Abu Dhabi GP 2010 - Yas Marina Circuit

[Sean H]

I honestly believe that boy massa is blind in his left eye.
He turned in almost as if he forgot Lewis was right beside him?
He is side by side 100m to 50m, then he turns in as if he never saw Hamilton, weird.

I know you are new to racing, but that dark line is the racing line. Lewis must be lost out on the track again.

No worries though, he will probably run into somebody or throw it into the fence like he has done all year. The pretender amongst the contenders.

[autogyro]

I wonder who Massa will take out on Sunday.
Dont forget Briatore has been talking to Montezemolo and look what happened last time. Team orders.

[FrukostScones]

[quote="ringo"]Hamilton did nothing wrong.
He had 2 options:

Just stop that nonsense!

[ringo]

Hamilton was in the wrong. I mean what the hell was he doing going so stupidly slow. Massa was on an out lap but still maintained a reasonable speed and did not catch whoever was in front. THE LOSS was surely driving with his head in the incorrect position.

So he should speed up so the haters could say he was blocking Massa?

It's an out lap forget about it. No Hamilton blood for the haters today. He'll get more reprimands next season ok?

Stewards say Massa was too slow in q3 anyway. Waste of p9 slot, no penalty.


You should be worried about your boy Vettel's tyres. The redbull is better than the ferrari on the tyres, but still vettel did a good amount of laps on them.
Ferrari will suffer as well on heavy fuel with the hards. Their long run pace wasn't looking too good in practice.
An nice webberized collision should spice things up with webber being eager to get ahead of alonso.

[andrew]

I'm not worried about anything, but Hamilton seemed to suffer from a massive downturn yet again. I fully expect him to take out Webber or Alonso when he tries to win the race in the first corner, despite the race being slightly longer than that.

A Webber/Hamilton/Alonso with an option on Button pile up would be good. Obviously no physical injuries, just bruised egos. And Vettel wins the title which he richly deserves.

[ringo]

Championships don't come easy. Vettel, Alonso, Webber, all have to drive for it tomorrow.
I don't know how you all relish penalties so much. Let the drivers race.
The Boss is in the gauntlet, so are the redbull boys and Alonso.
4 men enter 1 man leave.

He's the danger man. Touch him and you're out. He's fully aware that he can rub up against any of the other 3 and they have to get out of the way.

P2 is the safest position to start at abu dhabi anyway. It's on the inside of turn1 which provides some clearance from the cars on the outside.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CwzTbfC ... n-1r-14-HM[/youtube]

check out the start. p2 is safe, p3 has to be watchfull of p2. P1 is clear to go as long as he starts well.
The rest are at the mercy of the racing gods. Webber is toast.

[Mandrake]

You should be worried about your boy Vettel's tyres. The redbull is better than the ferrari on the tyres, but still vettel did a good amount of laps on them.

I think that especially at the start those tires will benefit the Red Bulls as they will a heat up a tad bit better than fresh tires. Secondly, graining is not only dependant on how many laps a tire has done but how many laps it is consistantly pushed. Tire degradation is not the issue in Abu Dhabi.

Thus it does not necessary mean that the RBs will suffer from graining earlier than the others!

[godlameroso]

Lewis is definitely going to win tommorow, because the RB is fast no doubt about it, the McLaren is a better package overall, we might see Hamilton Vettel Button Alonso, and either Massa or Webber.

[Arunas]

I wonder who Massa will take out on Sunday.
Dont forget Briatore has been talking to Montezemolo and look what happened last time. Team orders.

You are kidding?

[vall]

Lewis is definitely going to win tommorow, because the RB is fast no doubt about it, the McLaren is a better package overall,

what makes you think so? LH qualified 0.1s off the Bulls in Brazil, but was nowhere to be seen in the race. The same may happen again. Let's wait and see how the race unfolds tomorrow.

[godlameroso]

sorry to double post but an interesting tidbit is that neither Red Bull has won a race when the qualifying gap was less than three tenths of a second.
Bahrain .1 sec
Australia .1 sec
Malaysia 1.6 seconds
China .25 sec
Barcelona .7 from slowest Red Bull to fastest non Red Bull
Monaco .3 but Kubica was right there with them, it's just hard to pass there.
Turkey .14 sec
Canada .25 Mclaren was actually two and a half tenths faster than RB
Valencia .3 Again Hamilton was right with them
Great Britain .7 second gap to fastest non RB
Germany .002 seconds
etc.etc.

[godlameroso]

Lewis is definitely going to win tommorow, because the RB is fast no doubt about it, the McLaren is a better package overall,

what makes you think so? LH qualified 0.1s off the Bulls in Brazil, but was nowhere to be seen in the race. The same may happen again. Let's wait and see how the race unfolds tomorrow.

Qualifying in Brazil was under different conditions than they raced in. Perhaps if the weather was the same as in qualifying it would have made things different.

[ringo]

Button's lack of pace due to him running a 2011 spec brake bias system that is causing him constant front locking.. he's been running it since Korea...

rumors and excuses!

No such thing, especicially at times where he could win WDC and now WCC.

Yep, just as i guessed. He was trying Lewis brake material. Trying to unlock the secrets of his speed.
Good that he is in p4 though. His virbation problem was solved when he pitted for tyres.
BBC commentary i tell you.

[komninosm]

Your bias is overwhelming...

A textbook example of the pot calling the kettle black!

How is it a textbook example, when I was the first to say it was Hamilton's fault earlier on, before it came out that both him and Massa were on outlaps and Massa wasn't on a fast lap?
Your post is a textbook example of jumping on the hate bandwagon.

[komninosm]

nope, there is no bias here. No matter why LH was slow! he was driving way off the pace and Massa had nothing else to do but overtake him. Once Massa was ahead on the approach to the corner, LH should have let him go. After all they were not fighting for position.

Q: (Ian Gordon - News of the World) Lewis, you said on the radio that Felipe came across you. Was it an accident or do you think he was trying to spoil your lap?
LH: I wasn’t on a lap. I was just exiting the pits. He was doing the same behind me, but I was informed that someone was on a lap - they’re in your blind spot, so what I didn’t want to do was get in the way, so as I came out onto turn three, I went onto the very dirty outside area to leave whoever was coming through some clear space and as I came back onto the track, I was going into the corner and I found Felipe round the outside. I don’t know what really happened; I’d have to look at it afterwards.