Formula 1 CFA Comments
Australian GP 2012- Preview
by Cato Batista, 15/03/2012 15:46:21
Dear friends Maria, Ian, Manbos, Lou, Curro, Tim, Rodrigo, Matias, Uwe, Fernando, Joe, Alberto, Santiago, Sebastian, Erik, Carlos, Ricky, Rocco, Ricardo, Fredrik and now Ian Macintosh: get set to start the 2012 Season (by the way that was Ladies first and then 2011-Championship positions).
This is what we’ve learnt from the testing sessions:
Ferrari is not making promises; the new car is radical, very complex and it will take time to sort it out. Red Bull is taking chances by running the most aggressive engine mapping (that distinctive engine misfiring sound) to keep gasses flowing off-throttle to help its weakness, high temperatures & wear on the rear tires. McLaren have been confidently quiet, they know they can beat Red Bull. Behind the 2 early favorites the battle between Kmi in the Lotus vs Mercedes vs ALO promises to be just as good if not better. Mercedes showed the best tire management in long stints but was not getting grip from the soft compound, which translates into poor starting positions.
Practice starts Friday morning Australia’s time, we’ll see the real potential of the cars against each other for the first time. I’m sure we’ll have a few surprises.
If you allow me, these are my bets for the 2012 Championship:
Drivers: VET BUT HAM ALO WEB SCH
Constructors: McLaren, Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes, Lotus, Sauber
We will not run the “rookie of the year’ class this year because the 2 debutants Jean-Eric Vergne and Charles Pic will drive uncompetitive cars without any chance of getting in the points.
Some members are asking to wait until the 3rd ...
This is what we’ve learnt from the testing sessions:
Ferrari is not making promises; the new car is radical, very complex and it will take time to sort it out. Red Bull is taking chances by running the most aggressive engine mapping (that distinctive engine misfiring sound) to keep gasses flowing off-throttle to help its weakness, high temperatures & wear on the rear tires. McLaren have been confidently quiet, they know they can beat Red Bull. Behind the 2 early favorites the battle between Kmi in the Lotus vs Mercedes vs ALO promises to be just as good if not better. Mercedes showed the best tire management in long stints but was not getting grip from the soft compound, which translates into poor starting positions.
Practice starts Friday morning Australia’s time, we’ll see the real potential of the cars against each other for the first time. I’m sure we’ll have a few surprises.
If you allow me, these are my bets for the 2012 Championship:
Drivers: VET BUT HAM ALO WEB SCH
Constructors: McLaren, Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes, Lotus, Sauber
We will not run the “rookie of the year’ class this year because the 2 debutants Jean-Eric Vergne and Charles Pic will drive uncompetitive cars without any chance of getting in the points.
Some members are asking to wait until the 3rd ...
Pre Season Picks
by Cato Batista, 15/03/2012 1:33:49
These are my 2012 Drivers' & Constructors' Championship Picks:
VET BUT HAM ALO WEB SCH
McLaren Red Bull Ferrari Mercedes Lotus Sauber
Let's see if I change my mind by the Chinese GP...
Cato
VET BUT HAM ALO WEB SCH
McLaren Red Bull Ferrari Mercedes Lotus Sauber
Let's see if I change my mind by the Chinese GP...
Cato
CFA 2012 Season - Formula 1 is back!
by Cato Batista, 12/03/2012 18:40:17
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This is your official invitation to participate in the 2012 CFA Championship.
This is the mail we had been waiting for a long long time. Four days from today the Grand Prix cars will be let loose in Australia and our life will be at last restored to its normality!
The magic moment when we’re looking forward to begin a new F1 campaign is finally here. And there are good reasons for our expectations running high in anticipation for the upcoming season with 6 world champions on the grid and the possibility of several teams and drivers in position to challenge for wins. The general view after pre season testing is that everybody is concealing their weapons and we could be up for a few surprises this weekend.
In general terms the start of the season points out to a Red Bull-McLaren monopoly for the podium positions with Mercedes-Ferrari-Lotus (former Renault) in equal footing behind those two.
But if the competition looks as good or better than usual the current generation of F1 cars are the ugliest in the history of Grand Prix racing. With the exception of McLaren the front end treatment adopted by everybody else has brought the worst looking cars you can possibly imagine. In all fairness there were not options left for the designers given the new regulation that forced the front end to be lowered in case of accidents. The rule-makers are looking to avoid cars taking off in rear end collisions (remember Webber flying above Kovalainen?) or in case of a side impact where the nose could hit the side of another car where there’s less ...
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This is your official invitation to participate in the 2012 CFA Championship.
This is the mail we had been waiting for a long long time. Four days from today the Grand Prix cars will be let loose in Australia and our life will be at last restored to its normality!
The magic moment when we’re looking forward to begin a new F1 campaign is finally here. And there are good reasons for our expectations running high in anticipation for the upcoming season with 6 world champions on the grid and the possibility of several teams and drivers in position to challenge for wins. The general view after pre season testing is that everybody is concealing their weapons and we could be up for a few surprises this weekend.
In general terms the start of the season points out to a Red Bull-McLaren monopoly for the podium positions with Mercedes-Ferrari-Lotus (former Renault) in equal footing behind those two.
But if the competition looks as good or better than usual the current generation of F1 cars are the ugliest in the history of Grand Prix racing. With the exception of McLaren the front end treatment adopted by everybody else has brought the worst looking cars you can possibly imagine. In all fairness there were not options left for the designers given the new regulation that forced the front end to be lowered in case of accidents. The rule-makers are looking to avoid cars taking off in rear end collisions (remember Webber flying above Kovalainen?) or in case of a side impact where the nose could hit the side of another car where there’s less ...
Italian GP 2011 - Race
by Cato Batista, 10/09/2011 23:47:05
Ladies and Gentlemen:
He is unstoppable. He is running more downforce, has less horsepower, his chassis blisters the tires more than the others in this temperatures, but still Vettel conquered his 10th pole this year, 13th straight and first in Monza for Red Bull, and had almost half a second to spare even though he was all crossed-up at the Ascari chicane in his final flyer! We are witnessing one of those special times when a driver is at the very top of his game.
Our QF results were above our standard bad average, many ones and twos with only Ricky scoring plenum for huge 4 points in his cause. There were already many changes on top of the standings, but let’s wait until after the race to get to it.
The grid for tomorrow:
VET HAM BUT ALO WEB MAS PET SCH ROS SEN
With the double DRS activation zone (main straight and the shorter, narrow run between Lesmos and Ascari) the drivers concede that grid position will not be decisive for the race, overtaking will be possible and then there is tire management and its strategy to make up in race day. The key could lay in the white tires, the slower medium compound that they try to use as little as possible but that is providing the longer and most consistent degradation. It was no accident that most of the P3 this morning was concentrated in optimizing the primes. If the yellow options have a useful life of 10-12 and drop before a maximum of 15 laps, the top teams will have a problem implementing a 3 stopper for the 53-lap race. Among the top ten we can already see alternative strategies, like ROS starting in primes and ...
He is unstoppable. He is running more downforce, has less horsepower, his chassis blisters the tires more than the others in this temperatures, but still Vettel conquered his 10th pole this year, 13th straight and first in Monza for Red Bull, and had almost half a second to spare even though he was all crossed-up at the Ascari chicane in his final flyer! We are witnessing one of those special times when a driver is at the very top of his game.
Our QF results were above our standard bad average, many ones and twos with only Ricky scoring plenum for huge 4 points in his cause. There were already many changes on top of the standings, but let’s wait until after the race to get to it.
The grid for tomorrow:
VET HAM BUT ALO WEB MAS PET SCH ROS SEN
With the double DRS activation zone (main straight and the shorter, narrow run between Lesmos and Ascari) the drivers concede that grid position will not be decisive for the race, overtaking will be possible and then there is tire management and its strategy to make up in race day. The key could lay in the white tires, the slower medium compound that they try to use as little as possible but that is providing the longer and most consistent degradation. It was no accident that most of the P3 this morning was concentrated in optimizing the primes. If the yellow options have a useful life of 10-12 and drop before a maximum of 15 laps, the top teams will have a problem implementing a 3 stopper for the 53-lap race. Among the top ten we can already see alternative strategies, like ROS starting in primes and ...
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