so you're saying the rears play no role when braking? Haha
Yes you're very bright I dobbed you in! And yes I thought you yanks understood baseball? 3 strikes you're out I must have been playing cricket I was out after 1 ! But that's cool I'm a jerk and you're a model forum user I guess!
I seem to remember reading somewhere that the rears account for between 20-30% of the braking bais. That is a huge loss in stopping power when your rear tyres are down to the canvas.
and when in the wet you increase the rear bias to stop oversteer so lewis may have had 40% at the rears
True, but you are not understanding the basics of traction. In order for worn rears to have caused that off, the worn rears would have had to lose traction. That means a lock up and they didn't do that. You can clearly see as much on the video. Also, if he had moved bias to the rears, they would have locked first...and they didn't. Perhaps that is the mistake he made, but the footage clearly shows a front end lockup...with the rears tracking as they should. Continuously claiming the rears had something to do with that off just shows you have never turned a lap in anger yourself...certainly not in a car with adjustable bias. The rears didn't take him off...he over estimated the grip level in the pit lane based on how dry the track was. Driver error. The funniest thing about your steadfast belief it was the team's mistake...is that Hamilton himself after the race said it was 100% his fault.
If you lived anywhere near me, I would be happy to put a worn set of rears on the race car, set the bias rearward, bolt the passenger seat in..strap you in that and then show you what happens when rear tires cause an off...then you would understand why watching that video tells a driver it wasnt the rears that caused that. A worn tire causing an off happens all the time..but in order for that to be the case that tire has to lose traction, being that traction is a tire's only purpose. If it still has traction..the state of its wear is irrelevant.
In the end result that was just one of several basic mistakes Lewis has made. Mistakes at the limit, as I said, are expected...otherwise we wouldn't call it the limit, but pit lane mistakes (as a driver) and mistakes made on straights (running over Alonso) are not expected and are simply a sign of a rookie trying to get control of himself and maintain concentration. It is common, natural and to be expected. It doesn't make Hamilton any worse than every other rookie out there...but what those mistakes do show is that any comparison of Hamilton to Senna AT THIS POINT....are ill founded, which of course is the topic of this thread. I am not in any way saying Hamilton has no skill, nor am I abusing him..what I am saying is that he has shown nothing at this point to warrant being mentioned in the same breath as the almighty Senna.
nice another sly dig from you, youre good at them, youre good at pissing people off and to the untrained eye its un noticeable then you go and call people jerks when they retaliate!