Formula 1 CFA Comments
Austrian GP 2016 - QF
by Cato Batista, 02/07/2016 3:50:27
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Seems the Mercedes are working even better here than in other tracks. Nico is so far having a smoother run than Lewis after day one, he was quicker on both sessions and if HAM was only 0.019s slower on FP2 the German is lapping consistently faster and trouble free.
The afternoon session was hit by a storm with heavy winds and rain almost flooding one sector (the pitlane) but completely missing the other half of the track. It dried up later on, but over an hour of data-logging track time to learn tyre management was lost, and most teams ...
Austrian GP 2016 - Preview by Cato Batista, 02/07/2016 3:48:59 Ladies and Gentlemen, Let’s get prepared, the 9th round of the Championship is coming up in Austria this weekend. We’re going to the Red Bull A1 Ring, by far not the most exciting track since it was sanitized to get back in the calendar in 2014. It’s short, without challenging corners or technical sections and there’s no room for passing. Mercedes power has taken all the podium finishes these last 2 years with ROS on top, even though he didn’t start from the pole, something considered very important in here. The most talked topic among us in these last days is RAI’s future. Is he past his shelf life? His numbers since returning to Ferrari are not really encouraging when compared to his illustrious teammates ALO & VET: he’s scored about half the points (53%) to each of them and has been out qualified 35 to 9 times. His major contribution to the read more European GP 2016 - Results - Lorenzo with the best mark of the year by Cato Batista, 02/07/2016 3:43:42 Ladies and Gentlemen, A nice Sunday drive for ROS to claim his 5th win of the season. VET, effective on race day as always was an unchallenged second with the flying PER advancing 4 grid positions to seize his second podium of the last 3 GPs. RAI should be happy with 4th, he had a 5 seconds penalty on top of dealing with an underperforming Ferrari (at least was much better on race trim for both drivers). HAM couldn't do better than 5th, he was lost to sort out some software issues that affected both his and ROS’s Mercedes during the race (as well as RAI’s) , but turns out Nico was able to figure out the procedure to operate some of the 26 controls in his steering wheel to correct it. The World Champion, same as Kimi, desperately asking for radio instructions to solve the problem (denied by their engineers since it’s banned by FIA). We learn today that to drive modern F1s ...
European GP 2016 - Race by Cato Batista, 02/07/2016 3:41:58
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