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Kimis car failed post qualifying tech due to the floor flexing too much, the stewards are looking into it.
Rewatched Webbers lap and he went off track on the exit of turn one and the exit of the penultimate corner, granted it wasn`t a blatant advantage gained but rules are rules and when you consider they have been enforcing the track limit rules in the other category's this weekend why not in F1?
Rewatched Webbers lap and he went off track on the exit of turn one and the exit of the penultimate corner, granted it wasn`t a blatant advantage gained but rules are rules and when you consider they have been enforcing the track limit rules in the other category's this weekend why not in F1?
Crafty_ said:
Dean Stoneman making his single seater come back in Gp3 right now, 3 years out of single seaters, fought cancer against the odds and is P9 on the grid - good effort I reckon.
If he's as dangerous as he's been at times in the Porsches this year them god help anyone near him.tux said:
Kimis car failed post qualifying tech due to the floor flexing too much, the stewards are looking into it.
Rewatched Webbers lap and he went off track on the exit of turn one and the exit of the penultimate corner, granted it wasn`t a blatant advantage gained but rules are rules and when you consider they have been enforcing the track limit rules in the other category's this weekend why not in F1?
Disappointing. What will that be a back of the grid or 10 place penalty? Rewatched Webbers lap and he went off track on the exit of turn one and the exit of the penultimate corner, granted it wasn`t a blatant advantage gained but rules are rules and when you consider they have been enforcing the track limit rules in the other category's this weekend why not in F1?
Also, many drivers were taking the piss with the track limit rules in qualifying..... if they did try to enforce the rules the whole grid line up would probably change.
DanielSan said:
If he's as dangerous as he's been at times in the Porsches this year them god help anyone near him.
Drove well, start was a bit busy (at least four wide at one point) and avoided a big crash right in front of him (Sainz/Niederhauser), he followed Jack Harvey home in P6. Second race is tomorrow before the GP.
Crafty_ said:
IMHO the FIA have ballsed up again - don't be vague, be exact and keep it simple, i.e. you cross a white line with the whole car you break the rules....
That`s all it should need. A simple `cross with all 4 wheels and lose your time` rule would sort qualifying. Multiple infringements in the race and you get a penalty.As the commentators mentioned many times at India, the drivers wouldn`t do it if they didn`t get an advantage.
Turn 1 is a great example here, none of them intentionally run wide, its slower so they keep on the circuit.
Teppic said:
Kimi Raikkonen will start from the back of the grid after he was excluded from qualifying for his car failing the floor deflection test.
wow, lotus are really doing their best to p
s off Kimi and fk up their chances of #2 in the constructors. Not the first time this year they have had this flexing floor issue either - obviously they couldn't blag their way out of the penalty this time. VolvoT5 said:
wow, lotus are really doing their best to ps off Kimi and fk up their chances of #2 in the constructors. Not the first time this year they have had this flexing floor issue either - obviously they couldn't blag their way out of the penalty this time.
I'm sure they are doing it on purpose s off Kimi and fk up their chances of #2 in the constructors. Not the first time this year they have had this flexing floor issue either - obviously they couldn't blag their way out of the penalty this time. 
It did look odd, even if he'd overcooked it he had plenty of lock on to correct it, but it kept sliding and then snapped the other way. He said in the post quali interview that he tried to drive it away and it wouldn't move.
I'm always interested in failures like that, would love to know how these things happen, like the brake failure for Di Resta yesterday.
I'm always interested in failures like that, would love to know how these things happen, like the brake failure for Di Resta yesterday.
Mermaid said:
Daddy Horner will decide
Great Uncle Markko will have the final say.My vote goes to an early pitstop strategy when he has plenty of life left in the tyres...like they did in Japan.
That or they'll put a special webber-spec clutch in and do the deed at the start.
Still, it was funny watching Vettel trip up on his bottom lip in the post-qually BBC interview.
Crafty_ said:
VolvoT5 said:
wow, lotus are really doing their best to ps off Kimi and fk up their chances of #2 in the constructors. Not the first time this year they have had this flexing floor issue either - obviously they couldn't blag their way out of the penalty this time.
I'm sure they are doing it on purpose s off Kimi and fk up their chances of #2 in the constructors. Not the first time this year they have had this flexing floor issue either - obviously they couldn't blag their way out of the penalty this time. 
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