I'm not saying Glock shouldn't be allowed to race, I just don't get why they're saying he should start last because of the 107% rule when they're not even using it. They should either enforce it or ignore it.
I think they also look at teh balance of probabilities. If without the mechanical failure he would likely have been within 107%, then they let him race. As his team-mate was inside the 107%, it is assumed he would be, so he gets to race. When there were more than 26 cars trying to qualify on a grid, it would have been tough luck and he would have been out as someone else would have qualified in his place.
Remember in Australia, the HRT's weren;t allowed to race. This was because at no point during the weekend did the look like being inside the 107% rule. Where a team/drivers has shown through the weekend they have been within 107%, then if they are outside of this in qualifying adn there are reasons for this, they get allowed to race. It's not in F1's interests to have anything less than a full grid where possible.
Alonso could be a big player in tomorrow's race. Not only does his car have a 5kph top speed advantage over the Red Bull's, but Webber sucks at the start. It's Alonso vs Vettel tomorrow.
I think you all would agree that this is the most confusing transition from Qualifying to Sundays race we have ever experienced.
Alonso also gets mighty starts and is 2/10ths quicker in sector 1 so has a chance of being ahead or very close to Vettel on the first lap. please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image I hope Alonso does jump at least Webber because then we should get a proper fight, if Webber keeps second behind Vettel then we all know what will happen then.
Well tyre deg is similar to Korea apparently, so Ferrari should easily be able to do three stops with a very short hard tyre stint. When they do use the hard tyre, they should only be slow in the first few laps - and the high temps should make things better. Besides, Alonso got a fast lap out of the primes quickly in Q1 - and Ferrari had no problems when they used hard tyres in Silverstone FP3 and Q1.
Is that JB's choice? There'd be uproar if the same scenario happened at Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes or Force India.
I don't know, I just found the info on the F1 site: http://www.formula1.com/news/technical/2011/863/911.html Things are equal at McLaren so it was probably Button's choice - however it might be a possible explanation as to why he didn't feel as comfortable with the car as Hamilton in qualifying.
Mistake on Button's part then. Out of interest, say Button had an incident on lap 1 and had to change the nose, could they put the new one on instead of replacing it with another old spec one at the pitstop?
No, replacement parts have to be identical. Otherwise they could run an underweight car and (theoretically) stick a 100kg front wing on for the last lap.
