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[Le Capri Mauve 1.012]

Ik vroeg me af wat dat inhield, een rijstijl die niet zachtaardig is voor het materiaal.

Hier is een leuk artikel over verschillende piloten en hun remmen. En Lewis gaat blijkbaar nogal brutaal met zijn remmen om. Van de rest weet ik het nog niet.

[Mich 2.891]

ik geloof geen reet van een mol of sabotage. Kan ni op dat niveau. Sterker nog, ik geloof niet dat ze op voorhand weten voor welkle rijder een bepaalde motor gaat ingezet worden.

Maar ik kan Hamilton zijn paniek wel verstaan: Begin dit jaar heeft Mercedes de respectievelijke mechaniekers-crew van Rosberg en Hamilton omgewisseld  . Zou er toch eentje....

[Maxime S 2.849]

Eigenlijk vond ik het maar een saaie GP tot het uitvallen van Hamilton.

Wel schitterende wheel-to-wheel van de twee RB's! Extreem vet om te zien!

Vettel zijn actie was een beetje hopeloos en atypisch voor hem vond ik.

Vreemde problemen ook bij Haas. Als er ergens sabotage is, is het bij hen wel denk ik  

[Mich 2.891]

Als ze bij Ferrari es de balans opmaken van 2seizoenen Vettel vs Alonso... man man man. De Spanjaard is gewoon top. Gisteren weer van gans vanachter naar P7 gefietst 

[Bouncing Bullet 2.932]

28 minuten geleden zei Mich:

Als ze bij Ferrari es de balans opmaken van 2seizoenen Vettel vs Alonso... man man man. De Spanjaard is gewoon top. Gisteren weer van gans vanachter naar P7 gefietst 

Rob Smedley zou het Vettel eens moeten zeggen. Fernando is quicker than you, can you confirm that message ?

[Mich 2.891]

[Maxime S 2.849]

Ik hoop zo hard dat McLaren er volgend jaar weer staat en dat Alonso (en Vandoorne natuurlijk ook) weer vooraan mee doet!
Volgens mij hij nog altijd de beste en meest complete piloot van het ganse peloton !

 

[Mich 2.891]

+1. Kerel is fantastisch. simply the best

[msxx 7.834]

2 uur geleden zei Maxime S:

Eigenlijk vond ik het maar een saaie GP tot het uitvallen van Hamilton.

Wel schitterende wheel-to-wheel van de twee RB's! Extreem vet om te zien!

Vettel zijn actie was een beetje hopeloos en atypisch voor hem vond ik.

Vreemde problemen ook bij Haas. Als er ergens sabotage is, is het bij hen wel denk ik  

Was toch een mooie GP over de hele linie? Veel gevechten gezien

Vettel heeft dit jaar al veel startproblemen gekend. China (dacht ik? Vettel verantwoordelijk) botsing met Kimi, Rusland met Kvyat (buiten zijn schuld), Spa met Kimi en Max (Vettel mede-verantwoordelijk), Sepang met Rosberg en Max (Vettel volledig verantwoordelijk).

 

[Martini Racing 2.777]

Wat een zalig circuit is Suzuka toch

http://www.formula1.com/en/video/2015/9/Onboard_pole_position_lap_-_Japan.html

[dragonfly 14.982]

Alonso zijn openingslap  

http://www.formula1.com/en/latest/features/2016/10/f1-alonso-video-onboard-first-lap-sepang.html

[Gast exTB]

Geef deze man aub een degelijke wagen. #Alonsomania

[Monterey Jack 6.502]

 

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F1 2016: Just how unlucky has Lewis Hamilton been this season? The Mercedes driver has suffered the brunt of the team's unreliability but it could all turn around again...  

Lewis Hamilton's latest engine blow-out not only gifted Nico Rosberg a 23-point lead in the title race, but also had the world champion demanding reliability answers from his Mercedes team. "It is not my lowest point - I have had lower points for sure - but in terms of feeling helpless that is the most helpless I can be at this point," said the three-time world champion. Mercedes admitted at Sepang they could give "no explanation" to their driver for why he has persistently suffered reliability failures this year and as F1 hurtles towards the final stretch of the 2016 season, there are no guarantees that Hamilton's car won't break down again - and cost him a third successive world title.

How unlucky has Hamilton been?
Hamilton has suffered five specific instances of debilitating unreliability this year. They are:

• An ERS failure at the start of qualifying in China, relegating him to 22nd on the grid. He finished seventh.
• An ERS failure during Q3 in Russia, restricting the Mercedes driver to 10th on the grid. He finished second.
• An engine mode issue during the European GP. He finished fifth having started in 10th following a crash in qualifying.
• A hydraulics fault during Practice Two in Singapore which was cited as a critical factor in his defeat to Rosberg. He finished third.
• An engine blow-out in Malaysia which cost him an almost-certain victory.

There is, of course, no way of determining how many points Hamilton's 'bad luck' has cost. But it could be reasonably argued that it has denied him at least 40 points this year - 12 in China, when Mercedes were a class above the rest, 25 in Sepang, and ten in Belgium when Hamilton was relegated to the back of the grid after Mercedes introduced fresh power units to compensate for his early-season failures.

Hamilton supporters would also argue unreliability accounted for more lost points in Sochi and Singapore, but it's by no means clear the Englishman had a pace advantage over his Mercedes team-mate Rosberg on those weekends.

Does it really only happen to Hamilton?
While the conspiracy theorists inevitably blew a gasket after Hamilton's Sepang blow-out, the notion Hamilton is the victim of deliberate sabotage can be instantly dismissed. Hamilton is the team's most powerful asset, any deliberate sleight of hand would have been uncovered in such a forensically-scrutinised operation, and there are easier and more subtle ways of crippling a car than making its engine go bang with 15 laps of a grand prix to go. 

But that doesn't explain why Hamilton has suffered the brunt of Mercedes' unreliability this year.

"I just can't believe that there's eight Mercedes cars and only my engines are the ones that have gone this way," he told Sky F1 in Malaysia. "It was a brand new engine. It's just odd. There's been like 43 engines for Mercedes and only mine have gone."

"What he said was absolutely factual," acknowledged Sky F1 pundit Martin Brundle. "It is difficult to understand."

Even Hamilton's numbers added up: each of the eight cars powered by Mercedes have received the five power units every driver is allowed to use without penalty this season. The remaining three are the trio of fresh units the team brought to Belgium for their lead driver. And one of those has already blown up - with the fear now that the batch introduced at Spa may be plagued by a chronic fault.

In short, Hamilton's Sepang blow-out may yet happen again.

So why always him?
'Could it be installation problems?' mused Brundle in his latest column for Sky Sports. 'It's very unlikely because there have been different failures and given the experience, processes and data this would show up quickly.

'How about driving style? With the latest seamless shift gearboxes it is impossible to miss a gear or over-rev on downshift. If he's bouncing off all the kerbs and putting extra load through the transmission and power plant it would be clear to see in the data.'

Which only leaves bad luck - and Hamilton's suggestion that a "higher power" may be working against him. Given that F1 is important but not that important, it has to be simply a case of bad luck.

Would Rosberg be a lucky champion?
The German has undoubtedly been the chief beneficiary of Hamilton's bad luck this year, but Rosberg himself is no stranger to misfortune after plenty of reliability problems in 2014 and 2015. "I've been in his position," Rosberg said on Sunday. "I know how terrible it is in that moment."

Non-scores due to mechanical problems

     LH NR

2013 0 3

2014 2 3

2015 1 2

2016 0 1

Total 3 9

But measuring bad luck is a complex business. For instance, the above table doesn't take into account the qualifying breakdowns Hamilton suffered midway through the 2014 season when his brakes failed in Germany and his car caught fire in Hungary. 

And detailing a mechanical glitch can be a multi-layered arrangement. Take Rosberg's grid penalty in Austria, for example, when the German driver was demoted five places after a gearbox change. Mechanical failure? Yes and no. The unit was broken, but only after Rosberg crashed in practice, an accident which in turn was attributed to a suspension failure that may or may not have been caused by Rosberg riding too far over the circuit's notorious sausage kerbs.

Nevertheless, it can be stated as fact that Rosberg's car hasn't been completely bullet-proof this year. His W07 suffered a gearbox glitch late in the British GP, a malfunction which ultimately demoted him from second to third and enabled Hamilton to take the lead of the title race.

But while Rosberg hasn't been entirely immune from misfortune this year, there have been none of the clear-cut, high-profile, high-impact bad breaks which have repeatedly beset his team-mate.

How fortunate was Rosberg in Malaysia?
The world championship leader certainly rode his luck on Sunday. He could have been wiped out of the race at the first turn when his Mercedes collided with Sebastian Vettel. His W07 could have then suffered terminal damage when the rest of the field hurtled into Turn One but somehow avoided hitting the spinning Mercedes. He could have suffered self-inflicted race-ending damage when he barged into the side of Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari. And although he was then punished by the steward for causing the collision, the punishment - ten seconds of track time - was less than the amount of time Raikkonen, who finished directly behind Rosberg in fourth, lost due to the damage done to the floor of his car.

The Formula 1 Gossip column

Most saliently of all, Rosberg lucked into a 28-point swing when Hamilton retired from the lead. But for the failure on the other W07, Rosberg would have been second in the standings heading to Japan. Instead he leads by 23 with just five races to go.

But bad luck tends to be a fickle interloper. Hamilton has been persistently unfortunate throughout 2016 but there are still 20 other drivers in the field envious of his good fortune to be in the title race. And all it would take for him to regain the lead of the World Championship this weekend in Japan is victory and one piece of very bad luck for Rosberg.

Don't miss the F1 Report for all the reaction and analysis from the Malaysia GP. Former F1 world champion Damon Hill and The Sun's Ben Hunt join Natalie Pinkham in the studio at 8:30pm on Wednesday on Sky Sports F1.

 

http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/24181/10604387/f1-2016-just-how-unlucky-has-lewis-hamilton-been-this-season

Ze spreken van een mogelijk probleem in de batch van de laatste 3 nieuwe motoren, als dat zou kloppen dan gaat het nog stuiven bij Mercedes

[flupke73 10.920]

Oei oei oei, aber, wir schaffen dass[emoji1477]

[Monterey Jack 6.502]

Hamilton heeft het weer eens uitgehangen op een persconferentie:

Enerzijds vind ik het best grappig, anderzijds toont het wel weinig respect en hoort het eigenlijk niet. Er is dan ook een hele 'hetze' nu rond dit voorval in de Britse pers

[dragonfly 14.982]

https://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2016/10/f1-drivers-and-the-media-when-does-social-become-anti-social/

[Monterey Jack 6.502]

13 duizendsten, ofte 82cm verschil tussen Rosberg en Hamilton in de quali

Analyse van Anthony Davidson ( enkel te zien met een vpn / Vpn plugin helaas  )

http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/10609437/watch-analysis-of-incredibly-close-rosberg-hamilton-qualy-laps

[Glenn-N 8.593]

Kimi kan het toch nog hoor.

[TCT 6.313]

Kampioenschap valt stillekes aan in zijn plooi, jammer genoeg. Rosberg moet de volgende 4 races minstens 2de zijn.

Rosberg is echt de lelijkste en minst gegunde wereldkampioen in jaren...

 

[Riskitalltowin 3.293]

Dat is dus jouw mening. De strijd is nog niet gestreden hoor.

[Monterey Jack 6.502]

Beetje nuance mag wel zeker? Rosberg wint er 9, Hamilton heeft er 6. Hamilton heeft het nu al een paar races zelf verkloot bij de start ook. De actie in de voorlaatste ronde op Verstappen was ook alles of niets vandaag.

En ja, Hamilton heeft al meer pech gehad, het heeft hem al heel wat punten gekost, maar dat hoort er bij.

[kefkie 2.685]

Zijn er al beelden van die actie van verstappen op hamilton?

[walter 4.428]

Mercedes dient alvast klacht in tegen Verstappen. http://www.gpupdate.net/nl/f1-nieuws/345482/mercedes-dient-protest-in-tegen-actie-verstappen/

[kefkie 2.685]

Zijn er al beelden van die actie van verstappen op hamilton?

[DenDuvel 4.683]