Rain may wreck Hamilton’s plan to do race fuel run

11 comments on “Rain may wreck Hamilton’s plan to do race fuel run”

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   timi (@timi)
   4th July 2014, 18:30

   If I were Hamilton and qualy is dry, I’d be one of the first on track and put in a very quick lap. Then pit, get fuel and chuck on a set of tyres he would have used today then do a 14ish minute ‘long-run’. Heck, Q1 and Q2 are a joke to Mercedes, why not use it for good instead of idling in the pits?
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      timi (@timi)
      4th July 2014, 18:30

      NB. Q3 is also a joke to Mercedes lol!
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         Julian (@julianwins)
         5th July 2014, 1:51

         Except Austria. I don’t think Merc found it quite so laughable
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            Chris (@tophercheese21)
            5th July 2014, 6:56

            Mercedes were not on the front row because of mistakes by the drivers.

            It all had gone according to plan, then they’d have been 1-2 again. Lewis was something like .500 up on Massa’s time by the second split before he ran wide at the penultimate corner.
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      Steven (@steevkay)
      4th July 2014, 19:17

      Not a terrible idea, actually.

      Maybe some wet-running in Practice 3 isn’t a bad idea anyway, since the website I’m looking at shows 40% chance of afternoon showers on Sunday. It would be cool for Lewis to put down another great drive at Silverstone, in the wet, and close the gap to Rosberg. I don’t want this points gap to become any larger…
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      Michael C
      4th July 2014, 19:23

      It might be worth doing this if Q3 is infact wet, but his engineer Bonnington would have to be constantly updating Lewis on cars around him to avoid blocking penalties.
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         sdtaylor91 (@sdtaylor91)
         4th July 2014, 19:32

         The cars are in parc ferme, so whilst you might learn quite a bit, there wouldn’t be a lot you could do with that information. Diff settings, wing angles, tyre pressures, that’s pretty much it
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            timi (@timi)
            5th July 2014, 3:36

            @sdtaylor91 Still a very valuable exercise if you ask me – despite not being able to make wholesale changes to the car
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      Mashiat (@mashiat)
      5th July 2014, 11:24

      You can’t use practice tyres in Qualifying. The teams give the set of tyres they use in FP1 and FP2 right after each session. So no, not a brilliant idea.
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   Jarv F150 (@jarvf150)
   4th July 2014, 22:21

   I would suspect that if data-sharing between the two sides of the garage are good Nico’s data is good for Lewis’s car.
   The lack of practice is probably something else.

   What is a curiosity to me is Kevin Magnussen’s straight line speed; I had read that those odd suspension things were draggy. Given the numerous long straights things might look better than they seem for McLaren.

   –

   Also going to my first race day since I saw Eddie “The Eagle” drive a truck round Donnington many many… many years ago.
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   @HoHum (@hohum)
   5th July 2014, 6:51

   If it weren’t for the Saubers, apparently carrying a lot of wing, the speedtrap figures would provide a perfect linear illustration of the maximum power output of the PUs as they stand this year. Ferrari can console themselves with the thought that at least they are ahead of the French manufacturer of cute shopping trolleys and bland rep-mobiles.

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