2011 Formula One Australian Grand Prix

Péter Bártfai · Mar 27, 2011

Pirellis are fine! Perez managed to do the race with only 1 stop as well! I think it depends a lot on the car too though, as f.e. Massa I believe was on a 2 stopper, but they had to pit 3rd time 9 laps before the end. The podium guys stopped 2 times. (I think having 1-2-3 stop strategies now is much better than everyone having only one stop btw

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Brian Duddy · Mar 27, 2011

It looks like Hamilton's dimensions, including "skidblock thickness", were not checked, presumably because of his obvious damage.

http://fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/f1_media/Documents/aus-race-report.pdf

Gary Ludlum · Mar 27, 2011

i can'T believe Saubers are disqualified

Perez really deserved it actually.

Miguel Gonzalez · Mar 28, 2011

hell of a race from perez and petrov, they really made those tires last. it'll be interesting to see how the pit strategies and numbers vary over the season.

Xosé Estrada · Mar 28, 2011

Gary Ludlum said:
i can'T believe Saubers are disqualified
Perez really deserved it actually.

Well, at least they know they are competitive : /

Omer Said · Mar 28, 2011

Heidfeld had KERS failure at qualifying, and raced with a damaged car from the first lap. So i think he will pass Petrov in the next races.

So we can see a regular podium contender Renault i hope!

Joe Bough · Mar 28, 2011

Omer Said said:
Heidfeld had KERS failure at qualifying, and raced with a damaged car from the first lap. So i think he will pass Petrov in the next races.

So we can see a regular podium contender Renault i hope!

'Hope' being the key word there!

Péter Bártfai · Mar 28, 2011

Omer Said said:
Heidfeld had KERS failure at qualifying, and raced with a damaged car from the first lap. So i think he will pass Petrov in the next races.

So we can see a regular podium contender Renault i hope!

I don't mind if Petrov will be better than him either! I like Heidfeld too, but Petrov is very much underrated imo. He's a very talented driver, last year he was a rookie, he made a lot of mistakes, but if this year he'll drive like he did in this GP, I think everyone will forget that he's a bad driver! I want to see that tbh! It was awfully bad to hear our commentary after this race saying "what could Kubica do in that car!". Even if I like Kubica, and I hope he'll be back, and he'll do fine, but this was a huge disrespect imo towards Petrov.

ufunacaoenn · Mar 30, 2011

Did you guys know that Mclaren was running a titanium deffuser in Australia? From what I read, if they change it to carbon which they will do before Sepang we will see a little bit quicker Mclaren on the track.

Adam Eggbeer · Mar 30, 2011

Yep, you could see it when they drove past. It was done as a quick method to strengthen the area after having to move the exhaust exits to the rear for the blown diffuser.

ufunacaoenn · Mar 30, 2011

Adam Eggbeer said:
Yep, you could see it when they drove past. It was done as a quick method to strengthen the area after having to move the exhaust exits to the rear for the blown diffuser.

Belive it or not I never noticed it and I normally never miss a single detail on any F1 car.
I hope that the upgraded deffuser will give Mclaren an other 0.5 seconds (I know that is quite a lot of time to gain by such little upgrade but I really hope Mclaren or any other team can give Red Bull a fight because they are way to quick for F1).

James Chant · Mar 30, 2011

I think it was due to the lead time of making carbon fibre parts.

ufunacaoenn · Mar 30, 2011

James Chant said:
I think it was due to the lead time of making carbon fibre parts.

Yes it was (atleast madeinmotorsport.com app says so) but TBH I think this is the first time I see an F1 team using such method to get a part just in time.