Singapore Grand Prix 2012, Marina Bay - Race 14/20

tummelv said:
The difference between the two tyres seems so big I wonder if the SS could be the favoured race tyre?
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I guess it depends on the degradation.

Also, as there's so few overtaking opportunities, it's going to really screw your race if you're over a second quicker than the car in front (due to tyres) but can't get past them.
 
tummelv said:
The difference between the two tyres seems so big I wonder if the SS could be the favoured race tyre?
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Im not convinced, Damon is suggesting that they are being lunched after just 1 hot lap. They could be all used up during Quali.

Its more likely that they would just do very short first stints on the SS and then change to the Softs for the rest of the race.
 
englishpremier said:
What's the reason for F1 always having the finish/timing line so close to the last corner?

If it was much further down the straight we might see more overtakes and photo finishes like we do in MotoGP.
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The finish line is in line with Race Control to allow for manual time keeping should there be a catastrophic systems failure. Race Control is often at the start of the pit lane to allow for manual control and recording of people entering the pits too.

The grid is then positioned in the best way to get everyone lined up, which is often much further down the track.
 
Skeeter said:
The finish line is in line with Race Control to allow for manual time keeping should there be a catastrophic systems failure. Race Control is often at the start of the pit lane to allow for manual control and recording of people entering the pits too.

The grid is then positioned in the best way to get everyone lined up, which is often much further down the track.
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Makes some sense I guess. IMO it should be where the lights are. To do manual timing you'd need 24 guys with stop watches plus someone timing the actual race duration.
 
englishpremier said:
Makes some sense I guess. IMO it should be where the lights are. To do manual timing you'd need 24 guys with stop watches plus someone timing the actual race duration.
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I'd imagine they would drop timing and just go for lap counting to track positions. But either way, the people who would be doing it are all going to be sat in race control. No good if that's 300m down the track from the finish line.
 
FP2 Times

Code: 
[b]Pos  Driver                Team                  Time               Laps[/b]
 1.  Sebastian Vettel      Red Bull-Renault      1m48.340             27
 2.  Jenson Button         McLaren-Mercedes      1m48.651s  + 0.311   24
 3.  Fernando Alonso       Ferrari               1m48.896s  + 0.556   26
 4.  Mark Webber           Red Bull-Renault      1m48.964s  + 0.624   26
 5.  Lewis Hamilton        McLaren-Mercedes      1m49.086s  + 0.746   28
 6.  Paul di Resta         Force India-Mercedes  1m49.300s  + 0.960   30
 7.  Nico Hulkenberg       Force India-Mercedes  1m49.339s  + 0.999   31
 8.  Nico Rosberg          Mercedes              1m49.790s  + 1.450   32
 9.  Felipe Massa          Ferrari               1m50.039s  + 1.699   28
10.  Romain Grosjean       Lotus-Renault         1m50.161s  + 1.821   23
11.  Michael Schumacher    Mercedes              1m50.263s  + 1.923   23
12.  Kimi Raikkonen        Lotus-Renault         1m50.345s  + 2.005   24
13.  Pastor Maldonado      Williams-Renault      1m50.636s  + 2.296   32
14.  Daniel Ricciardo      Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m50.791s  + 2.451   26
15.  Sergio Perez          Sauber-Ferrari        1m51.122s  + 2.782   28
16.  Kamui Kobayashi       Sauber-Ferrari        1m51.450s  + 3.110   21
17.  Bruno Senna           Williams-Renault      1m51.452s  + 3.112   11
18.  Jean-Eric Vergne      Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m52.00$s  + 3.669   31
19.  Timo Glock            Marussia-Cosworth     1m52.218s  + 3.878   29
20.  Heikki Kovalainen     Caterham-Renault      1m52.576s  + 4.236   27
21.  Charles Pic           Marussia-Cosworth     1m52.863s  + 4.523   27
22.  Vitaly Petrov         Caterham-Renault      1m52.936s  + 4.596   25
23.  Pedro de la Rosa      HRT-Cosworth          1m54.448s  + 6.108   25
24.  Narain Karthikeyan    HRT-Cosworth          1m54.514s  + 6.174   30

Report - http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/102695


Force India's looking good. P3 tomorrow at 11am.
 
It was hard to tell how good the RBR was from FP2 because Hamilton had issues with both of his flying laps on SS tyres. However, if FP1 and 2 are anything to go by, we should see a strong red bull today/tomorrow.

FP3 and quali tomorrow should be interesting and the SS/S comparison still isn't clear over race distance.
 
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