1. Who will win drivers' world championship: Alonso
2. Which team will win constructors' world championship: Redbull
3. Who will score more points in 2013. Bottas or Maldonado: Bottas
4. What is the best race finishing result for Adrian Sutil in 2013: 6th
5. Do you think Sergio Perez will win at least one race in 2013: No
6. Who will score more points in 2013. Hamilton or Rosberg: Hamilton
7. First driver you think will lose his drive during 2013 (miss at least one race): VDG
8. Will Caterham or Marussia score points in 2013: 1 Point to Caterham.
9. Do you think Massa will win at least one race in 2013? No
10. Does Kubica drive F1 car before the last race? No
11: Winner of Australian gp: Hamilton
12. Winner of Monaco gp: Webber
13. How many points will the dwc winning driver have at the end of the season: 290

I dunno, guys... Hans Stuck says Hulkenberg's gonna win Melbourne.

http://formula-one.speedtv.com ... -to-win-melbourne-opener/

Sutil will win.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

I dunno, guys... Hans Stuck says Hulkenberg's gonna win Melbourne.

http://formula-one.speedtv.com ... -to-win-melbourne-opener/

He's gettin on a bit, but I don't think this old dog is senile yet.

Could be some water to that statement.

1. Who will win drivers' world championship: Alonso
2. Which team will win constructors' world championship: Redbull
3. Who will score more points in 2013. Bottas or Maldonado: Bottas
4. What is the best race finishing result for Adrian Sutil in 2013: 5th
5. Do you think Sergio Perez will win at least one race in 2013: Yes (2)
6. Who will score more points in 2013. Hamilton or Rosberg: Hamilton
7. First driver you think will lose his drive during 2013 (miss at least one race): None
8. Will Caterham or Marussia score points in 2013: Marussia (2).
9. Do you think Massa will win at least one race in 2013? Yes
10. Does Kubica drive F1 car before the last race? Yes
11: Winner of Australian gp: Kimi
12. Winner of Monaco gp: Rosberg
13. How many points will the dwc winning driver have at the end of the season: 279

Quote from BlueFlame :

He's gettin on a bit, but I don't think this old dog is senile yet.

Could be some water to that statement.

I'd love to see it. Sauber is my favorite team (even if they gave Kobayashi the boot).

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Sutil will win.

because he put a broken champagne glass to everyone's neck before the race starts?

1. Who will win drivers' world championship: Vettel
2. Which team will win constructors' world championship: Red Bull
3. Who will score more points in 2013. Bottas or Maldonado: Maldonado
4. What is the best race finishing result for Adrian Sutil in 2013: 5th
5. Do you think Sergio Perez will win at least one race in 2013: Yes
6. Who will score more points in 2013. Hamilton or Rosberg: Rosberg
7. First driver you think will lose his drive during 2013 (miss at least one race): Räikkönen
8. Will Caterham or Marussia score points in 2013: Yes
9. Do you think Massa will win at least one race in 2013? No
10. Does Kubica drive F1 car before the last race? No
11: Winner of Australian gp: Vettel
12. Winner of Monaco gp: Hamilton
13. How many points will the dwc winning driver have at the end of the season: 296

1. Who will win drivers' world championship: Alonso
2. Which team will win constructors' world championship: Red Bull
3. Who will score more points in 2013. Bottas or Maldonado: Maldonado
4. What is the best race finishing result for Adrian Sutil in 2013: 6th
5. Do you think Sergio Perez will win at least one race in 2013: No
6. Who will score more points in 2013. Hamilton or Rosberg: Hamilton
7. First driver you think will lose his drive during 2013 (miss at least one race): Chilton
8. Will Caterham or Marussia score points in 2013: No
9. Do you think Massa will win at least one race in 2013? No
10. Does Kubica drive F1 car before the last race? No
11: Winner of Australian gp: Vettel
12. Winner of Monaco gp: Alonso
13. How many points will the dwc winning driver have at the end of the season: 306

1. Who will win drivers' world championship: Hamilton
2. Which team will win constructors' world championship: McLaren
3. Who will score more points in 2013. Bottas or Maldonado: Bottas
4. What is the best race finishing result for Adrian Sutil in 2013: 7th
5. Do you think Sergio Perez will win at least one race in 2013: no
6. Who will score more points in 2013. Hamilton or Rosberg: Hamilton
7. First driver you think will lose his drive during 2013 (miss at least one race): Razia ?
8. Will Caterham or Marussia score points in 2013: nop
9. Do you think Massa will win at least one race in 2013? yes
10. Does Kubica drive F1 car before the last race? no
11: Winner of Australian gp: Button
12. Winner of Monaco gp: Kimi
13. How many points will the dwc winning driver have at the end of the season: 278

Vodafone will stop sponsorship with McLaren at the end of this year.

http://www.speedcafe.com/2013/ ... sponsorship-with-mclaren/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f ... bedded&v=lMRH5Sf1MEs#!

thursday press conference










1. Who will win drivers' world championship: Webber
2. Which team will win constructors' world championship: Mercedes
3. Who will score more points in 2013. Bottas or Maldonado: Bottas
4. What is the best race finishing result for Adrian Sutil in 2013: 11th
5. Do you think Sergio Perez will win at least one race in 2013: yes, 2 or 3 at best.
6. Who will score more points in 2013. Hamilton or Rosberg: Hamilton
7. First driver you think will lose his drive during 2013 (miss at least one race): Sutil
8. Will Caterham or Marussia score points in 2013: Yes
9. Do you think Massa will win at least one race in 2013? no, fernando is faster than him
10. Does Kubica drive F1 car before the last race? no
11: Winner of Australian gp: Vettel
12. Winner of Monaco gp: Rosberg
13. How many points will the dwc winning driver have at the end of the season: 290

After this 1st practise session McLaren seems to be in troubles... But lets hope their pace increases at the P2

Hamilton has wrecked. Possible break failure like in testing.

Stinks like a 2011.

Mercedes show promise. Stinks of 2012.

I'm going to go with Ricciardo and Gutierrez dropping out in Q1, together with the obvious Cartinghams and Marusskias.

e: and two safety car periods in the race.

Good to see Bianchi thrashing moneybags-Chilton.

Good to see marussia trashing caterham

And for my surprise chilton wasnt seconds slower than anyone else

Looks like Lewis has indeed inherited Schumacher's random failures side of the garage.

Hamilton failure was due to running off the track earlier in session, so not entirelly random.

If FP1/2 are a reasonably accurate measure of where the cars are you really have to question McLaren's decision to go for a new design concept, despite ending the year with the fastest car last year. RedBull potentially had hit the developmental ceiling with the RB8, but stuck with it and are probably leagues ahead of anyone.

Any focussing on Mercedes. hamilton, despite them being his reportred 3rd choice, may have lucked out big time haha. Though coming out of the box fast was something they did last year, but still ended up shit slow.

Yeah initially the BBC were reporting it as a break issue.

The big test for Merc isn't how they come out of the box, it's how they develop the car. Last season's car looked terrific to drive in Australia, but they didn't understand it and went backwards from Monaco on, putting updates that made the car worse rather than better.

Quote from vipex123 :

Good to see Bianchi thrashing moneybags-Chilton.

From what the commentators said, Bianchi was running a lot of updated components and Chilton was running the stuff from Barcelona.

Quote from vipex123 :

Good to see Bianchi thrashing daddysboy-Chilton.

I concur!