Motors The Bit-Tech F1 2015 Thread - Season Complete

Actually, Ricciardo probably had the Target logo painted at him today, both Mercedes cars hit him.

 

Fantastic race in Hungary today - even better than last year (which was epic when I was there!).

Lewis got very lucky in terms of the points today - with Rosberg's puncture at the end. Lucky to increase his lead at the top of the championship.

Fantastic result for Vettel today - fantastic drive, unlucky for Raikonnen though - especially given how well he was driving.

Bring on Spa in a few weeks time - I can't wait to be there!

 

Nico in truth looked off the pace all weekend, Still not sure why he did not go on the faster tyre instead of the prime did not entirely get that.

Safety car made the end a fun race.

For the world title fight its a good day for Lewis.

Second front wing failure off the weekend is suprising. Guess that will be investigated by the 2 teams it affected.

Was some clean over takes, Vettel on Lewis at start there was a hairs width between the 2 cars.

Feel sorry for Kimi never his day something always goes wrong for him.

All in all it was a good race with some fun overtakes.

 

@ autosport.com forums - Vettel's race summed up in one .gif:

 

It felt like we were transported back into the 80's today, that was entertaining.

 

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https://twitter.com/sebvettelnews/status/625362896831123457/photo/1

LOL

 

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I thought it was a piss-take of/sly dig at Hamilton's comments on the Silverstone trophy and 'what happened to the gold one?'...

 

Hungarian GP stewards handed out nine penalties during Sunday's race.

This is the break down of the incidents:

Sam

 

I could've sworn I saw I message flash up saying Verstappen got a drive through penalty for the speeding offence, and I was expecting him to lose his 4th place for not taking it.

 

I believe he took it shortly after the safety car came in it but it wasn't shown at all on the coverage.
As I recall he didn't lose a place because there was a large split in the field behind him due to him being the last car on the lead lap directly behind the safety car.

 

Exciting to see the championship have a bit of much needed variety in the top 3 drivers. Much more fun to watch with more than just Mercedes 1, 2 each race

 

Just because Mercedes not 1-2 does not mean it was a great race. Without the Safety car Vettel would of been just as far ahead if not further than what Hamilton would of done.

Hamilton going off early on lap 1 prevented a more intresting race with Vettel and Hamilton showing great pace all weekend that would of made for a classic gp.

There was very few great over takes that were not because of different tyres or sheer outright pace. Riccardo mainly had all of them to himself in terms of great overtakes and he does it alot at this track. Id struggle to list another one.

Hamilton cruised around the field at the end in a car with so much in hand vs the rest if the race was the orginal race distance he would of caught and past Alonso, He was gaining at something like 5-6 seconds a lap.

It was a exiting race to watch which is good.

As far as the title race is concerned.

The fact Hamilton extended his championship lead over Nico is pretty much a win in itself. Ferrari are good in some places bad in others, That lack of consistancy will prevent them challanging too well in the next 2 gps.

Spa is basically the ultimate engine test and despite the improvements made id expect to see Bottas get in or around the ferarri cars. Monza is very much a similar situation. If Vettel is somehow less than 50 points behind come the end of Monza we can talk him been in the fight for the title.

If Lewis wins both races we will back be discussing how boring it is all is again yes? ( He would have a 35 point lead in championship minimum)

Singapore will likely be more to the Ferrari cars liking and he could work on reducing the gap.

How bad are the current cars though on mech grip wow. They litterally fall away as soon as they are in dirty air. The biggest rule change f1 needs to go back to Mech grip and move away from Aero.

 

Ferrari keep Kimi for 2016

 

That's not a huge surprise, Kimi's driving has been much better this year, it's the car (or more accurately, software) that keeps letting him down.

So Bottas still at Williams and Button either still at Mclaren or retired.

 

Didn't Ted Kravitz mention that McLaren said JB will be retained for 2016, in his race notebook section at the last race?

 

Mclaren have an option to extend JB's deal into 2016, but JB was rumoured to be talking to Williams in case Bottas or Massa left the team.

Now that seems moot unless Massa or Bottas have some colossal falling out (unlikely).

 

I know about the 1+1 contract, but I'm almost certain I heard Kravitz say that McLaren had said JB was being retained. I'm off to hunt through his notebook vids...

 

http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2015/...-on-engine-changes-at-spa-to-boost-race-pool/

Finally!

Mclaren appear to have realised that the engine penalties basically don't apply to them, so they're fitting new engines for practice 1 and 2, then new engines again for qualifying/race. They'll start last, but on brand new engines since they'll likely go out and drive one lap as a formality for qualifying.

4 engines in a weekend, chew on that Renault/Todt/FIA/Bernie.

I wonder what will happen if they end up scoring points with this ruse.