Beebo
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Merc will beat Ferrari in the constructors championship at this rate.
They just can’t help themselves.
They just can’t help themselves.
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figbat
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It’s like they play a predetermined strategy regardless of what is actually happening. They really are coming across as clowns.
figbat
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But in interview this wasn’t mentioned and he said he simply dropped it.
classic33
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Just watched the replay, and he's shouting about the throttle just before impact.
figbat
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Either heat of the moment reaction or he’s been given the Ferrari PR reminder talk before talking to the media.
classic33
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Think the media pen piece was after he'd been given the PR reminder.
Binotto has just been saying it was absolutely not a throttle issue.
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Unfortunately Mr Horner is turning into a Politician, how do you know he's lying his lips are moving,
Sorry but I always shouted for RB as they were new & exciting coming into the sport, they were sticking it to the established teams, they did things differently & weren't afraid to take chances. But now they are the established team who have been thoroughly beaten to a pulp over the last last 8 years, they couldn't beat the Mercedes in a straight fight, so they now play in the grey area, somewhere they appear to have been straying into in a desperate attempt to get results.
Well done George, you outplayed Sergio there, he/they realised what you were doing at the last second, by which time it was too late.
But c'mon Ferrari, yet again you threw it down the road, 3rd was for the taking, unless those tyres were worse than we know, but they were still clearly better than anyone else had on their car at the time.
Who else thinks it ought to have been a full safety car not virtual, had there been 10 not 5 laps to go I think it would have been, but Hamilton right on Verstappens tail /
But c'mon Ferrari, yet again you threw it down the road, 3rd was for the taking, unless those tyres were worse than we know, but they were still clearly better than anyone else had on their car at the time.
Who else thinks it ought to have been a full safety car not virtual, had there been 10 not 5 laps to go I think it would have been, but Hamilton right on Verstappens tail /
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Reynard
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Well, nothing changes at Ferrari.
If they were a Shakespeare play, they'd be "A Comedy of Errors"
If they were a Shakespeare play, they'd be "A Comedy of Errors"
Illaveago
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This is pretty well much the equivalent of the variable height active suspension used in the early 80s. When stationary, the car meets all the ride height tests, but at racing speed, it's running lower than it ought.
And the more the air gets "squeezed" under the floor, the bigger the pressure drop (it's related to the square of the velocity), the more downforce you generate and ergo, you have more grip. Which of course, is advantageous, as these cars don't have the same level of basic mechanical grip than under the previous regs.
The engineers can't fanny around with the suspension, so they lower the ride height by having a movable floor. You have to admire their capacity for thinking seven ways of sideways though, but it's not strictly legal. The new guidelines were supposed to have been brought in for this weekend, but guess which two teams threw their toys out of the pram over it...
Oh yessssssssss, Spa is going to be very interesting.
I think that is why they introduced the plank of wood .
My recent Motor Sport magazine shows a picture of the underside of Perez Red Bull car showing the plank set between the carbon floor .
I too am not sure how the sprung plank works as there must be a limit as to how low the floor can go before it grounds away on the race track . The old ground effect cars had nylon type sealing strips attached to the sides of the bodywork which could slide up and down .
It seems as though they must have replaced the wrong part and that the fault is intermittent .
From what he was describing before the impact it sounds as though it was the same problem that he had in Austria .
In the post race interview LeClerc says that the throttle issue came when he was trying to get out of the tyre barrier - sometime the timing of the driver radio is out with the visual. That said, I thought it was usually behind the visual not ahead of it...
Rosberg felt that LeClerc was premature with accepting it as driver error (if you value Rosberg's opinion!) as analysis of the lap doesn't really show much difference from the previous lap and there was nothing obvious that caused the rear to let go.
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he held his hand up later and said it was my mistake.
Illaveago
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Yes I heard that later after the race but as has been said above it could be a cover story .
Ferrari need to examine all of the data to make sure that it wasn't a glitch in the throttle system which they haven't resolved .
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Deleted member 1258
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Why could it be a cover story? He seemed to be annoyed with himself during the interview.
