McLarens underweight?

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Originally Posted by airshifter

They were telling Lewis to save fuel laps before Button made his move, so I'm not buying that the team did it to keep them from racing. I think Jenson simple thought he could catch Lewis off guard and went for it. Lewis wasn't having it and both drivers knew it could hurt the fuel situation or worse, end up similar to the Red Bulls.

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ok that put things in perspective a bit and I can fully understand the somewhat downplayed celebrations.

Could it be that "save the fuell" talk is coded language by Mclaren to say do not overtake? with that in mind Hamilton was caught of guard by his teammate?

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Originally Posted by Daika

Could it be that "save the fuell" talk is coded language by Mclaren to say do not overtake? with that in mind Hamilton was caught of guard by his teammate?

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Its possible I suppose. Were they equally fuelled? I only heard that instruction on Hamiltons radio but that doesn't mean the same instruction wasn't relayed to Jenson... however when you consider the fact that the drivers are nearly always asked to pick up rubber to add every possible single gram in debris from the dirty parts of the track, post race legal weight may well be a fairly believable reason for the instruction.

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Originally Posted by Zico

...however when you consider the fact that the drivers are nearly always asked to pick up rubber to add every possible single gram in debris from the dirty parts of the track, post race legal weight may well be a fairly believable reason for the instruction.

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No it can't be the reason, because the car is weighed without fuel.

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Originally Posted by ioan

No it can't be the reason, because the car is weighed without fuel.

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You are right of course.. silly me.

I wonder how accurately they can predict fuel usage, when all factors are not possible to be taken into account fully.. slipstreaming, head/tail winds. Red Bull also used this 'excuse'? for Mark being in Fuel save mode.

Lewis cheats as he always do.

Jenson dont know how to cheat.

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Originally Posted by Mia 01

Lewis cheats as he always do.

Jenson dont know how to cheat.

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Have you ever noticed that no one replies to your wildly speculative and inaccurate posts?

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Have you ever noticed that no one replies to your wildly speculative and inaccurate posts?

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well said and if you go to the F1 official site and watch the video for 2010 turkey, it will explain quite nicely why LH was sorta upset at the end of the race. It provides radio from and to his car that I had not heard before which puts things very well in perspective.
http://www.formula1.com/video/

I guess Mia 01 would rather hold on to his misguided notions than deal with reality.

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Originally Posted by truefan72

well said and if you go to the F1 official site and watch the video for 2010 turkey, it will explain quite nicely why LH was sorta upset at the end of the race. It provides radio from and to his car that I had not heard before which puts things very well in perspective.
http://www.formula1.com/video/

I guess Mia 01 would rather hold on to his misguided notions than deal with reality.

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Why spoil a conspiracy theory with plausable explanations and facts? :)

In the fussing over Indy, and the lack of gas in Hunter reay's car appearing to cause a massive crash, it was said that at the end of an F1 race, all cars must have 1.5 gallons of fuel left in their tanks (not sure if true, or some reporter running off at the mouth)

my understanding is that the tanks are then drained and the cars weighed

In the days of tire wars, the reason for the pick up, was allegedly due to the desire of tire manufacturers to get samples of the opposition's tire material

so now I guess it must be to add weight, or so I guess---but I doubt this material adds much weight at all....maybe a pound or two?