Formula 1 CFA Comments
Belgium GP 2011 - Results - Rodrigo is the winner
by Cato Batista, 28/08/2011 22:29:34
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Red Bull and VET repeated the dose for the 8th time, and after this one the discussion about the 2011 Championship is probably over. The sister RB7 imposed its pace to bring WEB in 2nd for their second 1-2 of the season - so much for their pre-race tire blistering concerns. BUT was brilliant again coming from 13th to 3rd; ALO was feisty in the early going but ended up where the Ferrari belongs (4th) and the Mercedes had their best outing yet in 5th & 6th.
Rodrigo was the clear winner in Spa with 4 driver/positions and 12 points, 2 a of Curro, Ian and superlider Uwe, these three scoring triple 3-pointers in a race of mixed results for the group. With the exception of Fredrik (5) nobody had more than 4 drivers in the top 6 and in 4 instances some colleagues didn’t even score a single correct position!
Our best result by far was with ALO in 4th place with 11 votes; we didn’t do too bad predicting the winner either with 8 of you (Alberto, Curro, Manbos, Ian, Matias, winner Rodrigo, Sebastian and Tim) picking VET. Next was WEB’s second with 6, then ROS’s sixth with 5 votes, but none of us got anything out of the third (BUT) or fifth (SCH) positions.
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In the race for the Championship I have bad news for 20 of 21 members: Uwe (114) now has a very worrisome 8 point lead, just when the closer marks at the top were giving hope to the chasing pack. Alone in second is Rocco (106) and then, amazingly there are 5 comrades tied in third place with 105 points – Manbos, Tim, Joe, Curro and ...
Red Bull and VET repeated the dose for the 8th time, and after this one the discussion about the 2011 Championship is probably over. The sister RB7 imposed its pace to bring WEB in 2nd for their second 1-2 of the season - so much for their pre-race tire blistering concerns. BUT was brilliant again coming from 13th to 3rd; ALO was feisty in the early going but ended up where the Ferrari belongs (4th) and the Mercedes had their best outing yet in 5th & 6th.
Rodrigo was the clear winner in Spa with 4 driver/positions and 12 points, 2 a of Curro, Ian and superlider Uwe, these three scoring triple 3-pointers in a race of mixed results for the group. With the exception of Fredrik (5) nobody had more than 4 drivers in the top 6 and in 4 instances some colleagues didn’t even score a single correct position!
Our best result by far was with ALO in 4th place with 11 votes; we didn’t do too bad predicting the winner either with 8 of you (Alberto, Curro, Manbos, Ian, Matias, winner Rodrigo, Sebastian and Tim) picking VET. Next was WEB’s second with 6, then ROS’s sixth with 5 votes, but none of us got anything out of the third (BUT) or fifth (SCH) positions.
http://f1.manbos.com/userbets.asp?t=2011&gpn=Belgium&nevent=race
In the race for the Championship I have bad news for 20 of 21 members: Uwe (114) now has a very worrisome 8 point lead, just when the closer marks at the top were giving hope to the chasing pack. Alone in second is Rocco (106) and then, amazingly there are 5 comrades tied in third place with 105 points – Manbos, Tim, Joe, Curro and ...
Belgium GP 2011 - Race
by Cato Batista, 28/08/2011 22:27:29
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In the constant changing conditions VET won the final scramble to achieve his 8th pole of the season with HAM producing another of his last second heroics to get himself in the front row. But behind WEB in 3rd we have the most unusual starting grid with ALO in 8th, BUT in 13th and two unfamiliar names in the top 10: Alguersuari 6th in the Toro Rosso and Senna 7th in the Renault. SCH starts last (a good recipe for action and shattered carbon fibre on track)
We did pretty badly again (let’s blame the weather too), only Fernando and leader Uwe reached 2 points, most of the rest (10) had to settle for 1.
This how they will start:
VET HAM WEB MAS ROS ALG SEN ALO PER PET
Weather predictions for Sunday are for a cloudy, dry day with only a slight possibility of light showers towards the end of the race. Temperatures in the low 15-16 deg C, precisely the range where the Red Bull suffers with its tires.
With the mixed up grid we are going to see plenty of overtaking, the single DRS activation zone is set for the Kennel straight, the stretch from Eau Rouge to Les Combes. The expected dry-weather strategy will be a 3 stopper for the 44 laps, with stints of 12-14 laps for the option tires and one last very short stint with the primes. Pit stops are comparatively less taxing in the shorter Spa’s pitlane, about 18 seconds, and this could be Red Bull advantage, their mechanics regularly beating the competition by .5 to 1 second (just ask MAS what happened last race...) So far Red Bull’s only known weakness is their higher tire degradation in low ...
In the constant changing conditions VET won the final scramble to achieve his 8th pole of the season with HAM producing another of his last second heroics to get himself in the front row. But behind WEB in 3rd we have the most unusual starting grid with ALO in 8th, BUT in 13th and two unfamiliar names in the top 10: Alguersuari 6th in the Toro Rosso and Senna 7th in the Renault. SCH starts last (a good recipe for action and shattered carbon fibre on track)
We did pretty badly again (let’s blame the weather too), only Fernando and leader Uwe reached 2 points, most of the rest (10) had to settle for 1.
This how they will start:
VET HAM WEB MAS ROS ALG SEN ALO PER PET
Weather predictions for Sunday are for a cloudy, dry day with only a slight possibility of light showers towards the end of the race. Temperatures in the low 15-16 deg C, precisely the range where the Red Bull suffers with its tires.
With the mixed up grid we are going to see plenty of overtaking, the single DRS activation zone is set for the Kennel straight, the stretch from Eau Rouge to Les Combes. The expected dry-weather strategy will be a 3 stopper for the 44 laps, with stints of 12-14 laps for the option tires and one last very short stint with the primes. Pit stops are comparatively less taxing in the shorter Spa’s pitlane, about 18 seconds, and this could be Red Bull advantage, their mechanics regularly beating the competition by .5 to 1 second (just ask MAS what happened last race...) So far Red Bull’s only known weakness is their higher tire degradation in low ...
Spa
by Uwe Luetkemeier, 28/08/2011 16:39:48
Great race in a outstanding season. Senna movie is a must see.
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Belgium GP - Qualifying
by Cato Batista, 26/08/2011 20:05:39
Ladies and Gentlemen,
There was very little dry time between the 2 session for the teams to run their full programs, typical Ardennes wet weather was the order of the day. All we have to give us an idea of what to do for our QF picks were a few flying laps on slicks to set the times you see below, although there was a dedicated effort by every team to find a wet-weather set up in case there’s a repeat of today’s conditions for QF and Race day (very likely...)
In P1 Schumacher celebrated his 20th anniversary in F1 writing his name on top of the sheets, but in reality it was a matter of going out at the beginning in dry rubber before the showers came in.
P1- SCH (1.54.335) ROS BUT VET HAM SUT MAS BAR ALG KOB
There was another 25-min dry window in the middle of P2 to assess the performance of the top 3 cars, and it’s Red Bull with their top speed on sector one that has the upper hand. In the wet conditions it is McLaren the best car (Button in particular, he was flying on ‘inters’), just a of Red Bull. No doubt the RB7 is the best chassis in average, able to generate more downforce than its rivals with less wing.
P2- WEB (1.50.321) ALO BUT HAM MAS ROS PER HUL DIR VET
The big decision either for QF or race will come from your correct guessing of the weather (good luck!); if dry this will be between ALO, VET and WEB. If wet, then you’ll have to decide among BUT, VET, HAM and then WEB. So far the difference between the top 5 (let’s leave MAS out of this) is minuscule, probably the closest we’ve seen all year. They are all separated by just a few tenths in this, ...
There was very little dry time between the 2 session for the teams to run their full programs, typical Ardennes wet weather was the order of the day. All we have to give us an idea of what to do for our QF picks were a few flying laps on slicks to set the times you see below, although there was a dedicated effort by every team to find a wet-weather set up in case there’s a repeat of today’s conditions for QF and Race day (very likely...)
In P1 Schumacher celebrated his 20th anniversary in F1 writing his name on top of the sheets, but in reality it was a matter of going out at the beginning in dry rubber before the showers came in.
P1- SCH (1.54.335) ROS BUT VET HAM SUT MAS BAR ALG KOB
There was another 25-min dry window in the middle of P2 to assess the performance of the top 3 cars, and it’s Red Bull with their top speed on sector one that has the upper hand. In the wet conditions it is McLaren the best car (Button in particular, he was flying on ‘inters’), just a of Red Bull. No doubt the RB7 is the best chassis in average, able to generate more downforce than its rivals with less wing.
P2- WEB (1.50.321) ALO BUT HAM MAS ROS PER HUL DIR VET
The big decision either for QF or race will come from your correct guessing of the weather (good luck!); if dry this will be between ALO, VET and WEB. If wet, then you’ll have to decide among BUT, VET, HAM and then WEB. So far the difference between the top 5 (let’s leave MAS out of this) is minuscule, probably the closest we’ve seen all year. They are all separated by just a few tenths in this, ...
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