The wake of an F1 car moves likes spirals from the end-plate tips, and there is an updraft from under the diffuser. This in itself is turbulence. All the F1 cars are turbulent from behind.Turbulence can destroy the best down-force making attempts, but not for drag. Drag is a function of the relative speed of the air. In turbulence the velocity of the air when resolved into the component in the forward direction is much less than if the air was in steady flow where all the velocities always stay in the same magnitude direction over time.
This is right. But does not take into account what the driver is doing. A driver following another car (trying to get past) is pushing at full throttle still. Even if he gets less drag, what he will try to have is greater end speed, not a shorter throttle time. While at the same time needing to adjust the most efficient line and having to adjust/compensate conrner exits. If he wasnt racing, he could just care less about his exits, but if he's actually trying to make ground he will keep pushing to try and compensate the loss of corner speed.
OR, Lewis could have simply been fueled lighter than Jenson
Looking back to the past (winter testing days)
Anyway.. on to the tyre management. We will see how it goes tomorrow. I honestly don't believe that smooth driving is going to extend tyre life, from it is done at a similar pace to high reaction driving, the tyres might more or less last the same. We see that Hamilton has a consistent 2 tenths to 4 tenths on Button so far, so there is a good tyre management comparison to be made after the fist round of pitstops.
I remember the harsh responses I got from saying this 
. It;s a fact that Jenson's soft tyres finished first in all of the races. Even in Canada going by the lap time patterns and Jenson's own admission he just didn't have the tyres nor the speed to close the gap to Hamilton in any meaningful way. In other words the adaptable Hamilton is beating Jenny Boy with Jenson's own weapons. I guess Hamilton's head is rather large for a reason! Very unexpected and Impressive. 
It will be fun to watch Hamilton continue to mimic and improve upon all of Jenson's best traits and turn them against him; akin to the style of a ruthless general I must say. 
The Smackdown shall continueth.
The tires were shown near the end of the race. Lewis were almost gone. Jenson's were in very good conditions and Fernando's were in-between. So, the tire thing wasnt exactly "solved". Lewis was just faster at some points, got a much better Q and made the pit stops at the right time. It was a solid win, but nowhere near a smackdown...
For example, not to take away... Webber. Why did he stay on those tires for so long?? he should have pitted before Lewis and Fernando caught up. When they did caught up, since it was Lewis in front, his move was first... Fernando could have made the pass on the same spot the next lap, but that time lost behind a limping car cost him the challenge to Lewis, and Webber went in anyway in the next lap...
So......... Lewis won the race, but on BOTH races Jenson could have won. Both because of fuel strategy/management and in Canada his tires were much better than Lewis'. Simply a matter of Lewis doing better in Q (which we all knew he would). But in any case, not a smackdown
Came out fighting indeed.
less drag but more tyre wear. Drive behind another car on the highway and watch your fuel mileage display go to a lesser liters/km or higher mpg. just like migrating birds, or the tour de france teams. This is well known, I don't know why you would think otherwise.
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