Chinese GP 2011 - Shanghai

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Hamilton to Vettel after quali - "Too easy man, too easy". Vettel smiles back.

Nice moment.
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Unreal bad luck for Schumacher. A full second off his Q1 pace during Q2. That's just not right

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Wow...Vettel 0.7 seconds clear! Replay of Australia? Petrov is far enough back that even with his crazy-good starts, he probably won't catch P1 by the end of turn 2.

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Any idea why Vettel took such a long time to get out of the car? Is he trying to hide something?

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Jenson's girlfriend turned up to give him a helping hand, ay?

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CHT wrote:Any idea why Vettel took such a long time to get out of the car? Is he trying to hide something?
I was thinking a KERS related reason. Maybe they wanted to make sure the car was discharged?

It looks like the Red Bulls do a much better job maintaining heat in these Pirelli tires. Would somewhat explain the large performance difference in the cooler temperatures of Australia and China.

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Is Vettel's "waiting to get the thumbs up to get out of the car" bogus? His wry smile smells of Lie Pie.
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I don't know why Fred thought he had to go out in that last group!
All he accomplished was torturing his engine waiting in line!
Did anyone get a good look of Massa overtaking Perez?
The commentators said that they thought they touched wheels.
He was the only one of that group that improved his time
Any chance that may be investigated?
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MikeFromCanada wrote:
CHT wrote:Any idea why Vettel took such a long time to get out of the car? Is he trying to hide something?
I was thinking a KERS related reason. Maybe they wanted to make sure the car was discharged?

It looks like the Red Bulls do a much better job maintaining heat in these Pirelli tires. Would somewhat explain the large performance difference in the cooler temperatures of Australia and China.
The gap is back to normal now, certainly Malaysia was an anomaly. Season over if you ask me!
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mx_tifosi wrote:Is Vettel's "waiting to get the thumbs up to get out of the car" bogus? His wry smile smells of Lie Pie.
+1, mx_tifosi.

Just take every word from Vettel and Horner with a kilo of salt.

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mx_tifosi wrote:Is Vettel's "waiting to get the thumbs up to get out of the car" bogus? His wry smile smells of Lie Pie.
Come on.... Tell us what you really think about him! :lol:
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MikeFromCanada wrote:I was thinking a KERS related reason. Maybe they wanted to make sure the car was discharged?
I don't think Vettel was telling the truth due to the Chesire Cat grin he had on his face, but it couldn't have been because of KERS. If KERS was the problem Button could have been zapped really badly. Something else was up and they aren't going to say obviously, I've not heard that 'rule' from any other driver and I've not seen any other driver just hang out in the car for that long.

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n smikle wrote:
MikeFromCanada wrote:
CHT wrote:Any idea why Vettel took such a long time to get out of the car? Is he trying to hide something?
I was thinking a KERS related reason. Maybe they wanted to make sure the car was discharged?

It looks like the Red Bulls do a much better job maintaining heat in these Pirelli tires. Would somewhat explain the large performance difference in the cooler temperatures of Australia and China.
The gap is back to normal now, certainly Malaysia was an anomaly. Season over if you ask me!
Probably. Only hope is that other teams have major upgrades when we return to Europe, but looks like Vettel will run away with this.

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CHT wrote:Any idea why Vettel took such a long time to get out of the car? Is he trying to hide something?
Nothing to see here at my car, move along

THey have something in the cockpit allright and waited everybody to leave