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2009 Formula One Thread
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Not as wrong as me: I need to cook breakfast soon.
Balls, I've got my pit strategy wrong. Need the loo...
I took an early pit stop. Risky strategy but ...
Lewis looks good again. Right on Trulli's tail.
R. Youden/ Spook - do teams like the rain? As a spectacle it's more interesting, but do teams appreciate the challenge?
I don't think we had a wet race whilst I was at Honda, not sure. But on the whole teams hate wet weather. OK you may get a great result for a team who is normally down the grid, but you have to be on the ball all the time and react to the track / safety car / traffic. Also these cars are not designed to work in wet conditions. You put all your effort into setting your car up for the dry and designing strategies for the whole weekend, just for them to go flying out the window.
Let's hope Vettel's car isn't damaged. No one will know until there's a full load on the rear wing...
Massa stopped?!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Maybe he forgot that the car in front of you is a Toyota.
EDIT: It seems Red Bulls 1-2. I feel a wee bit sorry for Jenson - I think the RBRs are slightly quicker in the wet but from a potential 30 points from the first 3, he's gonna get at most 21.
Yup.
Just seen the fastest laps. Barrichello fastest - it's interesting to think how different this race would've been if the Brawns had made the front. Visibility is key.
Pff, the race finished at about 5am EDT.
I'm just glad this evening race crap is over with. Californians have all the Euro races at 5am.
BMW needs all the help they can get. They seem to have rubbish cars this season and even worse luck. Dr Mario Theissen wasn't a happy man today.
A good race and congrats to RBR for their first pole and win.
While I normally love wet races, I was disappointed to see rain when the coverage started on SPEED because I was really looking forward to seeing how fuel and tire strategy would play out, considering how many teams were having serious issues with blistering and graining (sic) on the super-soft drys after only a handful of laps. Then again, the Brawns looked to be some of the kindest so if it had been dry, I expect JB would be celebrating win #4 instead of #2 for SV. Also very disappointed for Sutil. He was robbed of points at Monaco because of Kimi and I looked forward to Force India getting in the points.
With the conditions, it was pretty close to a foregone conclusion who would do well and who wouldn't, though the RBR's performance vis-a-vis Brawn was massively impressive since fuel weights were not a factor, as Button's RD suggested.
While I normally love wet races, I was disappointed to see rain when the coverage started on SPEED because I was really looking forward to seeing how fuel and tire strategy would play out, considering how many teams were having serious issues with blistering and graining (sic) on the super-soft drys after only a handful of laps. Then again, the Brawns looked to be some of the kindest so if it had been dry, I expect JB would be celebrating win #4 instead of #2 for SV. Also very disappointed for Sutil. He was robbed of points at Monaco because of Kimi and I looked forward to Force India getting in the points.
With the conditions, it was pretty close to a foregone conclusion who would do well and who wouldn't, though the RBR's performance vis-a-vis Brawn was massively impressive since fuel weights were not a factor, as Button's RD suggested.
That was a good weekend. 15 more of them would be nice.
I can't wait until we've got all the new parts on the car: a weekend like that without a diffuser etc is just brilliant.
As to whether or not teams like the rain; the electronics departments certainly don't. It's a good equaliser though, and having a decent chassis and mechanical grip in the wet makes up for our current downforce deficit.
I can't wait until we've got all the new parts on the car: a weekend like that without a diffuser etc is just brilliant.
As to whether or not teams like the rain; the electronics departments certainly don't
. It's a good equaliser though, and having a decent chassis and mechanical grip in the wet makes up for our current downforce deficit.
forgot to comment. watched the race replay last night and ive gotta say that Vettel, Webber and the Red Bull race team did an exceptional job to get poll and race around the wet aquaplane prone track to win.
Go Webber! youll win one soon mate hopefully in Bahrain.
Go Webber! youll win one soon mate hopefully in Bahrain.