Quote from Mustafur :

Webber Pole!

by a country mile~

Quote from Mustafur :

Apprently michelin will only join next year if they can have low profile tyres.

then screw them~

but I guess running Michelin would at least sound better than having some Korean Handcock tyres...

Quote from Mustafur :

Damn i read it wrong, why does it seem the FIA have no idea how to make a spectacle.

The front tires must be returned to previous width, and the rears should be wider and low profile can be ok as long as there wider.

I think people would agree with me here, KERS is lame its just artifical racing at its finest, i want proper overtakes not due to a button that makes you faster.

it must be either McLaren or Williams that bought up the KERS thing again~ McLaren had the best systems, Williams is having theirs tested and ran by Porsche...

Quote from manneF1 :

red flag!

Damn it~!

Thought low fuel heavy rain Q3 is gonna be fun, but no F1 can never be too fun, so they'd to stop it... XD

seriously the surface flooding seems to be very bad at the moment. Wonder if the same will happen tomorrow~

Quote from zeugnimod :

The race tomorrow should be good even if it's dry.

if it's dry, it'll be a good chance for the McLaren and Ferrari drivers to carry out in depth analysis of the diffusers of the Toro Rossos and Sauber~

PS. the camera was filming the McLaren and Ferrari crews pushing their cars round in the pitlane into the garage, their faces said it all~

more surprises...

Rubens and Michael just scrap through to Q3 in 9th and 10th, while Kobayashi is up in 6th (beating Webber as well)~!

well done to Hulkenburg too, 4th in Q2~!

Quote from Mustafur :

Both ferraris and Hamilton didn't make Q2 LOL.

Button made Q2, but couldn't get any running in it cos he stopped at Q1... didn't caught what happened cos I just got back home, expecting Q1 to be boring and sh*t, and expecting the 3 new teams with their 6 cars would fill out nearly all of the bottom 7. DAMN~!

so basically effectively, BOTH Ferrari and BOTH McLaren couldn't run in Q2~!

to make it worse, for my 2 teams on F1 manager, one is running McLaren (Merc) engine and the other is running Ferrari engine... that'd be a big fat zero score for me so far this weekend... lol

Quote from Mustafur :

I would kinda agree with you there however button made the choice him self which probably shows hes experience on how he thought the tyres would work.

But according to Button his decision wasn't a hard one because he had no options but to pit, his inters were destroyed, while somehow for all others it was still ok~

(He then added if the track was dry enough to destroy his inters, it meant it must have been dry enough for slicks, which obviously turned out to be true and it was a pretty smart decision)

Quote from hereticlohani :

That usually happens in lfs multiplayer. Thanks for the info.

So it'll depends on the rules on the server you're racing on.

But because us LFS players ain't really professional racing drivers, most servers ask drivers being shown the blue flags to allow the leaders pass. It is not really a "get out of the way" thing, one can always allow the others pass safely on the straight while staying on the racing line...

Quote from tristancliffe :

Neither - in pretty much everything except F1, a blue flag just means be aware there is a quicker car behind you, so stick to your lines and don't do anything really silly. It remains up to the faster car to find a way passed.

Blue flag does NOT mean get out of the way.

Blue flag does not mean get out of the way in some series, but some still had the authority to "order" the driver being lapped to allow the faster car pass, somehow. XD

But as far as I could remember, in pretty much everything other than the American series, the guy being blue flagged usually make life quite easy for the faster guys to pass.

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Quote from DieKolkrabe :

Why do they keep pushing back the outboard mirror ban?

It's needed and everyone agrees, then say they can't modify their cars until Europe?

Whatever happened to spare parts?

LOL Tristan, well Ferrari have had rimzzzzz in the past....what's next, spinners?

Interesting, did Googling and found Bernie's tried to trademark Grand Prix (again)

I guess because the mirrors are now an "aerodynamic device", they couldn't modify it without serious implications for the aero of the car~?

And I guess it isn't as simple as cutting off the mirrors on the sidepot and sticking it back onto the chassis, where it should always have been.

On a side note, the way the hole was closed on the McLaren diffuser looked pretty crap and a very temporary fix~ lol

Quote from Intrepid :

Vettel should walk this one. Car looks so freakin' stable. The McLaren's are relying heavily on their f-duct thingy-ma-jig for ultimate pace because the car really isn't all that stable. It's good but not great.

Vettel should have and could have walked the last two... About time his luck changes~

the f-duct thingy is good for straight line speed, which should aid the McLaren with running more wings, but its cars are still way behind in terms of downforce. McLaren is making a statement or two with its practice pace, but the Red Bull really should walk this one. It's embarassing for them to have the fastest car by a country mile, and yet only got 18 points from the first two races... Which is exactly how much Renault have got thanks to Kubica's 2nd place in Oz...

Quote from amp88 :

WTF! How can they do this? Split up Bathurst...what a joke!

it's the first of April already downunder~

Quote from zeromussov :

Yeah, true :kyle:

It can also rain for 5 minutes, and after a nice sunshine. Anyway, every sort of rain is welcome

not if it's the type that will force the race to be red flagged, or never started...

Quote from Joris :

Did anyone notice that teams are moaning less about technical solutions "against the spirit of the rules"? (F-duct, ride height adjustment).

It seems that the current attitude is: "Apparently this is allowed and we will put it on our car aswell" instead of: "That car is illegal and should be excluded".

Because that is the spirit of the sport~!!!

yay rain~! should make things more interesting again~! But better don't have too big a hope on it because weather forecasts are never accurate~ XD

If it really will rain, at least the Red Bull wouldn't have an easy 1-2 (assuming Vettel car didn't break down and Mark didn't cock it up).

Quote from Mustafur :

F1 is barely F1 as it is anyway, with the frozen engine.

to make it worse, we got a dose of "engine equalisation" to some extent too...

or as Horner had another way of saying it, since the engine are frozen now, they "should not be a performance differentiator".

Quote from three_jump :

Come on, stop bashing Hamilton for an honest reaction instead of the typical public relations "bla bla". Of course he is disappointed, he is there to win not to come 2nd... Just shows that he is very motivated.

No big deal, so move on next week.

EDIT:
But he has partly to blame himself too. As he doesn't need to refuel he could ignore the team when he thinks that the tires are good and just go on

and what would the reaction be if Lewis didn't pitted and it turned out that pitting was a good idea~?

he knows he gets plenty of attention from the media and the fans, especially after what happened on Friday night, and he could have easily brush it away by just saying the normal PR s**t of "we win as a team and we lose as a team", but well, too late for that now.
luckily the media havn't made a big deal out of it, yet, but better wait till we see the headlines tmr morning~

whenever Lewis did something that isn't really right (or a failure to turn left XD), it's inevitable that lots of things would be said about it... lol

on a sidenote, not much seems to have been said about Schumacher's ambitous move round the outside into T1. Yes it was a racing incident, but since he was the guy that came from behind making the really late braking move, he should've known very well that there were two cars down there on the inside~?

Quote from JackDaMaster :

Probably because they make their own graphics, people who broadcast F1 are forced to use the FIA overlays.

FIA~? FOM~?

Quote from Intrepid :

To divert the topic a bit

eerrm... RBR! Dudes??? Vettel should have 50points in the bag!

Fastest car by a country mile... but only 2 points for the Oz GP...

Quote from Intrepid :

Also to add - isn't the point system ****ing stupid?

Basically they've inflated the actual points but the actual difference in value between each position is similar (a lesson in fiat currency there ). So basically the positions are still worth similar to what they were last year but make it much harder to calculate how the championship is affected during the GP

Ask Vettel that question and I think he'd gone blonkers...

Basically his front left brakes costed him 25 points~! That's a very big hit for anyone who'd to retire.

Quote from Intrepid :

I don't care what it says about Hamilton, that's not the point. I am highlighting the fact that no driver is whiter than white.

umm... putting Hamilton and White in the same sentence... I can't help but think of something else~

Quote from Intrepid :

This is what I don't understand.

Why would they assume Kubica, Alonso, and Massa would pit and at the same time bring Mark Webber into the equation. The data showed Button was looking good on one set. It just doesn't make sense, the call was terrible.

but there you go that's racing

McLaren do f**k things up quite often when things didn't go according to plan~

Quote from Intrepid :

lol OK

Hamilton drove an absolutely superb race today and someone made a one of the worst strategic calls I've seen for a long time. Why on earth did they pit him expecting all three cars around him to would pit as well? I simply do not know. button was proving you could go the full distance on the one set and it was obvious that if Hamilton pitted at least one of the three, especially Kubica, would gamble to the end.

If Lewis didn't get angry then there would be something seriously wrong with him. It didn't do Rubens much harm last year where he improved after his rant, and it hasn't done Alonso much harm either.

As I said, it's easier to think better in hindsight... Especially since teams are still learning about what should and should not be done with these non-refueling era~

But during that period of the race, Michael Schumacher set a massive fastest lap, McLaren probably panic-ed, pitted Lewis in order to split the strategy to get everything covered.

Either that, or they'd expect an easier time for Lewis to pass someone who hasn't pitted, or weren't expecting Lewis to be able to make his tyres last.

Quote from Intrepid :

"Yes... I am now a Williams driver"

yh... how easily people forget how Button turned his back on BAR/Honda only to get his arse spanked

yeah... But Button seems to have matured a lot now...

and Lewis is still "young"...