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[pyro]

Indeed I totally lack any understanding of F1, I could go into my background but I really can't be bothered.

Look at Renaults strategies throughout this season and last, they have been the 1 team to do things drastically different to everyone else in order to gain an advantage when things haven't quite worked out for them in qualifying, weather wise etc etc.

Believe what you want it seems nothing will change your fan boy mind about Hamilton and his "rival" Alonso.

[TofuEater]

Believe what you want it seems nothing will change your fan boy mind about Hamilton and his "rival" Alonso.

Dood, if you'd been paying attention (and perhaps that gives us an insight into why you can't spot the bleeding obvious) - i don't give a flying fuck about Hamilton. It's Mclaren that spins my wheels always has done, always will. The drivers are just means to an end - mkay?

[pyro]

Dood, if you'd been paying attention (and perhaps that gives us an insight into why you can't spot the bleeding obvious) - i don't give a flying fuck about Hamilton. It's Mclaren that spins my wheels always has done, always will. The drivers are just means to an end - mkay?

I don't read every post in this thread, ive seen your past few and you seem to be a Hamilton fan boy, I may be wrong.

[TofuEater]

Renault will never allow Nelsinho to step out of line. They will make sure he knows his place. Sux to be him.

http://forums.gamerhub.co.nz/showpost.php?p=611418&postcount=9
Har - Fragin' nails it!

[Spork]

Ill take some when Im there the next year

You going to Melbourne?

I will definitely see you there!

Or at least, I will be there.

[Obbles]

^ Yea :bigglasse

Tickets on the start/finish line

Got the early bird tickets so get all the pro stuff

We shud totally have a meat

[Spork]

Well I haven't even considered even going yet, but I have been wanting to go for the past three years (since I went in 2006). So depending on the circumstances I will most likely be there.

I usually go in what is called the Senna stand the last corner, just as you get onto the pit straight, on the outside.

[TofuEater]

Alonso's off to Ferarri. Interestingly this was first rumoured on this forum in early 08. Ferarri have a made a habit of getting their drivers a couple of years before they're available - Kimi had done the deal to move in 2005, even though he didn't start driving for them until 07.

Good luck Ferarri, you're gonna need it. :sunnies:

[Quasikomodo]

Massa has driven his F1 car again ....

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/motoring/news/article.cfm?c_id=9&objectid=10602903


Good to see him back.:thumb:

[Spork]

Does anyone remember the race maybe last year, maybe the year before where there was torrential rain, and heaps of cars (including Hamilton) aqua planed off at the end of pit straight.

Race was red flagged, I think one or two cars were pulled/ pushed/ allowed out of the sand trap at the end of the straight. Maybe.

Cheers

EDIT: Should always google first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_red-flagged_Formula_One_races

European.

[EskemoJoe]

Shit i remember getting up super early to watch the 03 brazillian grand prix,a there was carnage. So intense

[Speakman]

i remember that race. like 8 cars finished or something. was nuts

[Spork]

I remember getting up early to watch that US GP, just to be highly disappointed that most of the drivers could not compete.

[Zarkov]

Barricello and Button fight for the championship.

Qualifying - Barrichello rises to the challenge in Brazil


Thunderstorms had been predicted for Interlagos on Saturday, and the forecast proved devastatingly accurate as heavy rain turned qualifying into the longest session ever held in Formula One history. It began at 1400 and ended two hours and 41 minutes later!

Along the way it left luminaries such as Brawn GP’s Jenson Button down in 14th, Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel in 16th and McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton in 18th, as Rubens Barrichello did his title hopes a power of good by grabbing pole position for his home race.

For a while it seemed there might not even be a qualifying session, and that it might have to be postponed until Sunday morning.

The weather had relented slightly at the start of Q1, and Vettel initially set the fastest time and Ferrari’s Giancarlo Fisichella went second. But the luckless Italian half spun in Turn One and blocked the track. Out came the red flag. When things were restarted there was a moment when the track was marginally better, and that was when the quick times were set, but Vettel was not able to take advantage of that moment, and his eventual 1m 25.009s made him the first man who failed to make the cut. Starting in 16th place, his championship chances seemed all but over barring a miracle.

Neither of the McLarens made it, either. Heikki Kovalainen was 17th on 1m 25.052s, while Lewis Hamilton spun away his chances on fresh Bridgestone full wets and will line up 18th on 1m 25.192s. BMW Sauber’s Nick Heidfeld never got it together either, and was 19th on 1m 25.515s, with Fisichella last on 1m 40.703s.

The moment Q2 began there was another red flag after Vitantonio Liuzzi, following close behind Raikkonen, aquaplaned on a huge puddle on the pit straight, hit the pit wall, then clobbered the outer wall in Turn One backwards. Exit one Force India with seriously deranged suspension.

Then we went into a hurry up and wait situation. Out went Alan van der Merwe in the medical car to do a track inspection at 1530. Too wet. Out he went again at 1545. Too wet. At 1600. Same answer. No, wait. It was light outside. The horizon was visible again. A restart at 1610!

It proved to be the undoing of Button, who had earlier in the week ventured the opinion that qualifying matters less here than normal. He stayed out too long on his full wet tyres and wore them out, and admitted later that he should have switched to intermediates.

Toyota’s Kamui Kobayashi continued his impressive progress on his debut, only a long slide stopping him getting through to the top 10, but a 1m 21.960s lap, and 11th place for his first Grand Prix, was impressive. Behind him Jaime Alguersuari lapped his Toro Rosso in 1m 22.231s for 12th ahead of Romain Grosjean on 1m 22.477s for Renault and Button on 1m 22.504s.

That left Q3, which was the only session to run to its intended 10-minute schedule. This proved a gripping one, with the fastest time changing hands between Toro Rosso’s Sebastien Buemi, Barrichello, BMW Sauber’s Robert Kubica, Toyota’s Jarno Trulli, Williams’ Nico Rosberg, Barrichello again, Red Bull’s Mark Webber, Webber again, then finally Barrichello. And further down the timesheet, the order was changing lap by lap too.

In the end Barrichello’s 1m 19.576s beat Webber’s 1m 19.668s, with Adrian Sutil sprinting up to third for Force India right at the end on 1m 19.912s.

Trulli’s 1m 20.097s left him fourth, ahead of Kimi Raikkonen for Ferrari on 1m 20.168s, Buemi on 1m 20.250, Rosberg on 1m 20.326s, Kubica on 1m 20.631s and Kazuki Nakajima in the other Williams on 1m 20.674s. Fernando Alonso was 10th overall for Renault, with 1m 21.422s.

So that was a remarkable, prolonged qualifying session. The forecast is for better weather on Sunday, with the possibility of showers rather than thunderstorms. Vettel, for one, will be praying for more rain to increase the likelihood of a race of attrition. Button, 14th with his team mate on pole, will just be praying.

[kilabee]

Button and Brawn win.Driver/Constructor double. :sunnies:
Not a big fan of either but thats a hell of an effort in your "first" session.

[TofuEater]

I'm thinking this makes Britain the most successful nation in terms of F1 champions. I'm sure you wouldn't get too many right answers to that one in a trivia quiz.

[Baffled]

Good work Button, although I wanted Vettel to win purely to take the championship to the last race.

Kobayashi looks like he might have a bit of talent, a bit of a naughty driver but still he got some good speed out of that Toyota and good to see Buemi get some points... if only Hartly hadve got a seat at Toro Rosso then we wouldve had a local boy to cheer on.

[Speakman]

heres hoping he gets his super licence and another drive

[pyro]

heres hoping he gets his super licence and another drive

He hasnt got the money backing him tbh, unless he does something amazing in f3 or another top class it will be extremely difficult for him to get a drive when so many others around him can just throw money to the teams and get the seat.

[Baffled]

Are Toro Rosso still thinking of putting Loeb in for Abu Dhabi? That would be great to watch. Put Rossi & Loeb in F1 cars for 2010, Raikonnen can go to rally for a good laugh too

[Quasikomodo]

I'm thinking this makes Britain the most successful nation in terms of F1 champions.

Is Britain a nation? I thought it was the United Kingdom .....
and then the actual country is given for the F1 champion.
ie: Jackie Stewart 3 times champion - Scotland

Damon Hill 1 time champion - England
etc


In the immortal words of the great man ..... Murray Walker - "Unless I am very much mistaken ........ , and yes i am very much mistaken!!"

Tofu you are right GB (Great Britain) it is ....  and British drivers have won the F1 championship 14 times. The next closest is Brazil with 8 and Germany with 7, one man effort that last one!!

[Zarkov]

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Graham Hill

1962 and 1968 world champion

Won first title aged 33

Slighted by some as a journeyman, but won in Monte Carlo five times and added victory in the Indianapolis 500 and Le Mans 24 hours to complete a unique triple crown.

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Jim Clark

1963 and 1965 world champion

Won first title aged 27

Perhaps the greatest natural talent in the sport of all time, would surely have won more world titles if not for his untimely death in an unimportant Formula Two race in 1968.

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John Surtees

1964 world champion

Aged 30

The only man ever to become world champion on two wheels and four, Surtees was a motorbike legend before switching to F1 with Ferrari. Later ran his own F1 team.

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Jackie Stewart

1969, 1971 and 1973 world champion

Won first title aged 29

Greatly gifted, determined and disciplined, Stewart was a pioneering campaigner for safety in the sport. Only British F1 champion to later become a race winner as a team owner.

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James Hunt

1976 world champion

Aged 29

Charismatic wild boy made his name with the bubbly Hesketh team and became world champion with McLaren. Later a budgie breeder and popular TV commentator; sadly died young.

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Nigel Mansell

1992 world champion

Aged 39

"Our Nige" was regarded by his fellow drivers as the bravest of them all. Charismatically challenged off-track but a racer's racer. To Italian fans, will always be "Il leone".

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Damon Hill

1996 world champion

Aged 36

Former bike racer and gifted test driver who made the most of his late graduation to the grid. Only son ever to emulate an F1-title-winning father, but inherited no silver spoon.

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Lewis Hamilton

2008 world champion

Aged 23

Formula One's youngest-ever world champion, beating the record set by his Spanish rival Fernando Alonso. Talented go-karter with Senna-like speed, nurtured by the Mclaren machine.

[Speakman]

^good read

[TofuEater]

^^ And of course we can now add Jenson Button to that list.

[Zarkov]

^^ And of course we can now add Jenson Button to that list.

Proof that even you could be World Champion in a car like that.