Formula 1 2017: Round 3 - Bahrain Grand Prix

v3ttel

"Vettel beats penalised Hamilton" and "Was Hamilton's penalty deserved?" were two of the top stories on Sky F1 this morning.

Good ol' British media and their headlines. Vettel clearly controlled the pace at the front, so whether Hamilton was within 5 seconds or not was totally irrelevant. Also, yes, Hamilton penalty was clearly deserved. Funnily enough, I don't remember a "Hamilton wins due fortunate safety car timing" after China, when Vettel would very likely have jumped him if the safety car didn't come out for Joe Vinazzi's accident.

skipper_G

v3ttel wrote: »

"Vettel beats penalised Hamilton" and "Was Hamilton's penalty deserved?" were two of the top stories on Sky F1 this morning.

Good ol' British media and their headlines. Vettel clearly controlled the pace at the front, so whether Hamilton was within 5 seconds or not was totally irrelevant. Also, yes, Hamilton penalty was clearly deserved. Funnily enough, I don't remember a "Hamilton wins due fortunate safety car timing" after China, when Vettel would very likely have jumped him if the safety car didn't come out for Joe Vinazzi's accident.

That's not the scariest thing, the poll included in the second of those 'journalistic masterpieces' with more than 65 thousand votes, 47% think it wasn't deserved.

PukkaStukka

v3ttel wrote: »

"Vettel beats penalised Hamilton" and "Was Hamilton's penalty deserved?" were two of the top stories on Sky F1 this morning.

Good ol' British media and their headlines. Vettel clearly controlled the pace at the front, so whether Hamilton was within 5 seconds or not was totally irrelevant. Also, yes, Hamilton penalty was clearly deserved. Funnily enough, I don't remember a "Hamilton wins due fortunate safety car timing" after China, when Vettel would very likely have jumped him if the safety car didn't come out for Joe Vinazzi's accident.

I saw the same crap over on Autosport which was ridiculously pro Hamilton in their assessment despite him being justifiably penalised and simply not being quick enough.

Elements of the sports' media take a Hamilton defeat even worse than Hamilton himself does

recyclebin

UK broadcaster supports UK driver!!! Come on lads, what do you expect?

Cookie_Monster

It's even worse with Palmer IMO, at least Hamilton is good. Palmer is nowhere in every race yet sky fawn all over him too.

christy c

recyclebin wrote: »

UK broadcaster supports UK driver!!! Come on lads, what do you expect?

Impartiality with the prices Sky charge

flazio

I think the most impartial coverage we can get is Whisper Films who produce the coverage for EirSport and Channel 4.

PukkaStukka

I picked this one up in a report from Bahrain. It would seem that RB claim they are having correlation issues between what they are seeing in the aero data on track and the data gleaned from the wind tunnel and their CFD systems.

https://www.f1technical.net/news/21234?sid=ae88efded8963debee4b49ce75b2456b

I recall a smiler issue afflicted Ferrari a few years back and for them, it was so bad that they rebuilt their wind tunnel in Marenello and used the Toyota facility in Cologne whilst the rebuild took place. IIRC the problem persisted on and off across most of three seasons.

If this article is true, it could explain why RB's current car has very straightforward aero and no particular trickery. If they bolt on new bits, get the upgrade mooted to the Renault V6 in Barcelona and the lighter and more efficient hybrid system to replace the 2016 kit they have to run currently then RB might be about to find a lot of pace.