Tag Archives: bahrain

Mar201030

Rob

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What happened to the Ferrari’s in Australia?

Ferrari promised from Bahrain that they were going to be one of the cars to beat this season and then they seemed to fade in Australia. How much of this was due to the weather and how much of this was due to Alonso’s first lap spin?And was there anything else at play?
It seems that the Ferrari team are playing it safe this year – they aren’t taking extra risks like coming in for tyres or changing to early – I’m not saying that it was the wrong decision but I think it is why we hardly saw the Ferraris all race apart from Lewis Hamilton’s onboard camera. They had a solid race, they finished 3rd and 4th after all but they had promised much more – it seems odd that they couldn’t pass the Renault of Robert Kubica but then if the paddock is to be believed you need [...]

Mar201025

Rob

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Virgin hoping that they’ve finally solved their reliability issues

The Virgin team are confident that they have solved the reliability issues that meant that their car hasn’t run for more than 18 laps or so yet. This means that they have addressed the hydraulic problems that they have had since the launch of the car and the transmission problems that they had at Sakhir.
Virgin impressed at Bahrain by qualifying fastest of all the new teams and then disappointed on race day by not managing to make the first set of stops. The hydraulic issues that put out one of their cars out in Bahrain seems the same as the one that they claimed to have solved after the pre-season testing where they had these issues – it seems that the fix didn’t work and they now have a ‘robust’ solution to the problem, let’s hope that’s true.
They also had transmission issues in Bahrain and these would seem separate from [...]

Mar201022

Rob

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Looking forward to the Australian GP…

The Australian GP is now less than a week away and with all the main teams having had a week to digest what happened in Bahrain what can we expect from the various players? Will the Ferrari’s run away with the race again? Will the Red Bull have and an answer? Will Michael Schumacher be on the pace? Will the McLaren be fast enough to challenge?
It seems that the Australian GP is a much less predictable track though it does seem to show who’ll win the championship as over the last ten years only twice has the winner not gone on to clinch the title. It seems unlikely that the Ferrari will romp away with the victory this time out as the other teams may have the pace here. The McLaren’s rear wing won’t help them too much but any time counts.
Michael Schumacher should be more on the pace here [...]

Mar201021

Rob

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Hispania Racing target finishing in Australia

The HRT Cosworth team boss Colin Kolles has come out and said that the team are targeting a finish in Australia and have been working flat out to achieve this. He said that just turning up in Bahrain was against the odds.
It seems that the team have some work to do with Karun Chandhok crashing in Bahrain and Bruno Senna’s car blowing an engine – I guess they don’t really have to worry about the 10 place grid penalty, or the 5 place gear box penalty. I wonder if they have to pay Cosworth per engine. I wonder how many spare parts they have for the car with all the problems that they’ve had with Chandhok’s car.
Finishing in Australia is probably quite ambitious given that Senna’s 18 laps are the farthest the car has ever gone. It is good to see a realistic aim though, getting one of the cars [...]

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