Bahrain Practice, Qually, Race thread

[Hawkmoon]

Didn't Kimi do a 33.1 in the first session? That would put him almost 0.5 up on the rest of the grid. If Kimi leads lap 1 he'll walk this one.

[janneppi]

Yes, Kimi posted two of the fastest times in yesterday, Hamilton was second fastest when pretty much everyone but Kimi pmproved their times in second session.
I i were to guess in a optimistic way, i'd say Kimi had more fuel in the second session.

[MaximumAttack]

Actually Kimi said he could have go a lot faster in the 2nd session, but due to the traffic he couldn't get a clean lap at the end of the session. So that explains the small gap between him and Hamilton. I expect that Ferrari still has at least 0.5 sec advantage to McLarens.

[truefan72]

good to see McLaren are keeping the pace with Ferrari

I'm feeling Lewis might win this one

Yes I hope so too, but I have a funny feeling that Ron Dennis is going ti screw up his strategy. Run him heavy again, and use the same stupid pit stop strategy he used Malaysia. LH hasn't put a foot wrong so far in Bahrain, and with new engines, should be given an equal opportunity to race for the win. I hope he takes pole and forces Ron Denni's hand. I wonder how much say he has in determining his own fuel load, tyre strategy etc, in the team. I am sure alonso has that type of freedom. I don't mean down to the nitty gritty, but choices like, " I want to run lighter than in Malaysia in the first stint, and I want to run my hard compound tyres in the scond stint please"

[DimitraF1]

what happened in practise of saturday ?

[janneppi]

P3

1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:32.543
2 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:32.549
3 Nick Heidfeld BMW 1:32.652
4 Robert Kubica BMW 1:32.755
5 Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 1:32.900
6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:32.950
7 Fernando Alonso McLaren-Mercedes 1:33.235
8 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:33.399
9 Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 1:33.602
10 Heikki Kovalainen Renault 1:33.605

[DimitraF1]

wow!!! what happened there? they mix up the teams random?
If massa and alonso have tested race fuel then mclaren is in trouble.
Both ferrari's will handle well hamilton this weekend

[Ian McC]

Nice to see Ant up in 5th

Qualy should be interesting

[pino]

1 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:32.543

2 6 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:32.549

3 9 Nick Heidfeld BMW 1:32.652

4 10 Robert Kubica BMW 1:32.755

5 23 Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 1:32.900

6 5 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:32.950

7 1 Fernando Alonso McLaren-Mercedes 1:33.235

8 15 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:33.399

9 3 Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 1:33.602

10 4 Heikki Kovalainen Renault 1:33.605

11 16 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:33.614

12 17 Alexander Wurz Williams-Toyota 1:33.658

13 18 Vitantonio Liuzzi STR-Ferrari 1:33.700

14 12 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:33.724

15 14 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1:33.826

16 7 Jenson Button Honda 1:34.023

17 22 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 1:34.082

18 8 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:34.397

19 19 Scott Speed STR-Ferrari 1:34.791

20 11 Ralf Schumacher Toyota 1:35.144

21 21 Christijan Albers Spyker-Ferrari 1:35.395

22 20 Adrian Sutil Spyker-Ferrari 1:35.436

[pino]

Qualy should be interesting

Indeed....I can't wait