In the round-up: McLaren say they set a new record for the fastest pit stop stationary time in the European Grand Prix
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McLaren: pit stop 'not the norm' (The Telegraph)
'Mercedes were the previous record holders of the fastest stationary pit stop, achieving a time similar to McLaren's 2.6s in Korea last year. But the Woking team believe they were just quicker.'
- 2012 European GP tyre strategies and pit stops
Three teams still on for Silverstone test (Autosport)
'Discussions have taken place over the past two Grands Prix to try and resolve the matter, and it now appears that at least three teams ' believed to include Marussia, HRT and Williams ' are now planning to run on the Thursday and Friday after the British GP.'
McLaren predicts fierce development (ESPN)
Sam Michael: 'I think the development rate this year is going to be really fierce because in the past there were things that maybe for half a tenth you would have lumped into something else, but it's not like that now. 50 milliseconds is one place this year, sometimes two places, so you're going to be bringing gains that are tinier and tinier. It would be interesting to see what the gap between the top 10-15 is like from the start of the year, because it feels like it's getting tighter and tighter.'
European GP Review (Williams)
Chief operations engineer Mark Gallagher: 'Obviously the team were disappointed to see one of our cars sustain damage so close to the end of the race when we were showing good pace, but we respect the decision taken by the stewards. Both Pastor [Maldonado] and the team have moved on and the focus is now on achieving a good result at Silverstone.'
Martin Whitmarsh: 'These days everything is a surprise'' (Adam Cooper)
'At the end [Lewis Hamilton] was clearly and obviously struggling on the tyres. Twenty nine laps on either tyre was going to be a challenge, and it proved very difficult to do. If you stopped early you were taking a big risk, so it was difficult to come through that one.'
GP Of America Making 'Significant Progress,' Spokesman Says (Speed)
Alex Howe: 'Nothing has changed in the last two weeks, since we hosted Sebastian Vettel and David Coulthard as the first drivers from F1 to try out the new circuit. We continue to make significant progress toward the first race in June 2013, in all aspects.'
Circuit officials offer to send county staffers to London race (Statesman)
'Local Formula One organisers have offered to pay airfare and other expenses for two Travis County employees to observe the arrangements for a race in England next week, a move the county judge endorses.'
Vijay Mallya Q&A: Force India on target for podium (F1)
'We want to be on the podium. I think we're close to it now.'
Will Mercedes offer Schumacher a new contract? (BBC)
'They are known to be interested in Hamilton, the only one of the big three who is potentially available to take his place. But Hamilton may well not be available ' he seems more likely to either stick with McLaren or to try to persuade Red Bull they should take him on given the reasonable possibility they could lose Vettel to Ferrari at the end of next year.'
Alonso sails serenely (Sky)
Martin Brundle: 'To suggest the safety car was a tactical deployment to spice up the racing is nonsense. We saw as they pushed Vettel's and other cars away at various times just how difficult it is for the marshals to clear the track at that circuit between the walls and with limited internal service access.'
Sexism in F1 or just playing to the target audience? (The really bad F word)
'Perhaps if there was a female driver or two, she would have hunky men at her car with bulging muscles wearing a stretchy tight tank top? I still cannot see this happening any time soon though.'
Comment of the day
Does unreliability make F1 races more exciting? SirCoolbeans is hatching a plan:
It was fun to see reliability issues return, it's not a nice way to exit a Grand Prix, but it really spiced up the show.
So, overtaking and reliability issues make for entertaining races, maybe we need another button on the steering wheel that the driver presses in a designated zone, it will 'roll a dice' and give them a 1 in 100 chance of having their car forced to break down, but only if they are leading by more than some arbitrary time.
It could be called the Reliability Determination System or RDS, it would sit well next to DRS.
SirCoolbeans
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