2012 Australian Grand Prix Thread - Official

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Originally Posted by raybak

Looking forward to going to the race this weekend.

I will be in the National Champions parade lap at 11.45am on the Sunday and then doing a bit of spectating. Have to be in the circuit at 6am though on the Sunday as we have a breakfast with all the 2011 champions then have to go to a drivers briefing before we venture out onto the track. Look out for our yellow and black EVO 5 in the parade :)

If you want to check out the rain radar check out this site 128 km Melbourne Radar Loop

Cheers

Ray

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Sorry Ray, missed your post, because I posted the same link. I don't think people realise that Melbourne's weather is very changeable. I hope you have a great day at Albert Park.

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Originally Posted by AndyL

If I can offer a suggestion to anyone else who feels frustrated by DRS: try to forget about the effect it has on overtaking. Yes really :) Instead focus on the positive effect: the guy who is fastest will probably win the race.

Before, being fastest was no good if you got stuck in the Trulli Train, or your pit strategy gave you bad track position. DRS might not be the right solution, but is it worse than the problem it replaced?

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Its more down to the tyres.

DRS is inconsistent. It's fine for Barcelona and Singapore but other places like Spa and Turkey the slipstream effect is grossly exaggerated.

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Originally Posted by AndyL

I wouldn't under-estimate the difficulty of coming up with a workable "proper" solution though. The problem stemmed from reliance on aerodynamics, so any true solution has to result in a huge reduction in aerodynamic downforce. The FIA's past tactics of fiddling with details like wing dimensions have never worked, the engineers are just too good at making improvements in other areas to offset the losses. It would have to be something radical, like removing wings entirely or introducing spec aero parts. There would be plenty of opposition to those too.

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Which is why I'm in favour of grounds effect.

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Originally Posted by AndyL

The FIA's past tactics of fiddling with details like wing dimensions have never worked, the engineers are just too good at making improvements in other areas to offset the losses. It would have to be something radical, like removing wings entirely or introducing spec aero parts. There would be plenty of opposition to those too.

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I think Grand Prix cars looked better aesthetically before wings started appearing anyway. If you removed the wings entirely, the design solutions would probably look more like a Formula Ford; to be perfectly frank, Formula Ford produces a better quality of racecraft.

F1 2012 is go!

Yay!

I'm currently listening to BBC Radio 5 Live - it's 1:47am here.
It's got Ben Edwards, James Allen and Jaime Alguersuari!
Listening to James Allen, I have to wonder why he's so hated and what's quite SO terrible about him...

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Originally Posted by rjbetty

Yay!

I'm currently listening to BBC Radio 5 Live - it's 1:47am here.
It's got Ben Edwards, James Allen and Jaime Alguersuari!
Listening to James Allen, I have to wonder why he's so hated and what's quite SO terrible about him...

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Probably because he used to come up with some silly comments. I can't remember any offhand, but I can remember his silly comments did not endear him to guys here the way Murray's silly comments did.

And, by the way, I am looking out my window right now and it's not raining. :)

commercials on skysport coverage?

after making folks pay for the special channel they still run 4 minute intervals of commercials?

pathetic

Massa becomes the first person to bin a car in '12 in a rather amateurish grassy moment. Way to convince Ferrari you're worth keeping!

ok any suggestions for alternate live timing feeds, the official F1 desktop one is acting up...as usual

Does anyone have a decent picture of Heikki's helmet out on track?

This is made of win:
http://www.heikkikovalainen.com/_uploads/37.jpg

If this is true, I can't ever look at Heikki on track ever again without humming that theme song.