Brian Lawrence wrote:
> On 28/09/2012 09:24, AC wrote:
>> Brian Lawrence wrote:
>>> On 28/09/2012 07:47, AC wrote:
>>>> Brian Lawrence wrote:
>>>>> On BBC just now.
>>>>> Leaving McLaren for Mercedes.
>>>> Just heard the end of it, look here to check!!!!
>>>> Perez to McLaren? Or my Brit fanwank option, Di Resta?
>>> Apparently McLaren have signed Perez already.
>> Just heard that myself on the radio. BBC Radio 2 of all places, but
>> there you go!!!!
>> Good signing, IMHO, no wonder Ferrari were subtly putting Perez down,
>> not good enough for a top team yet, my arse!!!!
> Love the way McLaren got their press release out before Mercedes did.
> We signed Perez, thanks Lewis. Not that even mentioned LH AFAIK.
Sounds a bit childishly desperate to me, but hey ho...
Certainly something thing to look forward to next season. Can Perez step it up and can Merc back up their driver with a decent car.
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:38:35 +0100, Brian Lawrence wrote:
> On 28/09/2012 13:59, Alister wrote:
>> On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:42:36 +0100, Brian Lawrence wrote:
>>> On BBC just now.
>>> Leaving McLaren for Mercedes.
>> no 2nd wdc for lewis then. I cant see Merc providing a wining car
>> although the 2014 engine change may throw up some surprises.
> If that happens at all - there are rumours that it might be abandoned.
Then lewis' career is f**ked.
-- The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex
facts. Seek simplicity and distrust it.
-- Whitehead.
> On 28/09/2012 13:59, Alister wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:42:36 +0100, Brian Lawrence wrote:
> >> On BBC just now.
> >> Leaving McLaren for Mercedes.
> > no 2nd wdc for lewis then. I cant see Merc providing a wining car
> > although the 2014 engine change may throw up some surprises.
> If that happens at all - there are rumours that it might be abandoned.
Unlikely. Mercedes have just signed the new Concorde agreement along with LH. I'm sure they'd have insisted the new engine formula was going ahead. Mercedes and Ferrari have already spent a fortune designing the 6 cylinder, 1 exhaust pipe, engines.
On Friday, September 28, 2012 2:41:49 AM UTC-4, Brian Lawrence wrote:
> On BBC just now.
> Leaving McLaren for Mercedes.
> --
> Brian W Lawrence
> Wantage
> Oxfordshire
If Ross Brawn can catch lightning in a bottle again, the way he did with Honda's leftovers, LH might be golden. But I'll have to see it before I believe it.
larkim <matthew.lar...@gmail.com> writes:
> Super smooth JB plus tyre saver extraordinaire Perez at McLaren. Sounds ideal from an engineering perspective to me!
Exactly. I think Perez is the ideal candidate for that seat. I'm more
worried about Macca reliability letting *him* down!
Phil
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> larkim <matthew.lar...@gmail.com> writes:
>> Super smooth JB plus tyre saver extraordinaire Perez at McLaren. Sounds ideal from an engineering perspective to me!
> Exactly. I think Perez is the ideal candidate for that seat. I'm more
> worried about Macca reliability letting *him* down!
> Phil
Well, I would say, Macca has an extraordinary reason to be motivated up to max. It's like when this gorgeous girl you are in love with gives you a cold shoulder. And you start to overperform in all things just to show her what she is missing, only by choosing this ape from the football team over you. :)
> On Monday, October 1, 2012 1:24:26 AM UTC+10, Phil Carmody wrote:
>> larkim <matthew.lar...@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Super smooth JB plus tyre saver extraordinaire Perez at McLaren. Sounds ideal from an engineering perspective to me!
>> Exactly. I think Perez is the ideal candidate for that seat. I'm more
>> worried about Macca reliability letting *him* down!
>> Phil
>> --
>> Regarding TSA regulations:
>> How are four small bottles of liquid different from one large bottle?
>> Because four bottles can hold the components of a binary liquid explosive,
>> whereas one big bottle can't. -- camperdave responding to MacAndrew on /.
> I wonder which teams are the most reliable over ... say the last five years?
Well the usual method of gauging reliability is to express race finishes as a percentage of race starts. Crude but usually effective.
Since the start of 2009 there have been 87 GPs, which for a 2-car team is 174 possible starts.
> 14 of Mercs' 18 DNFs were by Schumacher, only 4 by Rosberg.
The list should be aligned to failure rate
McLaren 174 149 25 = 14.27% Failure not 85.63% success
Although - and I'm not setting you more homework, Brian - when Groswank had his mad minute at Spa and wrecked 5 cars, none of them had reliability problems. So crashes, caused by driver fuckwittery etc should be removed to present a more accurate result.
> Although - and I'm not setting you more homework, Brian - when Groswank
> had his mad minute at Spa and wrecked 5 cars, none of them had
> reliability problems. So crashes, caused by driver fuckwittery etc
> should be removed to present a more accurate result.
Ideally you would want to remove driver-induced retirements, whether self-inflicted or not. However, logically, each team would have a roughly equal number, especially over a longer period. I recall some
stats posted here about 10 years ago, which calculated how many ACS
retirements (Accident-Collision-Spin) each driver had in their career.
Researched by Alan Jones (not that one), it was very interesting.
> Ideally you would want to remove driver-induced retirements, whether > self-inflicted or not. However, logically, each team would have a > roughly equal number, especially over a longer period. I recall some
> stats posted here about 10 years ago, which calculated how many ACS
> retirements (Accident-Collision-Spin) each driver had in their career.
> Researched by Alan Jones (not that one), it was very interesting.
Over the long term perhaps. I reckon the Williams and Lotus figures would be a bit skewed this year.
Still. McLaren are roughly 5% less reliable than their major competition. Not good is it.
