Formula 1 2010: Round 1 Bahrain

ppink

enzo7 wrote: »

Im just excited that schuey is back, dont really care if anything else happens:D

me too:D

so have the cars got bigger tanks now or were they always able to take enough fuel to complete a race.....i didn't think so? Or are the races shorter?

Shane732

It's great to see the mighty Schumacher back all right - At what point in the season will he have the championship won?

Hope he hammers Hamilton into the first corner on Sunday!

Shane732

ppink wrote: »

me too:D

so have the cars got bigger tanks now or were they always able to take enough fuel to complete a race.....i didn't think so? Or are the races shorter?

Bigger tanks

ppink

thanks

i have lots of catching up to do. who could have know Schu would come back and i would have to start watching again lol

It should revive some of the good duels that were had years ago Brit v German etc!
Is Hamilton or Button as good I wonder?

enzo7

ppink wrote: »

thanks

i have lots of catching up to do. who could have know Schu would come back and i would have to start watching again lol

It should revive some of the good duels that were had years ago Brit v German etc!
Is Hamilton or Button as good I wonder?

As good as who??? Hamilton is a fantastic talent!!! Not in schumachers league but as close as you we have seen. Button is a nice guy and he did fantastic last yr and all credit to him but his not someone ive ever rated that much tbh.

Beekay

Really wish it was the Aussie GP kicking off the season, can't stand Bahrain, always so boring!

naughto

wekk happy thats its back brawn/merci will be the one to watch i think

dubtom

Anyone got a tip on how to watch that bbc iplayer,I'm getting a sorry,your not in the uk message.

amacachi

Anyone else get an e-mail from Formula1.com? The text service looks pretty good I have to say.

G-Money

Up at 7.40am on a Sat morning for F1, you need the dedication

rugbyman

grandmaster, what should I be looking at?
Rugbyman

frostie500

Ferrari seemed to stretch their legs at the end of practice when everyone would have been on low fuel quali simulation runs.

Chandhok didnt do a lap so he is out for the weekend.

blackiebest

Yes yes yes yes yes, Thank the stars and all thats holy, F1 back and should be the best season in years:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

EvilMonkey

McLaren have a live timing dashboard with a circuit map ,telemetry and text commentary from "pit wall" on their site mclaren.com

I looked ok during practice, it should be up again for qualifying.

frostie500 wrote: »

Chandhok didnt do a lap so he is out for the weekend.

From what i here if they can get the car ready for qualifying he can still go out, it counts as a practice session.

frostie500

EvilMonkey wrote: »

From what i here if they can get the car ready for qualifying he can still go out, it counts as a practice session.

Has there been a change in the regulations? I know that in the past you had to have partaken in at least one lap of practice to be eligible to qualify for the race, we'll find out in a few minutes anyway!

BoardsRanger

The position of Karun Chandhok should never be allowed to happen again. Formula 1 qualifying is not a shake down for instalation laps.

Elsewhere, did the BBC really need to speed 50% of their VT on Schumacher documenting 3 incidents in his career.

liam7831

BoardsRanger wrote: »

The position of Karun Chandhok should never be allowed to happen again. Formula 1 qualifying is not a shake down for instalation laps.

Elsewhere, did the BBC really need to speed 50% of their VT on Schumacher documenting 3 incidents in his career.

Its an accurate reflection of his career, brilliant but tarnished

BoardsRanger

liam7831 wrote: »

Its an accurate reflection of his career, brilliant but tarnished

No it is not. I think there was alot more brilliance throughout his career than those 3 incidents. Hence, not a proportionate reflection in the VT.

liam7831

BoardsRanger wrote: »

No it is not. I think there was alot more brilliance throughout his career than those 3 incidents. Hence, not a proportionate reflection in the VT.

Ya it is, if he was to be regarded as a great he could accept graciously being beaten, a feat he could never achieve

dor83

liam7831 wrote: »

Ya it is, if he was to be regarded as a great he could accept graciously being beaten, a feat he could never achieve

Thats what made him great, it was the same with Senna who was no angel either.

11811

BoardsRanger wrote: »

The position of Karun Chandhok should never be allowed to happen again. Formula 1 qualifying is not a shake down for instalation laps.

Yeah, really feel for the guy! Not a great position to be in, least they made it.
Any way here we go....:D:pac:

liam7831

dor83 wrote: »

Thats what made him great, it was the same with Senna who was no angel either.

Is F1 not destruction derby, if he could not win he would try to take any opponent out, as he did three times.
He did get banned after all

dor83

liam7831 wrote: »

Is F1 not destruction derby, if he could not win he would try to take any opponent out, as he did three times.
He did get banned after all

He's not the first driver to do that, Senna was exactly the same and people seem to forget about that. The difference between good and great is not accepting defeat imo.

Beekay

Someone in the BBC has a thing for Black Sabbath going by the music in the build up!:D

Sutil with an impressive Q.1!

amacachi

Sutil looking very good. Think the Red Bulls look decent IMO.

amacachi

Also, damn live timing on Formula1.com won't work.

dor83

amacachi wrote: »

Also, damn live timing on Formula1.com won't work.

Working fine for me.

amacachi

dor83 wrote: »

Working fine for me.

Yeah think I just have some problem with Java, tried a coupla browsers and no worky. Feck it anyway.

dor83

amacachi wrote: »

Yeah think I just have some problem with Java, tried a coupla browsers and no worky. Feck it anyway.

I had the same problem yesterday, using Chrome now and had to download an update to get it to work.

Ghost Train

almost like q3 with all the cars going out and the teams so close

amacachi

dor83 wrote: »

I had the same problem yesterday, using Chrome now and had to download an update to get it to work.

What Operating System have you? I'm on Windows 7, I tried Opera and Internet Explorer, did the update, restarted, no good.

amacachi

Ghost Train wrote: »

almost like q3 with all the cars going out and the teams so close

And very little difference made. :P

Hope at least for Q3 they have the list down the side like they had last year.

dor83

Ghost Train wrote: »

almost like q3 with all the cars going out and the teams so close

Button and Schumi were very close to going out there, I reckon Alonso and Vettel on the front row.

dor83

amacachi wrote: »

What Operating System have you? I'm on Windows 7, I tried Opera and Internet Explorer, did the update, restarted, no good.

Using windows 7, did you try Google Chrome?

benzie

Top Ten Shoot Out
1.VET
2.ALO
3.WEB
4.MAS
5.ROS
6.HAM
7.KUB
8.SUT
9.SCHU
10.BUT

amacachi

dor83 wrote: »

Using windows 7, did you try Google Chrome?

I shall, though I hate it.

dor83

amacachi wrote: »

I shall, though I hate it.

I know what you mean but it's working for me so I use it, and I hate IE even more.

benzie

Here we go........---> HAM the first 2 go on

amacachi

Chrome works, very odd.

Top four will have Alonso and the two Red Bulls.

benzie

If you can't get the Formula1.com Live timing at the moment this is the decent alternative while you set your browser http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8564532.stm

benzie

WOW look at the flags, 4 Germany in the top 10!!

amacachi

Must've been all saving their tyres somewhat, other than Massa (0.1 better) and Vettel (0.3 worse) they were all half a second or so off their Q2 times.

dor83

amacachi wrote: »

Must've been all saving their tyres somewhat, other than Massa (0.1 better) and Vettel (0.3 worse) they were all half a second or so off their Q2 times.

Bit strange, I reckon Alonso must have messed up in th 2nd sector, dropped all the time there.

BoardsRanger

Haha - schumi will never change. everyone else in getting weighed whilst he checks out their cars!

amacachi

dor83 wrote: »

Bit strange, I reckon Alonso must have messed up in th 2nd sector, dropped all the time there.

Alonso doesn't look happy does he? Should be good craic tomorrow to see how Massa's tyres hold up.

I'm impressed with Schumi. Some seem to be disappointed but leaving aside his age, to come into these cars when everyone else has had a year with them and be only a couple of tenths down at a track his team mate does well at.

amacachi

Rubens in a good mood.

Ghost Train

interesting to finally have a true benchmark of the cars and four teams making up the the top five, should make for a good race

jvc

Is that James Allen asking the questions in the press conference?

BoardsRanger

BoardsRanger wrote: »

Haha - schumi will never change. everyone else in getting weighed whilst he checks out their cars!

Didn't look none too happy did he.
This is gonna be fun! This season.

dor83

amacachi wrote: »

Alonso doesn't look happy does he? Should be good craic tomorrow to see how Massa's tyres hold up.

I still reckon he'll win the race, he has been faster than Massa all weekend and the Ferrari has the better long run pace and is better on it's tyres than the Red Bull.

amacachi wrote: »

I'm impressed with Schumi. Some seem to be disappointed but leaving aside his age, to come into these cars when everyone else has had a year with them and be only a couple of tenths down at a track his team mate does well at.

Yeah, a lot of people expected him to come in and be right at the front from the start, which after 3 years out thats a bit too much, even for him.