Grand Prix Rejects

dr-baker wrote:According to this Autosport article, there was indeed a discrepancy with the scales, as Mario said, but only by half a kilo (600 kgs were placed on them, and they read 599.5 kgs). Paul di Resta and his car with fuel were originally 500 g under, and 2 kg under without fuel. With the half-kilo discrepancy, that made him about 3 lb under the limit.

di Resta may have the personality of a glass of milk, but he deserves better than this. Now he needs the drive of his life to finish in the points. Or if he retires with some random failure, then the luck of the. Brits for ROTR seems even more convincing. Unless Hamilton wins

Maaak Wibbah coming out with his NSSSPMTTG theory
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/108419

"I think they did pretty well at that test, to be fair. They have moved the bar up for themselves a big chunk on Sundays - anyway... that is the way it went.

FI seemed to be awfully quick at blaming this on di Resta. Makes you wonder if it had anything to do with the public blame game atmosphere of that side of the garage.

good_Ralf wrote: And the Glass of Milk is being outpaced at his home race by his teammate, the Pianist.

Svenko Wankerov wrote:FI seemed to be awfully quick at blaming this on di Resta. Makes you wonder if it had anything to do with the public blame game atmosphere of that side of the garage.

I don't think PDR will race for FI next year. Whether it will be Paul who decides not to continue with them, or FI letting him go for another driver, I don't know.
But it just feels like he won't be there next year. The atmosphere is just strange between driver/team.

Is this new? Haven't seen it before.

Natalie Pinkham. That is all.

Jocke1 wrote:Is this new? Haven't seen it before.

I think that would apply to Mercedes more at the moment. God help us all

AdrianSutil wrote:Natalie Pinkham. That is all.

When referencing Sky, "That is all" is not acceptable. Please describe thoroughly what you have seen, and feel free to post pictures.

Jocke1 wrote:Is this new? Haven't seen it before.

It's Lotus' hashtag for the race. They've been doing it all season, I think. I stopped paying attention after Malaysia, to be honest.

Damm it why does it never happen to Vettel.

oh shite now hamilton!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

FOR F***KS SAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NICO TAKE VETTEL OUT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

F**k!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAMILTON HAS A PUNCTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bathplug hell massa off with a puncture to, bloody hell cheese tyres

Crikey, those left-rear tyres don't fancy it today, do they?

And now Massa as well

Massa has a puncture too! Pirelli are in serious trouble.

Pirelliiiiiiiiiiiii!

good_Ralf wrote:Massa has a puncture too! Pirelli are in serious trouble.

If they take Vettel out they are forgiven

Damm. Damm damm damm

Coumd we see Sutil on the podium?

Sutil is third, but for how long?

Another!

How many before Charlie Whiting has to do something?

AND JEV'S OFF AS WELL!

Farce.

holy shite vergne tyre blow to!

As much as this situation is ridiculous, the race is going to be interesting if they let it play out...

EDIT: aaaaand the Safety Car's out.

Red Flag possibly?

this is the worse tyre race since usa 2005. What a farce

madness cuts in rear tyres found

rachel1990 wrote:Red Flag possibly?

this is the worse tyre race since usa 2005. What a farce

Yeah. I'll agree to that.

Cannot believe how much chaos the tyres are causing

I didn't think it was possible to be more unimpressed with F1's current tire 'philosophy' than I already was, but I guess I was wrong.

Extended rant may follow later.

Also, Alonso's luck is brighter than ever. No surprise if he wins.

rachel1990 wrote:

good_Ralf wrote:Massa has a puncture too! Pirelli are in serious trouble.

If they take Vettel out they are forgiven

The team appear to be very worried about the tyres - they were warning him that there were signs of cuts on the left rear tyre of his car, so he seems to have been somewhat marginal on his tyres as well.

S951 wrote:holy shite vergne tyre blow to!

That was a particularly scary incident, since Kimi was actually struck by some of the debris from Vergne's tyre blowout. I'm rather worried what might have happened if he'd struck the carcass that was spat out from Vergne's car - I think that, at this point, if there is something wrong with the tyres, then the FIA is probably going to demand changes from Pirelli on safety grounds (and that change in specification could not be rejected if it was on safety grounds).

Enforcer wrote:I didn't think it was possible to be more unimpressed with F1's current tire 'philosophy' than I already was, but I guess I was wrong.

Extended rant may follow later.

Designed degradation is one thing, but potential tyre failures is another thing entirely, especially if it is now having a potentially serious impact on safety.

mario wrote:

Enforcer wrote:I didn't think it was possible to be more unimpressed with F1's current tire 'philosophy' than I already was, but I guess I was wrong.

Extended rant may follow later.

Designed degradation is one thing, but potential tyre failures is another thing entirely, especially if it is now having a potentially serious impact on safety.

Yes, but if you want deliberately fragile, high-wearing tires, then surely there's a greater risk that some track somewhere will have an unexpected quirk that could cause something like this than if you build the tire to the most durable specification you reasonably can for the same level of grip?

mario wrote:

rachel1990 wrote:

good_Ralf wrote:Massa has a puncture too! Pirelli are in serious trouble.

If they take Vettel out they are forgiven

I've completely changed my mind now. Pirelli are putting lives at risk with these tyres.

Are they all thinking "Everyone else will be avoiding the kerbs, I'll take a chance it won't happen to me, and win some time over them!" ?

Tyres wearing differently and changing strategies and forcing pit stops is one thing, but exploding like they did for Vergne and potentially injuring Kimi is another. It's a bad thing to see.
Paul not showing up for the conference/interview is one thing, and now this...

Paul Hayes wrote:Are they all thinking "Everyone else will be avoiding the kerbs, I'll take a chance it won't happen to me, and win some time over them!" ?

Probably. It will only result in more tyre failures.

Guiterrez's car suffers a case of carbon fiber shredding itself. Or another failure for him.

Jocke1 wrote:Is this new? Haven't seen it before.

In retrospect this takes on added significance.