Fri 20 May 2011
Practice 1 10:00 - 11:30
Practice 2 14:00 - 15:30

Sat 21 May 2011
Practice 3 11:00 - 12:00
Qualifying 14:00

Sun 22 May 2011
Race 14:00

All times local, UTC+1.

Race Date: 22 May 2011
Circuit Name: Circuit de Catalunya
Number of Laps: 66
Circuit Length: 4.655 km
Race Distance: 307.104 km
Lap Record: 1:21.670 - K Raikkonen (2008)


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Fia have made the DRS zone much too long for this race it's basically the whole main start finish straight.

Webber on pole [etals:]

:laola:

Mention to Maldonado getting in Q3, and Kovalainen getting in Q2 also.

webber, vettel is faster than you...

ffs no he's not I qualified on the pole dammit

How's that for a number two driver?

Vettel woulda destroyed webber if he had KERS. I loved the smirk Vettel had on his face when when he slipped it into the interview

But he didn't have it, so he didn't.

He needs it tomorrow or clean side Hamilton and maybe even Alonso will burn him into T1.

Quote from Storm_Cloud :

But he didn't have it, so he didn't.

I saw that myself, thanks

what happened to Force India in Q2? so much slower than Q1... Kovalainen thrashed them with way less laps

Quote from RiseAgainstMe! :

what happened to Force India in Q2? so much slower than Q1... Kovalainen thrashed them with way less laps

Force india used hard tires in Q2.

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Good to see Vettel being beaten, just a shame it isn't by a different car.

Vettel, with KERS, would've been on pole... which if you factor in time lost means the RBR could be a solid 1.2 ahead of the rest. Frightening to think that the might of McLaren, Ferrari, and Mercedes can't get anywhere near close to one man's brain - Newey's.

so if i got it right, Webber used KERS and Vettel couldnt (again) ?

Quote from Intrepid :

Vettel, with KERS, would've been on pole... which if you factor in time lost means the RBR could be a solid 1.2 ahead of the rest. Frightening to think that the might of McLaren, Ferrari, and Mercedes can't get anywhere near close to one man's brain - Newey's.

I'm having trouble understanding how its one man's brain. I'm pretty sure its a team of people doing the thinking and analysis and stuff...

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so if i got it right, Webber used KERS and Vettel couldnt (again) ?

Right.

Why "again" though? Webber has had most of the KERS problems so far this season.

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I'm having trouble understanding how its one man's brain. I'm pretty sure its a team of people doing the thinking and analysis and stuff...

But you can't say Red bull wouldn't be anything other then midfield without hes input.

looks like merc and ferrari got caught out by renault in qualifying



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looks like merc and ferrari got caught out by renault in qualifying



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Hehe Renault, well played.

Not to use the possible advantage?

Quote from tinvek :

looks like merc and ferrari got caught out by renault in qualifying



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Nice one.


Just thought about it anyway, it is going to be damn hard for Vettel if the team doesn't get his KERS fixed. The run down to T1 is very long, he could very easily lose a few places in the first meters of the race without it.

Quote from From BBC :

BBC Sport's Andrew Benson in Barcelona: "Red Bull's Achilles' heel, the reliability of their Kers power-boost system, has again reared its head here. Sebastian Vettel had to qualify without it, but I'm told that is not necessarily what made the difference in Mark Webber getting his first pole of 2011. Webber was 0.2secs quicker than Vettel and for most teams Kers is worth at least 0.5secs a lap here. But not Red Bull. So compromised is their system by its tight packaging - the root of its reliability problems - that it is only worth around 0.1-0.2secs."

So Vettel would not have spanked Webber after all.

great Start From Alsono to bad he lost 1/2 places stil watching it hope Ferrari For first Time this Season Wins

I don't think so, Vettel already racing off into the distance.

Don't understand why Barrichello is still in Formula One, truly terrible weekend. Hulkenberg should have been kept in that team.

lolwut, why there was "Nico, Radio?" in McLaren pitboard ?

:wow:

good race Basti!

last laps were so cool - even without kers...