The front jack guy is costing them time. He is telegraphing his move and jumping up a bit before raising the car. A little more time at the gym and he can raise the car without the jump. Should be good for .05 of a second, right there.
I missed that. Glad to know it. There are much worse announcers than Diffey and he knows his stuff, but I wish he had an "excitement" knob so they could turn him down a few notches. It's one thing to get genuinely excited from time to time but if you're at the top of your range all the time there's nowhere to go when something interesting happens.
What with the potential for more tire changes needed per race now, I would love to see refueling come back with one BIG change.............make the refueling take at least twice as long as the tire change. This would eliminate a lot of the potential incidents with the refueling and would sure add a bit of drama to the races.
I can't seem to figure out what all 20 do either 3 at each wheel, 1 to loosen and tighten the well nut, 1 to take away the old tire, one to place the new tire. That would 12 for all 4 wheels 1 at front and 1 at rear to jack the car, 2 more or 14 total 2 at each side of the front wing to make adjustment, 16 total Lollipop person to stop/start the car , 17 total What do the other 3 do?
You don't need to add refueling to increase stop times and potentially shake things up in the pits, just limit the number of people allowed over the line to something in single digits, maybe 6, with penalties for breaking the rule. Then allow refueling (perhaps simultaneous but still within the 6-person limit) but make it optional, not mandatory, and outlaw pressurized fuel rigs, gravity feed only.
Limit them to an 11 gallon refueling device like in NASCAR. That would make it rather funny and maybe entice some more fans from other racing types to watch.
I just don't get how McLaren can be shocked about how bad their car is at the first race after having 3 test sessions. You had to know the car was bad from the first one. I know chassis take a while to change but I don't recall hearing about or seeing a bunch of changes between tests.
They screwed up in testing. Had a suspension part installed upside down. It's how Button was fastest in the first testing sessions this year. How a factory mistake made McLaren unrealistically fast in Jerez test
Wait a couple of months and see where the MP4-28 is. They won't win a title, but like Ferrari last year, they'll be competitive. They have the in-season development muscle that a team like Lotus could never equal. By mid summer, I'm sorry to say, Kimi won't be mumbling answers on the top step of the podium.