The Official 2011 F1 thread.

[Heysüß]

well I guess I have to stop cheering for perez and hamilton and maybe they'll start doing better... GOOOO Vettel!!

[Hick]

Best drive was from Perez. Its a shame the car let him down because he was in 7th place on 25+ lap tires going faster than the guys behind.

[E30Kaiser]

That was an amazing race, great overtaking move of Seb over Fernando and Michaels counter-move in the same spot over Lewis! Great race indeed, I know it would be hard on the teams but I wish we had more back to back races :( need my F1 fix asap after such a great race.

[E30Kaiser]

talking about the merc factory team. I was hoping they would be a little more competitive.

oh yeah....that merc. lol yeah they didn't do as great as i thought they might, but we will see tomorrow where they can get, i am hoping for a Vettel, Massa and Schumacher podium in any order.

Edit: based on what hick is saying and i read an article saying the same thing, seems like Vettel qualified with a race set up tailored for leading the race, as did McMerc, where as I believe Seb's is superior as he will be faster when not using the DRS.

[Hick]

Vettels running a much shorter final gear. His speed trap mph is the slowest and nearly 15mph slower than the ferrari's.

This will be a cool race tomorrow.

[z31maniac]

Holy fucking powersliding Vettel in Quali, that was nuts!

[naplesE30]

talking about the merc factory team. I was hoping they would be a little more competitive.

[E30Kaiser]

They were only .5 seconds off in Q3 and would have only been .4 or .3 if Button had finished his lap. Still, that isn't very good considering they have a steeper wing angle for the race.

[naplesE30]

Merc over 1.5 sec off the pace,,,, very poor pace.

[Hick]

I was thinking they may play the strategy that makes use of the double DRS zones during the race. After making a pass using DRS then they can use the 'chickens' to pull out a more than 1 second gap to the trailing car and keep others from using DRS.

I say its worth it, maybe we will get a good race out of this...

[E30Kaiser]

Apparently McLaren are running a higher downforce rear wing than everyone else, which I was wondering just last night who would bring a higher downforce rear wing which will give you a great lap time in practice and qualifying since you have unrestricted DRS use then, then come the race they may be screwed. Then again McLaren may just have a car that is just too much for everyone else to over come.

But RBR always goes slow on Friday so they will probably crank out a lap record tomorrow and we will all be laughing except for Hamilton.

[Hick]

haters gotta hate.

I dont think the limits on camber should carry over to the race. If a team wants to run the risk of higher camber that only adds to the excitement.

[Heysüß]

im fine with that too

h8tr

[z31maniac]

Woah, schumi coming in third at practice. It probably means nothing but a boy can still dream right?

No, the Mercedes has had top speed ALL YEAR and that really translated in Spa because of Sectors 1 & 3. I think Rosberg/Schumi may have a legit shot at a podium depending on what they can pull out in quali.

im fine with that too

Same here.


Pirelli is now talking about asking the FIA to enforce a camber limit after seeing what the tires look like in FP2/3. And I think they've already reduced their recomendation since Spa, twice.

[Hick]

im fine with that too