.

Other tracks they don't gain as much on a friday as most tracks aren't as stop/start and heavy on engine power for speed. That they are so far down on Merc on a Friday at a track like this really doesn't bode well for qualifying when everyone turns their engines up though.
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Nothing new at all. Will probably qualify 15th/16th here.
 
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