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Reports on Twitter say that Massa pulled 27g in the crash....
Reports on Twitter say that Massa pulled 27g in the crash....
Reports on Twitter say that Massa pulled 27g in the crash....
Big difference in survivability between instantaneous and sustained g. For example, Kenny Brack's -214g crash.
Still not exactly pleasant...
Also, as a Ferrari fan, this is how I felt at the beginning with Alonso behind Vergne...
Maybe Ferrari should think about "going radical" like McLaren are planning to do.
Well dang what a race. Started with an accident and a safety car and ended with one too.
Bittersweet to see someone other than Mercedes winning. Sweet cos it wasnt Mercedes, bitter cos a) it was down to random chance, b) it was a Red Bull...
Also, as a Ferrari fan, this is how I felt at the beginning with Alonso behind Vergne...
So... Mercedes can be beaten - but only when the roughly 160 HP of the hybrid system and the additional braking power to the rear axle are missing... Hmmm...
Still, congratulations to Daniel, he did a great race and is a deserving winner.
It's interesting, though, that both Hamilton and Rosberg faced the same technical problem at almost exactly the same time - but Rosberg managed to keep 2nd place at least, while Hamilton shredded his brakes and had to retire. I guess it has to do with the more aggressive driving style of Lewis. For the record: Niki Lauda said the electronic for the hybrid system overheated and automatically switched it off, leaving both Mercedes drivers with just the petrol engine. The system could not be restarted and since Montreal is known to be a brake-killiing curcuit and the additional braking power of the electric motor was gone, it was a real miracle Rosberg still ended on 2nd. Or maybe just great driving skills, who knows?
I'm always impressed that the drivers actually pull their arms away from the wheel rather than death-gripping it like most people.
With high ambient temperatures in Montreal and a spike in temperature, the car being stationary at a pitstop appears to have overcome the electronics.Compounding the loss of the ERS-K, there is the impact this has on the brakes.
As the ERS-K harvests its energy, it also creates drag on the rear axle and acts as part of the car's braking system.
Without it, the car therefore loses a proportion of the rear braking effort.
To save weight, teams have downsized the rear brake disc and caliper for 2014. This in turn leaves the rear brakes unable to cope with delivering the entire braking effort alone.
With Montreal being one of the hardest tracks for braking, is not surprising that Hamilton's rear brakes failed soon after the MGU-K problem hit. That said, Paddy Lowe did suggest to Sky TV that the two were not related.
Rosberg adjusted his brake bias and, with a lack of braking effort and the absence of 160hp, still managed to finish second.
His early fuel consumption problems would have been exacerbated by having only the internal combustion engine to power the car for the balance of the race.
so now rosberg's engine probably has had to work a lot harder than obviously hamilton's, but also as planned!
anyone knows what engine rosberg is on? how many races it already had run? will we see him with trouble in one of the future races?
i hope