Who understands the Q-3 fuel game that Kimi's team exploited last race?
All year Varsha, et al., kept saying that each driver in Q-3 had to "declare" their fuel load for the race. I thought that meant that they started Q-3 with that amount because the idea was that they all then pounded around, "burning off the fuel load", (putting on a show for the crowd as a byproduct) in order to be lighter and faster in the closing seconds of the session. That all made sense but apparently there is also a fuel saving strategy made possible through doing slow cool down laps (because the 107% rule went away)? No one seemed to know about it and still couldn't explain it today (I loved Peter arguing with Massa).
So, how does that strategy work? I guess the answer lies in the application of this "fuel credit" (never heard that before) they get which is based on the number of laps run. Does that mean that if they go slow (saving fuel) as Kimi did, that they then get to put more fuel in for the race than they actually carried in Q-3? And the reason is that the fuel they get is based on an assumed (hot lap) burn rate per lap multiplied by the # of laps with no consideration for whether they actually were hot laps or not? Am I getting warm?
I don't know why I bother asking because I'm sure Whiting will slap his forehead :redface: and reinstate the 107% rule straight away.
With Hamo being invincible right now, people have already forgotten "Skewmacher". :biggrin:
All year Varsha, et al., kept saying that each driver in Q-3 had to "declare" their fuel load for the race. I thought that meant that they started Q-3 with that amount because the idea was that they all then pounded around, "burning off the fuel load", (putting on a show for the crowd as a byproduct) in order to be lighter and faster in the closing seconds of the session. That all made sense but apparently there is also a fuel saving strategy made possible through doing slow cool down laps (because the 107% rule went away)? No one seemed to know about it and still couldn't explain it today (I loved Peter arguing with Massa).
So, how does that strategy work? I guess the answer lies in the application of this "fuel credit" (never heard that before) they get which is based on the number of laps run. Does that mean that if they go slow (saving fuel) as Kimi did, that they then get to put more fuel in for the race than they actually carried in Q-3? And the reason is that the fuel they get is based on an assumed (hot lap) burn rate per lap multiplied by the # of laps with no consideration for whether they actually were hot laps or not? Am I getting warm?
I don't know why I bother asking because I'm sure Whiting will slap his forehead :redface: and reinstate the 107% rule straight away.
With Hamo being invincible right now, people have already forgotten "Skewmacher". :biggrin:
