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  1. mike96 said:
    FRIC could be gone from next race

    http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/114881

    This will be really interesting, it's believed the FRIC is one of the main reasons Mercedes dominates.

    Doubt it. If they use FRIC as much as they did last year, it would most probably mess with the brake by wire too much to get any advantage of it.

    I predict the teams will agree to keep the FRIC the way it is until the end of the season. However, if they do agree to ban it from Germany onwards, Mercedes will continue to dominate.

    You heard it here first. ;)
    It's already known that Mercedes run the most complicated FRIC and they're benefitting from it.

  2. yugin96 said:
    To add on, the gulley on along a straight. If it were at a corner, that would be something of note, but who pays attention to what's on the side of every straight on the circuit?
    Well there's always the chance it will happen as we saw on Sunday, and it''s after a corner where it's easy to get boxed out on the 1st lap as we've seen a few times

  3. Chilton:  “I was pretty lucky to be honest after the first-lap incident. I just saw one of the Ferraris escape over the exit kerb. And then it rejoined, and it seemed to bottom out as it rejoined. He had a massive tank-slapper and it looked like he regained control and then it shot off again.

    “I could see it was going to be a big one because the Armco on the right-hand side was at 45 degrees and there was no tyre [wall]. I was waiting for something to happen and it was like an explosion, everything shot diagonally left across the track.

    “I could see a big bit of silver coming and I’m pretty sure it was the alloy [wheel] because I shut my eyes at that point and there was a big impact. Thank god it hit the front nose and went to the left-hand side of the car, hit my front-left and destroyed the brake duct.”

    Chilton drove his damaged car back to the pits, but collected a drive-through penalty for coming in while the race was suspended.

    “I thought my race was over,” he said. “They managed to rebuild the front-left during the long red-flag stoppage.”

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