Heavy rain at Monza.

That may be, but those are the rules. Had they brought 100 sets for each team, the teams could only use 7 sets.

Cool!! But still id have loved to see lewis, the great leader, do some laps in the wet.

Btw, where is the live feed?

Can someone explain to me the funky engine noises from Lewis' car?

On his out lap, you could hear the enging note changing like a musical instrument....I assume becasue he was going up and down the gears? Really sounded weird....

Whats that all about please?

Cheers

Edited to add.....Timo Glocks cars is doing it as well........is it my sound ???...lol

5 live saying that Bridgestone bring 2,200 dry tyres and logistically they couldn't bring more wet tyres.

You'd think they'd check the weather forecasts really and alter the ratio accordingly.


~Oh apprently its a huge operation and needs to be planned well in advance.

Probably wheelspin. In 1964 I arrived at the Snetterton spring F1 race during practice and as I approached the pit straight, and as the cars came past trailing huge fans of spray, I could hear the engine notes rising and falling as the drivers modulated the wheelspin with the loud pedal - It truly was music to a teenagers ears, and 44 years later the memory still sends tingles up my spine. Such skill, such finesse.

It is the rules.

It is the rules.

It is the rules.

Which part is difficult to understand??

Hi Bloggsworth...the weird thing is, the notes don't actualy rise and fall..they just "change" instantly.......as instant as hitting keys on a piano....where as with wheel spin I'd expect the note to wonder all over the place, like someone using a wammy bar on a guitar....

But this is different.......when the notes chnage, the don't rise and fall......

Did you ever hear the Renault doing Happy Birthday? Thats what it sounds like.........

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yes, i understand that. I was merely relaying what the 5 live commentators were saying on the subject.

Moreover, it seems bizarre that each driver is allocated 14 sets of dry weather tyres (made up of both compounds) for a race weekend, but only half the number of wet weather tyres for the same weekend, and that allocation is further sub divided and then there are further rules over when which wet compound can be used during practice and races.

It's traction control. That's why he's 0.5s faster than Kovalainen in every race.












Just kidding

The modern F1 car is so powerful and has a flywheel weighing somewhat less that a mosquito on a diet, so pressing the go pedal is like flicking a switch; listen to this:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...ideoID=18285345

But again....with wheel spin...I would not expect it to rise instanlty, and then stop instantly at the higher note.......

Surely if the wheels are slipping, then the engine note would rise and fall until the grip came back....

I can hear normal wheel spin no problems....we had a lot of it last wekend.....and the note does rise and fall on some sort of curve......where as the sounds I was hearing today, DO sound like the National Anthem thing.......and would slippy tires trying to find grip, make the engine note "stick" at one note level, then "stick" instanlty at another?.....

Did you see the practice today and hear it?.......It DID sound like tthe National Anthem thing......but would you get that solid, instant note change..with slipping wheels?.....

That's very cool; thank you for the link

Massa did at Silverstone..............