All Posts Tagged With: "Fuel"
Daily Debate: Should The FIA Publish The Fuel Weights?
Last year, the FIA decided to publish the weights of each car following the final qualifying session on Saturday. The reason for the change was to make the show more interesting to fans, as it meant that some of us were able to work out how much fuel each car was carrying during qualifying and [...]
Brazil 2009: Post-Qualifying Car Weights
The qualifying weights of the top-ten qualifiers and the declared weights of the remaining ten drivers have been published by the FIA and from what we have been told we can work out who did well in qualifying and who didn’t do so good. We can also estimate the first pitstop of each driver going [...]
Singapore 2009: Post-Qualifying Car Weights
The FIA have published the measured and declared car weights from the Singapore Grand Prix qualifying session and from the data they have provided, we can make a fairly good guess as to which lap the drivers will make their first pitstop, and how many they are likely to make during the race. Of course, [...]
Monza 2009: Pitstop & Tyre Strategies
After all was said and done, the one-stop strategy worked out best as both Brawn drivers threaded their way through to take a one-two finish at Monza. Both Jenson Button and race winner Rubens Barrichello completed one single pitstop this afternoon, out-performing the McLaren of Lewis Hamtilon and the Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen. Once again, [...]
Belgium 2009: Pitstop & Tyre Strategies
Having won the Belgian Grand Prix from Giancarlo Fisichella and Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Raikkonen took his first victory of the year for both himself and the Ferrari team, partly with thanks to slick pitwork on each of his two pitstops. The safety car played a huge part in the strategies of teams, the drivers being [...]
Belgium 2009: Post-Qualifying Car Weights
The FIA have published the measured and declared weights of all the runners and riders for tomorrow’s Belgian Grand Prix. With a Force India on pole position, it had been expected that Giancarlo Fisichella was light on gas. As you will see in just a moment, the Italian is not that skinny, and in P2, [...]
Valencia 2009: Pitstop & Tyre Strategies
Valencia proved to be a mix bag in terms of strategy, with many teams and drivers opting for two-stops, but a fair few attempting just one scheduled stop. although the incidents at the start of the race meant that although a few drivers did realistically make one stop in terms of their strategies, they did [...]
Valencia 2009: Post-Qualifying Car Weights
The FIA have published the weights of the top ten in qualifying earlier and the declared weights of the bottom half of the grid ahead of tomorrow’s European Grand Prix. From this, we can estimate the first pitstop of all the runners by taking Williams’s 5km-normalised fuel consumption for Valencia of 2.45kg. This means the [...]
