Bahrain GP

[euan]

So, anyone watch practice this morning? My son, the genius that he is at 7 months, decided to wake up at 6:45, 15 minutes before the start of practice :-)

Thought the McLarens and the Ferraris looked good, the HRT looked awful. Lotus and Virgin look to be 5 races away from being ready to race to be honest.

Highlight of the morning for me was Schumi getting frustrated with the car, while Nico just got on with the job and ended up .4s faster. Good lad :-)

[zimbo]

Nope never watched it, but tomorrow and Sunday will be a different story, I dont care if the house collapses around me there is NOTHING that can drag me away from the TV this weekend :lol:

[euan]

Practice 3 is on red button tomorrow at 7:55-8:55, then it's qualy - bring it on!

[stoney]

Practice 3 is on red button tomorrow at 7:55-8:55, then it's qualy - bring it on!

wont see the 3rd practice in the morning as at work but hopefully be home for quaily tho

[Scottie]

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[zimbo]

Vettel was on fire!! :Whistle: Pole for round 1... Well impressed with Massas performance as well :clap:

[zimbo]

WooHoo 2 hours to go, got my snacks all ready and waiting to go :yes nod: :popcorn:

Bring it on :clap:

[Gismo]

And we are off

[Delboy]

Is it just me or was that a pretty boring race?

Such a bummer for Vettel - he had that all sown up until this car got sick.

And the lack of re-fuelling appeared to make the race less exciting. One pit-stop to change tyres doesn't give much scope for clever strategy, and overtaking is just as difficult so once the tyre change is done there is little chance to gain places unless cars in front go off/crash/retire.

Comments? :popcorn:

[baptie]

Glad I watched it on Sky+, ffwd'd alot of it!

Real shame for Seb, he was doing great. You could see at the end he was Gutted.

needs a few races to see how the teams settle and get used to the tyres and cars.

Bring on Australia

[Fairy]

Poor Seb, gutted for the guy - he wears his heart on his sleeve and at the end he looked so angry and emotional, he looked like he just needed a big hug!
Race was pretty boring I agree although Alonso in that Ferrari was brill - he has the full package and i think he'll be the one to beat this year - bring on round 2!!

[euan]

It was a very dull race. Pit stops are procedural now with no chance for anything to really go wrong, so it's as you were when they all come out.

In saying that Bahrain as a circuit has to be one of the dullest going. If the crown prince was throwing substantial amount of dollars Bernies way they'd never be there. Melbourne should show up what it's really like, but I'm fully expecting it to be a bit dull this year.

And the worst crime - where are the graphics in qualy!!!!!

[euan]

Mark Webbers twitter seems to sum his feelings up on yesterday:
http://twitter.com/AussieGrit


Wow! New rules, not sure huh? Why do they keep dicking with it? Followed Mercedes power for the whole race, no chance to overtake - again

[N16SHP]

Yeah, i was pretty bored and that was just watching the highlights!! But I will not pass judgement until there have been a couple more races!

[zimbo]

I agree it was a reasonably boring race to be honest (I did nod off a couple of times...:rolleyes:) and I too felt really sorry for Vettel to lose the win due to exhaust problems!! Massa did awesome for his 1st full race since his incident last year. And I was REALLY REALLY impressed with Lotus for both cars completing their 1st race without breaking down like the rest of the new teams did... :clap:

I did notice tho that the new american team wasn't there or have I missed something?:confused:

Come on Melbourne... :lol:

[iwr004]

if you want to see a bit of overtaking watch the gp support race . the porsche super cup races were great on eurosport and eurosport hd . carrera cup gb winner from last year tim bridgeman had to work hard. the start of race one looked like scottish minis at knockhill !

[Crombers]

Well I'm a happy chappy :yes nod:, the Italian national anthem resumes it's favourite chart position :clap:

[euan]

if you want to see a bit of overtaking watch the gp support race . the porsche super cup races were great on eurosport and eurosport hd . carrera cup gb winner from last year tim bridgeman had to work hard. the start of race one looked like scottish minis at knockhill !

I watched that as well, justs hows that without the aero killing it, you can overtake at that circuit!

[euan]

I did notice tho that the new american team wasn't there or have I missed something?:confused:



They asked to miss 5 races and turn up in Barcelona, were told to turn up in Bahrain or nothing. Future to be decided, but I doubt we'll see them again - Todt is raging after them as we speak.