Istanbul GP Thread ***Spoilers!***

hmm what was wrong with kimi's car?

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2013 - Nando must come through..

Kimi had a gearbox failure.

I wonder if its true about these ferrari performance engine changes over the winter. How the hell will anyone even find out lol. But it would explain the engine problems all ferrari teams had at the start of the year.

Time look closer with mclaren ferrari but lets see what happens.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/09/2008 12:45PM by marcl.

great lap from Kimi immediately after losing 1st practise.Ferrari still seems to be couple of tenths ahead of McLaren at the moment...Heikki looks stronger than Lewis.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/09/2008 01:43PM by vesuvius.

interesting the way MacLaren wing bends up and down, thought that wasnt allowed anymore?

gin Wrote:
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> interesting the way MacLaren wing bends up and
> down, thought that wasnt allowed anymore?


it's allowed...what's not allowed is that wing bends back and forward.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/09/2008 02:20PM by vesuvius.

It seems the RedBull still isn't as solid as it should be. Webbers car fell apart quite easily...

hopefully raikkonen wont get a penalty.i have heard they might repair his gearbox.kovalainen looks impressive i hope he beats hamilton to a podium this weekend.

Raja Hassan Bin Naeem.

That mclaren looks bad lewis had to throw the car around great car control but you can not race like that the tyres will just go.

Kimi wil be ok its not the race gearbox that does not go in till sat. Plus its a new gearbox this weekend anyway.

There are so many people going off track having over steer and understeer.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/09/2008 02:31PM by marcl.

Fisichella has been given a 3 place grid penalty for exiting the pits under red lights in FP1.

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2013 - Nando must come through..

There is no real point in him even starting quali really he may as well save tyres.

Well he'll just use qually to setup the car ;P

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casabonka Wrote:
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> Fisichella has been given a 3 place grid penalty
> for exiting the pits under red lights in FP1.


This is just another random penalty! Where did they just invent '3 place grid penalty' as a punishment for that?

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I can't really remember it's happened in the recent years, so it doesn't have to be so random as you imply.

Mika got the same penalty if I remember in the USA.

It should be to the back of the grid anyway, if u do it in a race u are dq so it sould be the same for quali.

Hmmm...a bit worrying that Kimi didn't get enough track time, so let's see what he can do tomorrow.

yes Kimi lost some very important track time and Kimi said his setups far very poor but was very suprised about the fastest time in 2nd practise...also Kimi's time was quite impressive because it was done with harder tyres and on a damp track.

It still isn't a very nice start to the weekend. Though track conditions are the same for everyone, so a lot will depend on free practice tomorrow.

casabonka Wrote:
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> Fisichella has been given a 3 place grid penalty
> for exiting the pits under red lights in FP1.


Oooh scary..
I got rfactor this week, have only ever driven with Fisichella in the Force India, and without fail I always jump the red light at the session start.

The ones to look out for are bmw, neither were happy with the setup and yet kubica was quite fast.

Kimi is looking strong I would totally ignore the lap time lewis did as it was an all out quali lap wheels locks slides over steer that was no way a race setup. Tyres would last all of 3 laps lol