Sport The Formula 1 Thread

[myoozikk]

LOL!

[rafaqat]

Yep, your main title sponsor has to be declared by the 1st race of the season, only exception is if the team gets taken over mid season and even at that its up to the FIA.

You are allowed change your small time sponsors within reason and I think that the main sponser logo or design is allowed change through the year but not the name or who you are sponsored by

Holy Fuck, Is that Kimi........smiling

Reminds me of David Icke for some reason.

[myoozikk]

WHOA!!!!

edit: sorry missed the pic on the previous page.

[Blu3Flame]

Here comes the rain!

[Bruciebabie]

Here comes the rain!

Bernie pressed the "wet" button.

[myoozikk]

i wish bernie would press the wet button more often.

[marsh]

Is..........is that a........MULLET????

[Wilbo]

OMFG @ Sutil's incredible power-slide in practice.

The man has surely spent some time in Japan.

[probeater]

that was pretty impressive.

Why is the live practice on iplayer streamed at 5 fps? Its really annoying and not really worth watching.

[Bruciebabie]

First practice (it is a list!).

1. Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:12.463 29

2. Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes 1:12.874 + 0.411 32

3. Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:12.932 + 0.469 27

4. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:12.989 + 0.526 25

5. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:13.048 + 0.585 25

6. Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:13.067 + 0.604 21

7. Button Brawn-Mercedes 1:13.141 + 0.678 29

8. Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:13.147 + 0.684 23

09. Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:13.232 + 0.769 23

10. Raikkonen Ferrari 1:13.321 + 0.858 24

11. Trulli Toyota 1:13.326 + 0.863 26

12. Heidfeld BMW-Sauber 1:13.464 + 1.001 28

13. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:13.503 + 1.040 24

14. Kubica BMW-Sauber 1:13.563 + 1.100 24

15. Fisichella Ferrari 1:13.619 + 1.156 23

16. Alonso Renault 1:13.787 + 1.324 28

17. Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 1:13.829 + 1.366 26

18. Kobayashi Toyota 1:14.029 + 1.566 27

19. Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:14.040 + 1.577 38

20. Grosjean Renault 1:14.173 + 1.710 23

[myoozikk]

time lists are cool.

[Bruciebabie]

OMFG @ Sutil's incredible power-slide in practice.

The man has surely spent some time in Japan.

At well over 100mph.

Just shows the amazing skill these guys have.

Also demonstrates what F1 could be like if power exceeded grip by a bigger margin.

Just ban wings.

It worked before:

[RFT]

At well over 100mph.

Just shows the amazing skill these guys have.

Also demonstrates what F1 could be like if power exceeded grip by a bigger margin.

Just ban wings.

It worked before:

...must reinstall Grand Prix Legends...

[morcs]

...must reinstall Grand Prix Legends...

Is the GPL community still going strong? I wonder how much of it iRacing has taken up.

[Bruciebabie]

Brazil Previews.

Nice one with Nico Rosberg:

A bit long and boring with Jarno Trulli:

Motors TV part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Nice virtual preview:

Kobayashi video (he isn't the slowest so far!)

[roskelld]

There's been a few chances to watch Button's in car view during P2.

He's looking great, after an early complaint about understeer and oversteer (IIRC), he came in, tweaked and went back out again.

Really smooth driving though, very comfortable.

Looking at his times, I think he's done a stint on lowish fuel and on high as his latter laps weren't really pushing for quickest time but looked good all the same.

Renaults haven't been looking overly special, Alonso has managed to get up to 12th, but generally low times. Might be a high fuel thing, dunno.

EDIT: I think the real low fuel runs are starting now, but how the weather will help them I don't know.

[roskelld]

Alonso threw in the fastest lap at the end just to show that he's not a midpack driver

[marsh]

Alonso threw in the fastest lap at the end just to show that he's running on vapours:)

[mexos]

time lists are cool.

[Bruciebabie]

time lists are cool.

2nd practice:

1 Fernando Alonso 7 Renault 1:12.314

2 Sebastien Buemi 12 Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:12.357

3 Rubens Barrichello 23 Brawn-Mercedes 1:12.459

4 Mark Webber 14 Red Bull-Renault 1:12.514

5 Jenson Button 22 Brawn-Mercedes 1:12.523

6 Jarno Trulli 9 Toyota 1:12.605

7 Sebastian Vettel 15 Red Bull-Renault 1:12.611

8 Nico Rosberg 16 Williams-Toyota 1:12.633

9 Adrian Sutil 20 Force India-Mercedes 1:12.720

10 Lewis Hamilton 1 McLaren-Mercedes 1:12.749

11 Romain Grosjean 8 Renault 1:12.806

12 Robert Kubica 5 BMW Sauber 1:12.862

13 Kamui Kobayashi 10 Toyota 1:12.869

14 Kazuki Nakajima 17 Williams-Toyota 1:12.929

15 Nick Heidfeld 6 BMW Sauber 1:12.948

17 Heikki Kovalainen 2 McLaren-Mercedes 1:12.992

18 Kimi Raikkonen 4 Ferrari 1:13.026

19 Jaime Alguersuari 11 Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:13.041

20 Giancarlo Fisichella 3 Ferrari 1:13.275

[myoozikk]

[Sidewaysbob]

Mostly, as to be expected. Apart from Hamilton being down in 10th. I though he would be higher up than that. maybe he's errrum sand bagging .. i guess ...

[marsh]

I've just watched an interview with Massa. He looks like he's been smashed round the face with a frying pan, wandering around in a sort of permadazed and confused look.

[myoozikk]

Mostly, as to be expected. Apart from Hamilton being down in 10th. I though he would be higher up than that. maybe he's errrum sand bagging .. i guess ...

buemi is 2nd, so I'm not Reading to much into those times at all.

[roskelld]

Hamilton didn't really make much of a mark for P2, although he did complete 39 laps. There was one short stint showing his in car view, in which strangely he didn't use his KERS.

Still for a Practice session there was some enjoyable viewing to be had, Sutil's powerslide certainly made it worth it; shame he spun it later on or he'd have probably gotten away with saying that he was trying a new F1 cornering tactic.

I thought I'd post those timings as they show the number of laps done.

Not much talk of Ferrari yet, Fissi stalled his car and Kimi despite doing 42 laps didn't make much of a showing.

It's worth noting that there's less than a second between 1st and last though, with Sector 2 giving the biggest difference in time, peaking at about half a second. S1 and S3 are pretty much the same for all drivers.

[Bruciebabie]

Sutil drift:

Legend.

[Rattlehead.ie]

haha thats winner!

[Hackign]

They should make all the cars be able to do that all the time. Make it like Ridge Racer.

[Bruciebabie]

Huge rainfall at the circuit right now.

Practice 3 in half an hour at 15.00 BST.

On BBC1 red button and BBC online.

We will see if the revised drainage works or whether we have the traditional Interlagos streams across the circuit.

[Bruciebabie]

As an aside Interlagos is second only to Monaco for the presence of superb female talent at the circuit.

Occasionally the cameramen and video producer get very sidetracked, especially if the race is boring.