But the question is: in which way Kubica was behind Trulli and Heidfeld after their pit stops? Kubica pitted on lap 16, Trulli 2 laps later (on lap 18) and Heidfeld on lap 19.
As Bankoq wrote, before his pit-stop Kubica had huge advantage, so Kubica should have get ahead of them with comfortable advantage.
The gap was 7,350 secs in their last completed lap before Robert's pitstop.
Robert lost 0,2 secs on his inlap in comparison to Nick's inlap
He was 2 secs slower on his outlap in comparison to Nicks outlap, but he spent only 0, 5 secs more in the pitlane. The reason is that he came into traffic and had to fight with Kovalainen (-0,796) in that lap, what cost him obviously 1,5 secs.
He was still behind Kova(- 1,489) in Lap 18, driving a 1:43,247
In lap 19 he had Trulli coming out of the pitlane right in front of him and got in another fight, driving a very slow 1:46, 056 (-0,781 secs to Trulli). That was also Nick's inlap.
In lap 20 (Nick's outlap) Robert (still close behind Trulli, -0,811 secs) had a 1:43,994.
in the 3 Laps between their pitstops, Nick drove these laptimes:
Lap 16: 1:41,262 (-2 secs compared to Robert's lap 18)
Lap 17: 1:41,478 (-4,5 secs compared to Robert's lap 19)
Lap 18: 1:41,178 (-2,8 secs compared to Robert's lap 20)
So, let's do the math:
0,2 secs on inlap
+ 2 secs on outlap
+ an aggregated 9,3 secs on the laps between their pitstops
That's about 11,5 secs Robert lost to Nick.
If you take the 7,3 lead he had before the pitstops into account that makes a difference of about 4,2 secs.
And surprise, surprise, after lap 20 Nick was 4,278 secs ahead of Robert.
Sources:
http://www.f1matrix.it/gp_2009_eng/http://www.f1matrix...._eng/17/pc.htmlhttp://www.formula1....op_summary.htmlSorry for being that fussy about that topic, but I believe in hard facts (what these calculations are) and i can't stand wild, baseless assertions or accusations.
Edited by Chris0815, 04 November 2009 - 10:33.