Malaysian F1 Grand Prix ***SPOILERS***

well, i wasnt able to wake up lol. So yeah great news on the FP2 side, consistent lap times and no engine problems for Kimi. w00t @ Jense, 4th!



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that 2nd lap for hamilton, he had the biggest slide in the final corner, it looked like he was drifting rather than driving

It's so difficult to read into these practise sessions but I think Ferrari look significantly faster with the heavier fuel loads on their runs compared to Hamilton's sprint lap. If it's dry then Lewis should be able to snatch pole but the Ferraris will catch him in the race. Also we've gotta remember that in Melbourne a lot of teams esp. BMW didn't show their pace until Saturday so they might still be able to get amongst the top four.

But the again, the only thing that counts for Ferrari, although they were fast in training, is the alltime favourite cliché:

"To finish first, you first have to finish."

And with a not working ECU made by their archvillains McLaren, only Italians in the pitbox, ánd a Macca which uses a ferrari-syle/stolen flexwing, it's going to be a tough weekend for the Scuderia

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/21/2008 12:41PM by Sapo.

by looking at the the sessions ferrari has a big advantage there is no way lewis will make his tyres last driving like that to get a time.

Mclaren need bmw to get infront of ferrari.

In australia though though it looked like mclaren and ferrari had a second over the rest yet in fp3 that all changed.

But they are having probs with the last turn.

marcl Wrote:
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> Mclaren need bmw to get infront of ferrari.
>

I'm aure the Maccas would much rather get in front of Ferrari themselves than be overtaken by BMW

But the thing is ferraris are faster than mclaren maybe because they have fresh engine for this race?

Monza972 Wrote:
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> But the thing is ferraris are faster than mclaren
> maybe because they have fresh engine for this
> race?


I doubt it a little but yes they do get some advantage from that... anyway it will most likely rain sunday so things that we saw today are not important then anymore.

vesuvius 創作:
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> Monza972 Wrote:
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> > But the thing is ferraris are faster than
> mclaren
> > maybe because they have fresh engine for this
> > race?
>
>
> I doubt it a little but yes they do get some
> advantage from that... anyway it will most likely
> rain sunday so things that we saw today are not
> important then anymore.


But they need to preserve their engines for two races
I don't think they pushed really hard on the engines
thus no actual advantage from it

vesuvius schreef:
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> Monza972 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > But the thing is ferraris are faster than
> mclaren
> > maybe because they have fresh engine for this
> > race?
>
>
> I doubt it a little but yes they do get some
> advantage from that... anyway it will most likely
> rain sunday so things that we saw today are not
> important then anymore.


Last year there was a rule change, that on friday you can use another engine then in the race, it was so people would drive more on friday, so i think they arent driving their engines that they use for saterday/sunday

Iceman-Kimi Wrote:
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> vesuvius schreef:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Monza972 Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > But the thing is ferraris are faster than
> > mclaren
> > > maybe because they have fresh engine for this
> > > race?
> >
> >
> > I doubt it a little but yes they do get some
> > advantage from that... anyway it will most
> likely
> > rain sunday so things that we saw today are not
> > important then anymore.
>
>
> Last year there was a rule change, that on friday
> you can use another engine then in the race, it
> was so people would drive more on friday, so i
> think they arent driving their engines that they
> use for saterday/sunday

WHat the hell? is that for real?

Yup - you can use a different engine on Friday and there's no penalty for changing it should it fail, luckily for Toro Rosso and F.India :P

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Dont know if this old news?

Red Bull have been ask to provide information as to why they shouldn't be excluded from the Malaysian GP following Coulthards car basically falling apart yet again.

[www.autosport.com]

Certainly news to me. I won't go as far as to say that they've got a problem. The Australia incident was fully acceptable. You build a car to the regulations, and if it gets launched, parts will fail. It was just the way it landed. You see that sort of thing happen all the time in many areas of motorsport.

In this case I'm just going to assume it's a freak accident, and if an internal part failed (like the anti-roll bar I suggested a couple of pages previous) then it's possible that the uprights also failed under load as a result. Once the left-front had gone the chances of similar damage to the right-front increase many times too, and remember it had already failed.

I'm not convinced that Vettel's failure wasn't related. It looks like a disc exploding, but if you look at a video, you can clearly see the wheel or suspension has gone too, as the right-front is running at a peculiar angle (positive camber). Whether that was caused by the disc failure or the disc failure was caused by it we'll not know until STR say so, if they themselves know.

Either way, RBR and STR have some major issues to sort out. Be they suspension or brake discs, something is breaking.

You have a new engine gear box for friday.

From sat morning u must use the engine and gear box from the last race, unless of course its the 2nd or 4th race.

I dont know if rbr will be allowed to race tbh I just dont see how that is safe at all.



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marcl Wrote:
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> You have a new engine gear box for friday.
>
> From sat morning u must use the engine and gear
> box from the last race, unless of course its the
> 2nd or 4th race.
>
> I dont know if rbr will be allowed to race tbh I
> just dont see how that is safe at all.


gearbox lasts for 4 races

That is news to me about the engine. RBR and STR have some problems with the suspension and brakes as last week DC's disc popped and now Seb. They really sort it out, who knows it might not happen in race and blow someone else out if one of the RBR or STR flunk themselves

It was webbers break that went last week!

Ah right my mistake, thought it was DC

anyone know if there will be a live feed online (maybe sopcast again?) for saturday practice?

and some hamilton news.lol
McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton was snapped in the Malaysian paddock while he was kissing a mysterious blonde. According to reports in the paddock, the mystery girl is Sonia Irvine, the sister of former F1 racer Eddie Irvine.

[www.f1technical.net]





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