Sean F

From what I read of the recent testing in the same issue, the only one who looked completely out of sorts was Massa.

mitch236

I think what seems to be true in many sports is that there are two extremes of techniques and drivers seem to fall somewhere between the two extremes. A great example would be Kimi on the one extreme who is very analytical. He is great because he is unemotional and very accurate. Calculating every move. The other extreme would be Massa who seems to thrive on emotion. Sure he has skill but he drives with pure passion. The problem is that passion drivers take longer to adapt to big change while the calculating, accurate drivers can adapt quickly. Alonso seems to be somewhere in the middle however, he pulls out his best performances when pissed off. Hamilton, on the other hand seems to falter when emotional. By the middle of the season, all drivers will have adapted and we will see the same mostly boring races akin to last year.... Unless it rains! I will be praying for rain every race weekend!

Sean F

When asked about the lack of TC, Kimi said he didn't notice

multi21

If you look at Alonso's driving style with the abrupt turn in at Renault, that seemed to work as his style was to have A LOT of understeer until the car hooked up. This goes hand in hand with the change in the way the engineers used ballast in the cars. In the past, they would want a neutral car. That shifted with the ballast then placed as far up the nose of the car as possible to make it as heavy as possible in front. A great illistration of this is when a car would have an off, the crane picks up the car at the roll hoop and the car goes into a nose dive with a corner worker supporting the front so it doesn't hit the ground. Basically the engineers wanted as much weight up front for turn in as possible and this was not exclusive to Renault.

If you look at the 2008 races, Alonso starts the season with this same abrupt turn in style, but slowly changed it and was more smooth with his imputs as the McLaren car was not condusive to that droving style. The first GP of the year will be telling if Alonso goes back to that style.

With respect to Hamilton, he has a driving style where he likes to slide the car in every turn. I wonder if the lack of tc in this years car will lead to prematurely wear out the tires. Once again, I can't wait for the 1st race of the year.

A.Wayne

Pete you can start to cut and paste your responses, usual empty stuff.....

Disagree with the analysis guys, If you look at Alonso in the michelin shod renault that was the style required to get the most out of his tires , he never drove the bridgestone shod mclaren in that manner. If you are new to the game go back and watch him at minardi or renault in the first year , he did not driver like that. He was credited for getting the most out of the michelins due to his ability to catch the car on rotation on turn in putting more bite into the tires . Remember, Kimi had more tire failures than Alonso and more than Montoya who was driving the same car and tires, hamilton also moves the car around alot, we will see how his tires last without TC.....

Here is alonso jerking the wheel pass schumacher ON THE OUTSIDE OF 130R IN Japan ja,ja,ja,ja,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLZLxT1ZEPA

Finn call or pm the date and location for lunch ......

multi21

Is there an echo in here? Talk about cut and paste

993-CT

While looking for F1 driving styles on youtube, found this oldie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk2p2nRK-p4

fascinating analysis using telemetry of Schumi's throttle control vs his teammate in Benetton.

multi21

Ahhh, the master at work. It never gets old

Larry Herman

Found it! Click here!

Ray S

Nice Find

jester911

Great vid Larry. Good insight.

A.Wayne

All those videos where posted here last year and atthe time we had discussed the differing driving styles , well before the 3 amigos started littering the post with their negative conjectures..... Nice to see we can now get back to content.........

Flying Finn

I agree that Kimi drives with no emotion and that helps. He doesn't calculate that much though and IMO is the most "just wing it" type of guy and has the best natural feel of the car.
Can't tell how well he sets the car up since I have no info on that but if it's raw talent & feel of what car is doing, I think he's the best of the current drovers.

Done.

ltc

What happened?

I take a few days off to go to FL karting with my son (A. Wayne didn't show up at the paddock....I knew I shouldn't have wasted the money buying all those cardboard Alonso cutouts) and Alonso#2 is closed/gone?

multi21

Lewis? You mean you didn't give him our gift, "Michael Schumacher, The Whole Story", signed by all three amigos?

He might have been drinking with the Finn