Comments on: What happens when tracks crack

By: Scottie

Scottie — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:31:36 +0000

heh, too right mate!

By: jb

jb — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:39:07 +0000

interesting comment two years later eh

By: Trig

Trig — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:19:00 +0000

A Hamilton fan complaining about too much Webber in the media?
Are you havin a laugh?

By: MacademiaNut

MacademiaNut — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:50:41 +0000

Here’s the snippet from the interview.

Q: It was difficult conditions with the track starting to break up and a difficult choice between the two Bridgestone tyres.

LH: For me the choice was not very difficult. I made the choice before I even went into qualifying. I said this is going to be the tyre and we will try and get it right now. The track is breaking up at a couple of corners, turn two, the exit of turn seven where you saw Mark Webber go off and also the apex and exit of turn 10. There is loads of debris there, the road is just coming up, and I had to try and get around that and try and stick it out there as that is where everybody was losing their time. I think on the last lap I found a solution to it perhaps and managed to find a bit of time.

By: MacademiaNut

MacademiaNut — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:49:37 +0000

Hamilton, in the interview after qualifying, mentioned that he too saw that turn 10 was an issue; and that he found a solution to it. I wonder what that is.

By: qazuhb

qazuhb — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:30:06 +0000

how about a tyre chicane just before the bad corner??? Not the cleanest solution for sure, but…

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:06:25 +0000

It’s a nice idea but how do you enforce it? If you had one driver consistently going a few tenths quicker through there than everyone else there would inevitably be complaints.

By: Derek

Derek — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:53:13 +0000

I think theRoswellite has the answer to keep the race on, they should have the bad corner under ‘yellow flags’ for the whole race. This will allow everyone to take the best line and avoid any debris or marbles.

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:38:34 +0000

Derek – Yep and there have been others earlier than that. Buenoes Aires fell apart in 1980 (I think), Zolder did in the ’70s. But since that race at Spa it’s rarely happened. It probably started to become a problem when tyres got wider and turned into slicks in the seventies, and downforce increased as wings came in.

Watson won at Detroit in ’82 but at Las Vegas it was Alan Jones who won in ’81 and Michele Alboreto in ’82 if memory serves me correctly.

By: Derek

Derek — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:23:35 +0000

Didn’t we have a bad surface at another US GP in a Las Vegas car park. Oh and John Watson won in a McLaren!!