All Posts Tagged With: "Pitstops"
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 [...]
Hungary 2009: Penalty Updates
The race at Hungary this afternoon was quite hectic at times, and during the event Kimi Raikkonen was being investigated for his actions at the very start. There were two other incidents of note during the grand prix that the stewards didn’t initially state they were investigating, but after the race the appropriate team members [...]
Hungary 2009: Pitstop & Tyre Strategies
Below is the strategies table from the Hungarian Grand Prix, which saw a high number of retirements for 2009 – three drivers failed to make the chequered flag. Of all the strategies employed, everybody went with a two-stopper, taking out unscheduled visits to the pitlane for damage repair. Most drivers started on the Super-Soft compound [...]
Hungary 2009: Post-Qualifying Car Weights
The FIA have published the weights of the top ten qualifiers and the declared weights of the remaining ten cars following the qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Using Williams’s reckoning of the Hungaroring using 2.48kg of fuel over a normalised distance of 5km, we can figure out that over the course of a 4.381km [...]
Germany 2009: Pitstop & Tyre Strategies
Most drivers started the race on the Super Soft compound to get it out of the way early on in the race, although some teams did split their strategies between their drivers, Scuderia Toro Rosso, Renault and Toyota doing just this. Also, most drivers went with the two-stop approach to the race, although Timo Glock [...]
Germany 2009: Post-Qualifying Car Weights
With the weights of all twenty cars now published, we can see who did well in qualifying and who did less well. Williams reckon it takes 2.43kg of fuel of cover a normalised distance of 5km, which for the Nurburgring, means the cars will be using approximately 2.5kg of gas per lap of the 5.148km [...]
Silverstone 2009: Pitstop & Tyre Strategies
Below is the table for the pitstop strategies for the British Grand Prix, showing that most drivers opted for a two-stopper at Silverstone. The only drivers to attempt a one-stop race were Nelson Piquet Jr and Adrian Sutil. The tyres were fairly evenly matched as well, with many drivers complaining that they couldn’t get them [...]
