Stramala [kostas22] wrote:mario wrote:Stramala [kostas22] wrote:However, for the win, it can only be one thing...
***WINNER*** McLaren Wheelnut Locking System ***WINNER***
What else could it have been? Once again, McLaren find a way to overcomplicate simple tasks, with fatal results. They give Force India their wheelnut locking system, and something as simple as failing to apply a wheelnut correctly causes a double DNF for the team, when it looked like both cars would score points. And then of course, the wheel nuts also ruin Button's race for good measure. First it was the electronic pit release debacle, now they've got sticky nuts. Not pleasant.
Slight correction needed here - Force India might have adopted a similar system to what McLaren use, but the Force India system was developed independently from McLaren (it isn't part of their joint R&D agreement or supply deal).
Perhaps "they give" was a bad word choice, however, we simply can't know if what you said is true or not, unless of course you somehow sneakily got your hands on the R&D contract. The point is, McLaren pioneered it, Force India adopted it, it screwed them both. Hence dual nomination.
I've only been able to go on what has been publicly reported, which was that the system that went wrong on the Force India car was an in house developed system rather than from McLaren. Either way, I can see your point of view in that respect.
Divina_Galica wrote:4) STR - how come Vergne hasn't received a penalty for unsafe release..????
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The team has been fined €10,000 for an unsafe release, but Vergne did not receive a penalty because the stewards decided that it was the fault of the team, who should have held him in his pit box, rather than Vergne himself, who drove off on the instructions of his pit crew.
JeremyMcClean wrote:Has to go to Force India for their awful performance in the race. Honourable mention goes to the BBC for unreasonably raising the expectations for no given reason other than "they did well at Melbourne."
To be fair to the BBC, Sutil was actually in a position to score points before Force India ruined it with their pit stops, and di Resta was making reasonable progress through the field too. Their pace was actually not that bad when you look at it - Sutil had managed to work his way back into the top 10 before his second botched stop, whilst di Resta had an outside chance of also making it into the top 10 too with the lap times he was putting in.
East Londoner wrote:Fernando Alonso - I don't know if it was his call or Ferrari's to stay out with that broken wing, but it backfired instantly. Still doesn't excuse the fact that it was a moment of sheer brain fade, which could've been much worse had Alonso torpedoed Webber at 150mph into the first corner.
Domenicali has said that it was the team that ordered Alonso to stay out on track, as they were trying to be a little too clever for their own good and leave Alonso out for long enough to be able to change onto slick tyres at the same time as switching the front wing, therefore minimising the time loss.
To be honest, I still don't think that it makes that much more sense - I suspect that they would probably have been black and orange flagged fairly quickly, and even if they hadn't been ordered into the pits, he would have probably been swallowed up by the pack and lost more time than he might have gained from trying to limp round for another four or five laps to save an extra stop.
