Comments on: Nelson Piquet Jnr: was he lucky or good?

By: FYA

FYA — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:38:35 +0000

Heiki Kovalainen: was he lucky or good?
He drives a McLaren, but Kubica and Heidfeld still remains ahead…

By: Rui Pires

Rui Pires — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:17:50 +0000

Oliver, did you know that piquet didn´t run last year and he only drove his car 10 times???

Maybe this is the answer for bad results.

Hamilton jumps directly from GP2 to F1 with no stops.

In GP2 Hamilton had better car than piquet, however Piquet showed great results.

By: chunter

chunter — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:16:50 +0000

So if a driver can go one stint on each tire–

Does such a strategy have a future among the backmarkers?

By: Fergus Gallas

Fergus Gallas — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:09:42 +0000

This Piquet issue proves once again that when the driver is racing in lower positions, 8th to 20th, he will quite probably commit a mistake, not because his a bad driver but the battle is insane and anxiety dominates him. Even the top four in the charts had done it this year when they were in such situations. On the other hand when the guys that are used to be on the back happens, regarding luck or not, to be at the top 6 positions we don’t see them making so many mistakes.

That’s quite interesting.

It is obvious that some are better than others but we will never know how much better. The equipment/cars are way too different.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:25:28 +0000

I too just have to come back to this thread and say how strange it is, that a driver is being congratulated for keeping his car within the boundaries of the race track, when that is what he is being paid to do. IT seem more and more, Piquet is being congratulated for not making a mistake, which shows just how badly he has performed all season and how it has affected our reasoning.

By: Wesley

Wesley — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:58:36 +0000

I just had to come back to this thread and say that I think the stupid safety car rules ruined this race.Heidfeld should have been on podium but,Piquet was up ther where he didn’t belong just because he just happened to pit before the S.C. appearence.He also gave Hamilton a larger margin in the points from his REAL rivals.NOT FAIR!

O.K….I feel better now.

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:40:54 +0000

Chunter – No, it’s mandatory for each driver to use each of the two compounds of dry tyre at least once during the race, unless they’ve used a wet weather tyre.

By: chunter

chunter — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:24:33 +0000

Pardon me for putting the race on in the middle: how was a one-stop strategy legal? Was the race declared wet? I thought two tire changes were mandatory in dry races?

By: Adam Dennehey

Adam Dennehey — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:55:55 +0000

Spot on review on piquet’s drive. Of course it was lucky but he took advantage of it just like Renault and towards the end drove maturley. If Massa had fought Lewis abit more and held him up for 3-4 laps instead of what he did then Nelson might’ve just eeeked out a bigger enough gap to win.

Thankfully that didn’t happen. Piquet did well to keep it on the track all w/end but because of this result he shudn’t relax. It was a flukey 2nd and one that he should be grateful for a long time. I suspect he’ll hav a decent 2nd half of the season.

By: michael counsell

michael counsell — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:49:45 +0000

Piquet was on a one stop strategy so you wouldn’t expect him to overtake anyone just make up positions by pitting one time less. He got lucky but a pretty big advantage of his strategy was that if he stayed on the lead lap any safety car within a 10 to 15 lap window would put him at or near the front of the field.