The 2013 Season

[sushifiesta]

How can you overlook Mr. Consistency?!

 

[Fenderman]

 

[rufus_mcdufus]

It occurred to me how we could make the season a lot more interesting - how about banning Red Bull from racing?

 

[ExtremeNinja]

Nah. Just ban them from the podium. We were lucky enough not to be bored with too much of Vettel driving around in cruise mode on his own.

 

[F1Yorkshire]

Sadly the way the race went, the reason Vettel managed to win was by not racing.

 

[teabagyokel]

The way the race went, Vettel won because the FIA's DRS automatic system cocked up.

 

[Galahad]

Hopefully after Bahrain we'll go back to Pirelli picking the compounds, rather than Red Bull.

 

[Slyboogy]

Although I don't like Red Bull complaining and having their own way. I think that with soft tyres, the race would have been a complete shamble.

 

[ExtremeNinja]

teabagyokel. It was Ferrari's DRS that cocked up. The only thing supposed to be automatically controlled by the FIA is effectively the child-lock. Makes the activation button inactive when DRS is not enabled. This was a Ferrari mechanical failure and nothing more or less than that.

 

[Jos the Boss]

I think Will Buxton said that they agreed the Bahrain tyres after Malysia, not after China, http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/106844

 

[teabagyokel]

ExtremeNinja - Yeah. To be honest, I was going to remove that comment but I forgot which thread it was on.

 

[Blog Zbod]

Uh, oh, there they go. Adrian Newey and Sebastian Vettel have got the Red Bull by the horns and continue to give the rest the finger. SNAoFU.

Alex Wurz was quoted saying Bahrain was the signal that RBR were the first team to break the code on the 2013 disinte-Pirellis. However, if Lotus have such impressive pace without the key code, it should be quite the contest once they finally have it sussed.

 

[Il_leone]

so far tyres to be changed

8/ 11 did not want the tyres changed

The most vocal to be changed Red Bull any guess who the other two maybe

 

[Brogan]

Apparently teams are now going to be fined up to €1,000 for pit lane speeding offences during practice and qualifying sessions, rather than drivers.

I seem to recall that being mentioned last year when the rise in super licence fees was announced.

 

[Kamui-FastestChefInTheWorld]

Why not give a grid drop and make it actually mean something? Nothing big, only 1 or 2 places, but £900 to a multi-million pound entity is like giving your average Joe a 50p fine, surely?

 

[Brogan]

What I don't understand is why the teams are being fined.

In most cases (not all), it's the driver who is at fault for not engaging the limiter soon enough, not braking enough, disengaging the limiter too early, cutting the corners too much after crossing the timing beam, etc.

 

[Kamui-FastestChefInTheWorld]

Even so, a 2 place penalty would hurt a driver or team a lot more than 1000€ would.

 

[Incubus]

Brogan Could this have anything to do with whatever pit-entry software (if any) installed on today's F1 cars?

I wouldn't have a clue about this but does anyone know whether today's cars are equipped with any kind of pit-entry software program that has total control over a car's speed (including braking just before the line) the second a car enters the start of the pit-lane (as opposed to the white line marking the speed limit area) so that all the driver has to do is steer?

 

[Brogan]

I'm fairly sure the driver has total control over engaging and disengaging the limiter.

Wasn't it one or two races ago when someone was side by side leaving the pits but lost out because they forgot to disengage the limiter?

 

[Josh]

Yeah that was Hülkenberg I believe.