Unless they say they have it, and not really have it again Did they say they didn't have it so people would think they can't pull the same trick twice? I'm just clutching at the straws of speculation now aren't I
Back straight or pit straight. They're too close together to have both, there wouldn't realistically be chance to judge the gap between two cars on the pit straight after it's been used on the back straight, and it would be ridiculous if someone overtook into the hairpin and then had use of it down the pit straight to pull away. I think (off the top of my head) Korea will be the only realistic place to use it twice; on the first and the third straight. Although the second straight in Korea is the longest of the three (and indeed any in F1) so I imagine they'll use it there instead.
What's going to be different? Every chance of tyres !! Expect different ones for this race, plus high chance of wets !! Incidently, who remembers the team who put wets on in final testing? Yes - I think McLaren did.
McLaren should also be running the Carbon Fibre diffuser at Malaysia. They had a partial Titanium one at Melbourne as they didn't have time to fabricate one. Whilst this shouldn't affect the aero at all, it will decrease the weight, giving better options to move the COG lower with the added ballast.
This will be an interesting one, with rain inevitable. Vettel, Webber, Hamilton, Alonso, possibly Button and maybe even Schumacher should be expected to perform well, but as was shown in Melbourne, the Ferrari doesn't have a very good straight line speed. This is quite bad for the two massive straights... So many variables!
Manny I expect video evidence of this when/if it happens. That post is a legally-binding contract now!
Which finger? Will it put me to sleep? As you can guess I came online for po.........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
http://adamcooperf1.com/2011/03/29/fia-set-to-extend-drs-zone-for-malaysian-gp/ It's not official obviously, but makes sense to me.With the final hairpin already identified as being a decent overtaking point, then the pit straight being available for DRS activation, (with or without KERS).
If we get a dry qualifying, how big will Red Bull's advantage will be? With a lot more high speed corners at Sepang, could RB outqualify the others by over a second?
Whatever advantage lost on the straights, Red Bull are too dominant in the high speed corners. James Allen said that Vettel was 17km/h faster then McLaren through turn 11 at Melbourne.
Just a little update on the weather, its due to rain every afternoon this week. Obviously after Wednesday it gets more vague so its only forcasted to rain at some time in the day, most probably the afternoon due to the local climate. With Friday practice being in the morning it may escape the rain, although the last 30mins or so of fp2 could see rain. This could mean that a wet qualifying may have to be done without a wet setup being tested. It could of course be dry but the statistics of the climate there are stacked against it as it stands.
Just looked at MSN's five day forecast: Tomorrow: T-storms Wednesday: T-storms Thursday: T-storms Friday: T-storms Saturday: T-storms !
