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Vettel | 0 | 0% | |
Webber | 4 | 2.29% | |
Massa | 0 | 0% | |
Alonso | 0 | 0% | |
Hamilton | 0 | 0% | |
Button | 142 | 81.14% | |
Petrov | 0 | 0% | |
Heidfeld | 0 | 0% | |
Rosberg | 0 | 0% | |
Schumacher | 26 | 14.86% | |
Sutil | 0 | 0% | |
di Resta | 0 | 0% | |
Barrichello | 0 | 0% | |
Maldonado | 0 | 0% | |
Kovalainen | 0 | 0% | |
Trulli | 0 | 0% | |
Kobayashi | 2 | 1.14% | |
Glock | 0 | 0% | |
d'Ambrosio | 0 | 0% | |
Liuzzi | 1 | 0.57% | |
Karthikeyan | 0 | 0% | |
Buemi | 0 | 0% | |
Alguersuari | 0 | 0% | |
de la Rosa | 0 | 0% | |
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18 Jun 2011, 08:51 (Ref:2901287) | #151 | ||
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Actually you can only outbrake someone as you enter the corner on the brakes, hence the term. Track days won't let you overtake into corners which is what you may be thinking of.
Button was alongside Alonso as they entered the corner, Alonso was on the outside, with arguably no room to do anything other than take to the grass or turn in. He turned in on Button who was clearly trying to back out of it and even mounted the kerbs. A simple racing accident. |
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18 Jun 2011, 11:34 (Ref:2901361) | #153 | |
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[QUOTE=Peter Mallett;2901287]Actually you can only outbrake someone as you enter the corner on the brakes, hence the term. Track days won't let you overtake into corners which is what you may be thinking of.
Ha! There's your answer. Run Grand Prix to a track day format. That way, there would be fewer accidents, and you can take a passenger round with you. Mirror, signal, manouvre. Mirror, signal, manouvre. Mirror, signal...... |
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18 Jun 2011, 12:55 (Ref:2901393) | #154 | |
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18 Jun 2011, 15:21 (Ref:2901451) | #155 | ||
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Oh yes she is.
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18 Jun 2011, 16:03 (Ref:2901475) | #156 | ||
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Button for me, admittedly with unashamed bias, but he was just outstanding. Just a shame the director wasn't following him as he climb from last to 4th place. Hoping to see some onboard action of this in the future.
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Four peshwari naan, four!!!!.....that's insane!! |
18 Jun 2011, 16:24 (Ref:2901486) | #157 | |
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90% in pit , 10% on circuit . Not much for onboards
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18 Jun 2011, 16:30 (Ref:2901489) | #158 | |
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Are those verifiable percentages?
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18 Jun 2011, 16:43 (Ref:2901492) | #159 | ||
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Sorry but I don't believe those percentages. maybe more like 50/50.
I was watching the timing screen and I remember seeing Button take Heidfeld and Kobayashi on the same lap, hoping to see a replay of it, but alas it didn't happen |
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Four peshwari naan, four!!!!.....that's insane!! |
18 Jun 2011, 19:49 (Ref:2901576) | #160 | ||
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I heard it was something like 41 total passes, 8 of which were people in the pitlane, and most of which weren't during his "last to first" phase.
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18 Jun 2011, 21:46 (Ref:2901618) | #161 | ||
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Oh it was fabulous for action, the pass rate was mindboggling.
I can only think of 2, perhaps only 3 races maximum, in the last 10 years that provided value like that race? Button was a man posessed, so good to see a normally fairly conservative driver go for it like that (even if he did get away with THAT incident we've been arguing about for the last 2 days!) |
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19 Jun 2011, 15:06 (Ref:2901883) | #162 | ||
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Canada does lend itself to races like this though, Irvine in 1999 coming through the pack springs to mind also.
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20 Jun 2011, 10:21 (Ref:2902302) | #163 | ||
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20 Jun 2011, 10:52 (Ref:2902322) | #164 | ||
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21 Jun 2011, 17:22 (Ref:2902969) | #166 | ||
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