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From: Stanmore
Here's a release relating to Bottas and Alonso from last year: http://www.gpupdate....ed-fit-to-race/
Note that the assessments were carried out on a Thursday, then, too.
26 March 2015 – McLaren-Honda's Fernando Alonso and Williams driver Valtteri Bottas have been declared fit to compete at this weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix, following final medical assessments at the Sepang circuit. Both drivers were ruled out of the season-opening event in Australia, with Alonso recovering from concussion suffered during a pre-season testing accident, and Bottas picking up a back injury in qualifying.
To determine whether or not they were fit enough to return,Formula 1's governing body, the FIA, conducted a series of fitness checks at the venue's medical centre on Thursday, which Alonso and Bottas passed.
"In accordance with normal procedures, McLaren-Honda driver Fernando Alonso was this morning examined by the FIA Medical Delegate and Chief Medical Officer at the Sepang Circuit Medical Centre," read a statement issued by the FIA.
To determine whether or not they were fit enough to return,Formula 1's governing body, the FIA, conducted a series of fitness checks at the venue's medical centre on Thursday, which Alonso and Bottas passed.
"In accordance with normal procedures, McLaren-Honda driver Fernando Alonso was this morning examined by the FIA Medical Delegate and Chief Medical Officer at the Sepang Circuit Medical Centre," read a statement issued by the FIA.
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With qualifying in Bahrain only slightly less crap than Melbourne, popular opinion is that the FIA, FOM and the other stakeholders need to get together and agree to revert to the previous system, and quickly.
Common sense, though, has rarely prevailed in Formula 1, and from Jean Todt's comments it appears that the FIA's stance seems to be to try to disprove Einstein's theory about doing the same thing over and over again in the hope of achieving a different result.
No real surprises vis-a-vis the grid, although Pascal Wehrlein did an excellent job, as did Stoffel Vandoorne, both exceeding expectations and outshining their team mates. Although in Wehrlein's case, outshining his team-mate won't be that difficult. Haryanto was a worthy journeyman driver in GP2, but I suspect that he's going to find himself out of his depth in F1.
An interesting comment during "Ted's Notebook" about McLaren. Apparently, while Mercedes, Ferrari and even Renault have a "Qualifying mode" for their engines, Honda do not. Which I found surprising.
Unfortunately, this afternoon's race coincides with the World T20 Final, so I'm recording the race to watch later.
Common sense, though, has rarely prevailed in Formula 1, and from Jean Todt's comments it appears that the FIA's stance seems to be to try to disprove Einstein's theory about doing the same thing over and over again in the hope of achieving a different result.
No real surprises vis-a-vis the grid, although Pascal Wehrlein did an excellent job, as did Stoffel Vandoorne, both exceeding expectations and outshining their team mates. Although in Wehrlein's case, outshining his team-mate won't be that difficult. Haryanto was a worthy journeyman driver in GP2, but I suspect that he's going to find himself out of his depth in F1.
An interesting comment during "Ted's Notebook" about McLaren. Apparently, while Mercedes, Ferrari and even Renault have a "Qualifying mode" for their engines, Honda do not. Which I found surprising.
Unfortunately, this afternoon's race coincides with the World T20 Final, so I'm recording the race to watch later.
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Qualifying was quite good at the end it's just that the end came three minutes before the chequered flag. Maybe making it three minutes shorter would have worked, or if they'd agreed to run Q3 as before but kept the elimination system for Q1 and Q2 then probably nobody would be complaining.
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I thought it was just as bad in Q2. Cars sat in the garage whilst they got knocked out. Basically all the new system does is force the driver's to qualify at a particular time, rather than giving them the flexibility of choosing a time, and often preventing them responding to other drivers' lap times.
