Formula 1 CFA Comments
Singapore GP 2013 - QF
by Cato Batista, 20/09/2013 22:36:22
Ladies and Gentlemen,
There are two divisions competing in the Singapore GP: Red Bull and the rest. The superiority of the RB9 in this place that is all about downforce is overwhelming. Vettel was 0.6 quicker that Webber and 1 full second faster than Rosberg on the prime tyres. The Red Bull cars were faster too in option tyres, short and long runs on both options, and seems they are improving better than the rest as the track builds up rubber. Even on P1 when the surface was still pretty green only Hamilton was better than them...in supersoft vs medium.
P1- HAM (1.47.055) WEB VET ROS RAI GRO ALO PER VER GUT
P2- VET (1.44.249) WEB ROS HAM GRO ALO BUT RAI SUT PER
To compound the competition’s problems, Webber did a 14-lap long run stint on the red super-soft with minimum degradation that was an average 0.7 faster than the next non-Red Bull car. Vettel’s average time on the prime tyre was faster than anyone other than Webber’s average on the option.
Lotus is showing good form on race trim, the closest to Red Bull among the rest, and Mercedes seems to be on a similar lever to Lotus on race pace and faster in QF trim than the rest of division two. Ferrari is struggling, overheating the rear tyres due to lack of grip. Even McLaren is ahead of the Italians, despite their poor ride quality so evident in this bumpy ...
Singapore GP 2013 - Preview
by Cato Batista, 19/09/2013 19:32:45
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The thirteenth round is coming up in Singapore for the spectacular night race at the Marina Bay street circuit.
The big F1 news since last race is Ferrari signing Raikkonen to partner Alonso next year. It’s quite an interesting prospect to line up two of the current four best drivers as equals in a team that has been operating with a number one driver since 1996. The last time Ferrari had 2 world champions was 1953 (Ascari & Farina). Opinions are already polarized: either it would be a disaster of it would make them the best team.
What an exciting season 2014 is shaping up to be.
Three drivers had dominated this difficult circuit on its previous 5 episodes: Vettel, Alonso & Hamilton. The Red Bull driver has won the last two, Alonso has won two as well (he’s got 4 podiums) and Hamilton once, although he was very unlucky last year when he retired from the lead to handle victory to Vettel. This is the most difficult race of the season: it’s hot, very humid, very bumpy, with slippery traffic paint lines, with the most corners (23), no runoffs, and very long with every edition close to the 2-hour limit mark (laps around 1.45). No wonder the Safety Car has a 100% rate of intervention (8 times in the 5 previous races). At least this year there are not showers forecasted for the weekend.
The CFA experts struggle in Singapore too. Matias won last year with 9 points (two 3-pointers) ...
Italian GP 2013 - Results - Rocco scores big
by Cato Batista, 19/09/2013 19:30:09
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Like ‘a walk in the park’ for Vettel, he now joins Alonso in fourth place in the all-time GP winners list with 32; Alonso charged past and held Webber for second, he now sits 53 points behind Vettel in the Championship with 7 dates remaining in the calendar. We didn’t get much action at the front but Hamilton and Raikkonen provided most of the entertainment mixing with the crowded group fighting for the bottom paying positions. Hulkenberg lived up to his Qualifying performance to finish 5th.
Reigning CFA Champion Rocco has won his second GP of the year with a season record 15 points. With son Joe allegedly calling the shots they hit 5 full scores in 1-2-3-4 & 6 places; it was our best outing so far in 2013 with Curro (13 points in second) Manbos and Carlos (12) scoring golds too in 1st-2nd-3rd-& 4th. Uwe and Alberto joined the party with perfect 1-2-3 (11-10 points respectively). Where we all failed was forecasting Hulkenberg; in fact the only member to include the Sauber driver in his picks was Matias to deservedly collect the 3 full points for his 5th position.
The standings experienced a good shake up with these results: Manbos has now taken the lead of the Championship with a 4 point commanding lead (96); Santiago drops to second (92), I hang up to 3rd (91) but now Rocco and Carlos are back in contention tied 4th (90); Joe drop ...
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Italian GP 2013 - Race
by Cato Batista, 07/09/2013 22:04:49
Ladies and Gentlemen,
There were several surprises in QF but none at the front where Red Bull dominated the proceedings as expected. Missing from Q3 were both Lotus, Force India and Hamilton, instead there were 2 McLarens, 2 Toro Rosso and...one Sauber in third place no less, in the hands of the impressive Hulkenberg. Ferrari tried time and again to slipstream their two cars in pure NASCAR style but in the end backfired as Massa was faster than the intended Alosno pushing the Spaniard to the third row. Hamilton missed Q3 for the first time in 67 races: “I drove like an idiot” he said dejectedly, “That’s the worst I’ve driven for a long, long time”. Later his team said his undertray was damaged when he hit a kerb earlier affecting the balance of the car. He’ll start 12th behind Raikkonen and ahead of Grosjean.
The Red Bull 1-2 was predicted by Alberto, Erik, Joe, Champ Rocco, Sebastian & Uwe. The rest (except for 3 zeros) were one-pointers thanks to Vettel’s first. We’ll blame Hulkenberg this time for our average (bad) result.
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The grid:
VET WEB HUL MAS ALO ROS RIC PER BUT VER
The most likely scenario is a one-stop for the 53 laps race (and dry, only 30% of precipitation at race time). It was like that last year ...
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