I am still confused how he won the race..
How did the Safety car affect the outcome of the race?
congrats to alonso... and can someone please sack the entire Ferrari Pit Crew for that incredible snafu??!! :complain:
congrats to alonso... and can someone please sack the entire Ferrari Pit Crew for that incredible snafu??!! :complain:
THis was a new rule..last time they use a guy with a "lollipop" pole to tell the racer he can go or still stop there while his car is refuel or worked on.
new rule ??
other teams had the man out there...
new rule ??
other teams had the man out there...
I noticed that Ferrari used a lollipop man for subsequent pit stops after the incident, don't know if the back up fuel line is not connected to the electronics or they no longer trust the sensor. I think its the latter...
Well tonight you got to see how only focusing on the driver as the one and only hero to win a race is being simplistic. Tonight you can see how many factors are at play that can make or break who wins.
Alonso did not do anything more then he normally is paid to do which is to drive to the best of his ability but alot of other factors took place tonight that was why he won. Luck played a very huge part to him winning tonight.
A bit hard to explain to you everything but if you check out the F1 sites you will get a better understanding how alot of factors ( predicted or unexpected) are part of "strategies" toward wining. Safety car is good for you if you are not the leading cars....great if you are in the last portions part of the race group. When a saefy car comes out..everyone has to bunch up behind it...so all that long lead you might have as the lead care or second or third...right up to the last car...all of a sudden you have all catch up with each other. And with a safety car...that means you can get behind yoru front car but not overtake...so all of a sudden every car is like back to back till the safety cars goes off to let the race continue at "normal" speed again.. That is why this can be a strategy in itself too.... Of course there are more to it.... like using this time to refuel or something... so it gets complicated to explain it all... check out the F1.com site and follow a few more races you will get a better idea of how F1 works.
no backup as far as I know leh... Massa and Kimi both have their own fuel nozzle. They don't share the same one. If you see some of the earlier pitstop photo shot by our forummers you will see they name fuel nozzles to each driver.
Oh, i didn't know that. Means they reattached the fuel line after its ripped out and dragged all the way down the length of the pit lane? I'm amazed its still working.
Oh, i didn't know that. Means they reattached the fuel line after its ripped out and dragged all the way down the length of the pit lane? I'm amazed its still working.
no lah they have two nozzles. There are two fuel lines. So Massa's one is gone lor but as you see Kimi was just coming in behind Massa as he leave.. if they have to run to go retrieve the fuel pipe/nozzle and then run back to fuel kimi's car..like that Kimi die liao heheheheh.... Each racer has their own fuel nozzle and pipe lah! heheh
from the TV images, someone from the crew appeared to be hurt after being whacked by the trailing pipe. hope the fella is ok...