Although far fewer drivers stalled in Barcelona compared to Baku, Whiting wants to be ensure starts are as safe as possible before drivers compete on the narrow confines of Monaco.

What they say

We’ll have to look at the data but on the face of it it looks a lot better. One [Saturday] and none [Saturday]. We really need to talk to the drivers and try and find out what their reaction is.

But I think it’s a lot better because basically what was happening was when they put their foot on the throttle and take it to the limiter, which is what they normally do, the engine was oscillating too much – 2,500-3,000rpm – and if the driver dropped the clutch when it was on its way down, that’s when it would stall. So what they’ve done is taken a test car, done lots of tests and they’ve now narrowed that oscillation down to 1,000. And that seems to have helped a great deal.

We’ll have a more sturdy solution in Paul Ricard. But we need to analyse the data now to see if we feel comfortable with taking that system to Monaco, for obvious reasons.

Social media

Notable posts from Twitter, Instagram and more:

🇬🇧Big thank you to everyone for all the kind messages I received over the past week. I’m in Indianapolis now working on my recovery. We will be back racing very soon! pic.twitter.com/wXrKuWDpcn

— Pietro Fittipaldi (@PiFitti) May 15, 2018

Was it really 4 years ago this week that I spotted @CaterhamF1 CT05#1 being pushed back into the truck after the Spanish GP? @Circuitcat_eng now I own the car and will be driving it this year pic.twitter.com/65hDQC93F3

— Caterham F1.co.uk (@KevTs) May 15, 2018

Links

More motor racing links of interest:

Make headlines in F1 2018 (Codemasters)

“Career mode has been further expanded to immerse players even deeper into the world of F1 than before, with the return of a highly requested feature back into the franchise. We are also adding more classic cars, again listening to our fans as to which of the historical F1 cars they would most like to virtually drive next.”

Indianapolis 500 entry list (PDF) (IndyCar)

The final entry list for this year’s Indianapolis 500 featured 35 drivers, meaning two will be cut from the race in qualifying this weekend. Among them are six former winners, returning star Danica Patrick taking her final bow and Zachary Claman De Melo who was announced yesterday as a substitute for the injury Pietro Fittipaldi.

Rowland hopes Williams might ‘take a punt’ (Autosport)

“Look at Valtteri Bottas, when he was here, he did a similar thing. He didn’t race anything and focused on his development role here.”

Whose upgrades delivered the biggest Barcelona boost? (F1)

“As well as a revised engine inlet – which involved a new crash/load test because of the roll hoop arrangement – and a modified front wing, the RB14’s sidepods had been reshaped to give a tighter ‘coke bottle’ section in plan view. This entailed rearranging the radiators within to get the required shape and altering the barge board arrangement to suit the new sidepod shape.”

Sensational Senna in Monaco (McLaren)

” I remember a kind of ghostly look came over Alain’s face; he just couldn’t understand how or where Ayrton’s time had come from.”

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