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SpeedMetal wrote:Hé!  en passant...  un autre point de vue de la situation Rosberg/Hamilton... et venant d'un gras que je dirais...  disons... crédible...  

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Se pourrait-il que Rosberg soit si pire que ça?

"J'ai pensé à cela pendant la semaine et j'en ai discuté avec l'équipe le vendredi", a expliqué Rosberg. "J'ai décidé que je devais assumer la responsabilité (de ce qui est arrivé en Belgique). Ils ne peuvent pas me forcer à présenter des excuses. Cette décision vient de moi, après avoir entendu les opinions des autres et après avoir moi-même regardé cela de plus près. Je sentais qu'il en était de ma responsabilité de le faire."

"À Spa, je n'étais pas fier de la façon dont les choses se sont déroulées. Je souhaite réellement apporter quelque chose à ma discipline, je veux qu'elle soit la plus divertissante des disciplines sportives au monde. Ce n'était pas plaisant d'être hué (pendant la cérémonie du podium), mais je comprends. Les fans avaient fait un long voyage pour voir une course excitante ainsi qu'une bonne bataille entre moi et Lewis. Je le comprends et je l'accepte."


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Lewis Hamilton says the reason he went for it at the end of the Italian Grand Prix was because he felt holding back “wasn't the way forward”.

Hamilton's engineer suggested he should wait and then go for it at the end, after re-joining from his stop behind Nico Rosberg. However, the Briton had other ideas, and responded by setting a new fastest lap.

Rosberg then made a mistake and for the second time overshoot at the first chicane, handing Hamilton the lead, which he held to the flag.

“It was a difficult race today. At the end, they [my race engineer] said I should stay back, but knowing from experiences and also particularly this year [what has happened], I knew that wasn't the way forward. So I choose another route,” Hamilton explained

abf1 wrote:La fin d'une époque, Di Montezemolo qui vraiment officiellement La Ferrari :/

Daniel Ricciardo « Un week-end disputé sur une surface glissante et bosselée nous attend… mais j'adore ça ! Le plus important à Singapour, c'est de ne pas obséder sur les réglages pendant les essais libres du vendredi. Le circuit va évoluer ; il faut juste être patient et laisser la situation progresser par elle-même, sans continuellement ajuster les réglages de la voiture en tentant de suivre une cible mouvante. Lors d'une course comme celle-là, vous n'êtes jamais entièrement satisfait de vos préparatifs. »


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At the end of 2013 F1 bid farewell to its normally aspirated V8s and embraced brand new power units that combined a hybrid V6 turbo engine with two energy recovery systems - the MGU-K that works under braking, and MGU-H which harvests energy at the exhaust. Monza 2014 offered an ideal opportunity to compare and analyse the performance of modern low downforce-spec F1 cars with their previous counterparts.
The recent Grand Prix emphasised an important point: the 2014 regulations have greatly enhanced the cars' efficiency while maintaining - and even increasing - their level of performance.
Renault takes a look at the main gains.
A two-second gain in a single year
2013 saw F1 cars fitted with normally aspirated V8s delivering around 800bhp (that's 590kW without the extra 60kW provided by the KERS). Monza's speed traps recorded single-seaters clock around 340kph, with pole-sitter Sebastian Vettel posting a lap of 1:23.755 in qualifying aboard his Infiniti Red Bull Racing-Renault. A year later the fastest Q3 time was 1:24.109, achieved with a car weighing 50kg heavier - a 1.8secs deficit - and using harder tyres. Once these differences have been accounted for and the times corrected, this year's lap represents a two-second gain over the course of 12 months.
Fuel consumption down to 1.9kg per lap
The 2014 regulations also brought another revolution with a 35% reduction in the amount of fuel permitted for each race (100kg against 150kg last year). It's been made possible thanks to the V6 engine's high degree of hybridisation: 20% of the power is now electric and comes from the energy recovered under braking and harvested at the exhaust. The average Monza consumption rate therefore went from 2.5kg per lap in 2013 to under 1.9kg a lap this year. With the same mass, the corrected 2014 time is faster.
An F1 car's energy source distribution
2013: The vast majority of energy available came from the 160kg of fuel used by the car. Power generated by fossil energy and transferred to the wheels reached 30%, while the remainder escaped in the air. A single KERS unit also ensured the share of electric power remained quite limited.
2014: With a 100kg restriction in fuel mass, the share of electric power has grown significantly. A greater percentage is now transferred to the wheels, which vastly improves the overall energy efficiency. Electric energy is much more important (4MJ) than it was last year. It comes from two different sources: braking and the exhaust.
Better energy efficiency
In 2013 an F1 car's efficiency was rated at 30%, which has increased to 40% in 2014. This has been made possible by reducing the internal combustion engine's displacement (and amount of friction), the introduction of a turbocompressor, and cutting the number of revs (from 18,000 to 13,000). The efficiency of a car fitted with an internal combustion engine cannot exceed 50%. Only a fully electric engine can achieve a much higher efficiency. To do so, however, requires 25 tons of batteries!
Additional stats and facts
30% fuel mass reduction between 2013 and 2014.
10 points: the efficiency improvement of an F1 car between 2013 and 2014.
In qualifying, the 25kg battery delivers an extra 10% of energy, which amounts to 200g in fuel.
While overtaking during the race, Daniel Ricciardo's Infiniti Red Bull Racing-Renault reached 362.1kph, smashing the 2013 top speed by an impressive 20kph.