Re: Russell's car too light

On 2024-07-29 03:36, Geoff wrote:

On 29/07/2024 8:16 pm, ~misfit~ wrote:

On 29/07/2024 8:04 pm, ~misfit~ wrote:

On 29/07/2024 5:22 pm, Woozy Song wrote:

In another forum, a zillion posters said because he did 1-stop that he wore a few kg extra rubber off the tyres. But then would not the tyres be unsafe in the final laps?

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The other forum is filled with clowns. It's nothing to do with the tyres, Merc have admitted it was their error. (Often a light car is ballasted up to weight and I dare say that this was done incorrectly.)

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Ehhh... I've just done some quick reading and Mark Hughes thinks it WAS the tyres (and lack of a cooldown lap to pickup marbles?). <shrug> Buggered if I know, I could have been wrong above. I remember the days when engineers always told the driver to be sure to get plenty of tyre pickup on the cooldown lap but haven't heard anything like that for ... decades?

  I hear it all the time .
 geoff

I don't recall hearing it much, but I certainly do SEE it on cars that come to the victory area.