Singapore Grand Prix 2014, Singapore - Race 14/19

smr said:
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:D:D:D:D:D:D

WOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
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I havnet mwatched the race either yet.

That game was amaing though! Utd cant even buy a win! haha.... Di Maria's goal though :eek:

Lampard scoring against Chelsea and getting a massive applause by the chelsea fans was awesome to see aswell.
 
LizardKing said:
Did Ted mention Mclaren in his notebook at all? i seemed to have missed it if he did + any post race interview with either of there drivers!
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I was pretty sure he did, not that there was much to say. Huge update package and no improvement. One drivers car died the other almost cooked him!
 
Great to see Lewis win. Interesting with Rosberg that they left him out so long trying to fix the issue. Had to laugh that despite the problem with the gears and lack of DRS etc he was still able to overtake backmarkers (eventually)
 
dannyjo22 said:
Boring race, but we were due one. No stand out drives for me. Just pretty average all round.
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It had all the right ingredients, but failed to deliver. Alonso being fast all weekend, constant messages about Ricciardo having issues, and the commentary team going on about Vettel struggling with his tyres meant the 3 of them lined you should have been great. But... nothing happened :(

Ah well, you can't have it all.
 
PinkFloyd said:
Great to see Lewis win. Interesting with Rosberg that they left him out so long trying to fix the issue. Had to laugh that despite the problem with the gears and lack of DRS etc he was still able to overtake backmarkers (eventually)
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How bad is Ericsson if a Mercedes with no ERS, no clutch, no steering wheel controls and a gearbox that double shifts out of your control can still beat him!
 
They all had no tyres at the end. I don't think anyone could do anything, or if they did it carried too much risk given the places they already had. Alonso driving his Ferrari to 4th is a result in its own right and red bull were desperate just to hold on to 2 & 3 thanks to rosberg.
 
Captain Planet said:
They all had no tyres at the end. I don't think anyone could do anything, or if they did it carried too much risk given the places they already had. Alonso driving his Ferrari to 4th is a result in its own right and red bull were desperate just to hold on to 2 & 3 thanks to rosberg.
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I don't think it was Alonso's best race. Raikkonen was pretty much his equal all weekend, but Ferrari's strategy for him got worse and worse throughout the day. With a bit more luck in Q3 he might well have beaten Alonso.
 
Apologies for feeding the troll, but here's a breakdown of all the mechanical and electrical failures and all of the racing and qualifying incidents I can remember, listed in as neutral a way as I can manage. Hopefully there isn't anything missing from this list.

The Monaco qualifying incident has not been included in this list because it is difficult to prove whether it was deliberate or not and whether it would have affected Lewis and Nico's grid positions at all.

Hamilton:
AUS: Engine Failure, Retired
CAN: KERS Failure and rear brake failure, Retired
GER: Brake failure during Quali caused major accident, required gearbox change. Started 16th instead of most likely front row.
HUN: Engine Fire during Quali. Pit lane start instead of most likely front row
BEL: Puncture and major aerodynamic damage. Retired
ITA: Race start mode problem. Lost about three places at the start because of this. Problem was later resolved and Hamilton recovered to win the race

Rosberg:
CAN: KERS failure (no brake failure though), recovered to 2nd place
GBR: Gearbox Failure, Retired
BEL: Minor aerodynamic damage, recovered to 2nd place
SIN: Electronics Failure, Retired

So, unless I've missed something, Rosberg needs one more DNF, a start from ~15th and a start from the pit lane to even out the bad luck. Or perhaps just one retirement and a pit lane start to balance out Rosberg's recovery drives
 
ThestigGT999 said:
you forgot rosberg getting punished by the safety car on numerous occasions like this one
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numerous doesn't mean the number one, it means more than one, and it's been ONCE.

Hamilton has been punished by a safety car TWICE, Rosberg gained on Hamilton through a safety car which gave him a huge advantage, he wasted it. Today Hamilton had another safety car put him in a weak position and still won.

Also Rosberg has purposefully hit hamilton off(and been fined for it by his team who absolutely know who was guilty of what) and he cheated at Monaco. He also cheated a couple of times in Canada, cutting the corner and flooring it and pushing Hamilton off the track in the first corner. Hamilton ate him alive for pace throughout, Hamilton was making the tires last better, was using less fuel and gaining on him.

In their DNF's Hamilton was ahead in two of them and gaining rapidly in Canada. They were most likely 3 wins meaning Rosberg gained 32 points a pop, or 96 points total, though Rosberg only finished second in Canada so lets say Hamilton lost 18 points for second and Rosberg moved up getting 3 more points so 21 points. So Rosberg gained at least 85 points from Hamilton DNF's.

In Rosberg's two DNF's he was ahead in one and behind in the other so you could consider that a 32 point gain for Hamilton in one and a 18 point gain today for 50 points total and a 35 point difference. But in GB Hamilton started 6th, passed 4 cars and was closing in on Rosberg fast before he had an issue. The reality is he was most likely to win it anyway making it two 18 point losses, 36 points and 49 points total that Rosberg has gained when factoring in both of their DNF's.


Hamilton has had more bad luck, his DNF's have cost him more points than Rosberg's have, he's had two qualification failures causing him starts in 20th and 22nd which have certainly cost him more points as well, he also hasn't cheated at least three times season.

There is no comparison in regards to who had the worst luck.
 
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