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Post by mmi16 on Sept 13, 2020 18:44:30 GMT -8
F1 doesn't have the designated 'Restart Zone' that NASCAR has. In the past, most of the time, the leader separates from the pace car 1/4 to 1/2 a lap before S/F and restarts, at his choice, anywhere from the 2nd to last or last turn before the front straight and is at full race speed by the time they cross S/F. Bottas for his reasons, didn't restart until just before S/F - those in the back of the field have no idea what is taking place up front until they see them nearly stopped ahead. The FIA is complicit in displaying the GREEN light on the S/F bridge before the leader has crossed S/F - that light is the signal to the back of the field to GO - it is the only thing they can see. Genuine Clusterfuck! |
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Post by montybriscoe on Sept 13, 2020 18:58:58 GMT -8
DVRed race since I was out at Mid-Ohio all weekend. Just sat down to watch. After the re-start on lap 12, I turned it off and went and got the results. That is how predictable and confident I was that I would have wasted my time watching this race any further.
Glad to see fans in the stands at Mugello.
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Post by Pistola on Sept 13, 2020 20:58:27 GMT -8
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Post by wilmywood8455 on Sept 14, 2020 0:24:41 GMT -8
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Post by pushtopass on Sept 14, 2020 5:17:18 GMT -8
On a side note, I blame the team for not warning their drivers about the possibility that Bottas doesn't stomp the throttle until the last possible moment. They have radios, right? I mean, even Martin Brundle was predicting the late start.
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Post by montybriscoe on Sept 14, 2020 6:53:33 GMT -8
The best drivers in the world so I have always been told except when Mike Joy tells me the 43 greatest drivers in the world at the beginning of the Daytona 500. 😛🤣😒
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Post by mmi16 on Sept 14, 2020 7:10:42 GMT -8
The best drivers in the world so I have always been told except when Mike Joy tells me the 43 greatest drivers in the world at the beginning of the Daytona 500. 😛🤣😒 Would like to see a outright juxtaposition - put the NASCAR drivers in F1 cars at Monaco; put the F1 drivers in NASCAR cars at Daytona. Not individual drivers, the entire field of drivers. |
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Post by Red_Hercules on Sept 14, 2020 9:27:23 GMT -8
The best drivers in the world so I have always been told except when Mike Joy tells me the 43 greatest drivers in the world at the beginning of the Daytona 500. 😛🤣😒 Would like to see a outright juxtaposition - put the NASCAR drivers in F1 cars at Monaco; put the F1 drivers in NASCAR cars at Daytona. Not individual drivers, the entire field of drivers. I'd pay to see that. |
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Post by pushtopass on Sept 14, 2020 12:46:40 GMT -8
Would like to see a outright juxtaposition - put the NASCAR drivers in F1 cars at Monaco; put the F1 drivers in NASCAR cars at Daytona. Not individual drivers, the entire field of drivers. I'd pay to see that. I'd guess that times at Monaco would be a bit slow but at Daytona there would be 20 balled up cars at the end of just a few laps. |
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Post by pushtopass on Sept 14, 2020 12:47:55 GMT -8
Anyone know more about Stroll's car? The way that it took a while to catch on fire, the difficulty putting it out, and the color of the smoke, made me think it was perhaps a battery fire.
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Post by Pistola on Sept 14, 2020 13:35:44 GMT -8
It was all the unused party mode supplies burning.  The battery is buried under the fuel tank in it's own little boxed area of the monocoque. It looked like the smoke and momentary flame was higher up around the airbox which is also used for cooling so something may have spilled but I don't think anybody has said anything for sure. |
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Post by mmi16 on Sept 14, 2020 13:58:08 GMT -8
Anyone know more about Stroll's car? The way that it took a while to catch on fire, the difficulty putting it out, and the color of the smoke, made me think it was perhaps a battery fire. Looked to me like something broke in the connection between the ICE and the transmission the way the rear axle was cocked. |
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Korean cable TV is lousy. no more NASCAR nor NHRA