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[aekOne]

Yeah me either. Just pointing out interesting facts

[skillionaire]

Nearly start time

 

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[aekOne]

what an exciting race! i usually only like Bahrain in F1 on xbox but less so the actual race but this was a cracker! Highlight would have to be the words "Sebastian, Daniel is faster than you." over the radio. Feel as you may about team orders, that was still sweet sweet music to my ears

 

I put myself to bed at 4pm and got up at 1am for the race and the Liverpool v West Ham game. well worth it on both accounts

 

like a scene from Top Gun!

 

[Hypnotic]

Yep, it was a brilliant race, it really was every man for themselves.

 

Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Well done to Sergio Perez and Force India getting 3rd place.

[aekOne]

i watched 1 last night too Ash. Certainly makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Very good doco and definitely worth a look 

[Adam]

HO!!!!

[skillionaire]

“SEBASTIAN, DANIEL IS QUICKER THAN YOU” 

I know Aek covered it, but fork me, I could beat off to that recording.

[mark300]

i planned to do the same as you Aek, but uni got in the way, was far too tired to get up and watch it, kicking myself now that i didnt! 

hopefully there is a replay on through the week.

 

Ricardo's effort to get from 13th to 4th is huge as well, showing he is going to be in the running this year

[aekOne]

replay at 11:30 tonight on One

[skillionaire]

 

 

Hughes discloses that Mercedes' breakthrough 'innovation is having the turbo's compressor at one end of the engine and the turbine at the other, linked by a long shaft through the vee of the engine'.

The 'trick turbo layout' triggers a series of critical performance benefits. As the air is not travelling through as much pipework, a reduction in turbo lag means less power needs to be be harvested from the car's ERS unit to keep the turbine spooled off throttle. That in turn improves the efficiency of the car, with more power reserved for performance gain and less fuel consequentially used up.

Mercedes' customer teams all have the same advantage. However, because McLaren, Williams and Force India only took delivery of their power units relatively recently, they have had less time to work the layout into their respective car designs.

Hamilton's biggest chance
But for the works outfit, the benefits of the W05's innovative layout has proved multifaceted.

With the compressor further away from the turbine - which is spun by hot exhaust gases - the W05 has a smaller intercooler, meaning Mercedes are running with smaller sidepods which boost aerodynamic performance.

Furthermore, with the compressor in front of the engine, Mercedes have also moved their car's gearbox forward, improving its centre of gravity and therefore, in theory, its handling.

But while Mercedes' rivals are aware of the championship leaders' secret, they are essentially powerless to react. The engines for 2014 are now in lock-down, with February 28 marking the agreed homologation date by which all the teams had to register their design for the new season with the governing body, the FIA.

"We're talking about 2014's double diffuser with the exception that you can't copy it this year," Hughes said during Sky F1's live coverage of the Bahrain GP.

"Its impact is maybe not quite as big as active-ride, but it's certainly a major technical advantage that they've engineered themselves for the rest of the season."

The Mercedes power unit has been widely credited as being the critical performance differential in their victorious start to the new season. Red Bull boss Christian Horner claimed in Malaysia that his team was one second slower along the straights, with trackside observers estimating that the Mercedes unit boasts anything between 50 and 70 extra horsepower over the rest of the field.

 

ZING

[aekOne]

very cool! that'd work on a boxer right?

[skillionaire]

Definitely. Probably wouldn't even need a tune.

[ams]

Interesting story on why Mercedes are so much better than every other car out there.

[Samwise]

[Samwise]

[Samwise]

[Scuba-Roo]

Race finished early?

http://www.f1fanatic...due-flag-error/

[skillionaire]

Hamilton kept saying he saw the flag over the radio. 

[Richo]

The is the first F1 race i've watched in quite a while - that track was boring

[Hypnotic]

It was definitely not the most interesting race this season. If it had rained like it had in qualifying, I dare say the race would have been far more interesting.