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[Wiz]

So apparently this game doesn't simulate wet weather driving real well.  I'm 16 seconds faster than real life!  


Sepang Q


I sort of enjoyed this one, as I don't have much experience with this particular track.  I always enjoy learning new tracks.  Although the main thing I learned about this track is that it sucks, in my opinion.  I find that it's unnecessarily difficult and doesn't really flow.  It screams Tilke all the way around.  

[DudeTuna]

So apparently this game doesn't simulate wet weather driving real well.  I'm 16 seconds faster than real life!  


Sepang Q


I sort of enjoyed this one, as I don't have much experience with this particular track.  I always enjoy learning new tracks.  Although the main thing I learned about this track is that it sucks, in my opinion.  I find that it's unnecessarily difficult and doesn't really flow.  It screams Tilke all the way around.  

That F1 game is probably for last years cars. This year the cars have a lot less downforce and overall harder tires. In the wet the lack of downforce and harder rubber would make for a bigger gap. Although 16 seconds is quite a bit of time.

Also, their times were set on full wet tires not intermediates. The colors may have changed from what they were, but this year inters are green full wet blue.

[DudeTuna]

An interesting read from Lewis Hamilton's BBC Sport colum.

[DudeTuna]

2014 Malaysian Grand Prix team radio transcript

[DudeTuna]

From www.thejudge13.com

Technical Delegate’s Report
 
Filed this afternoon, here is the drivers entered in the 2014 Formula One Championship have used the below listed number of power unit elements during this season so far:

ICE Internal Combustion Engine

TC Turbo Charger

MGU-K Motor Generator Unit – Kinetic

MGU-H Motor Generator Unit – Heat

ES Energy Store

CE Control Electronics

Team   Driver   ICE   TC   MGU-K   MGU-H   ES   CE
Red Bull   Vettel   1   1   1   1   1   3
Red Bull   Ricciardo   1   1   2   1   1   1
Mercedes   Hamilton   1   1   1   1   1   1
Mercedes   Rosberg   1   1   1   1   1   1
Ferrari   Alonso   1   1   1   1   1   1
Ferrari   Raikkonen   1   1   1   1   1   1
Lotus           Grosjean   1   1   1   1   1   1
Lotus           Crashtor   2   2   2   2   2   2
McLaren   Button   1   1   1   1   1   1
McLaren   Magnussen   1   1   1   1   1   1
F India   Hulkenberg   1   1   1   1   1   1
F India   Mendoza   1   1   1   1   1   1
Sauber   Sutil           1   1   1   1   1   1
Sauber   Guitierrez   1   1   1   1   1   2
T Rosso   JEV           1   1   2   1   1   1
T Rosso   Kvyat       1   1   2   1   1   1
Williams   Massa   1   1   1   1   2   2
Williams   Bottas   1   1   1   1   1   1
Marussia   Bianchi   1   1   1   1   1   2
Marussia   Chilton   1   1   1   1   1   2
Caterham   Kobayashi   1   1   1   1   3   4
Caterham   Ericsson   1   1   1   1   2   3


LOL Crashtor

[DudeTuna]

Live Bahrain FP2
http://www.wiziwig.tv/broadcast.php?matchid=251371&part=sports

[DudeTuna]

Lets see that Bahrain Q time Wiz. 

[Wiz]

Lets see that Bahrain Q time Wiz. 

Holy shit there's another race already?  I don't follow F1 much so I don't know the race schedule.

I've got work to do!

[DudeTuna]

Lets see that Bahrain Q time Wiz. 

Holy shit there's another race already?  I don't follow F1 much so I don't know the race schedule.

I've got work to do!

Yep, Q is tomorrow morning, Saturday, April 5 - 11:00 a.m. EDT

[Wiz]

[BakedTuna]

Force India a top 5 start, wow.

Williams, Ferrari & Red Bull #2 drivers all out Q'd the #1's Wow

Vettel 11th WOW.

[GoesTuna11]

It's kind of silly how dominant the Mercedes is.  It's pretty surprising how good the Red Bull is considering they are not running a Mercedes engine.  I was worried that this season was going to be a write off with Mercedes being more dominant than RB ever was but man there was some really, really good racing today.  Very exciting.  Too bad for that boneheaded move by Maldonado.  Those new lower noses look dangerous to me.

[DudeTuna]

Force India a top 5 start, wow.

Williams, Ferrari & Red Bull #2 drivers all out Q'd the #1's Wow

Vettel 11th WOW.

It is the first year with new engine changes, brought about by Renault, by the way. The pecking order goes Mercedes, Ferrari and then Renault. I should look for a team PU list, (Power Unit) because it involves combustion engine and multiple ancillary devices that do not seem to be too much of an ancillary device. As in if one is off the whole package is kaput.

Anyway today's race was good and bad. We get the bad out of the way first, which would be a yellow brought out by Lotus driver Maldonado, on lap 41. It was an over take move that could never work, in which he managed to spear Esteban Gutierrez .

The good was some interesting racing between teammates in an attempt to achieve dominance within the there respective team. Inter team and engine manufacture battles will be exciting to watch this year. The packages are so complex that all aspects of the car must be at their best to achieve a good result.

Well off we go to China in two weeks. Oh yes why not some final results.

2014 FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX
Provisional Results
Pos   No   Driver   Team   Laps   Time/Retired   Grid   Pts
1   44   Lewis Hamilton   Mercedes   57   Winner   2   25
2   6   Nico Rosberg   Mercedes   57   +1.0 secs   1   18
3   11   Sergio Perez   Force India-Mercedes   57   +24.0 secs   4   15
4   3   Daniel Ricciardo   Red Bull Racing-Renault   57   +24.4 secs   13   12
5   27   Nico Hulkenberg   Force India-Mercedes   57   +28.6 secs   11   10
6   1   Sebastian Vettel   Red Bull Racing-Renault   57   +29.8 secs   10   8
7   19   Felipe Massa   Williams-Mercedes   57   +31.2 secs   7   6
8   77   Valtteri Bottas   Williams-Mercedes   57   +31.8 secs   3   4
9   14   Fernando Alonso   Ferrari   57   +32.5 secs   9   2
10   7   Kimi Räikkönen   Ferrari   57   +33.4 secs   5   1
11   26   Daniil Kvyat   STR-Renault   57   +41.3 secs   12   
12   8   Romain Grosjean   Lotus-Renault   57   +43.1 secs   16   
13   4   Max Chilton   Marussia-Ferrari   57   +59.9 secs   21   
14   13   Pastor Maldonado   Lotus-Renault   57   +62.8 secs   17   
15   10   Kamui Kobayashi   Caterham-Renault   57   +87.9 secs   18   
16   17   Jules Bianchi   Marussia-Ferrari   56   +1 Lap   19   
17   22   Jenson Button   McLaren-Mercedes   55   +2 Laps   6   
Ret   20   Kevin Magnussen   McLaren-Mercedes   40   +17 Laps   8   
Ret   21   Esteban Gutierrez   Sauber-Ferrari   39   Accident   15   
Ret   9   Marcus Ericsson   Caterham-Renault   33   +24 Laps   20   
Ret   25   Jean-Eric Vergne   STR-Renault   18   +39 Laps   14   
Ret   99   Adrian Sutil   Sauber-Ferrari   17   +40 Laps   22   
Note - Ricciardo qualified third, penalised 10 grid places for unsafe release at previous round. Sutil qualified 18th, penalised 5 grid places for forcing Grosjean off track in Q1.

Also, Hamilton is on a push to equal up the points with Rosberg. Even on softer tires Rosberg could/ would/ was told not to, push through. He still has a large point advantage and has no reason to push his equipment. The season may come down to a retirement battle, due to the new regulations.  

Also, also, I will see if I can find the radio transcript for this race. It is always enlightening to go over what was said by the drivers during the race.

[DudeTuna]

2014 Bahrain Grand Prix team radio transcript

[Wiz]

Here's my better late than never Bahrain Q.  Didn't spend much time on this one.

I'm pretty sure I said this last year...  this track is :fucking hard!

1:36.491

Bahrain Q