- 25 Aug 11, 16:56#271215[quote="Fred_C_Dobbs"]I'm quite serious. RBR's bread and butter all season has been getting on the power sooner than everyone else, or remaining flat-out where others have had to lift. It's a necessity driven by the fact that the Rinnow lump is down at least 25 bhp to the other front runners.
In qualies, Vettel was activating his DRS on entry to the third apex of Turkey's Turn 8. At Monaco, he was opening it while still exiting Portier and leaving it open through the tunnel, all the way to the chicane. In Q3, he was quickest in all three sectors there, despite the general belief before the race that the RBRs wouldn't be able to hold their own through the Loews complex.
When his slide rule tells him it's the thing to do, Newey configures Vettel's DRS to optimize drive off the corners in Q3 at the expense of top speed. It was widely held that no one could use DRS before Turn 8's fourth apex at Turkey. Or before exiting the tunnel at Monaco. Yet Vettel did both. If anyone could give it the wellie all the way from La Source to Les Combes [b]with DRS open, that would be Vettel.[/b]
They're afraid the remainder of the field will decimate itself trying to match him through Eau Rouge. It's the anti-Vettel rule.[/quote]
Ive got my tin hat at the ready.....................
Alain Prost - Lewis Hamilton - Kamui Kobayashi - Fernando Alonso - Kimi Raikkonnen - Jenson Button
No question here...
