The plant, which has been in Abu Dhabi gekloppt from the sand, has been very impressive. What does not rub off on the race.
It was a Formula One appropriate environment in which the last Grand Prix of the year takes place. Large hotels, even larger boats, lots of glitter, glamor and more money. The formula has its garage years have long left behind and sipping champagne from crystal goblets. The fan was on television but only to feel the champagne used in Arabia for rose water. The race was bland and the problems of Lewis Hamilton vermiesten the battle for the top also. However, it was impressive, as Vettel pulled the rest of the field away.
"The question is also not really remember if Vettel will be world champion." This is the basic tenor of the German press at the present day. So the most that the dpa / sid report have rewritten a bit. Of course, we know everything better and go back "because if he gets a car again so Ferrari and McLaren together again so bad on the road." The hype about Vettel's pretty incredible. Yesterday I saw him for about 20 seconds at the same time on RTL in Sky and the BBC. Whether there is not too much pressure built up?
But I have the impression that Vettel of pressure through the media hype not so interested. He is little, compared to the pressure under which he sets himself. His lanky, laid-back style is indeed one thing. These moments in which he snaps out after a victory, or where, as in Sao Paulo, throws the steering wheel of the car, then the other layers of his personality.
The second driver, who has impressed me yesterday, you must name Kamui Kobayashi. The leaves just his second race in a car he almost completely unknown, and beat the number six. Now we can say that both Brazil and Abu Dhabi also not the most demanding courses are but a Fisichella Grosjean or is not successful. Toyota will give the young man probably a chance.
Jenson Button's me again yesterday and made a good eye. Without pressure splints he would enjoy driving on to have. Anyway, I see him yesterday are more horizontal, as in every other Renne, where he is otherwise controlled hang out. He is on Webber but did not come over, but he has at least the last rounds have taken care of spectacle.
So you can check off GP, because the rest of the race was not worth mentioning. As nice as it did klitzern also, there was no substitute for a good race. Where I like the track certainly has, because without it not for the driver. Tielke is himself a pilot. He bangs in a GT40 on the Nordschleife, knows what is fun. Why are his lines, but always tend to destroy a race, I do not know. If you play it on the console or on the computer, you realize that the tracks are pretty tricky, hanging with her curves. It's like Magny-Cours. One may well only when they drove to the console. Maybe yes Tielke builds too many different problems? But why do you get at Spa and Monza, or even back in Hungary now sensible race, while it takes on the routes Tielke rain? Too bad it's all, because the environment of the track really looks terrific.
Some news for everyone who was traveling today
- Bridgestone at the end of 2010 draws back from the F1. The announcement was rather surprising and also leaves a few question marks that they will remain as a supplier for the GP2. What's the point again? The manufacture of the tire is expensive, Bridgestone earned them nothing, except the advertising that you have nothing. The Japanese have done a pretty good job in recent years, because I am not aware that there were races in which are rows of tires burst. On the other hand, seems to feel the Bridgestone crisis, which seems logical. If fewer new cars are built, one needs less tires.
Whoever follows Bridgestone is completely open. I do not think that the FIA did not know about it, it was announced today and response for business purposes. One must also say that the contract will run until the end of 2010 by the Japanese now simply extended. The usually well-informed Twitter account @ f1scoop said today that Pirelli would stand in the wings. The supplier had not been free of GP3.
Pirelli had in 2006 applied together with Michelin and Bridgestone as sole designer for the contract, but then pulled back. However, Pirelli has long been out of the top motor sports. Formula 1 has to leave in 1991, in other single-seater series is one, to my knowledge, not on the road. Not even in the prototype series.
Another alternative would of course Michelin, but they are still offended that the FIA has bowled them out of the bidding process in late 2006. Goodyear would remain, but the supply so out of the top series NASCAR no longer. But there were still alternatives Dunlop (DTM), Kumho and Yokohama (WTCC). In any case, the new tires to Formula One 2011 will roll the dice again terrific mess. As usual, some teams are not very good and others are so clear.
What I hope not: that there is a second vendor. A tire war does the F1 is not good, and it makes the series, in my opinion, unattractive. The tires are already enough differentiator, because each car handles differently with them. If now there is a second manufacturer is, then you will never can tell which pilot, an engineer who has done a better job. Rather should be prepared to this point equality of arms.
- Williams (Schock! Horror Total surprise!) Nico Hulkenberg and Rubens Barrichello confirmed for 2010. Hulkenberg has the usual career behind him (karting, Formula BMW, A1GP, F3), and this year won the GP2. Williams, it is has been signed as test driver and one thinks highly of him. "Hülki" is, after what I have seen more of a discreet drivers. Extremely fast, very smart and he's in the races where I've seen him, often abandoned and abgefunde his place. He has aggressively controlled.
Barrichello has nothing to say. I am pleased that he will be his 300th GP can go. Moreover, one should not underestimate him. As we have seen, he can on a good day with the right material, very, very quickly. The combination of the two drivers like me. Whether one with the Cosworth engine, however, really is, is again another thing that you can not resolve before February.
- Kamui Kobayashi Toyota has not yet officially confirmed, but at least you have made it clear that he is more than one option. The final decision as to whether Toyota generally makes more noticeable at 15.11. Since meeting, the Board of Toyota. That is why Trulli also waits until mid-November for a decision.
- Red Bull will keep the 2010 Renault engines. You would probably like to switch to Mercedes, but coming out of the deal not with McLaren. Obviously, McLaren said despite impressive board ranks first in Abu Dahbi "Nope." Adrian Newey needs for the new car but ungebedingt the dimensions of the engine along with coolers, etc. and could not wait any longer.
- On the other hand is further reported that Brawn will continue next year in silver. I do not think so. The silver finish is not just advertising for Daimler, but also for Vodafone and other sponsors. The Gordian knot contract you will be able to unravel so quickly. And as long as the matter is unresolved, as long as you will have to wait for the second driver for McLaren.
The Annual Review including relentless disclosure my season preview will follow.
[Nggallery id = 1]
No related posts.
Thank you for reporting the FORMULA 1 this year! :)
;) Don amusing text:
"Williams (Schock! horror! Total surprise!) Nico Hulkenberg and Rubens Barrichello confirmed for 2010. "
Short resulting in NH: I think he's extremely fast, especially under difficult conditions. In Malaysia in the A1 GP (Einheitsserie!) he drove in the rain or drying off faster than all other conditions of two seconds - per round. That was pretty impressive. And as a rookie to win the GP2 is also not without risk, and he also benefits from the Grosjean to Renault's gone. I'm looking forward to him in F1!
I associate more with the blushing.
Kobayashi certainly deserves a chance. Finally a Japanese in the F1, which really seems to have potential. The more painful that must be said, unfortunately, does the idea of Fisichella in the last five races. Badoer the way I see it now as a largely rehabilitated. The Ferrari is probably really hard to drive. But Fisichella would have been more need to get out. I think both are replacement drivers have been too slow to move. Better get a crash when trying to find the limit, as this weak idea every single race.
All new routes have the problem that they are too perfect. It fits into the landscape of the track, rather than vice versa. One pot used level asphalt. We tried to make each curve as fault tolerant as possible. And so on ...
@ Thomas :
At least the 888-team moves to the V8 Supercars and Vodafone as the main sponsor and a silver base. So it may be that the design of the Vodafone also includes silver. Here is a photo: http://www.teamvodafone.com/media/images/clipsal_800x600.jpg
I wrote:
All new routes have the problem that they are too perfect. It fits into the landscape of the track, rather than vice versa. One pot used level asphalt. We tried to make each curve as fault tolerant as possible. And so on ...
Which I can not follow. When you look at the Sepang Tilkedrom prototype based look at the works of the master, he has built around at least a "nasty" place an obligation on a driver's lap after lap full concentration. Personally, I think Sepang, with smears, Shanghai also more demanding than Valencia and Abu Dhabi, but even there I see at least the effort of not building the routes for drivers at kindergarten level.
IMHO are not the routes to be perfect, but the driver, and to a certain point for the cars. Previously there was obviously more scatter, today is 2% of residue per turn is reason to be blasphemous land.
Yes, it's brutal, if you 8/10 is slower, and therefore flies out in Q3. Just look at times in the 70s and 80s, as far apart as the field is already war.Das astray.
But would think: something is wrong with all Tielke routes. Even with Turkey, which has some really nasty corners.
I think there are a combination of factors: the sheer volume of new tracks, all from the same designer, the locations, the modern security measures (read: a lot of asphalt), the orientation of nibbling on a perfect infrastructure, involvement in a major project ... all that each a little of the charm from that, the traditional routes. Clean layout to the routes from Tilke are usually really hard (which is based partly on my experiences with GTR2 ^ ^). Malaysia for example, with its fast, (partially) liquid curves, so called from one of his favorite circuits so Alonso.
Do I look very different. What does that even "require full concentration"? But only do you lose if an error occurs a few seconds. But this is actually the case anyway in every curve. There is virtually no place more that penalizes a mistake really classic - with a failure, a damaged car or at least ruined tires. But even if there were such A place that is still far too little. I could add to my previous comment still that there are too many chicanes and too few high-speed curves are. Are not circuits like Spa, Montreal and Indy even more exciting (he) was observed when it was with the modern cars there too much overtaking?
It is not entirely irrelevant, what happens when a driver makes a blunder, if it is so rare? Would change the race last Sunday's something, if the ugly painting surfaces would be swapped for straw bales? Not even a tougher punishment for HAM's gaffe would have changed the outcome!
So, instead of the half or maybe all errors per 20 drivers race distances now unnecessarily punishing rough, Tilke has focused to provoke more errors, allowing a runner breaking open and the overtaking. In my opinion, this makes sense, thrust.
Harassment are important, they offer opportunities for outbraking. What would be without his varianti Monza? I wished, for example, Abu Dhabi, less than 90 ° corners and curved more combinations, but on the other hand, one can in Sepang as not really complain about a lack of fast radii.
Speaking of Sepang. The more I think about it, the clearer to me that there Tilke has created a modern classic that suffers for me only because the lines were running 50% wider than necessary. This track has everything, and even after 10 years she has been a huge challenge for the drivers.
I do not know why Tilke this success could not even reach me, just the prices of Valencia and Abu Dhabi, however, appear as setbacks. (Aka v0.9 of Arragon Turkey not to mention)
I'm not the expert in F1, I've already seen a race for ever more, but:
Maybe I'm wrong yes, but I think that the Tielke routes are all too flat, that 2d. I mean, with old tracks such as Nurburgring, Spa, Laguna Seca or Sears Point, there are many ascents and descents, just because they were adapted to the landscape. What would be without the legendary Laguna Seca Cork Screw, or spa without the Eau Rouge. Which reminds me: Eau Rouge is always referred to as "Mutkurve" because they must be "blind" drive. Is there such a thing on a Tielke course? I do not believe it?
Blind corners are there already, for example, in Istanbul, the curves 1 and 3 (I like the latter rather than curve 8). And whether flat or hilly course always depends strongly on the land on which it is to plan the routes, you're lying there with some really sure (eg Shanghai). In Abu Dhabi as one has heaped even, I believe the resulting passage Turn 2/3/4 is so half-blind, Weil goes over the top. Bahrain is also much more hilly than it looks on TV and has some nasty corners.
So if that's his intention, then the implementation is more than moderately. The miserable broad, flat stretches pot with their super flat curbs and huge run-off areas to provoke precisely NOT more mistakes. And certainly not those that offer opportunities for overtaking. In general you should not have to rely on error, a reasonable route also allows for "normal" overtaking. Examples: (!) Monza, Spa, Montreal, Indy, Interlagos, the old Hockenheimring. And then there are a lot of good tracks on the drive does not F1.