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Massa... om nom nom...
2014 Rolex Australian Grand Prix
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Massa... om nom nom...
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Feed me rubber... 
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But it's twitchy. Hulkenberg and Perez were spinning at the slightest touch of wheelspin yesterday.
It's worth mentioning that the teams are allowed to electronically control brake bias in the rear wheels because the wheelspin would make it extremely difficult to manage manually - and even with the electronics, they're still struggling.
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And Rosberg shatters Ham's lap! And Grosjean is very irritated.
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Soft tyres
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Just goes to show how much of a difference they make.
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Everyone's going off at Clark today!
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9.4 second spread..... I'm never going to complain about a series spec's again 
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Question: do the teams have to run with race fuel flow in effect? Red Bull can't get close to yesterday's lap times, much less Mercedes, even on the soft compound. I wonder if they spent yesterday without the fuel flow in effect, because it's a complication that would add a layer if complexity to the cars. If you want to sort out your troubles, you put the car in the simplest form that you know they are capable of, then add those layers if complexity back on one by one. It's a blind scientific test to see what effect each variable has on the car.
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Well, this is still FP. The cars are really gonna go full power on qualy.9.4 second spread..... I'm never going to complain about a series spec's again
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How lose was Vettel's car that lap?
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I was wondering exactly that. I don't think there's a rule about the fuel settings for FP.
Yesterday some commentators were speculating that some teams might finish the race with plenty of fuel "in hand", to me it seems unlikely because no one will carry any performance that they don't use. That's going to immediately push all teams to the edge of the envelope and it won't be as much about max downforce as it will about efficiency of the balance over 200 miles.
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Hangover from yesterday. They are having to go to the very limits of the circuit, then move back over to the racing line. But Vettel is getting too much wheelspin as he cuts across to the racing line, and then he has to fight it.
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Aaand, off at Clark again.
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Pastor has trapped it off turn 10 smh
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As Brundle says, they're just driving it too fast, I think we might see them be a bit more circumspect in quali. Well, in Q1 and 2...
EDIT: Vettel sounds edgy
EDIT: Vettel sounds edgy
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Vettel and Rocky not sounding happy.
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Ham 4th fastest on prime 2 tenths slower than 2nd place on option
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Marussia are looking pretty good. They haven't chased downforce because they knew the rules would naturally close the gap to the rest of the field. It looks pretty good coming out of corners in particular as the load on the outside of the car returns to the centre.
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I'm gonna waste some time on the interwebs for a while. And get the popcorn ready.Yea probably, was a little quicker in FP2, Quali now 2 hours away
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Kvyat is also looking handy. Still not comfortable under brakes, but neither is Vergne; that's a by-product of the brake-by-wire. But I said yesterday that Kvyat is swinging in to the apex and letting the traction push the car through. Now that he knows the circuit, he is starting to feed the throttle - and the torque - in as he corrects his steering on the exit.
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He couldn't finish it he went off, they used a new wing yesterday in practice on Hami's car and they're running just as fast today without it so it's probably a tenth more they've gained with the new wing. However, they're not losing enough for others to catch them so they'll obviously gain more two weeks from now.
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I'm gonna waste some time on the interwebs for a while. And get the popcorn ready.
Here's something to help a little, some 69 action with smooth bodies and big flaps. Something about the way the curves are handled reminds me of watching Massa in FP3...
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TBH doing a lot of racing on GT I know I would really want a well balanced car........ but .......
As a spectator, I think it looks much better to see the drivers having to really driver the car
As a spectator, I think it looks much better to see the drivers having to really driver the car
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James Allen interviewing Rubens Barrichello on Ten, and it's nice to see Rubens wanting to jump in head-first.
