GL Paddi.

DRS really makes racing cleaner. Thoroughly enjoyed this race. Poor luck for Alonso.

Holly wow, Leimer nearly a second up on rest of the grid and then about next 10 guys in half a second in this bahraini quali.

Ferrari on target for my prediction so far.

P.S. The second DRS zone will be very interesting as it's not a really super simple corner you make the overtake into.

Dudes, Bahrain without DRS would be like wagons trying to race each other in one train. :chair::chair:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be3-J9XtJCw

fyi pure win

Hurray for two DRS zones that are not interlinked. :clapclap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f ... mbedded&v=Tk_YGSHcPAk

Bahrain never really suited Mark, still I expect a comeback from him.

1 Winner? Alonso
2 Fastest lap? Rosberg
3 Number of pitstops the winner does? 3
4 Who gets pole? Massa
5 Which team scores most points? Ferrari
6 How many points Ferrari gets? 40
B Driver who drops most places during the race (but finishes the race) Vettel

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One has to wonder why did not RedBull elect to change wing/gearing settings to be more suitable for the race in China on Vettel's car. Especially, if we remember that changing setup is perfectly allowed during qualifying and that after he used his qualifying setup to do the work in Q1 and Q2 he had the entire Q3 session ahead of him to make setup changes.

He sat out Q3 saving the tires for the race to start from P9 with a qualifying setup as if he was on pole position to be stuck behind Hulkenberg in first stint and Perez in second stint... and we all know that RedBull goes like a bullet in traffic from Abu Dhabi if it's set to do so.

Quite obviously, had his pace not suffered this blow during the first two stints he could have had both Kimi and Lewis for dinner at the end of the race. Aka earning him 6 more points and from Malaysia we can see how important all that is to him.

So, has RedBull just missed out on this potential or changing gear rations is impossible to do in 10-15 minutes times for F1 car?

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Quote from dawesdust_12 :

OMG The law enforcer

While all that you said is true, when you make a dive on a backmarker to put a lap on him, crash like this never happens and Torro Rosso's drivers are effectively instructed and expected to comply to that treatment.

So, while he is in no fault for the crash by racing rules, by common sense he is at fault if you understand this sister relationship between the two teams.

Anyway, even if this wasn't correct and if he let's say wasn't expected to let's put it nicely move out of RedBull's way it doesn't make up for all the poor results in past year or more's time.

I actually don't understand why Torro Rosso hasn't sacked him before the season and replaced with someone new from their drivers development programe, since it was quite obvious even during the last year he has no prospect over Ricciardo in RBR.

Congrats to season winners and podium finishers and everyone involved and actually good job to administration despite all the ddoser issues.

Yea, DRS made it really easy for all the strategies to play their thing. Good chess game, ops, race.

LOL@RBR failing wheel on Mark's car, just extends conspiracy theory plus Rosberg's car making him definite no2 for the season.
Ferrari, Lotus, Mercedes, RedBull, McLaren. That's how they stack up on a cold dry day. It's going to be very interesting to see how this plays in Bahrain, since most of the season is hot conditions anyway.

I'm surprised that Grosjean completely lost his mojo since he fixed the race starts... I mean he does say this and that about balance of car for him, but I don't see it. It's just evolution of last years car and in back end of last year he was poor after poor starts too. I still can find footage of Prost making careful start then getting on with it for example.

I'd much like to see Vergne sacked from Torro Rosso, like they did with whoever it was when they got Alguersuari a chance. Not only that he compromised race for sister car and himself, his form is nowhere ever since he is in F1, he's being completely dominated by Ricciardo.

Massa should find way to understand that his race form is not at Alonso's level and stop trying to match it, and rather instead work ways with Smedly how to catch it, step by step, like he did with quali and avoid embarrassments like being beaten by that utterly slow McLaren and being stuck behind di Shista for almost entire race.

Speaking of di Shista, I didn't see the first few laps, but I heard he was again in contact with teammate... just like last year in Abu Dhabi where he punted his teammate off and went onto finish race with no problem... Speaking of Scottish drivers, watched f1 2008 review and boy Coulthard had a crash almost every other race.

Hulkenberg outpacing Perez in inferior car, I liked that, definitely favorite driver on the grid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASO_zypdnsQ

global retardation pt2

Commentators excluded themselves it seams too.

Car sound?

Yea Webber's car broke after all the Multi 21 fashizle. Call it a conspiracy but I've seen too many mechanical failures for 2nd drivers when they were supposed to raise and this is just one of those.

I'm glad I didn't wake up for that qualifying. Pirelli should have made qualifying tires to avoid situations like today a long time ago.

And yeah it is going to be very interesting race at the front, still top 3 runners don't have too much worry even if they do drop behind force india/sauber they have this DRS you know. It's not gonna be a Redbull day.

Actually I think we might withness great Hamilton/Alonso rivalry for once after a while. \o/

Quote from Hyperactive :

These predictions are nothing more than a build-up thing for the weekend. The "deadline" for the predictions is the start of the first practise which means that these predictions will not clutter the thread once the cars start driving around the track. Plus this makes the thread more active when there is not much else to talk about.

Go Felipe baby.

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1) which team will score most points? don't care, would rather discuss the race rather than make guesses that no one will care about next week

+1

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Isaac you're welcome to CG to come and crash me.

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And again : In past 5-6 years I've had three DT penalties over a vaaaast number of league and races (yea must be a 100 races at least) that I can recall, let's say it was five, because I surely had missed one or two here and there, that is speaking outside of NDR events (which are not here for really long time) and I have no ill intentions towards anyone. I am not accident prone. I am a clean and safe racer.

Quote from boothy :

khm,khm im better than you niki

It's not self-interest. Sitting behind a bind corner is same as asking to be lag wrecked into someone and someone else into someone else. Surely, you've had to witnessed that many times on public servers!! I know Hamilton was penalized for his rejoin in Hungary, still... My argument is that the penalty is being too strict firstly for what it is, secondly for that I wasn't on probation.

I am a clean racer and I'll go to grave with this. In past 5-6 years I've had three DT penalties over a vaaaast number of league and races (yea must be a 100 races at least) that I can recall, let's say it was five, because I surely had missed one or two here and there, that is speaking outside of NDR events (which are not here for really long time) and I have no ill intentions towards anyone.

The appeal is sent. Kudos to you deko as you seem to be only one in administration that doesn't have some personal feelings towards me and is rather professional about the whole thing. When can I expect the the review?

Deko: instincts are all you've got, there is simply no time to think. I'm telling you as a racer, since you and CSF haven't raced it seams forever. I attempted to make J-turns when I saw gap open, yet people just tend to turn into that small space before me and J-turn failed. I had no where to go to as there were walls all around me. The only other choice was to sit in middle of the road and be hit hard. As a racer you cannot accept this, you will not accept this. You're driven to go as far is you can get. Just look at Gilles Villeneuve when he had a puncture in Zandvort race, it's outragous back then to drive with two punctures on the track, still he did it. If there was grass anywhere around the road I'd went there and rejoined the track in the gap. Look at Hamilton rejoining after a spin in Hungary, as soon as he saw a gap he did it, or in Turkey in GP2. It's what you do as a racer if you have any gut. It's just bad luck for those people to have jumped into those gaps or me taken those gaps. After rethinking everything, surely I would just sit on the track and wait with my eyes closed if the track is walled now.
Then csf says how I was on probation, when nothing was clarified. Administration needs to be explicit. And personally, even that penalty back then was way too harsh and without nothing leading to it. It just so seems to me as if NDR or CSF is supporting his decisions with roomers that have nothing to do with reality and trying to distort reality. This is an unscrupulous thing to do. I just wish you stopped looking yourself CSF so up highly you know, you're not helping noone with this.

Quote from CSF :

@Niki, nothing needs said. This was very much the straw that broke the camels back. This was simply amazingly dumb and arrogant, even by your own lofty standards. You might think everyone else is wrong, but so does Kim Jung Un. We aren't. Goodbye.

CSF don't you have any reasons? I asked for reasons. Leading reasons. Accumulation, leading to this! Since, it's that sort of penalty. I'm just trying to learn here. Once again, I repeat:

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I wasn't under probation, nor was this done on purpose in which case it would be a different thing.