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Wesdude zei:

In Amerika en Frankrijk hadden ze de dampers en kon Alonso ook niet volgen. Het ligt vooral aan de superieure bridgestone band denk ik. Zullen zien wat het in Hongarije geeft.

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RipTor zei:

...Ik zal er eens achter zoeken op googlevideo en youtube.

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In 1994, the season in which Schumacher seemed to romp to a virtually unchallenged first title, his team-mate was a young Jos Verstappen. Though very inexperienced, here was a man who had just waltzed the German F3 championship, had set some blistering test times for Footwork, and had to fight off McLaren's interest before signing as a test driver for Benetton. His meteoric rise to F1 is only comparable to that of Jarno Trulli and Kimi Räikkönen, his wet-weather performances have always been awesome - so he would be a man to understand all about cars. And yet, when quizzed in 1994 about his lack of qualifying speed and race pace compared to Schumacher, he is quoted as saying that he found Michael's set-up undriveable.

So with both men being experienced kart drivers, what sets them apart? How come that while today's F1 cars are often described as "high-grip shifter karts" one driver has very different set-up needs from the other? The explanation lies in the "high-grip" part rather than the "shifter kart" part. Whereas Jos Verstappen and many other drivers use the traditional rear-wheel drive cornering technique, Michael Schumacher and a few others too - his brother Ralf, Jarno Trulli and Nick Heidfeld among them - use the huge grip of an F1 tyre to do something that amounts to the complete opposite. It's a technique that's even further to their advantage because of traction control and paddle gear shifting.

The traditional rear-wheel drive cornering style involves braking in a straight line towards the corner, turn in to the apex and then steer the car through the corner on the throttle, picking up speed all the time. It's Jochen Rindt spectacle pur sang, and it requires big balls on exit. Now factor in the traction control curbing the power of a 900bhp engine. Where's the rear-wheel powerslide? It's gone. You may have to need double the amount of power to beat the TC system to get the car into a serious and advantageous power drift. Instead you need the TC to allow you to pick up any pace you might have lost into the corner. That is, if you did lose any pace. Remember Jos Verstappen's comments about Schumacher's Benetton - he described the B194 as ultimately twitchy at the rear, its wings and tyres all working towards huge front-end grip and a comparatively loose rear end. It caused Verstappen - used to more power than grip - to lose lots of time on the entry, as he applied the traditional braking routine, and on exit too, as he grappled with the lack of rear-end grip which forbade him to steer his car on the throttle.

Looking back, Verstappen's comments make clear that Schumacher already perfected his style in 1994. He's capitalized on it ever since. So what does it entail? Where does he win those vital tenths? It's all about maximum speed into the corner, really. Instead of braking in a straight line Schumacher will turn a tighter line into the corner, carrying his straight-line speed up to the apex while braking later then usual. Now, if he would continue from there using the traditional exiting technique, he would run out of corner very quickly, as his speed would simply be too high to get around the corner. Which is where the most important ingredient of the Schumacher cornering style comes in - it's using the brakes and the front-end grip to have the car's rear end slide to the outside, making it shift into the correct exiting direction. Having paddle shifts and two-pedal foot control will allow him to keep the foot on the throttle to keep the speed alive while braking gently enough to force the rear end's change of direction.

What if it goes wrong? What if the braking is done a touch too gently? Others would simply run wide - the most common mistake in modern F1 racing. Not in the case of Michael Schumacher, as he uses two tricks that would hurt any other driver's speed - either locking up a tyre or standing on the throttle, or both if necessary. The lock-up is not just about taking out the excess speed, that's just a pleasant side-effect, it's also about what happens next: it's the sudden release of the brakes following the lock-up that forces another means of rear-end direction change - lift-off oversteer. Usually a very dangerous phenomenon for the unexperienced road-car driver, it becomes a vital part of Schumacher's damage-limitation process. A stab of throttle goes into helping the direction change go full-circle. Doesn't the TC cut in then? Yes, but it's set with a slight delay, giving him some slack to create some more rear-end movement. It's the last remaining part of the traditional technique that's left in Schumacher's paradigm of cornering instruments. So yes, F1 cars are rear-wheel drive, but in the hands of the best there's is not much of their typical character left.

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hatetn zei:

villeneuve wordt dit weekend vervangen voor de gp van hongarije door de testrijder nadat hij geblesseerd raakte in duitsland

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Defkes zei:

Volgens de officiële berichten is dat idd om die reden, maar als je weet dat hij vandaag nog zei dat die crash 'een was als een ander'... .

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Darth-Falcon zei:

Webber krijgt ontslag bij Williams, Wurz en Rosberg racen voor williams volgend jaar.

bron: iedere goeie F1 website

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BaRtHoLoMeUs zei:

Denk dat dit komt omdat hij naar Renault gaat en we dus meer dan waarschijnlijk Schumacher/Raikkonen gaan krijgen bij Ferrari :applause:

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Defkes zei:

Räikkonen kan ook nog altijd bij McLaren blijven e (wat ik hoop en ergens wel verwacht). Tweede viool spelen bij Ferrari zou z'n carriere kapotmaken lijkt me.

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BaRtHoLoMeUs zei:

Denk niet dat een rijder van het formaat Raikkonen naar Ferrari zal/wil komen of naar Ferrari wordt gehaald om 2e viool te spelen. Ik hoop dat ik hierin gelijk heb (denk het wel want een rijder als kimi moet gewoon gelijk materiaal krijgen! )

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Defkes zei:

Je denkt toch niet dat hij het MS moeilijk kan/mag maken?

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Defkes zei:

Je denkt toch niet dat hij het MS moeilijk kan/mag maken?

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eniac zei:

Nog 1 ding. Ik zie niet zo goed in waarom zo altijd gezegd wordt dat Schumachers teamgenoten met minderwaardig materiaal rondreden. Is dit een bewezen feit?

Ik geloof er eigenlijk weinig van, en zeker bij Ferrari geloof ik daar niets van. Het constructeurskampioenschap is te belangrijk voor de teams om te laten slippen, en dus is het slim om beiden het beste te geven.

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