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Lewis really happy about his lap he can't stop talking about it.
2016 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix
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They ran it in Practice 3.
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Could it be that the teams were a bit overzealous to discredit the format even further? Or is there a link with an uncommon track temperature evolution due to the particular time of the day the session was run? Anyway, this was mostly uninspiring and defending the system at this point untenable. Nice to see Vandoorne confirming his status.
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Uh that's impossible, do you have a link? In other words they can't legally run a new nose in quali because the car goes to parc ferme. Thus it will race, so the new nose would have had to been crash tested, they can't just get a new nose ready for Quali and stick it on.
@GTPorsche cleared it up 👍
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Nope. The 90 second timeframe for elimination doesn't allow them any room to mess around, and the lack of tires and inability to refuel in the pits removes any possible excitement.
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They wouldn't be allowed to put parts on the car without having ran them on the car prior to qualifying anyway.
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Would you if you just did a lap in a engine format, that only two years ago got flak for being 4 seconds slower than V8s. Now look where it is? And also because let's be honest, up to now Lewis has been average compared to Nico and SV
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Was it sexier than his Melbourne laps?
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It's impressive but engineering evolves so fast, he has looked off compared to Nico but found it a bit cringe when he was asked about tomorrow's start that he proceeds to yet again talk about how awesome his lap is.
Wonder if he gets excited when he watches his laps
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So why didn't Lewis's first lap get invalidated? Ran off track and had fastest sector 3 time so surely shouldn't have counted? Can't help but feel if it was Nico there would be a lot more coverage
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Did I miss something? This time last year everyone still would have been gunning to knock a tenth off, and now they're ending it with more than two minutes to go (at the time)?
The FIA have a lot more data than us, I don't know if that sector time really was fastest but they could look at see how much he lost or gained specifically in that corner. Given the way he lost traction out there I'd be amazed if he gained time there and the gain was instead in the rest of the sector.
I just checked the FIA site and there is no investigation into it so they are presumably happy with it. I do notice he has been summoned for reversing in the pit lane though, about 8 minutes ago.
http://www.fia.com/events/fia-formula-one-world-championship/season-2016/event-timing-information-8
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Just one of those moments, where he'll worry about tomorrow when it comes and rather relish what he probably thought he wouldn't get today.
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Also I fully expect Vettel to be leading out of turn one.
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So Hamilton gets a slap on the wrist for reversing in pit lane. Magnussen have to start from pit lane for passing a red light. Consistency isn't the stewards greatest strength by the looks of it...
Let's just hope they make an actual race of it. Ferrari got into the lead in Australia but there wasn't really any on track battles between them and the Mercs, that's obviously what we really want to see.
They only follow the rule books, repercussions of incidents are decided there, not by the stewards. They only decide whether they were guilty or not.
I've never seen anyone have a grid drop or worse for a minor pit lane infringement like that, because presumably, the rule book doesn't say there should be one.
They only follow the rule books, repercussions of incidents are decided there, not by the stewards. They only decide whether they were guilty or not.
I've never seen anyone have a grid drop or worse for a minor pit lane infringement like that, because presumably, the rule book doesn't say there should be one.
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So whats the wording of the rule then? There was a graphic after the first set of runs of the combined quickest lap and Hamilton's sector 3 was there. To me at least it didn't look like he lost much traction and kept momentum. On a separate point, if that was Monaco car in the wall out of qualifying (I'm talking about anyone now not just Lewis) personally I'd like the stewards to be hard line on it. The car crossed the white line fully and I thought that meant time invalidated?
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So that is fine by me, he only reversed because he wasn't properly directed where to park.
It should, and I'm with you on that generally speaking, but the FIA have always taken it on a case by case basis as well as corner by corner because, well, the FIA. They determine whether an advantage was gained or not (and that is what the rule says, roughly), and if it was, then the time is removed.
As I say they obviously looked at the corner by corner data and judged he didn't, even if the overall sector was faster. For example if his S3 was three tenths up on his previous lap he may have gained four tenths in the first part of the sector but lost a tenth in that last corner. In that situation the lap would stand.
I don't know if that is the case for a fact since they don't publish that data, but that is my assumption.
So that is fine by me, he only reversed because he wasn't properly directed where to park.
It should, and I'm with you on that generally speaking, but the FIA have always taken it on a case by case basis as well as corner by corner because, well, the FIA. They determine whether an advantage was gained or not (and that is what the rule says, roughly), and if it was, then the time is removed.
As I say they obviously looked at the corner by corner data and judged he didn't, even if the overall sector was faster. For example if his S3 was three tenths up on his previous lap he may have gained four tenths in the first part of the sector but lost a tenth in that last corner. In that situation the lap would stand.
I don't know if that is the case for a fact since they don't publish that data, but that is my assumption.
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Vandoorne's 12th place is the highest qualifying position for a Belgian since 1992. Thierry Boutsen at the Japan GP 
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Vandoorne's 12th place is the highest qualifying position for a Belgian since 1992. Thierry Boutsen at the Japan GP
I really want Stoffel to get his seat in F1. Not for his talent. Not for his GP2 stats. Just for his name.
Stoffel. I love it.
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