Although a big Lewis fan who wouldn't mind too much if he regularly disappeared off into the distance, I've quite enjoyed the poor Merc starts from the perspective of it mixing up the racing.
The thing is though, there's poor starts, like those the Mercs have been experiencing recently. There's good starts like Ferrari had in Hungary and Williams had at Silverstone. Then there's sublime starts like Hulkenburg had at Silverstone. I imagine Wolff has been going through that Force India start with a fine tooth comb!
It does make things more interesting when they fall behind
The relatively poor starts from Mercedes are one of their few weaknesses so because one of the cars usually qualifies in pole position a poor start from them certainly makes for a very interesting race as we have seen in the last two. The start at Silverstone was one of the most unexpected and therefore exciting starts I've seen in a few years what with the dominance of either Mercedes or Red Bull and I was genuinely on the edge of my seat.
I think it's good that the drivers are now going to have to be more in control of their getaways off the grid. For too long the cars seem to move away at the start in near synchronisation. It appears very artificial unlike the starts from years back when many positions would change even before the first corner due to driver skill/ error.
Man, I hate this Summer break. Can't they just go back to having a race every other week? No back to back races or three week gaps. At least there's football now.
Man, I hate this Summer break. Can't they just go back to having a race every other week? No back to back races or three week gaps. At least there's football now.
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There was a pretty interesting article in Autosport a few weeks back about this - guess it's obvious when you read it but the test teams of old that did all of the winter work have been done away with and so the race teams are still in the factory/ in Barcelona December - March. The summer break is pretty much the only downtime these guys get.
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posted on 13/8/15
Although a big Lewis fan who wouldn't mind too much if he regularly disappeared off into the distance, I've quite enjoyed the poor Merc starts from the perspective of it mixing up the racing.
The thing is though, there's poor starts, like those the Mercs have been experiencing recently. There's good starts like Ferrari had in Hungary and Williams had at Silverstone. Then there's sublime starts like Hulkenburg had at Silverstone. I imagine Wolff has been going through that Force India start with a fine tooth comb!
posted on 13/8/15
It does make things more interesting when they fall behind
posted on 13/8/15
The relatively poor starts from Mercedes are one of their few weaknesses so because one of the cars usually qualifies in pole position a poor start from them certainly makes for a very interesting race as we have seen in the last two. The start at Silverstone was one of the most unexpected and therefore exciting starts I've seen in a few years what with the dominance of either Mercedes or Red Bull and I was genuinely on the edge of my seat.
I think it's good that the drivers are now going to have to be more in control of their getaways off the grid. For too long the cars seem to move away at the start in near synchronisation. It appears very artificial unlike the starts from years back when many positions would change even before the first corner due to driver skill/ error.
Man, I hate this Summer break. Can't they just go back to having a race every other week? No back to back races or three week gaps. At least there's football now.
posted on 14/8/15
Man, I hate this Summer break. Can't they just go back to having a race every other week? No back to back races or three week gaps. At least there's football now.
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There was a pretty interesting article in Autosport a few weeks back about this - guess it's obvious when you read it but the test teams of old that did all of the winter work have been done away with and so the race teams are still in the factory/ in Barcelona December - March. The summer break is pretty much the only downtime these guys get.
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