Istanbul GP Race thread *SPOILERS!*

Posted by Monza972 
Re: Istanbul GP Race thread *SPOILERS!*
Date: August 25, 2007 08:07PM
Posted by: Slash
Rodrigo007 Wrote:
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> cuz in ferrari the pilot that finish the Q2 better
> receives the car privilege of fight for the
> pole-position by having the car 1 or 2 laps
> slighter than the other increasing the chances of
> starts in 1st.
>
> ofc the another pilot has to deal with the heavier
> car in fact of turkey , massa.


Also in the burn-out phase, Felipe, despite running realitively far from Kimi and Hamilton, was still .5 secs slower, wich only means his car was really, really heavy, or at leats heavier than those two
Re: Istanbul GP Race thread *SPOILERS!*
Date: August 25, 2007 09:15PM
Posted by: gav
Slash Wrote:
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> Also in the burn-out phase, Felipe, despite
> running realitively far from Kimi and Hamilton,
> was still .5 secs slower, wich only means his car
> was really, really heavy, or at leats heavier than
> those two

Or that there was no need to go any faster and so he saved a little bit more fuel than the other 2.
Re: Istanbul GP Race thread *SPOILERS!*
Date: August 25, 2007 09:16PM
Posted by: DaveEllis
yeah im sorry but comparing the speeds during the fuel burn phase is stupid.

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Re: Istanbul GP Race thread *SPOILERS!*
Date: August 25, 2007 09:57PM
Posted by: Slash
Probably for you!, but i've been paying attention to all qualifying sessions this year, and usually from the guys that can fight for pole whoever is slow during the burn out phase si because is heavier, i'm not saying he is, i could be wrong, but from i've been seeing this year, i think he's heavier
Re: Istanbul GP Race thread *SPOILERS!*
Date: August 25, 2007 10:19PM
Posted by: gav
I won't dispute that, but don't forget that he completely lost contact with Hamilton and Raikkonen after the 1st lap, so presumably just based his pace on instruction rather than his competitors, which is how it normally works.

If you're going to draw anything from the fuel-burn period, then make it that Hamilton didn't appear quite able to keep pace with Raikkonen, something which was expected looking at the way the weekend was panning out.
Re: Istanbul GP Race thread *SPOILERS!*
Date: August 25, 2007 11:01PM
Posted by: Stan
Re: Istanbul GP Race thread *SPOILERS!*
Date: August 25, 2007 11:02PM
Posted by: Nickv
Re: Istanbul GP Race thread *SPOILERS!*
Date: August 25, 2007 11:18PM
Posted by: flat tyre
I don't get that... could somebody tell me why it's funny? I have an idea what it is but it's not fully developed

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Re: Istanbul GP Race thread *SPOILERS!*
Date: August 25, 2007 11:25PM
Posted by: brnco
McFiaren, BULLSHIT, completely missed the point! :(
Re: Istanbul GP Race thread *SPOILERS!*
Date: August 25, 2007 11:31PM
Posted by: brnco
yours so calle McFiaren has nothing copied from no other car. That's crap, that stinky prick stepney did it for his own little reasons. Macca is clean as a cleanness itself. You should criticize others look at that prick horse with moveable aeroparts, red bull and its italian counterpart torro rosso are copies of macca, and yet everyone smuckes Macca, look at flavio that italian pasta eating midget is all made of cheating, he cheats all the time, remember benetton in 1994 and their misterious traction control.
Re: Istanbul GP Race thread *SPOILERS!*
Date: August 25, 2007 11:50PM
Posted by: Lex
red bull and its italian counterpart torro rosso are copies of macca

The RB3/STR02 was designed by Adrian Newey, just like the Mclarens from previous years. Newey has all the rights to take the concepts he used on Mclarens' cars to Red Bull / Toro Rosso, because those concepts came out of his mind.



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Eins zwei drei vier fünf sechs sieben acht neun zehn
One two three four five six seven eight nine ten
Один два три четыре пять шесть семь восемь девять десять
Re: Istanbul GP Race thread *SPOILERS!*
Date: August 26, 2007 12:08AM
Posted by: Muks_C
choosing which way to vote in this thread suddenly became a lot easier... :)

@ Flat Tyre, the "car" in that poster is a photocopier (the StepneyGate controversy was brought to the public's attention after Mike Coughlan's wife took the 780-page Ferrari document to a copy shop to be copied, allegedly), and the "McFiAren" is an allegation that the FIA have either favoured or let-off McLaren from any punishment despite being found guilty of something. it also says "Ron Derox" (similar to Ron Dennis), implying the documents were copied (Xerox being a famous photocopier manufacturer).




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Re: Istanbul GP Race thread *SPOILERS!*
Date: August 26, 2007 01:22AM
Posted by: brnco
here's the saturday p.c. (don't worry it's not polluted with brnco stuff).

FIA Saturday press conference transcript with

1. Felipe Massa (Ferrari), 1m27.329s
2. Lewis Hamilton (McLaren Mercedes), 1m27.373s
3. Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari), 1m27.546s

Q: Felipe, an intense, dramatic last few minutes in Q3, everybody out there right at the end, what a brilliant lap from you.

Felipe Massa: Yeah, it was tough. Qualifying was very tight. You could see that every single Q1, Q2, Q3 was always a big fight between all four drivers, and in the last one, I managed to put together a great lap and I'm very proud, especially after a very bad result in Hungary. I think we deserve it. I'm very proud about the lap, about the team's job and it's very good to start on pole position here, especially as the race tomorrow will be very tough, so it's always a good start.

Q: Especially a year after your first pole, also here, in Turkey; a fantastic lap here, talk a little bit about turn eight and getting that lap perfect as you did.

Felipe Massa: Well, turn eight is fantastic. I just managed to do it very well in qualifying. Actually, I love the corner. All weekend I've been doing very good speeds through turn eight with a good balance to the car as well so I really love the corner. I think the whole track is really nice, it's very technical to drive, difficult to find the right balance for every single part.

Q: Lewis, you were on pole again for a milli-second there but Felipe just got you at the end. Nice looking qualifying session for you; not a brilliant first run but very quick on that second run.

Lewis Hamilton: No, it was good for me. I was quite pleased with that. In testing we've been quick but then going into qualifying -- Q1 and Q2 -- I didn't really seem to have the pace and just wasn't able to put a good lap together. The first timed lap in Q3 was OK but again, I was fourth and just wasn't really sure if I was going to be able to do it but I just hung it out and kept on pushing. I lost a little bit of time out of the last corner but me and Felipe were just saying, it's a very tricky corner and you know you're up on your time and you don't want to lose any and you don't want to try again too much, but still, it's been good for us, good for the team in the top four.

Q: When you say you've had a little bit of a difficult time, how does the car feel here relative to recent races, in terms of its competitiveness tomorrow?

Lewis Hamilton: The car feels very good. I think, again, we've had two and a half weeks or three weeks to improve the car and the team has been working extremely hard. Not everyone's had holidays and I know that the team doesn't rest. They've been pushing quite a lot to come here again with another step. I think we have a very strong package. I think for tomorrow we stand in good stead for a competitive race with the Ferraris.

Q: No dramas in qualifying; it looked as if you reverted back to the McLaren practice of having independent pit crews there for this session.

Lewis Hamilton: Yeah, that was a decision the team took before qualifying. Once again, we made sure that if we have any problems, the decision has to be made before qualifying, not during qualifying and they decided it was easier to have two pit crews and it worked out quite well.

Q: Kimi, you also looked like a pole man for quite a while there. What was qualifying like for you?

Kimi Raikkonen: I think the first qualifying (sessions) were good. I made a mistake in the second one in corner nine but the car felt good and just in the last qualifying, the last lap, I had a bit of oversteer in the last two corners, but nevertheless, I think third is OK. For sure, I would rather be in first place but I think we have a good race car here. It's going to be a long race so hopefully we can fight back.

Q: We talk a lot about the dramatic fast corners here particularly turn eight but then it's interesting to hear you and other drivers talking about the last few corners of the lap, which are relatively slow and appear to be quite easy corners.

Kimi Raikkonen: Yeah, they're slow but you lose much more time in slow corners than in fast corners. They're very important corners and it's very tricky to get them right. They seem to be very slippery. You can easily destroy the lap there so that's what happened, but I think we are still in a good position for tomorrow and we will see what we can do in the race.

Q: Felipe, your thoughts on the Ferrari - McLaren Mercedes battle tomorrow.

Felipe Massa: Yeah, it will be very tough. I think we have a good race car tomorrow, as we also showed in practice, but they are going to be very competitive as well. I think it's going to be a difficult race for us, a nice race for the spectators.

Q: Felipe, you're becoming a little bit of a Turkish specialist, I think.

Felipe Massa: I miss this place, to be in the middle of the people, you know. It was a great lap, I'm very happy about that. It was very tight during the whole qualifying with all four drivers but I knew I had a good car and I just knew that if I put everything together I can be very very quick. I didn't have a very very good lap in Q1 and Q2, I just couldn't put the lap together but I was paying attention to where I was making mistakes to get it right when it counts. I was able to put everything together in the last run, both tries in Q3. It was a good lap, so I'm very happy to be here especially after a very bad result in Hungary.

Q: How important is it to know that you can win here, that you have won here?

Felipe Massa: First of all, if you know you have a good car, if you know the balance is right, and if you know that if you're maybe having a problem in one corner but you were already able to do the corner right during the weekend, you know that you are competitive. I was pretty competitive during the weekend, even if maybe I was not first but I was competitive, the balance was right and I just managed to put it together at the time that it counted. I think that's the most important thing. For sure, to be concentrated, to do everything perfect is very difficult but I managed to do that.

Q: And we've seen a lot of drivers making mistakes over the last couple of days, how do you feel about your own performance?

Felipe Massa: I think it's pretty normal to make mistakes. I made some as well. When you need to try to find the limit, it's normal to make small mistakes and that's what happens with most people. Fortunately it didn't happen at the crucial time, so that's good.

Q: Lewis, happy with second on the grid?

Lewis Hamilton: Yeah, absolutely, especially knowing that the gap was so close. Going into qualifying, I knew that we had the pace, obviously throughout testing we seemed to be perhaps either with Ferrari or slightly faster, so I was quite confident going into it. Q1 and Q2 were a bit of a surprise to me. The car didn't feel great and I couldn't really get a clean, smooth lap, and I was fourth, I think, for both of them. Going into the two qualifying laps that I had in Q3, the first one was not too bad, I knew where I lost time and I knew that I could improve on it but I didn't think it would be half a second, six tenths. But going into the last lap, I really put everything together and I knew it was a good lap. I lost a bit of time at the last corner, but I think it's the same for everyone. It's a very very tricky corner, but I'm very very happy: second, I can't complain.

Felipe Massa: He hasn't been to the toilet today, that's why he's second.

Lewis Hamilton: Yeah, but you have, so... If I did, maybe it would be a bit closer.

Q: Obviously last year you had a phenomenal GP2 race here; how does that affect you looking towards the race tomorrow?

Lewis Hamilton: Well, obviously having the experience in GP2 and knowing that you can overtake here definitely eases your mind, just showing that there are opportunities. On some tracks you just can't get close enough but here, it's still tricky, I think, but it's definitely possible so... we just have to see. I think it's going to be a good race, we've got a good car, good strategy and I'm looking forward to having a race with these guys.

Q: Are you surprised to see Ferrari as competitive again as they were on these sort of circuits rather than the tighter ones like Hungary?

Lewis Hamilton: No, not really. I think I would have thought it would be the other way round. I actually thought that through the slower, tighter sort of circuits, we thought that they were perhaps slower than us and in the longer circuits, with longer straights, they seemed to be a little bit quicker. So we sort of anticipated that they would be quick here this weekend, but it doesn't mean they have a better car, it just means they are with us!

Q: Kimi, a bit disappointed to be third after yesterday for instance?

Kimi Raikkonen: Yeah, for sure we want to be in first place but the first two qualifying runs were OK, the car was good. I made small mistakes in the second qualifying but I just had maybe not as a good car as I was expecting in the last run, but a small mistake in the last two corners was enough to put me third. But I think we have a very good car in the race, so we should be able to fight and it's a long race. We will see what we can do.

Q: You seem to be talking a lot about the third sector. Is it a case of you can lose a lot of time there but you can't gain a lot?

Kimi Raikkonen: I think you can win as much as you can lose if you get it right but the fact is that you can lose more time in the slow corners because you spend more time in them. It's just a tricky place with very tight corners and you try to be quick in a straight line, so you don't want too much downforce but it is also slippery.

Q: The World Motor Sport Council decided that McLaren had Ferrari technical information and broke Article 151c, but were not penalized. Then came Hungary where McLaren and Fernando Alonso were severely penalized because he just stood in the pits for 30 seconds for whatever reason. Is this type of justice flattering to the sport and the F1 fans?

Felipe Massa: I am not going to comment on that.

Lewis Hamilton: And neither am I.

Kimi Raikkonen: The same.

Q: Kimi, yesterday you said you would prefer P3 to P2 if you were not on pole. Do you still agree?

Kimi Raikkonen: I think so, if you look at past years the clean side of the circuit seems to be the better place to start. I think it might make a difference here but we will see what happens tomorrow.

Q: A question for both Kimi and Felipe: There are 50 points still to play for, so both of you could still be world champion, but realistically what have you got to do now to stop Lewis and Fernando? I think that you need to be beating Lewis by three and a half points per race between now and the end of the season, so what do you have to do?

Felipe Massa: We will try to do exactly that!

Q: Can you elaborate on that?

Felipe Massa: We will try to put both Ferraris ahead of both McLarens in every race. The championship is not easy, 21 points is not comfortable but is it possible? We are going to try.

Kimi Raikkonen: We will do our best and hopefully win races and you never know what is going to happen in the last six races. We will keep pushing for as long as we still think we have a chance. The next three races are important but we need to wait and see.

Q: For Lewis, how disturbing was it to not be at the circuit on Thursday to prepare for the weekend?

Lewis Hamilton: As you can see we are still second in the qualifying session, so it has not really had any effect on our preparation. We were still able to prepare and I met up with my engineers earlier in the week, so it made no difference to me.

Q: Felipe, there was a report in the German media earlier this week that you had received information about the McLaren Hungary penalty before it had been officially released. Is that true?

Felipe Massa: That is crazy.

Q: Lewis, obviously you have to keep an eye on the Ferrari boys but Fernando is your nearest challenger in the world championship so, with that in mind, how happy are you about qualifying second when Fernando is fourth?

Lewis Hamilton: It is obviously a positive. Going into qualifying I knew that Fernando had been improving all the way through to qualifying and I seemed to lack the pace initially, but I am very relieved that I was able to pull out the time on my last lap and qualify ahead of him. Obviously tomorrow is another day and I will just have to try to get as many points as possible and finish ahead of him. But it will be good for both of us to finish ahead of the Ferraris.

Q: For Massa, you did a fantastic T3 and Kimi said it is easy to make a mistake there, so can you explain how that was so good?

Felipe Massa: It was very difficult especially since from the morning practice to qualifying the wind direction changed a little bit and affected these corners. I didn't have the same grip again in the last corner compared to before but I was able to do a good T3, not pushing as hard in the corner as before. I just tried not to be too aggressive and managed to do a good T3.

Q: You said you didn't have as good a car in Q3 as in Q1 and Q2, so can you just describe what happened with the balance of the car?

Kimi Raikkonen: It was nothing specific, I just think that when you put more fuel in the car it is always going to be different. You are always guessing a bit how it is going to be and although it was still good I could not quite put a lap together as well as I was hoping. But I think for long runs in the race the car should be good. I am not too disappointed although for sure it makes it easier if you start in first place, so we will just have to see what happens.

Q: Felipe, which one was more difficult to get, pole this year or last year?

Felipe Massa: I think both. Pole position is always difficult. Last year was tight and this year we have also had many tight qualifying sessions. I was able to do a good lap here and in Malaysia as well it was very good. Even Bahrain was tight. It is always difficult.

Q: Kimi, can you describe how it felt when you made a mistake, I think between T12 and T13? Did you analyse in that moment that you had lost pole position?

Kimi Raikkonen: I didn't know. I knew that I lost time because I was a bit off the line. I don't know how much I lost but for sure it would have been a lot closer. It just sometimes happens when you push to gain time and you overdo it. It is part of the game.

-credit: fia



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Re: Istanbul GP Race thread *SPOILERS!*
Date: August 26, 2007 02:05AM
Posted by: brnco
chet, this one is for you... (safe, no crap)

In today's qualifying session for the Turkish Grand Prix the Honda Racing F1 Team drivers Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button made it through to Q2 where they ended the session in 14th and 15th positions respectively. Rubens' time of 1:28.188 was 0.3secs shy of a place in the top 10.

As Jenson came into the pits at the end of the second session his engine started to lose power and it will now have to be changed for tomorrow's race, which means he will start from the back of the grid.

Rubens Barrichello:

"It was a good qualifying. I think we were at the very limit of the car, as we could see for both myself and Jenson. It's frustrating to be so near to the top ten, yet in some ways still a little too far. We seem to have solved a few of the problems we saw in Hungary, so a better weekend so far. We will now have to see what tomorrow brings in terms of results but for sure it will be a tough and very hot race."

Jenson Button:

"The first three runs in qualifying went well. On the last run I tried to push the car a bit more but I just ended up with a big snap of oversteer and lost quite a bit of time. That's where we're at though. You either drive the car round and do OK or try to push and then you're on a knife-edge. That's what we're dealing with I'm afraid. We'll have to see what we can do in the race."

Jacky Eeckelaert, Engineering Director:

"Rubens had a trouble-free Saturday. This morning in free practice his car balance had improved since yesterday and he went on to qualify in P14. Jenson had three good qualifying runs and was pushing hard but on the last run lost some time at turn seven and ended the session just behind his team-mate. Unfortunately, as he came into the pits, his engine started to lose power and we will now have to change it for tomorrow's race."

Rubens Barrichello: 14th
Chassis: RA107-05
Time: 1:28.188

Jenson Button: 15th
Chassis: RA107-04
Time: 1:28.220

-credit: honda
Re: Istanbul GP Race thread *SPOILERS!*
Date: August 26, 2007 11:47AM
Posted by: mikef1
Both Honda's are going to have to start from the back now:


Tough times for the Honda team in Turkey

Rubens Barrichello will on Sunday join his Honda team-mate at the back of the Turkish Grand Prix grid.

Jenson Button's 2.4-litre V8 power plant had to be changed after a problem developed during Istanbul qualifying on Saturday.

It now emerges from the scene of the race on Sunday that Barrichello, driving an identical RA107 single seater, must also move back ten places because of an engine change.


The Brazilian will, however, still line up in front of Button on the last row, after out-qualifying Button by a few hundredths for fourteenth quickest in Q2.
Re: Istanbul GP Race thread *SPOILERS!*
Date: August 26, 2007 12:38PM
Posted by: DJSKYLINE
in gp2 sprint race, the guy from p2 didnt have a good start, the person from p3 overtook him into turn 1.

hopefully its still nice and dirty for hamilton so kimi can pass :)

Re: Istanbul GP Race thread *SPOILERS!*
Date: August 26, 2007 12:58PM
Posted by: MarcA
brnco Wrote:
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> yours so calle McFiaren has nothing copied from no
> other car. That's crap, that stinky prick stepney
> did it for his own little reasons. Macca is clean
> as a cleanness itself. You should criticize others
> look at that prick horse with moveable aeroparts,
> red bull and its italian counterpart torro rosso
> are copies of macca, and yet everyone smuckes
> Macca, look at flavio that italian pasta eating
> midget is all made of cheating, he cheats all the
> time, remember benetton in 1994 and their
> misterious traction control.

@#$%& OFF or enjoy the joke.

Re: Istanbul GP Race thread *SPOILERS!*
Date: August 26, 2007 01:05PM
Posted by: MarcA
Another despairingly awful build up. This needs to have somthing done about it.

Re: Istanbul GP Race thread *SPOILERS!*
Date: August 26, 2007 01:11PM
Posted by: Hologide
It is god awful, isn't it?

I've turned it off to watch the 100m in the world championships...
Re: Istanbul GP Race thread *SPOILERS!*
Date: August 26, 2007 01:18PM
Posted by: MarcA
'Welcome to the Turkish Grand Prix, where Lewis Hamilton starts second infront of Raikkonen and Alonso'.

What the @#$%& happened to pole?

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