The Mercedes is clearly better for qualifying I doubt they will get a podium in a normal race.
Merc are insanely fast in a straight line and the huge straights at Sepang will definitely suit them even in the race , especially since they will be able to use the DRS once they are within a second down the 2 biggest straights.
They are gonna be insanely fast at Canada, but by then most of the teams would have caught up with them and their duct
More on Lotus fire
On Friday night, the Lotus F1 Team hospitality unit here at the Sepang International Circuit was the victim of a fire, causing the team to abandon ship for the rest of the weekend and seek refuge elsewhere in the paddock.
At around 03:00 local time, smoke began to fill the Lotus F1 Team hospitality unit as one of the kitchen refrigerators blew a fuse setting the ground floor alight.
Thankfully nobody was present in the temporary structure at the time, and so no injuries were incurred. The team did however lose catering equipment, food and drink, and some marketing materials. One of Kimi’s helmets also perished in the blaze, and although the rest of the driver’s equipment was rescued it is now covered in soot.
http://www.lotusf1team.com/We-Didn-t-Start-the-Fire.html?lang=en
Since i am the only Hamilton supporter around here, congrats to Hamilton for tq even with a mistake on the final corner, tq with room to spare. Hopefully tomorrow goes better than last week.
Merc are insanely fast in a straight line and the huge straights at Sepang will definitely suit them even in the race , especially since they will be able to use the DRS once they are within a second down the 2 biggest straights.
They are gonna be insanely fast at Canada, but by then most of the teams would have caught up with them and their duct
Yes, you can come out of your illegal streams of the F1 and memories of when watching the sport wasnt some kind of painful expensive choice between a divorced mummy (bbc) and daddy (sky) and rejoice as Kevin and Terry return to do another (you didnt expect it) f1 (but you wanted it) podcast!
The Australian Grand Prix, pre season testing, Kimi getting confused, Terry getting hurt, Massa whining, Hamilton psyching himself up and Button being so damned cool about it all. Its anotherf1podcast. Back in your ears.
The forecast sems to mean nothing so realistically it could rain at any time tomorrow.
Predicting 5000 posts before race is over tomorrow.
Massa really is a useless twat. The car is embarrassing enough for Ferarri, but the fact they haven't fired him is the most ridiculous thing.
Webber is showing his experience, I think. Vettel may be the better driver with a great car, but now Red Bull aren't on top Webber is using his years of experience with lesser cars to get more out of it. Nice to see.
Quali is SO exciting this year so far. Nice to see everything so close. It's going to be a great season.
To be fair Webber has looked better than Vettel through qualifying... there were a few laps in there that Vettel just couldn't seem to match.Vettel was on the hards so Webber's slightly faster lap on softs isn't a sign that he is getting more out of the car.
To be fair Webber has looked better than Vettel through qualifying... there were a few laps in there that Vettel just couldn't seem to match.
I don't know if it was a case of Red Bull still experimenting or not though. We'll certainly see what they've got in the race (unless Webber goes backwards at the start and then angrily takes Vettel out when he goes past him).
True, but I have yet to see evidence that Webber is getting more out of the car yet, in fact in race trim Vettel looked very good last weekend, and though his second place had a huge slice of luck with the SC he still managed to do it.
Also, Webber fantastically terrible starts will see him end up 12th at the end of the first lap while Seb will probably be third ahead of Lewis with Button and Schumacher in 1st/2nd.
I think the car characteristics with ban on EBD have suited Webber again. The car setup is similar to 2010 where he and Vettel were evenly matched at most races.
There's like 3-4 of us here. Still confident about a win this Sunday.Since i am the only Hamilton supporter around here, congrats to Hamilton for tq even with a mistake on the final corner, tq with room to spare. Hopefully tomorrow goes better than last week.
I'm not going to say I called it, but I totally fucking did. Knew that with the changes, Vettel would at least take time to adapt while Webber would come to grips fairly quickly. Not just from a fanboy point of view, but it's just common sense that his experience would come into play, especially with his run of shit teams where he had to wring the hell out of the cars he was given. Similar could be said of Button and Hamilton.Massa really is a useless twat. The car is embarrassing enough for Ferarri, but the fact they haven't fired him is the most ridiculous thing.
Webber is showing his experience, I think. Vettel may be the better driver with a great car, but now Red Bull aren't on top Webber is using his years of experience with lesser cars to get more out of it. Nice to see.
Quali is SO exciting this year so far. Nice to see everything so close. It's going to be a great season.
Webber's time in Q1 on hards was pretty fucking close to Vettel's in Q3. Moreso considering that Q1 wasn't even for any starting position and could've just arsed in a top 10 time.To be fair Webber has looked better than Vettel through qualifying... there were a few laps in there that Vettel just couldn't seem to match.
I don't know if it was a case of Red Bull still experimenting or not though. We'll certainly see what they've got in the race (unless Webber goes backwards at the start and then angrily takes Vettel out when he goes past him).
Oh I'll hold the fan for my engineer
Wow fan feels good on my face
I'll blow some in this guys face, Oh yeah, open that mouth
Oh God my balls
Oh shit the camera!!
Don't mind me, I'm just holding this fan, you know pointed in a random direction, not cooling my balls at all, nothing to see here.
Kimi Raikkonen believes his Lotus had the potential to be inside the top two in qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix, had not made a mistake on his Q3 flying lap at Sepang.
Asked by AUTOSPORT if he could have been one of the two fastest drivers in qualifying, the winner of this event in 2003 replied: "Yeah for sure. It's [his time] a tenth away from the top three and for sure we lost that easily.
"I got out of shape in two places and lost maybe a tenth or two, and on a perfect lap for sure it could have been two tenths faster, but it's not often that you get everything right like that so..."
Ferrari needs an actual working nose on that car.
Didn't Hamilton lock up on the last corner too? Or am I just making things up.
312.7 kph Michael Schumacher
310.8 kph Romain Grosjean
309.9 kph Nico Rosberg
309.8 kph Kimi Räikkönen
309.8 kph Daniel Ricciardo
309.4 kph Nico Hulkenberg
309.1 kph Lewis Hamilton
308.9 kph Jenson Button
308.7 kph Paul di Resta
308.3 kph Heikki Kovalainen
308.1 kph Jean-Eric Vergne
307.6 kph Vitaly Petrov
306.8 kph Kamui Kobayashi
305.1 kph Pastor Maldonado
305.0 kph Bruno Senna
304.0 kph Sergio Perez
302.6 kph Fernando Alonso
302.0 kph Felipe Massa
301.2 kph Narain Karthikeyan
300.0 kph Pedro de la Rosa
299.0 kph Mark Webber
298.7 kph Sebastian Vettel
296.6 kph Charles Pic
296.6 kph Timo Glock