At Spa you cross the line take the first corner and then drive the wrong way back down the pitlane. I think its because the lap is too long or something similar.Why didn’t they have a cool down lap?
At Spa you cross the line take the first corner and then drive the wrong way back down the pitlane. I think its because the lap is too long or something similar.Why didn’t they have a cool down lap?
If they were allowed to do a cool down lap then their target weight would've been lower and I think we'd still be talking about it right now.Let’s be honest, if they had a full cool down lap of picking up discarded rubber I doubt wed be talking about this right now. It seems like the perfect storm. Albeit didn’t happen to the other long runners..
Exactly.If they were allowed to do a cool down lap then their target weight would've been lower and I think we'd still be talking about it right now.
I didn't realise it changed per race, in that case you're probably right.If they were allowed to do a cool down lap then their target weight would've been lower and I think we'd still be talking about it right now.
That underweight would probably only amount to 100ths, a 10th at most, of a second and only come into effect on the last few laps.We are talking about teams here that use thousands of data points, measure everything in minute detail, and try and cover all eventualities.
They would have known that there was no cool down lap. Its not a new thing for this year. It would have been accounted for.
Competitive teams do not run that close to the weight limit, as the penalty is far too severe.
The engineers regularly remind the drivers to pick up rubber, for extra insurance.
There have been many races over the years that started out as multiple stops, but reverted to a one stop for various reasons.
George could not run at that pace if the tread was nearly all gone. We have all seen it happen. When these tyres run out of tread, other cars can catch you very, very quickly.
1.5kg is not a lot, but in F1 terms, its quite a chunk.
My guess is that when they went back to the old floor, something (ballast maybe?) was omitted.
It was too late to fix it, so Mercedes ignored it/turned a blind eye rather than pull the car from the race. Someone in the garage had to know it was light.
Perhaps that's the reason George was allowed to do what he wanted? Did the garage already know it maybe a problem?
The tyre thing is just a smokescreen IMO.
That's blatantly not correct. The car was below the weight of all the other cars all the way through the race.That underweight would probably only amount to 100ths, a 10th at most, of a second and only come into effect on the last few laps.
Maybe, but stranger things have happened in F1. The crash at Singapore was not on purpose, until it was.But your conspiracy theory must be the naffest thing I've ever heard.
That's blatantly not correct. The car was below the weight of all the other cars all the way through the race.
The one stop didn't cause him to be underweight, otherwise this would've happened many times before. You have to have a margin of safety so that you can't drop below the minimum weight with extra tyre wear from a one stopper. Even if George's car was above the minimum weight for part of the race, the advantage he had over other cars that had an adequate margin of safety would still have been more than 1.5kg.If Russell had done the expected 2 stop, and if its true that the one stop caused the underweight, then he would have been above weight for the entire race. It doesn't make sense to think of him as being underweight or not all the way to lap 40 (or whatever) depending on a decision made on whether to stop at that point.
The one stop didn't cause him to be underweight, otherwise this would've happened many times before.
No, because they knew they wouldn't be able to pick up marbles and this would've already factored into their weight calculations, or at least it should have. At any other track they'd target a lower weight than at Spa due to being able to pick up marbles. Obviously they got it wrong though so their error could've been not factoring in no marble pickup at Spa, but the cause would've been an error in their weight calculations, not the one stop.No, because at any other track they'd easily make up the difference by picking up marbles. It's only the combination of a fine margin, an unexpected one stop, and the unusual cooldown arrangements at Spa that could combine in this way. Mercedes usually post a debrief on YouTube, I guess that will confirm whether or not the one stop explanation is correct.
How does a driver sweating reduce the weight of the car?greater weight loss (through sweat, etc.) from the driver.
I love the idea that George has caused his own DNF by simply sweating too much.How does a driver sweating reduce the weight of the car?![]()