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Longer pit stops for 2012 season (or not)

Banning refueling during Sunday races led to a crazy fight between Formula 1 teams mechanics to have a very quick change of tyres, this process usually achieving in less than 3 seconds.
Decreasing the time required for changing tyres was made possible through the use of helium in stud-guns too, that increasing unscrewing speed by 30%.
This method was originally introduced by McLaren-Mercedes, but was quickly copied by all and now team leaders have decided to ban the use of helium starting 2012 season.

So formula 1 drivers will wait a little bit longer at pit-stops until the discovery of a new technology for unscrewing :)

News

- F1 teams have agreed on the requested name changes (starting 2012 season) for Lotus Renault GP(in Lotus - but they are still thinking), Team Lotus(in Caterham) and Virgin Racing(in Marussia)

- Lola (racing car engineering company) is ready and waiting to join formula 1 next year as the 13th team.  Lola initially applied to join the grid in 2010, when the FIA opened up a bidding method for four new teams to take the grid to 13 teams. But Lola not passes in their challenge with the FIA choosing Lotus, Virgin, HRT and last - USF1 wich failed to make the grid and leaving the door open for a new competitor

- HRT has extended technical partnership with Williams for 2012, with the english team set to supply the spanish team with gearboxes and for the next year with KERS too

Understanding F1 car - V2: Tyres

FIA moved to a single tyre supplier in 2007(Bridgestone) but, even now, optimizing the car-tyre balance is something of a black art.
An ordinary car tyre is made with heavy steel-belted radial plies and designed for durability - typically a life of 16,000 kilometres or more. A Formula 1 tyre is designed to last for, at most, 200 kilometres and - like everything else on a the car - is constructed to be as light and strong as possible. That means an underlying nylon and polyester structure in a complicated weave pattern designed to withstand far larger forces than road car tyres.
F1 has a single tyre supplier, with all teams using identical Pirelli rubber. The advantages of this, instead of  dispose over multiple tyre suppliers, include closer racing and reduced testing and development costs.
The specifications of Pirelli tyres are differentiated by the colouring of the sidewall lettering:
super soft - red
soft - yellow
medium - white
hard - silver
wet - orange

intermediates - light blue

The racing tyre is constructed from very soft rubber compounds which offer the best grip against the texture of the track, but wear very quickly in the process. Over 150 different components are used in the manufacture of F1 tyres but the main ingredients are rubber, carbon and mechanical oil. Varying the relative amounts of these three components will produce different tyre compounds, which will each have different characteristics.  If you look at a typical track you will see that, just off the racing line, a large amount of rubber debris gathers. All racing tyres work best at relatively high temperatures.

Harder compound tyres will be more durable than softer compound tyres, meaning that the driver can complete a greater number of laps before the tyres lose performance and they are forced to make a pit stop. The harder compounds will provide less grip than the softer compounds, meaning that the driver will not be able to go as fast on each of the laps they make. The choice of tyre compound is therefore a compromise between durability and grip. Choose hard and you'll be able to stay out longer than your competitors. Choose soft and you'll have to pit earlier in the race but you'll be going faster than they are and may be able to make up the difference. The physical explanation of the difference between the hard and soft compounds is the degree to which the rubber molecules interact with the track surface.

SLICKSlick tyres are the ones that F1 drivers use most of the time. A normal slick tyre actually has no tread pattern at all. This is because in dry conditions the aim is to get the maximum grip from the tyre and this is achieved by having as much rubber in contact with the racetrack as possible.

WET
The wet tyres, which are characterised by grooves in the tread pattern, come in two types: full wet tyres, for rain, and intermediates and the two tyres have in common the same compound.
The wet tyres have deep grooves in them, with channels designed to expel water on full wet asphalt. These tyres are similar to a road car tyre, and are designed to expel more than 60 litres of water per second at 300kph. A road car tyre can only displace about 10 litres of water per second, at much lower speeds.
INTERMEDIATE
Intermediate tyres are exactly what their name suggests - a compromise between a full wet and a fully slick tyre. They have slightly shallower grooves that are cut in a different pattern and remove a fair amount of water from the racetrack surface while also providing a decent level of grip once the track has dried. These are the tyres that are used most often when weather conditions are bad. Only in absolutely torrential conditions where there is continuous rain are the fully wet tyres needed.

News

- a FIA commission will discuss, on Thursday, 3 requests for team name change for 2012
1. Virgin Racing Formula 1 team wants to change into MARUSSIA(the team’s major sponsor)
2. Renault is hoping to race under Lotus name next season
3. Team Lotus is hoping to change its team name to Caterham

- Pastor Maldonado is set to drop ten places on the grid at the forthcoming 2011 Formula 1  Abu Dhabi Grand Prix because he will have to use his ninth engine of the season at Yas Marina (each driver may use no more than eight V8s during a championship campaign and, if they do need to use additional units, they will incur a grid penalty); Maldonado's Williams gearbox failure that led to his early retirement in India at the weekend, means he will have to make use of a ninth engine in Abu Dhabi

- Bahrain and Korea could be removed from the 2012 calendar, which opens the way for Turkey Grand Prix. Teams will analyze, on Thursday, in a Commission meeting in Geneva the possibility that F1 of Bahrain and South Korea to be removed, but the reasons are completely different. Bahrain still has not resolved many security issues that led into the cancellation of this year's race and Korea could leave Formula 1 after only two years because of the participation taxe wich are considered too high

- Martin Whitmarsh has accidentally revealed the length of Jenson Button's new contract (3 years) after was asked by a BBC reporter whether or not Jenson Button's performance improved at McLaren following his new contract and replied by saying Button just fits the team really well and that he hopes to see 3 great years of Jenson at McLaren

Selected photos - India

2011

Uhh... baby!!!

       I miss Nicole Scherzinger... :((

RedBull had double diffuser, flexi front wing etc., but now ferrari has adjustable front suspension...

Levitating F1 car (so evolved these days cars)

Def Leppard - Pour some sugar on me

Nothing to post - Atkinson makes funny faces for Hamilton

Rowan Atkinson makes funny faces after Massa crashed Hamilton at Indian Grand Prix

Driver standings and Constructor standings after Buddh (IN) 2011

1. Sebastian Vettel 374pct
2. Jenson Button 240pct
3. Fernando Alonso 227pct
4. Mark Webber 221pct
5. Lewis Hamilton 202pct
6. Felipe Massa 98pct
7. Nico Rosberg 75pct
8. Michael Schumacher 70pct

India, Buddh circuit - Race results

2011

1. Sebastian Vettel 1:30:35.002(dominated the race from start to finish and set the fastest lap of the race on the very last lap, for the third time this season) 
2. Jenson Button +8.4 sec(very good start, after Turn 4 passed on 2nd place and all race tryed to get Vettel's car)
3. Fernando Alonso +24.3 sec(nice battle with Webber, first he jumped Webber after his second pit stop on Lap 39 and second resisted Mark in last 2 laps for a podium in India)
4. Mark Webber +25.5 sec
5. Michael Schumacher +65.4 sec
6. Nico Rosberg +66.8 sec
7. Lewis Hamilton +84.1 sec
8. Jaime Alguersuari +1 lap(exceptional race, as usual this year, especially last 5-6 races)  
9. Adrian Sutil +1 lap 
10. Sergio Perez +1 lap