Formula 1 CFA Comments
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, ...
Belgium GP - Preview
by Cato Batista, 26/08/2011 20:03:41
Señoras y señores:
We spent 4 very long weeks in limbo, but the wait is over, we return to Formula 1 racing this weekend at the great Spa Francocharms for the Belgium Grand Prix.
Looking at the results from the last 3 races we find no Red Bull & VET at the top of the podium. ALO, HAM and BUT had beaten the reigning Champ and if it seems almost impossible that the young German will not win the title again at least it’s clear that we’ll have a real fight for every GP until the end of the season between the top 3 teams.
Spa marks the beginning of the end of the 2011 season, a run of 8 races to decide the Championship, followed by Monza, two seriously fast tracks where Red Bull could be particularly vulnerable.
McLaren is not very optimistic for this race, their chassis excels in the tight layouts but top speed stability is not their forte, but then there’s the unpredictable Ardennes forest micro-climate that has made this place famous – I’m sure BUT is rubbing his hands.
Ferrari announced their intention to concentrate on next year’s car, but they know the next 2 rounds will be decisive for their 2011 aspirations, and ALO has been the driver with the best results in the last part of the season (4 straight podium finishes). They have new both front and rear wings for this circuit (so much for the ‘holidays’, nobody really stops working in F1) The mid field battle between Mercedes, Renault and now Sauber is heating up too; the Germans are faster in single-lap qualifying, but the French are much better on race trim and the Swiss are specially good at conserving tires. We ...
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We spent 4 very long weeks in limbo, but the wait is over, we return to Formula 1 racing this weekend at the great Spa Francocharms for the Belgium Grand Prix.
Looking at the results from the last 3 races we find no Red Bull & VET at the top of the podium. ALO, HAM and BUT had beaten the reigning Champ and if it seems almost impossible that the young German will not win the title again at least it’s clear that we’ll have a real fight for every GP until the end of the season between the top 3 teams.
Spa marks the beginning of the end of the 2011 season, a run of 8 races to decide the Championship, followed by Monza, two seriously fast tracks where Red Bull could be particularly vulnerable.
McLaren is not very optimistic for this race, their chassis excels in the tight layouts but top speed stability is not their forte, but then there’s the unpredictable Ardennes forest micro-climate that has made this place famous – I’m sure BUT is rubbing his hands.
Ferrari announced their intention to concentrate on next year’s car, but they know the next 2 rounds will be decisive for their 2011 aspirations, and ALO has been the driver with the best results in the last part of the season (4 straight podium finishes). They have new both front and rear wings for this circuit (so much for the ‘holidays’, nobody really stops working in F1) The mid field battle between Mercedes, Renault and now Sauber is heating up too; the Germans are faster in single-lap qualifying, but the French are much better on race trim and the Swiss are specially good at conserving tires. We ...
Hungarian GP 2011- Results
by Cato Batista, 01/08/2011 14:50:08
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Fabulous, wild race. Rain came unannounced and Button was once again the master of the adverse conditions. We were treated with yet another display of supreme skills and wheel to wheel racing, ‘each race is better that the one before’ wrote Santi when publishing the official results. Red Bull has no longer the fastest car and looks like we’ll be treated to 3-way battles among the top teams for the rest of the season.
In situations like this with many dissimilar predictions the outcome is one winner by a large margin with many losers miles behind. Ian scored 4 triples (1-2-5-6) to reach 14 points and his first victory of the year, our tenth different winner this season. The best results after that were 12 points for me (3 golds) and 10 points each for Alberto, Curro and current championship contenders Joe, Uwe & Tim (2 positions each).
Only two colleagues correctly anticipated Button and Vettel on top of the podium, winner Ian and Rodrigo. Our favourite driver to win this race was VET with 14 votes with only 5 for Hamilton and just 1 for Alonso. Our best results came from Massa in 6th with 8 picks, Alonso’s 3rd with 7, Webber’s 5th with 6 and only one (Alberto) had Hamilton in 5th.
The Championship race is more like a mad game of ‘serpents and ladders’, we are swapping positions from top to bottom. Uwe has regained the lead and has a 2-point breather to Tim and Rocco (102-100); Joe keeps climbing and now has taken Manbos 3rd place (98-97), Curro (95) has done the likewise to Erik who’s now sharing 6th with Ian (94). Lou (93) and Fernando keep ...
Fabulous, wild race. Rain came unannounced and Button was once again the master of the adverse conditions. We were treated with yet another display of supreme skills and wheel to wheel racing, ‘each race is better that the one before’ wrote Santi when publishing the official results. Red Bull has no longer the fastest car and looks like we’ll be treated to 3-way battles among the top teams for the rest of the season.
In situations like this with many dissimilar predictions the outcome is one winner by a large margin with many losers miles behind. Ian scored 4 triples (1-2-5-6) to reach 14 points and his first victory of the year, our tenth different winner this season. The best results after that were 12 points for me (3 golds) and 10 points each for Alberto, Curro and current championship contenders Joe, Uwe & Tim (2 positions each).
Only two colleagues correctly anticipated Button and Vettel on top of the podium, winner Ian and Rodrigo. Our favourite driver to win this race was VET with 14 votes with only 5 for Hamilton and just 1 for Alonso. Our best results came from Massa in 6th with 8 picks, Alonso’s 3rd with 7, Webber’s 5th with 6 and only one (Alberto) had Hamilton in 5th.
The Championship race is more like a mad game of ‘serpents and ladders’, we are swapping positions from top to bottom. Uwe has regained the lead and has a 2-point breather to Tim and Rocco (102-100); Joe keeps climbing and now has taken Manbos 3rd place (98-97), Curro (95) has done the likewise to Erik who’s now sharing 6th with Ian (94). Lou (93) and Fernando keep ...
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