snowy
Champion Elect
A critique on an article of professional motorsport journalism:
Ed Straw reckons that had Nico Rosberg successfully overtaken Lewis Hamilton into turn 2 he would almost certainly have gone on to win the race in Russia. He contends that it was very difficult to overtake and therefore the race would have been concluded then and there, and that Nico knew this. Hence the lock up and everything else that actually happened.
The unfortunate Ed Straw fails to take into account that had Nico taken the lead he would almost certainly have pitted first and that Lewis would have stayed out longer. The tyres and track being the way they were it is almost certain that Lewis would have put the hammer down. He'd have found himself going faster and faster and quite possibly resisted the temptation to stop until he was in a position to pit and retain the lead of the race by a very significant margin. EDIT: Remember Nico would be changing to the medium tyre, a second slower that the soft Lewis would still be on.
The other scenario that occurs to me is that Lewis doesn't resist the temptation to stop too early or is advised by the team to pit too early. In this case Lewis would almost certainly have caught and attempted to pass Nico, in which case the difficulty of passing on this circuit would have been in affect. But Lewis being the way he is and quite possibly not informed that it was difficult to pass on this track would have made that attempted pass and who knows it may have stuck. Alternatively they might both have ended up in the wall. But to say that Nico had to make that pass on lap one and that having made it he'd have almost certainly won the race is just plain stupid and pitifully unimaginative. Not to mention oblivious of the facts.
http://plus.autosport.com/premium/f...t-chances?_ga=1.65589159.828484739.1398112302
Ed Straw reckons that had Nico Rosberg successfully overtaken Lewis Hamilton into turn 2 he would almost certainly have gone on to win the race in Russia. He contends that it was very difficult to overtake and therefore the race would have been concluded then and there, and that Nico knew this. Hence the lock up and everything else that actually happened.
The unfortunate Ed Straw fails to take into account that had Nico taken the lead he would almost certainly have pitted first and that Lewis would have stayed out longer. The tyres and track being the way they were it is almost certain that Lewis would have put the hammer down. He'd have found himself going faster and faster and quite possibly resisted the temptation to stop until he was in a position to pit and retain the lead of the race by a very significant margin. EDIT: Remember Nico would be changing to the medium tyre, a second slower that the soft Lewis would still be on.
The other scenario that occurs to me is that Lewis doesn't resist the temptation to stop too early or is advised by the team to pit too early. In this case Lewis would almost certainly have caught and attempted to pass Nico, in which case the difficulty of passing on this circuit would have been in affect. But Lewis being the way he is and quite possibly not informed that it was difficult to pass on this track would have made that attempted pass and who knows it may have stuck. Alternatively they might both have ended up in the wall. But to say that Nico had to make that pass on lap one and that having made it he'd have almost certainly won the race is just plain stupid and pitifully unimaginative. Not to mention oblivious of the facts.
http://plus.autosport.com/premium/f...t-chances?_ga=1.65589159.828484739.1398112302
Last edited:
