Not the best race for it to happen, but Alonso's drinks bottle failed and he suffered quite bad dehydration, to the point that he passed out a little following a post race interview. And on top of that he suffered a burnt lower back. Poor guy looks like zombie, kudos to him for finishing in the points

I don't particularly care, as long as there's only one thread. I never even read the first post, just the following discussion

Does it still do it when you're not connected the your network/internet?

Try disabling IPV6, pretty much nothing uses it yet and in my experience it just causes an assload of compatibilty problems, yet MS have had it enabling as default since XP service packs (go to your network connection properties, uncheck the IPV6 box, then disable IP helper service)

It can only be Lotus.. Chapman was the spirit of F1 embodied

Heh, it's funny every time this poll comes up FO8 wins but nobody ever drives it online

Anyway, FO8

Weights!

Button Brawn BGP 001-Mercedes – 660.0
Jarno Trulli Toyota TF109 – 656.5
Timo Glock Toyota TF109 – 656.5
Rosberg Williams FW31-Toyota – 656.0
Webber Red Bull RB5-Renault – 656.0
Kubica BMW Sauber F1.09 – 663.0
Räikkönen Ferrari F60 – 662.5
Alonso Renault R29 – 680.5
Barrichello Brawn BGP 001-Mercedes – 664.5
Heidfeld BMW Sauber F1.09 – 692.0
Nakajima Williams FW31-Toyota – 683.4
Hamilton McLaren MP4-24-Mercedes – 688.0
Vettel Red Bull RB5-Renault – 647.0
Kovalainen McLaren MP4-24-Mercedes 1- 688.9
Bourdais Toro Rosso STR4-Ferrari – 670.5
Massa Ferrari F60 1- 689.5
Piquet Renault R29 – 681.9
Fisichella Force India VJM02-Mercedes – 680.5
Sutil Force India VJM02-Mercedes – 655.5
Buemi Toro Rosso STR4-Ferrari – 686.5

http://www.fia.com/en-GB/media ... ts/mal09_document_33.pdf

Barrichello changes gearbox and gets a 5-place penalty

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/74204

McLaren didn't 'ask' for the place back.

They specifically and knowingly lied to the stewards in order to try to get it.

Yes, that's cheating.

Quote from DevilDare :

Any brits here mind telling me if the BBC Red Button will have Malaysian Practise on? 'Cos i cant seem to find the time on BBC F1 website.

It will

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/h ... t/formula_one/7755219.stm

Methinks there's a good chance we might not see a race this weekend

From James Allen's blog: Hamilton could be trouble in Malaysia

edit: and now on Autosport too: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/74137

Last edited by mythdat, Wed, 1 Apr 2009 21:08.

Car weights are out.. Brawn are apparently running reasonable amounts of fuel

"For the 2009 season, the FIA are making public the weights of all cars ahead of the race start to help give an idea of relative fuel load. The cars that made Q3 are weighed after qualifying, while the weights of the remaining cars must be declared by their teams shortly after the session. The details from Melbourne show that Brawn GP were not running light, despite their impressive pace."

1. Jenson Button, Brawn GP, 664.5kg
2. Rubens Barrichello, Brawn GP, 666.5
3. Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull, 657
4. Robert Kubica, BMW Sauber, 650
5. Nico Rosberg, Williams, 657
6. Felipe Massa, Ferrari, 654
7. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari, 655.5
8. Mark Webber, Red Bull, 662
9. Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber, 691.5
10. Fernando Alonso, Renault, 680.7
11. Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren, 690.6
12. Nelson Piquet, Renault, 694.1
13. Giancarlo Fisichella, Force India 689
14. Kazuki Nakajima, Williams, 612.5
15. Sebastien Buemi, Toro Rosso, 675.5
16. Adrian Sutil, Force India, 684.5
17. Sebastien Bourdais, Toro Rosso, 662.5
18. Lewis Hamilton, McLaren, 655
19. Timo Glock, Toyota, 670
20. Jarno Trulli, Toyota, 660

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2009/3/9085.html

More goodies on the BBC red button and website, they're showing full replays of both practice sessions (with 5live commentary) plus a little preview feature with DC talking about the rule changes and Webber visiting the bush fire victims

Quite impressed with the coverage so far

They're showing all practice sessions on the red button too, no commentary of course though

Just to note, BBC are showing highlights of classic races on the red button leading up to each race weekend, classic Aussie GPs are showing now. Red button - sports multiscreen

Quote from gezmoor :

stuff

Hm, sense of humour failure. What an incredibly appropriate avatar you have, though... life imitates art or art imitates life?

Hmm so it only took the FIA a few hours to surrender.. thank god they're french!

Do you have an active network connection (wireless or otherwise)? If so try booting it up with the network connection disabled, any cables unplugged (and/or your router turned off), I had a similar problem a couple of years ago, it turned out to be a ballsed up network

Last edited by mythdat, Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:11.

http://en.akinator.com/

This thing is freakishly good.. think up some character, real or fictional, and see if it can guess it

As far as I know some of the SS escaped to South America after the end of the second world war

Ok

Hmm.. the Williams has an amazing ass

Wow, that new Red Bull is incredibly interesting, there's a lot of strange stuff on it.

I'm particularly interested by the rear suspension, which looks to me like a pull-rod system, I haven't seen anything like it on rear suspension since the late 80's.. in fact it kinda looks like the rear suspension isn't fully independant. Also looks like they're using huge rear wing endplates as an extension to the diffuser.. front wing is also very intricate, and the sculpting on the nose is interesting.

The most radical '09 car by far, everyone else looks conservative by comparison.. I can't wait to see how it performs