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It's almost 4 a.m.; after coming back from my work, I enjoyed a nice late dinner, dis some check on the net (and a couple of answers on this Forum), and it's time to sleep, as in 3 hours I'm waking up to go to the circuit.
I'll not be able of posting until I'll back, so I just wanted to open this thread when I can write on it.
Nice race for all of you.
So...
Anyone reckon that the chicane is going to make the race any better?
Also, I expect that this will be the first race where both the McLarens and Ferraris will finish in the top 4.
Fantastic Start!!!! Hamilton from 4th to 2nd on the start... the man is awesome.
My boy Scott Speed (USA) went from 21 to 14 in the first lap!!!
Massa leads
Oh my the Ferrari broke! Kimi is out.
After a fantastic start, Scott Speed's left rear tire just exploded. Dissapointing.
(This is fun, a single person discussion here.)
Poor Kimi... :(
Damn Toyota :mad:
Kimi should go to Chruch and ask for help against dark magic :(
Jarno should do the same...Quote:
Originally Posted by F1boat
I notice something funny - Alonso makes good S1 and S2, but loses in S3.
Yeah, he drove so well yesterday... :(Quote:
Originally Posted by pino
flames in the pit.... never good.
Hamilton has led every single one of his grand prixs so far.
Horrible week for Torro Rosso, despite Speed's pace in practice.
so whats the running order
Hamilton has a large enough lead he should be able to pit out ahead of Alonso.
Hamilton is sitting 9.2 to the good of Alonso!
This is quite a exciting race, if only for the sheer amount of bad things happening.
And look what happened with Nick! :(
go to formula1.com very nice lap tracker, the exact same one they look at in the pits.Quote:
Originally Posted by harvick#1
Michael Shumacher jinxed his brother ;)
And Massa wins ahead of Hamilton! Congratulations to both of them!
Alonso doesn't look happy on the podium, he expected to win today I think.
That second place has now put Hamilton in the lead for the championship at 30 pts. Alonso is 2nd at 28. Massa 3rd at 27. And Raikkonen drops to 4th, still at 22.
A fantastic race for Massa and Hamilton, this has really boosted their championship hopes.
Kubica did a great job picking up points for BMW with Nick out of the race. Coulthard, Rosberg, Kovaleinen, and SATO!!! all did a great job.
The race itself was pretty boring though.
Massa continues to surprise me. He drove a flawless race and his car was much quicker than I expected after practice and qualifying. Forza Ferrari!
He should get a bit more realistic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian McC
Given how well Lewis did in the flyaway races I was expecting him to be even faster in Europe, where he knows the tracks.
So, how many overtaking moves at the new chicane?
I can't remember any, but I might have missed them while TF1 was presenting their 5 commercial brakes!
Räikkönen, Webber, Trulli - all "famous car breakers" (at least this is the image of them) fell into trouble once again. On the contrary McLaren is running problemfree. This automatically raises an interesting question - coincidence?
I'd say some bold words about Toyota - the car is unacceptably unreliable!
And a shame for BMW's pit crew. Heidfeld could have challenged even for podium today as he was running heavier than Kubica during the first stint and was quite close to the Pole.
Quite many incidents at Spanish Grand Prix this time - seems like that one-month-long brake hasn't had a positive effect on some teams. :p :
But faster than before, that's the way to go in F1, first you need speed than reliability.Quote:
Originally Posted by jens
Terrible! The race to the first corner was the whole race!Quote:
Originally Posted by akv89
I have heard that peoople graduating to F1 say that what they learn is lower formulae regarding circuits is of little, if any use in F1 as F1 cars behave so diffently to anything else and all the braking point, acceleration point, etc. are different.Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan
There was a good comment from one of the ITV guys on Saturday, mentioning that Hamilton hasn't done 3 things yet:
1. Get a pole
2. Win a race
4. Make a mistake
I wonder which one he does first.
Next race is Monaco. All of these three is possible.
Alonsos myth is slowly, but surley getting exposed...
Add to that list the fact that Hamilton has never lost at Monaco!Quote:
Originally Posted by aryan
Boring race, I recorded it and fast- forwarded half of it, and then fell asleep at the end.
For some reason it tends to be so that whenever Toyota looks quick, they fall into all kinds of troubles... with the only exception being the start of 2005.Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan
Thats nice. This nugget of information really helped out the race thread. I am so glad that you know how to record video, that your fast-forward button works, and you don't have insomnia.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow
:-)
LOL :( )Quote:
Originally Posted by e2mtt
good one!
So there were lots of incidents.
Dull race!
Goes to show that stop-gap solutions like a chicane won't fix underlying problems that is the aero regulations.
I turned the TV off with 20 laps to go to get some sleep. And maybe 8th place was different.
Disappointing entertainment. Considering MotoGP in China was a "dull" race, I wonder how you would class this one? :confused:
Thanks :up: I like to add to the discussion :DQuote:
Originally Posted by e2mtt
There were some good fights in the midfield and I have to say that I really enjoyed it when Taku moved in front of Fisi and was able to hold the 8th place!
Also DC's masterfull driving to keep a minimum gap to Rosberg was worth to be watched.
The start and the end of the race were good for me.
Ahh, thanks for being a good sport. I didn't really want to start a flame war.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow