Turkish GP..dont read if you haven't seen it. :)

[twisty]

It was a racing incident,i don`t think either should be reprimanded,everyone wants to see close racing,it doesn`t get much closer than that hahaha! [shouldn`t laugh really but anyway]
Maybe they should be fitted with big rubber bumpers

[Shaun 'TheSheep' Atkinson]

Yes i did!

[SlowOne]

Originally Posted by telboy

I think all of this 'saving fuel' rubbish is a load of crap.

They're supposed to be fuelled to the end?! no?
Understandibly they want the cars to be as light as possible. But surely if you put a little bit more fuel in, then you can run the whole race with the engine turned up! Thus, being able to race flat out for the whole race!...and not have to slow down at a time when others could make a pass at the end of the race.

Every lap's-worth of fuel costs 1/10th of a second. Over the Turkish GP that's 5.8 seconds - a difference of first or fourth for those front four cars (without the crash!!). In Oz they fuelled the cars with about 165kg of fuel, and they ran flat out all race. By Turkey, they had 155kg of fuel, because that makes them faster over the race distance. Saving fuel isn't rubbish, it is part of the sport now, as it was before they had re-fuelling.

If you tell them to have full tanks, they'll just turn the engines up and use more fuel to make up the speed they need to overcome the weight, making them marginal on fuel by the end of the race. We're just back where we were 20 years ago, only this time we actually know what's going on because of the radios, and they have the technology to turn down the wick.

If you don't like this, best choose another sport to watch, as it's not going away any time soon!!

[BagofSkill]

Actually, on average a lap of fuel costs a bit over a tenth in qualifying, which is ofen critical for grid position. And with how hard overtaking is is important to get as high up the grid as you can.

But at the start of the race when you're fuel up to 160kg, each extra lap on full power costs a lot more laptime. Turning the engine down might cost 0.1-0.2 per lap, but then don't forget that the engine have to last 4 races these days, so you can't just go around running full power all the time. So if you know you can't run full power all race every race, and you know when you turn it down you save fuel, you see how it works hand in hand.

The other note about the turkey rae in particular was that unlike usual, these 4 guys were just about nose to tail (for the first 40 laps) so the didn't have time to relax and save the engine/fuel like they normally would when the leads is comfortable and the field is spread out, which is why they ran harder longer and then turning the engine down at the end became priority for both RB and McLaren.