You still set on this, if not random, then "unpredictable trigger" aren't you? I agree that when they go off they go off *fast*, but I think they've just simply worn out. As with most things, lifespan varies depending on application & usage. If you have a car and driver that "feels" 'em, they'll last seemingly forever. If your car/driver isn't feeling them, they'll either get too hot or cold and then fall apart it seems. But, despite the guys that have suffered whining, I don't think they're "holding back" as some have claimed. We hear constantly about the options in particular only having one or two "golden laps", then some of 'em go out and run basically the same times for half the race!..... I don't think there's a "secret recipe" or a "magic bullet", just an engineering challenge to get the best from them for as long as possible - And that's, as always, down to your package. Cheers, Ian
Leave my package out of it! I don't think that there's any new ground to cover so let's just see how the season evolves and learn what really happened when the historians reveal all in a few decades.
Agreed. Dateline; Jun 16th, 2022; A look back ten years The 2012 season of a decade ago featured an unheard of 7 winners in the first 7 races and total of X (10, 12?) winners before it was over. Never before or since has F1 seen so many different drivers podium. For the winners, and there were plenty, it was one of the best seasons ever. For the losers, whose primary issue was a continued inability to get on top of the fussy Pirelli tires of the era, it was a lottery. One's viewpoint seemed to depend, as a well known commentator of the time said, on whose ox was being gored. Ends ----- Cheers, Ian
I beg to differ. Everyone knows it *now*, and certainly they'd have done it differently had they been blessed with 20/20, but as I said, Mon am QB'ing is a lot easier than sitting on the pit wall, with your man in the lead and a mere handful of laps left. Other drivers had gone further on the same tires. Lets leave it at that Cheers, Ian
If only McHam returned with Webber in front of him after his second pit stop. Both Fred and Seb would have pitted immediately AND.....who knows. Would have been close though.
Ahhh, probably the most famous adage in all of sport, not just F1 If only Freds tires had lasted the way the strategists expected, he'd have won the race..... If only, for many things, Phil would have been WDC a few years back. If only I'd had the $, I'd have been WDC. [Honest, I know this with certainty ] Cheers, Ian
Being prior to 7B I was well hidden from spectators, just above the car in this photo. 7B is driver's left just before the bridge to the casino, station 10 is driver's left entering the hairpin, 9B is driver's right. Thanks, but none of my group were in the hairpin this year. Image Unavailable, Please Login
