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Austria, FP3
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not much better I would say. Williams has good car this year (finally, if I may say) but it wasn't good on all tracks. There are some conditions that suite them well (colder temperatures for example) this year and that is when their form is at its best. Mercedes on the other hand is just brilliant in every condition they had been in this year.
 
And Williams has 1-2 for start tomorrow with Massa in 1st and Bottas in 2nd. I will post times later when they are available
 
ye thats great williams is got pole, lewis seems to be choking, pressure gettin' to him now that rosberg got a bit of a lead,
surprised to hear perez only got 5 place penalty for deleting massa out of the last race, should of atleast probably been about 10 places...
 
Seems like Vettel gets all the luck paid back he had during the last two years with Webber: If something breaks at RB, it's happening to him.
 
Decent race for a change, although a shame about the all too predictable result.

Really good to see F1 back in Austria again. Such a great circuit and the fans turned out in force.
 
This was actually quite dull race in my opinion after Canada and even Monaco. Track is great, but it is not really suited for those "if you want to overtake press 1" cars. For example, both GP2 races (yesterday full race and today sprint race) were miles better than what we have seen in F1. FFS they were doing overtakes where those F1 guys don't even think of because they might be considered dangerous.
 
Agree with Cuky, one of the weaker races of the seasons for me and I still (wrote it somewhere before) don't like the RB-Ring.
 
RB-Ring is nice looking track, but F1 has overgrown it. Shame that plans that existed around 2005. that would modernize and stretch this track a bit were scrapped. Plans were to turn left just before they start braking for T2, than after a straight and 2 right corners use part of the old Österreichring including than T2, chicane and returning back on the exit of current T2
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I have my doubt, if this would have helped to create more corner for overtaking manoeuvres. Would've had eliminated T2 and replaced it with this carousel-styled corner, plus maybe the entrance. The rest would've been nothing but more drivable corners, just like that section, that was used in Bahrain once (the Endurance layout).
 
ye i like that the RB Ring has gravel, instead of a 15 mile run off area like these new tracks got..
and it look like all the cars have caught mercedes a bit, bottas finished only 8 seconds behind rosberg, maybe williams can win a race soon, that'd be sweet.
 
Confirmed rule changes for next season. I really don't know how they manage to come to such stupid ideas. Changes in technical regulations seem logical, but those to sporting regulations are just idiotic. Still less development for teams, still less testing, less power units (4 instead of 5 that are allowed this year), standing restart after safety car, no setup changes between FP3 and Qualis is now allowed...



FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Changes to the F1 Regulations for 2015 have been agreed by the WMSC.

The last date at which the sporting and technical regulations can be changed without unanimous agreement has been changed from 30 June to 1 March each year, starting from 2015.

Changes to 2015 Sporting Regulations

Power units
-The number of engines permitted by each driver in a season will be four. However, if there are more than 20 races in a season, the number will increase to five.
-The penalty for a complete change of Power Unit will be starting from the back of the grid, not the pit lane.

Aerodynamic testing
-The number of wind tunnel runs will be reduced from 80 hours per week to 65 hours per week.
-Wind-on hours are to be reduced from 30 hours per week to 25 hours.
-Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) usage is to be reduced from 30 Teraflops to 25 Teraflops.
-Two periods of tunnel occupancy will be allowed in one day (rather than only one).
-Teams will only be able to nominate one wind tunnel in one year.

Testing
-There will be three pre-season tests of four days each in Europe in 2015 (currently teams are able to test outside Europe). This will be reduced to two tests of four days in 2016.
-There will be two in-season tests of two days each in Europe (instead of the current four). Two of these four days must be reserved for young drivers.

Car specification at an Event
The current restrictions to the parc fermé will now apply from the start of P3 instead of the start of qualifying.

Wheels and tyres
The ban on tyre blankets will be rescinded for 2015. This will be re-discussed if and when the wheel and tyre diameter increases in the future.

Personnel Curfew
The Friday night curfew will be extended from six to seven hours in 2015 and will increase to eight hours in 2016.

Safety Car restarts
Safety Car restarts will now be a standing start from the grid. Standing starts will not be carried out if the Safety Car is used within two laps of the start (or restart) of a race or if there are less than five laps of the race remaining.


Changes to 2015 Technical Regulations
A number of changes have been made, including:
-A number of new regulations for the noses to ensure improved safety and to provide more aesthetically pleasing structures.
-A number of new regulations concerning skid blocks to ensure that they are made from a lighter material (titanium) and are better contained.
-New regulations to ensure that the brake discs rotate at the same speed as the wheels.
-A two-stage wheel fastener retaining system is now compulsory
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EDIT: Also, nice and detailed article revealing Honda RA109 car which was designed by Japan-based part of Honda F1 team before 2009 season in parallel with Britain-based part of Honda F1 team. British part later became Brawn GP and it's design (with few adjustments to accommodate Mercedes engine) was championship winning car. This RA109 was developed by Japanese part of the Honda F1 team well into 2010. so that their engineers stay in touch with new discoveries in F1 world (for example Double Diffuser and F-Duct). Also, this car had some interesting ideas on it, especially on the nose and on the rear where aerodynamics were quite advanced. Also, unlike Brawn GP BGP001 car, this one would have KERS developed by Honda with batteries packed under the nose (under driver's legs) instead of under fuel tank as with everyone else.

http://www.racecar-engineering.com/articles/f1/hondas-secret-f1-car-revealed/?
 
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Read about that Safety Car rule change before, honestly, what are they thinking? This is a massive disadvantage for the leader of a race.
 
Problem is, if I got it correctly, that they plan to use these rules in all FIA racing series, which is practically every popular series on this side of the world.
 
I am not really sure about that as F1 rules have only few things in common with others.

I for once like what they did in Le Mans this year. Instead of deploying 3 Safety Cars on the track when there is big crash they have control points all over the track and than drivers must drive on pit limiter through yellow zone (part of the track where crash happened and marshals are on the track) while they can drive at normal racing speed on all other parts of the track. Every driver that is found not using pit limiter in yellow zone is penalized.
 
Sorry, wrote the wrong thing, I meant, they plan to use the Safety Car rule in other series as well.

Also liked the Le Mans solution very much, way better than the previous solutions.
 
Seems there might be something good coming to F1 after all...

This is introduction into the short interview with Lauda (link to full article below) where he is discussing penalties for accidents

Earlier this month, Autosport reported that the FIA would be taking a step back when it came to on-track incidents.

Instead of investigating and handing out penalties for every incident, they would instead only deal with the big ones.
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I like the idea, and I hope to see it applied very soon.
http://www.gptoday.com/full_story/view/492089/Lauda_F1_penalty_system_a_joke/
 
He's also the main expert for Germany's F1-free-TV station RTL and often mentioned his dissatisfaction with the current station. Glad to see something is finally happening and surprisingly into the right direction.
 
Milanista said:
Monza will be dropped in the coming years, according to Bernie.
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Bernie will become an extremely unpopular man if this occurs on his watch. This cannot be allowed to happen. Monza is deep-rooted with Formula One heritage and is a great track in its own right. Losing it from the calendar would be unthinkable.
 
Agree, it's maybe the last full-throttle track left in the calendar. Although I'm no particularly big fan of Monza it would we not good to drop it, just as it wasn't good to drop Spa or Montreal some years ago.
 
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