Formula 1 CFA Comments
Indian GP 2013 - QF
by Cato Batista, 25/10/2013 22:21:41
Ladies and Gentlemen,
There’s no doubt Red Bull is the faster car any day in any track, but this time there’s a glimpse of trouble for the all-mighty team in the form of the option Pirelli rubber.
Vettel-Webber grabbed their customary 1-2 places at the top of the sheets on both today’s sessions, but there’s a serious concern that their front-right tyre is suffering an excesive rate of wear. The problem is so bad that Vettel shredded his F/R tyre in only 3 laps, Webber in 4. This year Pirelli brought the Medium/Soft compounds for this race, that’s 2 steps softer than last year’s making the car with the most downforce (the RB9) susceptible to early degradation and increased wear as their closest competitors seem to be doing fine.
P1- VET (1.26.683) WEB ROS GRO HAM BUT PER MAS HUL BOT
P2- VET (1.25.852) WEB GRO HAM ALO ROS MAS RAI PER BUT
Ferrari is showing good form this time, they are in the mix with Lotus and Mercedes in general if not on one-lap pace. Alonso was running stints of 14 laps with the soft tyre very consistently. On the hard compound Lotus is closely matching Red Bull’s speed but they are enduring similar problems with the soft ones. Mercedes, as Ferrari is OK on the options but slower on the primes, which points to make them fast in QF but not so much for race.
The focus of attention zeroes on ...
Indian GP 2013 - Preview
by Cato Batista, 24/10/2013 19:06:26
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Four rounds to go with the Indian GP coming up this weekend, very probably the last time the F1 will visit this country
VET ‘s F1 dominance will bring the demise of the Indian GP and it’s great 400 million dollar circuit. What‘s going to happen this Sunday is so predicable that the attendance is dropping to 40 thousand fans, down from 95 thousand in the inaugural 2011 event. And who can blame them; VET has lead every QF session and every race lap at the Buddh circuit. He is in a 5-race winning streak and unless something disastrous happens to his all-conquering Red Bull he’ll clinch his 4th consecutive title on Sunday. The interest now focuses on the battle between Lotus, Mercedes and ALO’s Ferrari for the left overs, not exactly what the promoters would like to hear.
The luckiest fans in the world are of course ourselves; here at the CFA every GP remains as intense and exciting as always, our fight for every place in the standings still has a long way to go.
Last year’s GP winner was Rocco with an astonishing 18 point-plenum mark. You can call it expertise, Indian GP predictability or plain good luck, the fact is in 7 years of documented CFA records that feat has been accomplished only 3 times. But it wasn’t that easy either, a couple a members scored as low as 5 points each...So let’s see how good are we this time.
See you ...
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Japanese GP 2013 - Race
by Cato Batista, 12/10/2013 22:16:18
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It was an all Red Bull front row as we thought, but in reverse order: Webber beat Vettel for the first time this season. Their number one driver was sidelined with KERS problems in P3 “but that’s no excuse, Mark was faster” admitted Vettel. Mercedes decided to dial their cars completely different: HAM’s (at his own request) was set-up for single lap and Rosberg’s for better long-run tyre-conservation race trim; they ended up 3rd and 6th respectively. Lotus and Ferrari made it through with their ‘No 2’ drivers ahead of their teammates; another impressive qualifying by Hulkenberg in 7th ahead of world champs Alonso, Raikkonen & Button.
In our end, I sincerely believed we were going to pile a mountain of points from this QF session; reality is we scrape only 8 points collectively! Seven of us scored singles with Hamilton in 3rd (Erik, Fredrik, Fernando, Manbos, Santiago, Tim & I) plus another point with Vettel’s second place (Joe). What a disaster (thanks again Mark!) I guess we should be used to it by now!
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The grid for tomorrow:
WEB VET HAM GRO MAS ROS HUL ALO RAI BUT
The prime is expected to be the favored tyre for race day to cover the 53 laps in 2 stops. Looking at how closed qualifying was (half a second from 2nd to 14th place in Q2) ...
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