A 2

WEEKEND SCHEDULE:

Fri 29 July 2016
Practice 1 04:00 - 05:30
Practice 2 08:00 - 09:30

Sat 30 July 2016
Practice 3 05:00 - 06:00
Qualifying 08:00

Sun 31 July 2016
Race 08:00


CIRCUIT INFO:

Lap data
Lap length 4.574km (2.842 miles)
Race laps 67
Race distance 306.458km (190.424 miles)
Pole position Left-hand side of the track
Lap record* 1’13.780 (223.182 kph) by Kimi Raikkonen, 2004
Fastest lap 1’13.306 (224.626 kph) by Michael Schumacher, 2004
DRS zone/s (race) Straight leading to Spitzkehre hairpin

Car performance
Full throttle 71%
Downforce level Medium
Gear changes per lap 46
Fuel use per lap 2.3kg

Strategy
Pit lane time loss 17 seconds
2012 prime tyre: Medium
2012 option tyre: Soft

*Fastest lap set during a Grand Prix

Data sources: FIA, Williams, Mercedes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHjlMvAXiYs

A 2

Home race for Nico, so I voted for him.

sam_spider

Voted for Lewis.

Brady1988

Voted for Lewis, BUT Salty Nico HAS to win this one to save his season. We all know how emotional he can get. He gives up to easily. Would like to see Mclaren get both cars in the points. I have Kimi in my sleeper podium

Slowcrash_101

Everyone cries about the old circuit. The old circuit sucked, straight, chicane rinse repeat, bleh. The new track is a short lap for an F1 car, it's quite busy. The McHonda is now .5 seconds behind Ferrari and Red Bull, and a further 1.3 seconds behind Mercedes, they're planning an upgrade for Spa, or Monza, which should be good for an extra .5 seconds per lap. The combustion technology that Honda is going to introduce is pretty cool stuff.

https://www.google.com/patents/US20110057049

https://www.google.com/patents/US807...hnAnMQ6AEIHDAA

The idea is to use a heated metal catalyst electrode to heat and precondition fuel to not only make the fuel easier to combust, but also further heat the fuel and increase it's pressure until the fuel transitions to a supercritical state where it takes both properties of a liquid and a gas. This allows much faster mixing, and much faster combustion. Combined with forced induction and tuning they're able to extract ~760-780 bhp from the engine by itself, +160 from the hybrid system. Mercedes is understood to be making over 800hp from the engine itself. It's even crazier when you consider that they're essentially using 780cc injectors.

A 2

The radio ban is banned

http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/f1-rad...tos-1784477192

Hidef1080

Nico.

A 2

Friday Practice 1 Times:
http://www.racer.com/f1/item/132543-...first-practice

Pos Driver Car Time Gap Laps
1 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m15.517ss 1m15.517s 32
2 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1m15.843ss 0.326s 30
3 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1m16.667ss 1.150s 29
4 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1m16.852ss 1.335s 23
5 Max Verstappen Red Bull/Renault 1m16.927ss 1.410s 29
6 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull/Renault 1m17.089ss 1.572s 30
7 Fernando Alonso McLaren/Honda 1m17.183ss 1.666s 18
8 Jenson Button McLaren/Honda 1m17.612ss 2.095s 15
9 Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso/Ferrari 1m18.008ss 2.491s 25
10 Carlos Sainz Toro Rosso/Ferrari 1m18.044ss 2.527s 22
11 Marcus Ericsson Sauber/Ferrari 1m18.198ss 2.681s 28
12 Valtteri Bottas Williams/Mercedes 1m18.210ss 2.693s 37
13 Felipe Massa Williams/Mercedes 1m18.322ss 2.805s 33
14 Romain Grosjean Haas/Ferrari 1m18.589ss 3.072s 20
15 Nico Hulkenberg Force India/Mercedes 1m18.591ss 3.074s 35
16 Sergio Perez Force India/Mercedes 1m18.628ss 3.111s 29
17 Charles Leclerc Haas/Ferrari 1m18.882ss 3.365s 32
18 Kevin Magnussen Renault 1m18.933ss 3.416s 35
19 Felipe Nasr Sauber/Ferrari 1m18.961ss 3.444s 22
20 Esteban Ocon Renault 1m18.981ss 3.464s 30
21 Rio Haryanto Manor/Mercedes 1m19.167ss 3.650s 34
22 Pascal Wehrlein Manor/Mercedes 1m19.975ss 4.458s 33

A 2

Friday Practice 2 Times:
http://www.racer.com/f1/item/132548-...-at-hockenheim

Pos Driver Car Time Gap Laps
1 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m15.614ss 1m15.614s 43
2 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1m16.008ss 0.394s 36
3 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1m16.208ss 0.594s 39
4 Max Verstappen Red Bull/Renault 1m16.456ss 0.842s 40
5 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull/Renault 1m16.490ss 0.876s 38
6 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1m16.512ss 0.898s 45
7 Nico Hulkenberg Force India/Mercedes 1m16.781ss 1.167s 43
8 Jenson Button McLaren/Honda 1m17.087ss 1.473s 16
9 Sergio Perez Force India/Mercedes 1m17.148ss 1.534s 44
10 Fernando Alonso McLaren/Honda 1m17.225ss 1.611s 21
11 Carlos Sainz Toro Rosso/Ferrari 1m17.342ss 1.728s 32
12 Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso/Ferrari 1m17.367ss 1.753s 38
13 Valtteri Bottas Williams/Mercedes 1m17.425ss 1.811s 44
14 Romain Grosjean Haas/Ferrari 1m17.602ss 1.988s 13
15 Felipe Massa Williams/Mercedes 1m17.686ss 2.072s 40
16 Esteban Gutierrez Haas/Ferrari 1m18.005ss 2.391s 42
17 Kevin Magnussen Renault 1m18.056ss 2.442s 46
18 Marcus Ericsson Sauber/Ferrari 1m18.130ss 2.516s 28
19 Pascal Wehrlein Manor/Mercedes 1m18.193ss 2.579s 42
20 Jolyon Palmer Renault 1m18.313ss 2.699s 47
21 Rio Haryanto Manor/Mercedes 1m18.591ss 2.977s 47
22 Felipe Nasr Sauber/Ferrari 1m19.295ss 3.681s 41

A 2

Button gets a piece of brake disc carbon in his eye - Cleared to qualify after visiting a local hospital to have the fragment removed
http://www.racer.com/f1/item/132569-...on-eye-problem

McLaren's Jenson Button says a carbon brake fragment caused the "very painful" left-eye injury that resulted in him missing part of German Grand Prix practice and visiting a local hospital. Button has since been given the all-clear to continue for the remainder of the last grand prix before Formula 1's summer break.
The Briton had only completed 16 laps in the second practice session at Hockenheim when he was sidelined by an irritation in his left eye that prompted a visit to the medical center and then a hospital in Mannheim.
"Everything was OK, I just had something in my eye – some carbon or something I had to have taken out," said Button upon his return. "I've had it before, a bit of carbon from the brakes. It wasn't just dust in my eye, it was a bit more severe than that.
"They didn't have any systems to check it here [at Hockenheim], so I had proper checks at a hospital, and they found something, washed it out, and all good. It was very painful, and that's why I stopped early.
"To be fair, the team said they needed six laps of data on the super-softs, and we were OK because I'd actually done six laps before I stopped."
Button ended the session eighth quickest, 1.473 seconds adrift of pacesetter in Mercedes' Nico Rosberg, and 0.138s ahead of teammate Fernando Alonso who was 10th. He was generally satisfied, despite missing out on track time.
"The session was alright, apart from my eye," added Button. "The feeling with the car was not too bad. I didn't get a good lap on low fuel because we had traffic in the last sector, but still, we were eighth.
"There's always time to find and things to improve, but our aim now has to be the fourth-best team tomorrow."