Australia predictions; no, it's not too soon!

Thats the only thing thatll stop red bull, and its wishful thinking. Renault know how to make engines

 

Look up Brazil 2011 - Vettel had gearbox issues - he lost lower gears but finished second in the race.

 

At this point I'd be happy just to see the race...!

There is a serious power issue here currently and I've been left without electricity for 10-18 hours at a time!

My generator is broken, and the commercial ones are all completely sold out.

FML .

 

Interesting. People down here were complaining that Eskom still delivered power abroad while we had rolling black outs. I wasn't aware that other countries were hit much harder. Wouldn't you expect consumption to go down over weekends? Won't you be able to find a decent pub with a genset?

 

We barely get any, if anything, from Eskom atm. I know we where cut down to just 90 MW for the whole country last week. Just heard for us problems won't be solved until winter (officially starts only in june, but it's seriously cold from mid april). Weekends are just as bad, this weekend I had no power on friday, saturday and sunday from about 7am to ~10pm.

Seems like the pub is only place to go, as long as they have a decent generator.

Apparently Eskom will decide this week how and what. If we go back to the 270/300MW deal we had before (after the SA rains stop, to be decent!) then there's no problem and we'll have a few hours a week.

If it's not resolved I'm moving back to Europe prematurely.

 

No kidding! I look at these convoluted front wings and wonder what kind of drugs they're taking. With all the vagaries of turbulence during a race, I wonder if they are EVER going to work as the designers intend. Brilliant design is elegant, and elegance is usually simple.

Cheers,

George

 

Simple is best - isn't that a fact! Lets consider the ultimate industry for aero excellence - aerospace. How complicated do aircraft look? Answer - not very compared to some of these F1 franken-wings (and comedy noses). Kinda proves the point...

 

Current results of their online pole--

Which team will win the Australian GP?

Red Bull 5.39%

Mercedes 34.73%

Ferrari 17.96%

Lotus 1.8%

McLaren 15.57%

Force India 2.4%

Sauber 2.4%

Williams 17.96%

Other 1.8%

 

I SERIOUSLY doubt that Horner is just blowing smoke.

Now we KNOW why Hamilton left McLaren...before we just opined that it was all about 2014. For those counting on Red Bull catching up by Spain, just remember that Merc won't be sitting idly by while everyone else is developing their car. If the advantage is as big as Horner thinks, they won't be caught by anyone. Reliability problems could be the only thing keeping the championship close (nobody wants another run away)

 

Yes but the engines are frozen so no Mercedes development on that front and the red bulls might be faster still when they finally work. We don't know.

 

Nice to see that in the absence of a sponsor they are concentrating on their artistic skills.

 

Engines are frozen. Nothing else is. F1 teams don't tend to stand pat with the cars they launch with.

 

True but the engine is mercedes forte.

 

And I would think Mercedes has THE deepest pockets of any team in F1. I said last year I thought Hammy made a mistake by leaving McLaren...Now it may be looking that he made the RIGHT decision...of course as they say..... "when the green flag drops the BS stops" !!!

 

Just hope Ferrari doesn't suck this year and Schu gets better.

 

The BIG question: Will Hulkenberg finally at least complete a lap in Australia?

3 previous entries, not completed a lap yet!

 

A Bigger question, will Ham say he can't go any slower.

 

"I can't use any less fuel..."

 

Yup thats it ...

 

I do hope that the entire season doesn't revolve around fuel consumption or engine longevity.