Malaysian Grand Prix 2015, Kuala Lumpur - Race 2/19

englishpremier · 29 Mar 2015 at 08:27

Rosberg has fallen 7 seconds behind Ham now. Poor showing from him.

drunkenmaster · 29 Mar 2015 at 08:28

Few more laps and Vettel might be infront of Rosberg and with a pit stop in hand potentially. At this point I think Merc will be thinking about trying to do one further stop, but the pace they need to go to do only one further stop is going to be slow. However if he does 15-20 laps with these tires then finds out he needs to do 2 stops anyway, that could screw them a lot.

EDIT:- is Massa the only pass Rosberg has made, all the other ones being mistakes from the guy in front?

utajoker · 29 Mar 2015 at 08:28

ham is matching vettel on the slower tire, what is the speed difference between the 2?

muon · 29 Mar 2015 at 08:29

No degradation for Vettel.

Flibster · 29 Mar 2015 at 08:29

utajoker said:
ham is matching vettel on the slower tire, what is the speed difference between the 2?

Meant to be about half a second.

SS-89 · 29 Mar 2015 at 08:29

utajoker said:
ham is matching vettel on the slower tire, what is the speed difference between the 2?

0.5 second. Rosberg just being utterly average.

robbiemc · 29 Mar 2015 at 08:29

Wonder if Ricciardo's brakes are going to last! That's a lot of brake dust pouring out.

Freakbro · 29 Mar 2015 at 08:30

that is huge amounts of brake dust from the red bull :eek:

SS-89 · 29 Mar 2015 at 08:30

Also perez being utterly humiliated by hulkenberg. Wish hulk got a big team drive always liked him.

utajoker · 29 Mar 2015 at 08:30

ham just took half a second out of vettel

Sliver · 29 Mar 2015 at 08:31

Vettel needs to stop and go onto the hard tyre. Lewis will stop and go on to the soft tyre. So Lewis is in a good place right now.

Flibster · 29 Mar 2015 at 08:31

Hamilton now taken 0.5s out of Vettel.

Maldonado under investigation for exceeding safety car lap time.

Flibster · 29 Mar 2015 at 08:32

Ricciardo radio.

"Struggling still with understeer at high speed. Killing the rears everwhere else."
"Understood. Car is still hot. Brakes are still hot"

drunkenmaster · 29 Mar 2015 at 08:33

Sliver said:
Vettel needs to stop and go onto the hard tyre. Lewis will stop and go on to the soft tyre. So Lewis is in a good place right now.

Very unlikely Ham will go on to mediums(I presume he started on them), pitting before the 6th lap means both sets have go go 25-27 laps(not quite sure exactly which lap they stopped), that has 2 x hards written all over it in these conditions.

englishpremier · 29 Mar 2015 at 08:34

Looks like Ferrari's hand was forced there with Kimi's pitstop. Only he and the two leaders were in the 1:46s but when you're catching the Hulk train, what are you going to do.

Vettel is doing well so far. Must be in, in a few laps though.

Surprise surprise Maldonado

Flibster · 29 Mar 2015 at 08:34

10 Second penalty for Maldonado.

robbiemc · 29 Mar 2015 at 08:34

What on earth is Perez doing?!

utajoker · 29 Mar 2015 at 08:35

drag race, honda with drs is slower than a merc engine without.

drunkenmaster · 29 Mar 2015 at 08:35

Flibster said:
Hamilton now taken 0.5s out of Vettel.

Maldonado under investigation for exceeding safety car lap time.

Not a fan of Maldonado, but for the guys way way down, particularly those who were screwed with punctures or the like, that they can't close up under the safety car is stupid. There should be a sector time where in this case sector 1 time has to be horrifically slow because that is where the incident is, but the cars are free to catch up to the pack in any sector free of accident problems.

Kimi and Maldonado should have been able to get on the back of the pack everywhere that wasn't near the accident site.