2012 Singapore F1 Grand Prix

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2005 US F1 GP. Fourteen out of twenty entrants retired from the race due to suspension issues. :D

Tires are part of the suspension, right? :dopey:

And if they do the parade lap but don't race, that counts as a retirement, right? :lol:
 
niky
2005 US F1 GP. Fourteen out of twenty entrants retired from the race due to suspension issues. :D

Tires are part of the suspension, right? :dopey:

And if they do the parade lap but don't race, that counts as a retirement, right? :lol:
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I remember watching that race, I laughed when I've seen Ferrari team leaving the podium when they received the trophies, at the same time that Monteiro was celebrating the only podium he got :lol:
 
Apparently Bruno Senna has been burned during the race by his Williams?
 
Dennisch
Apparently Bruno Senna has been burned during the race by his Williams?
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It was a KERS failure, they told him on the radio 'we think we have a KERS problem, don't touch the car, don't touch the car and the ground at the same time' so there wouldn't be any conductivity issues. Wasn't it their also their KERS that caused the garage to catch fire?
 
peter_vod69
It'd be bad for business if it was... ;)
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It'd be bad for the F.I.A., if ever a KERS unit caused an electricution.


Ever seen what happens when an LMP1 hybrid crashes? The marshalls stand around "maybe we can actually save the driver now? No? Electricity? Live electricity?"
 
MrMelancholy15
It'd be bad for the F.I.A., if ever a KERS unit caused an electricution.


Ever seen what happens when an LMP1 hybrid crashes? The marshalls stand around "maybe we can actually save the driver now? No? Electricity? Live electricity?"
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But especially for Williams, the commercial side of their operation is almost all related to KERS.
 
As I kept saying before, they need to allow the teams a "pool" of gearboxes like they do with the engines - let the teams decide where and when to use them and give them the flexibility of swapping in a gearbox that hasn't done as much mileage.
It still keeps the costs down by limiting the number of gearboxes, but makes it so teams are restricted to using gearboxes for certain events.

Indycar could also learn from this too, seeing as they like to throw silly penalties around for "illegal" engine changes.

The point isn't to penalise the teams for changing an engine or gearbox early. The point is to limit the number of engines/gearboxes they go through to reduce costs..rather than them using fresh parts every race.
 

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