Originally Posted by soulboy77:
“If they have to lose one driver then I would assume parent company Mercedes will have some influence and Nico having German nationality might be favoured ahead of Lewis.”
Must admit, I'm a bit dubious of it happening but, as I said, I'm sure Rosberg
must be thinking that any future collisions will always work in his favour due to his points-advantage so he'll be the one who the possibility of being removed from the car will weigh most heavily on.
I
suppose, at worst, if Rosberg gets it into his head to do a Senna-style manoeuvre and run Hamilton off the road, Merc' would be able to "sell" his removal to the parent company on the basis that an unsportsmanlike driver isn't good for the corporate image.
And, to be clear, I'm not suggesting that Rosberg
has done anything hugely unsportsmanlike thus far, or that he'd be likely to do anything like that in future.
I'm just suggesting how the team could justify removing him to the parent company.
Originally Posted by BinaryDad:
“That really depends. If the wheels are not digging down into the gravel there's no friction or rolling resistance as the car rides up to the surface of the gravel with locked wheels.”
I suppose it's a swings & roundabouts sort of thing.
I honestly don't know what sort of "offs" are most common or most likely at Parabolica but it just seems like a tarmac run-off area wouldn't be much use if, say, your brakes failed on the way in.
Ideally, I guess you'd have a tarmac run-off to allow drivers to run wide and
then you'd have something else to slow a car down before it hits the wall but I'm not sure there's enough room at Parabolica for both... unless they
have bought more land.