Hi guys, about post-race decisions and the issue of reset the engine temps, several questions come to mind:
- If this bug was notified to the organization prior to the race, why was it not communicated by admins to all the teams so that we could race under the same conditions?
- If tomorrow we find a new bug, do I understand that from today onwards it´s right to continually exploit it in the race?
- Taking into account the temperature problems we had in Bahrain, does any driver or engineer of other teams think that leaving the pits at 80º would be in the same conditions as leaving the pit with the engine at 120º? Do they handle it the same? Is it the same competitively?


And honestly, IMHO win the race... surely they would have won it by far anyway. Now in sportsmanship, it doesn't seem like a win to me. I think we all lost.

 

They were just smarter, this is NOT cheating.

 

At no point I ask if they are cheating or if they are smarter, there is no doubt about that.

 

btw: I checked the replay out of curiosity: For some reason you guys were reving up to almost 7000 rpm in the first stint (when engine temps were still equal after the start), about 500-700 rpm higher than we did, depending on the part of the track. So I guess temperature probably wasn't that much of an issue for your car in the first place.

 

First of all, congratulations for the champ. Well deserved, no chance for us.

In fact, yes, we had a problem, we were pushing oil above 120º during important part of the race, with the consequent risk of burning the engine. Risk that, by the way, you didn´t take, changing drivers at each stop (the only race in which you did so), exploiting a bug that resets the engine temperature when driver swap.

Your mate already said it:

 

Hier ein Video, wie es für unser Team so lief


Danke an alle Orgas für die Saison!!!