@@@ F1 Thread: 2015-16 Season@@@... Singapore Gp.. Sept 20 @ 8 Am Et

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SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX - MARINA BAY STREET CIRCUIT

 

Spept 18 - 20

 

race Sept 20th @ 8AM EST

 

Most destructive track in recent years

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1)  Australian Grand Prix  ---  Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne  ---  15 March

 

2)  Malaysian Grand Prix  ---  Sepang International Circuit, Kuala Lumpur  ---  29 March
 

3)  Chinese Grand Prix  ---  Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai  ---  12 April
 

4)  Bahrain Grand Prix  ---  Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir  ---  19 April
 

5)  Spanish Grand Prix  ---  Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Barcelona  ---  10 May
 

6)  Monaco Grand Prix  ---   Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo  ---  24 May
 

7)  Canadian Grand Prix  ---  Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal  ---  7 June
 

8)  Austrian Grand Prix  ---  Red Bull Ring, Spielberg  ---  21 June
 

9)  British Grand Prix  ---  Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone  --- 5 July
 

10) German Grand Prix  --- To be announced  --- 19 July
 

11) Hungarian Grand Prix  ---  Hungaroring, Budapest  ---  26 July
 

12) Belgian Grand Prix  ---  Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot  ---  23 August
 

13) Italian Grand Prix  ---  Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza  ---  6 September
 

14) Singapore Grand Prix  ---  Marina Bay Street Circuit, Singapore  ---  20 September
 

15) Japanese Grand Prix  ---  Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka  ---  27 September  
 

16) Russian Grand Prix  ---  Sochi Autodrom, Sochi  ---  11 October
 

17) United States Grand Prix  ---  Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas  ---  25 October
 

18) Mexican Grand Prix  ---  Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City  ---  1 November
 

19) Brazilian Grand Prix  ---  Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo  ---  15 November
 

20) Abu Dhabi Grand Prix  ---  Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi  ---  29 November

 

 

 

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Mercedes

 

 

 

Hamilton

 

 

Rosberg
It says everything about Mercedes’ winter testing that they did all of their running on the hard, medium or test Pirellis, bar the final two days in Barcelona when they tried the softs and still went faster than any of their rivals did on the supersofts.

 

“It’s a work in progress but of course, it feels great,” world champion Lewis Hamilton says. “You know, it’s great to see all the work that’s gone in by the team and throughout testing it’s felt really good. Generally it’s been pretty awesome.”

 

Nico Rosberg, who did the most distance of anyone - 3,463 km against Hamilton’s 2,434 as Mercedes topped the list with 6,121 - says: "It’s been a great winter for us. We got off to a running start with not many reliability problems, and have been doing the mileage - which was great and important. Now we are able to extract performance from the car.”

 

And both drivers admit that they didn’t quite nail the set-up to go really fast in Barcelona…

 

Mercedes did, however, have a few reliability and driver health issues after Jerez. Hamilton lost time with a fever which stopped him running and left young reserve Pascal Wehrlein to drive, as Rosberg nursed a strained neck. Hamilton also had a worrying MGU-K failure on the final day of testing.

 

But if you look at the on-track performance of the sleek new F1 W06 Hybrid, you couldn’t blame pundits for predicting another head-to-head battle between Hamilton and Rosberg as the rest trail behind them.

 

 

 

 

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Red Bull

 

 

Ricciardo

 

Kvyat

The two most remarkable things about Red Bull’s pre-season were the neat camouflage paint job used on the RB11 and the reliability issues that have dogged Daniel Ricciardo and new boy Daniil Kvyat. So much so that there’s a case for suggesting that we have yet to see the former champion team’s true form.

 

While Renault have made some progress, Red Bull have made it clear it isn’t enough, and there were unhappy faces when a motor problem hampered testing in Jerez. Then Kvyat took off the only front wing early on when he took over, forcing the team to run without it, way off the pace.

 

Things got better in Barcelona once software gremlins were eradicated, and reliability was good enough to enable both drivers to complete some race simulations.

 

The RB11 looked good out on the track, as one would expect of a Rob Marshall car in which Adrian Newey has still had a significant influence, but driveability shortcomings remain in the Renault powertrain, and the company admits things won’t be perfect in the opening races.

 

It remains to be seen how long it takes Renault, in particular, to help the team get into the anticipated best-of-the-rest fight with Williams and Ferrari in Mercedes’ wake.

 

 

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Williams

 

 

Bottas

 

 

Massa

 

 

 

Williams were the surprise of 2014, and after a string of podiums they came so close to a win in Abu Dhabi as Felipe Massa chased Lewis Hamilton all the way to the flag.

 

Winter work in Grove has focused on honing what was a very competitive package, and the indications on track are that the FW35 has better traction and aerodynamics while retaining the low-drag characteristics that made the FW34 so quick in a straight line in 2014.

Other areas that have received the most attention are operational, notably pit stops and strategic planning, the benefits of which won’t be seen until the racing starts.

 

Testing has gone very well, as the team initially resisted any temptation to grandstand while getting the grunt work out of the way, and when Massa and Valtteri Bottas did get going they were both very fast. Not Mercedes-fast, it must be said, but they seem very well placed to continue the progress they made in 2014, and to remain Mercedes’ strongest challenger to begin with.

 

 

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Ferrari

 

 

 

Raikkonen 

 

 

 

Vettel  

Ferrari raised many eyebrows and sent cynicism needles into the red when they showed tremendous pace in Jerez at the start of testing. Their subsequent form in Barcelona wasn’t quite so impressive, and they have yet to reach Mercedes-level performance, but their dramatic improvement is on the radar of both Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, and Williams, Red Bull and Mercedes all say they expect the red cars to be at the sharp end of the battle.

 

There were some minor issues with sensors and new boy Sebastian Vettel’s embarrassing cold-tyre spin at the start of his first day in Barcelona, but otherwise the winter has been a massive fillip for the Scuderia which went through such a traumatic 2014 season.

The SF15-T has a much better engine and seems to have a very strong front end, to Kimi Raikkonen’s delight, and the chances are that the Finn will put up a much better showing against Vettel than he was able to against Alonso in 2014. That means Ferrari should have two cars consistently in the thick of things.

 

Rosberg is on record saying that Ferrari have made the most improvement of any team, and Williams certainly expect them to be trouble as their pace all but matched the Martini-liveried cars on the supersoft tyres.

 

 

 

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McLaren

 

 

Alonso 

 

 

Button 

 

Ron Dennis has for a long time now talked of McLaren winning races again, something it hasn’t done since Brazil in 2012. When the new MP4-30 was launched he spoke enthusiastically of its potent new Honda hybrid motor, and its shrink-wrapped bodywork.

 

Returnees Honda were always going to be on their back foot playing catch-up with teams that went through all their teething troubles this time last year, but nobody could have foreseen just how tough their testing programme would be.

 

A raft of technical glitches limited mileage in Jerez, and the car lacked pace, then the Barcelona tests were characterised by ongoing problems with seals on the MGU-K component in the ERS. Throw in hydraulic and oil leaks and sensor problems in the final test which severely limited mileage - McLaren’s tally for all three tests was only 1,751 km - and it was small wonder that racing director Eric Boullier suggested that McLaren are 50 percent behind where they expected to be.

 

As if all that wasn’t enough, there was Alonso’s accident in the first Barcelona test - and the subsequent brouhaha and the medical imperative which will see the Spaniard miss the opening race. Thus the picture emerges of a team that has a very long way to go before it starts to satisfy either Dennis, or Honda on their F1 return.

 

On the positive side, when reserve driver Kevin Magnussen, who will replace Alonso in Australia, gave his feedback on the new car he was very enthusiastic about the modifications wrought by the arrival of former Red Bull aerodynamicist Peter Prodromou. He was called up late in the day after Alonso’s shunt, and only managed 39 laps in the second Barcelona test before an oil leak brought him to a halt. But in that time he learned enough to express an opinion that lifted spirits.

 

"The first feeling, on low-ish fuel, was very good and very consistent," he said. "It was very stable with no surprises. Last year's car was a bit more unpredictable, and it’s nice to see the work we did last year and the direction we wanted to go has definitely proved to be right for this car. It definitely feels like a completely different car. It’s very consistent, very predictable, and very smooth in. Just driveable.”

 

The aim was not necessarily to maximise downforce, but to make what downforce there is more consistent and predictable, and they seem to have succeeded with that.

 

Honda’s engine is still at an early stage of its development as a race unit. Observers’ favourite description during the testing was “unrefined,” and there were suggestions that its lack of systems reliability prevented the team from running anywhere near full power. But aspects of it impressed Magnussen, who, of course, compared it to the Mercedes powertrain he used last year.

"I was quite surprised about the torque delivery and upshifts," he said. "Although there is still some way to go, I was surprised how smooth it was. Pleasantly surprised.”

 

 

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Force India

 

Hulkenberg 

 

Perez 

 

 

 

In complete contrast to McLaren, Force India displayed tremendous reliability when their VJM08 finally broke cover on the final two days of testing.

 

The team had done a little bit of running with the VJM07, on which the new car is necessarily based, but it was clearly a major relief when the new car managed an impressive 1,699 km in the hands of Sergio Perez and Nico Hulkenberg when it finally got going. That’s almost what McLaren achieved in all three tests.

 

Hulkenberg said that there is never any substitute for mileage, while Perez admits that they are probably two steps behind the opposition and said he expects it could take until the fifth race before that lost ground can be made up. Assuming that others don’t take steps forward in the meantime…

 

 

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Toro Rosso

 

sainz Jr  

 

Verstappen 

Toro Rosso’s start to testing was frustrated in Jerez by niggling problems within Renault's MGU-K, leaving rookies Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz Jr to cool their heels.

 

Thereafter, however, they were both able to get the hammer down in Barcelona. Sainz crashed in Turn 3 not long after Alonso, during the first week, blaming high winds in that corner. That drama aside, the team amassed 5,534 km as the new boys learned all about qualifying and race simulations, tyre performance and pit stops.

 

The STR10 ran in launch guise for the first two tests, before what amounted to an all-new aero spec was ready for the third and final session. There still seem to be traction and handling issues to address, but as team boss Franz Tost eyes fifth place overall, Toro Rosso’s chances of making a strong start to the year look good.

 

 

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Lotus

 

 

Grosjean 

 

Maldonado

 

 

If looks are an indicator, Lotus will be a force to be reckoned with again in the upper midfield this year. The E23’s biggest asset, of course, is its Mercedes powertrain, but the car itself looks tidy and well thought-through, too. And courtesy of some aggressive soft-rubber runs, Pastor Maldonado set some fastest times in Barcelona when others were less adventurous.

 

Last year, missed testing really hurt a team that were very tight on budget; now things are better, though the new car was a day late running in Jerez. In a turn of events that must have reminded some of last year’s travails with Renault, they ran into problems with the powertrain and telemetry, but things were better in Barcelona, where a run on Pirelli’s supersoft tyres gave Grosjean the week’s fastest lap in the first test.

 

Both drivers say the car is a big step forward over the unliked E22, even though an unidentified brake failure on the final day of testing in Barcelona put Maldonado into the wall at Turn 4.

How far back up the order the team can get in its revamped state will be one of the fascinations of the season, in which they start as the darkest horse.