Tijdens een race alleen een paar druppels achter op het circuit in Maleisie, maar niks om je banden voor te wisselen.quote:Op vrijdag 6 mei 2011 19:48 schreef vosss het volgende:
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We hebben dit jaar al regen gehad toch of ben ik nou aan het verkinzen?
Het geluid was inderdaad fantastisch, zoek maar op youtube naar filmpjes van de mp4/4 en geniet, maar ik vind het nog steeds een foute keuze om iedereen maar 1 type motor toe te staan. Kijk naar de vroege jaren '90. V8's V10's en V12's. Formule 1 is interessant vanwege de verschillen tussen alle auto's en die verschillen zorgen ook voor inhalen en prachtige acties op de baan.quote:Op donderdag 5 mei 2011 12:39 schreef sasquatsch het volgende:
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Ik snap het niet. De F1 heeft bijna een decennium ( de jaren '80) rondgereden met 1.5 liter turbomotoren van 800+ pk. Ze werden juist verbannen omdat de motoren te krachtig werden en dus te gevaarlijk.
In die tijd hoorde je niemand over het geluid (wat nog steeds erg indrukwekkend was, weet ik uit eigen ervaring) of over de kleine cilinder inhoud. Ecclestone zelf heeft een van zijn wereldtitels met Brabham te danken aan zo'n turbomotor.
Volgens mij hebben de meeste mensen die klagen over die motoren die periode niet meegemaakt, die door velen de beste periode van de F1 genoemd wordt.
Dat Ecclestone er tegen is, is omdat hij bang is dat de interesse voor de F1 minder wordt, zeker omdat Ferrari erop tegen is. Zelf denk ik dat dat niet zo'n vaart zal lopen.
Vind het moeilijk om te beoordelen hoe het zonder die vele regeltjes zou zijn, het enige wat me wel stoort in F1 is die constante wijzigingenquote:Op zondag 8 mei 2011 10:02 schreef vosss het volgende:
Tegenwoordig zien ze er ook allemaal hetzelfde uit op piepkleine verschilletjes na.
Er zijn gewoon veel te veel regeltjes tegenwoordig
quote:Todt pushing for limited testing return
Formula 1 teams will be asked to support a move from FIA president Jean Todt for a return of limited in-season testing next year.
Todt believes that the introduction of a total ban on testing during the season from the start of 2009 has been a failure, which is why he is now pushing for a limited amount of running to be allowed.
He has tabled a proposal to allow three lots of two-day testing for discussion at the next meeting of the Formula 1 Commission, which takes place in Valencia on June 23, with the hope that it will be ratified for introduction in 2012.
If, however, teams are not in favour of the change in regulations, then Todt has indicated that he will force it through for 2013 instead.
"For me, it is a stupid decision to have no testing during the season," Todt said during a media briefing in Turkey on Sunday morning.
"In the past it was crazy to have unlimited testing during the year, but to go from unlimited to completely banned, it is not the right measure. It doesn't allow young drivers to test, it doesn't give the opportunity for young drivers to learn some experience in F1, and I will make sure that this situation will change for the future.
"It cannot come back to free testing, but teams now have simulation facilities in the factory, so we are not talking about [a testing ban] being a cost-saving for the big teams.
"So we will push for a few days of free testing during the season as soon as possible but by respecting the rules."
When asked when he thought that was likely to be: "I would have loved to have done it in 2011, but we could not impose it as there was no reason to impose it on safety grounds.
"So, it will be in 2012 if we get enough [support]. It is something that we are going to present at the next Formula 1 Commission which will be on the Thursday in Valencia, and if not then, we can implement it in 2013 without any agreement.
"At the latest it will be 2013, but hopefully people will accept a few days testing during the season from next year on."
Despite his push to change the testing rules, Todt said he was delighted with the early impressions of F1's 2011 regulations.
"I have been watching as much as I can qualifying, free practice and racing on television," he said. "I must say that mainly the last race was amazing. Three things have been introduced - adjustable rear wing, return of KERS and a new tyre. I think the combination of the three has helped tremendously to improve the show.
"I am always very cautious so I would not like to make any conclusion after three races, but if I was back as a team principal I would push my people to try to analyse all that happened.
"I must say I was very impressed with the race and strategy of Mark Webber [in China] because he started 18th and finished third, but he had three new sets of soft tyres. Definitely if you see, he was three seconds quicker [that other cars at times] and if you see the quickest lap time during the race, he was 1.5 seconds quicker than the second one, so it does mean a lot.
"I think really it is a lot to learn, it is a lot to understand and it is fascinating. I just had a short discussion with Stefano Domenicali on how many pitstops they think they need to do.
"Considering the tyres - I must welcome Pirelli because they made very brave decisions when they got into this sharp high-end technical, expertise and business."
Het tegenovergestelde zelfs ... nu is het zo dat een bepaald team ieder seizoen wel een keertje 'test' (bijv., die promotie-film-opnames onlangs met nieuwe onderdelen). Als alle teams weer mogen testen dan komen er meer nieuwe coureurs langs die weg de F1 binnen, kunnen teams gewoon weer nieuwe onderdelen testen (net als een bepaald team doetquote:Op zondag 8 mei 2011 11:57 schreef Bolter het volgende:
*telt af tot dat het "Ferrari doet het niet goed, JT = Ferrari!" gezeik begint..
En altijd (buiten de vaste test-weken) met de auto van vorig jaar ... dus puur vergelijkende test / coureur testquote:Op zondag 8 mei 2011 12:09 schreef Peterselieman het volgende:
Je zou bijvoorbeeld de verplichting op kunnen nemen dat teams die willen testen buiten de vaste testweken voorafgaand aan het seizoen dit altijd moeten doen met een jong talent.
Dat is inderdaad wel een goeie. Laat ze lekker testen op Estoril ofzo.quote:Op zondag 8 mei 2011 12:29 schreef Meike26 het volgende:
Nog ene regel erbij:
Testen mogen niet uitgevoerd worden op circuits waar Formule 1 wedstrijden gehouden (gaan) worden ! Juist daarom zijn die races op Silverstone en Barcelona altijd zo saai geweest, omdat ze karren vol aan circuit-data hebben van die circuit's.
Regelwijzigingen om de zoveel jaar zijn wel goed, want anders krijg je op den duur een vaste volgorde van teams met veel geld gevolgd (Ferrari, McLaren) door de teams met weinig geld, doordat ze continu kunnen evolueren. Nu heb je af en toe een revolutie (zoals met Brawn en Red Bull)quote:Op zondag 8 mei 2011 10:36 schreef Tarado het volgende:
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Vind het moeilijk om te beoordelen hoe het zonder die vele regeltjes zou zijn, het enige wat me wel stoort in F1 is die constante wijzigingen
quote:FIA tells teams DRS will be legal in Monaco
The FIA has told teams that DRS will be used in Monaco, this blog can exclusively reveal.
Some teams and drivers had asked that it be disabled for the weekend on safety grounds, and there was a discussion on the matter in the drivers’ briefing in Turkey. Mark Webber was the most vocal opponent, citing safety concerns.
Teams who wanted to keep DRS pointed out that they would be forced to hurriedly develop ‘normal’ Monaco wings if DRS was banned.
Race director Charlie Whiting informed the teams this morning by letter that having taken various opinions on board, competitors would be free to use DRS during the weekend.
At the moment the intention is that the race DRS zone will be on the pit straight rather than through the tunnel and into the chicane
Hadden ze eindelijk de kans om slipstreaming door bochten mogelijk te maken, krabbelen ze nu terug en wordt het geen revolutie maar een evolutie van de huidige aerodynamische regels. Dus voorlopig zijn we nog niet van het oneerlijke DRS af.quote:Formula 1 is set to steer clear of ‘tea tray’ front wings and eighties style ground effects for the 2013 chassis regulations.
It was reported late last year that, to go with the four-cylinder turbo engines, the Formula 1 cars of 2013 will generate the bulk of their downforce with the floor through ‘ground effects’, with that formula drawn up by veteran engineers Patrick Head and Rory Byrne.
Auto Motor und Sport said the teams will receive the draft regulations next week, but they have reportedly been revised to be less radical than originally proposed.
The teams had apparently hit back at the Head/Byrne plan by proposing a less extreme method to reduce downforce, on the basis of the current aerodynamic formula.
So, front wings will reduce in width from 1.8 to 1.5 metres in 2013, while the rear wings to be the same size but with smaller wing profiles.
Aerodynamic appendages, meanwhile, will be further restricted, and a 100 kilograms per hour fuel flow rate imposed for engines.
The fuel flow limit will require teams to work to reduce the drag – and therefore the downforce and fuel consumption – of the cars from a drag coefficient of around 0.95 at present to about 0.5 to 0.7.
The FIA intends to present the chassis rules to the teams in London on Wednesday.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/91298quote:Leading Formula 1 figures are adamant that the FIA has got its implementation of the DRS regulations spot on - despite criticisms that overtaking proved to be too easy in the Turkish Grand Prix.
The race at Istanbul featured one of the highest number of overtaking moves witnessed in an F1 race, and drivers appeared to have little trouble in passing slower cars ahead of them.
The relative ease of overtaking prompted some claims that F1's new 2011 rules have taken away some of the purity of the racing, but high-profile figures from the paddock are not so sure.
Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner said: "It has taken away an element – and it could be argued that perhaps overtaking was a little too easy.
"But it is great the cars are able to get into a position, and drivers have to work really hard to get within that second to make use of it. It has added another element."
Renault technical director James Allison believed that the high level of overtaking in Turkey owed more to the varying tyre wear on different cars than the DRS
"I think that what you were seeing was a track where, because the tyre degradation was high and because different people chose three stops and some four stops – and even the four stops were stopping at different phases of that, it built up big differentials of performance.
"If you looked at people who were on the same strategy as one another, behind one another, they could not just breeze by on different laps. There were lots of laps where they were pinned behind other people for many laps, so I think the FIA got it again pretty spot on."
When asked if overtaking had become too easy and the races too complicated now, Allison said: "No I think it's alright. We are an entertainment business and I think it produces entertaining races."
Williams technical director Sam Michael believes that although DRS had worked too well in Turkey, the concept was still good ultimately for F1.
"It definitely meant you could just run optimum strategy, as you didn't have to worry about traffic," he said. "But that is sort of what the intention was. I think the DRS is still pretty beneficial for this sport though, and it is pretty good.
"Plus, when you have a big differential of speed when someone is on 15 lap old tyres and some are on brand new, they are going to go past you whether you have the DRS or not."
Rubens Barrichello believed that the unique track configuration at Istanbul – with the DRS running through a corner – made its benefit more extreme.
"If you took that [the DRS] off, there would be no overtaking," he told AUTOSPORT. "This track is a little bit of an Interlagos type of track. You have a slight angled corner, which is effectively a straight. That creates drag for a car going through it, and the car behind doesn't get that so then you have more tow.
"So this is a track where you can have more overtaking, and we need to have more of that. With the DRS here, it was almost like people were overtaking before the straight, because you have that drag reduction plus the type of corner that makes the overtaking possible."
Bruno Senna, who as Renault's reserve driver has watched all the races on television, felt the key to getting the amount of overtaking right was in tweaking the length of the DRS zone.
"I think if you looked at the GP2 race this weekend, it was natural overtaking," he told AUTOSPORT. "Everyone is bunched up on each other, and that is because the cars can run a bit closer.
"In F1, maybe without the DRS and the KERS, people will have more difficulty in overtaking each other. Here, it is a case of making it look very easy because a straight naturally helps overtaking, but other places it will be the right thing to do. If they put the DRS system a bit further down the straight then it wouldn't be so easy."
When asked if F1 had got the balance of overtaking and proper racing right, Senna said: "It is difficult to understand what is happening. And the problem is that sometimes you see people getting happy because their favourite car or driver overtook someone else, and then after five laps they will be sad because the other guy overtook them back because the tyres had gone or the DRS helped.
"Yet it is still racing and drivers have to do a lot. Maybe it is the case of trying to follow the recipe of GP2 a bit more, and getting the overtaking a bit more natural."
Inderdaad, al ligt het grotendeels ook wel aan de banden waar je op dat moment op rijdt. Kan natuurlijk ook gemakkelijk aan gesleuteld worden door de DRS-zone flink in te korten of het snelheidsvoordeel wat kleiner te maken.quote:Op maandag 9 mei 2011 12:43 schreef kepler het volgende:
Ik vond DRS deze race echt nutteloos. Er werd wel ingehaald, maar alleen op het rechte stuk. Dit liet alleen maar zien dat een goed circuit kan zorgen voor meer inhaalacties.
quote:Het Formule 1-zitje van Jérôme D' Ambrosio staat op losse schroeven. Volgens berichten in de Belgische media kunnen zijn sponsoren niet aan hun financiële verplichtingen voldoen.
Bouiller
De Belgische krant Het Nieuwsblad meldt vandaag dat een aantal sponsoren van D'Ambrosio niet heeft betaald aan Virgin. De krant meldt dat Eric Bouiller - de baas van Gravbity Management waar D'Ambrosio door wordt begeleid - vandaag naar België gaat om het probleem op te lossen.
Ongeduldig
Bouiller zei tegen de krant: "Zo kan het niet langer. Alles wat door zogenaamde sponsors van Jérôme werd beloofd en gelanceerd, is er niet uitgekomen. Mensen moeten begrijpen dat als ze een verbintenis aangaan, ze hun woord moeten houden. Alles zit muurvast. Ik sprak recent met de mensen van Virgin en daar beginnen ze ongeduldig te worden. Ze hebben me duidelijk gezegd dat indien er geen verandering in de situatie komt, ze overwegen om Jérôme te vervangen."
Wickens
Robert Wickens zou de belangrijkste kandidaat zijn om D' Ambrosio op te volgen bij Virgin Racing. De Canadees neemt naar verluidt een groot bedrag aan sponsorgeld mee.
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