Australian GP 2012 - Albert Park

[zoro_f1]

please, post the link to compare other drivers.

Anyone knows how to find lap times comparaison between drivers ?
I think it comes from Mclaren website - like that for example :
http://i41.servimg.com/u/f41/15/91/15/71/5p1pn10.jpg

[ss.vamsikrishna]

Kimi drove an amazing race from start to finish. Not only he was quick, he has been very smart and avoiding all the chaos and not making any mistakes. He is actually driving the car after 2 years and very limited running this year on new tyres Pirelli has been fantastic.
Welcome back Iceman

[skgoa]

http://en.mclarenf-1.com/index.php?page ... 864&s=7173

[SchumiSutil]

The Lotus is the 3rd better car. What has done Kimi today is the least he should do, especially as he had brand new soft tyres for this race. He's been unlucky with SC, but he get passed by Kobayashi after the restart - and gained two places thanks to Maldonado and Perez/Rosberg collision.

Not that bad, but nothing exciting for Kimi, if you look at Grosjean quali pace and Lotus consistency on race conditions.

[SchumiSutil]

http://en.mclarenf-1.com/index.php?page ... 864&s=7173

Thanks for that. That's exactly what I wanted.

[TheRMVR]

How come Raikkonen gets all this praise? What about Perez, what he did from the back of the grid to 8th is even more impressive. I was actually disappointed with Raikkonens pace, I thought the Lotus would be as quick as the McLarens.

[nacho]

I think Raikkönen seemed very careful, didn't seem to take risks with passing, maybe he's not totally settled in the car yet.

[Tyler]

Do you think Williams regret shipping Barrichello now? Don't think he would have blown such a good position.

I think they have a good driver in Maldonado.
I think he's quicker than Barichello but is lacking in experience.
He drove very well in qualifying and in the race, apart from the spin.
What a pity! Would have been great to have Williams finish up in the points.
Senna on the other hand doesn't look up for the job.
He had a shocking weekend and really his performance didn't look worthy of a place in the team - a huge dissapointment and for me at least the worst drive of the GP!
In fact Senna hasn't done a single thing since his debut to convince me that he deserves a seat in F1.
While I think Maldonado has proved that he is more than just a 'pay driver', Bruno Senna is the very definition of one.

[Intego]

I think this whole pecking order sh!t is just made here to later say "as I said long time ago", because someone has to be randomly right.
We still don't know all the potential of the cars beacuse of several reasons:
- Melbourne is not a typical race track
- SC
- Alonso off in Q2, Massa just too slow
- Vettel with mistake in Q3, Webber without KERS, then Vettel with luck in the race (bad start Webber, two cars in front out, SC)
- Schumacher with gear box problem, Rosberg with mistake in Q3, but: race pace poor
- Räikkönen with bad Qualy strategy, good race, sadly Grosjean out early
- Toro Rosso with two new drivers
etc.

There are trends to see that can change in the next race even without car changes.

BUT: This season looks promising!

[stefan_]

While I think Maldonado has proved that he is more than just a 'pay driver', Bruno Senna is the very definition of one.

I think you have a broken TV. We are not watching the same competition.

[FrukostScones]

While I think Maldonado has proved that he is more than just a 'pay driver', Bruno Senna is the very definition of one.

I think you have a broken TV. We are not watching the same competition.

you have a broken perception

[Tamburello]

Senna had trouble early and all through out, give the guy a break.

[Traction]

Wow. I never expected Vettel to take second there. Heck I thought the podium was out of reach with his 8 tenths-off-pole lap. I like the guy - but he's not much of a racer when it comes to overtaking cars without a clear advantage. Happy to be proved wrong though. Respect. The confidence of a title and a dominant defense seems to have improved him a lot.

For the first time since 1996 I missed an F1 session - and it seemed mega from the f1 timing app. Darn. Anyone have vids or photos of Vettel taking Rosberg on the first(?) Lap? I heard it was pretty good stuff. The livetweets I read said "outside of T10" so I imagine he cut back under Rosberg for a better drive out of 9? I don't know.

Great drive from Jenson. No heroics - no theatrics - but just the usual Button trick (and the usual Vettel 2011 trick!) Of just keeping his nose clean at the head of the pack.

Shame Alonso missed 4th. That would've been a mega result for him.

Malders - massive cockup. I know world champs have done worse mistakes. Such as Vettel in 2010. But that to me just says that on that particular day the World Champion in question was somewhat rubbish. Still a bad mistake from Malders.

Not the best clip but something at least

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPL_SyFhIKA&sns=em

[NathanOlder]

I have just watched the race for a second time on SKY, and paid close attention to the gaps between the cars around the safety car period. The gaps scrolling along the bottom of the page are live times updated every few seconds, not just at the sector splits or start line.

Interesting reading as followed


- Vettel leads and has just exited turn 10. The gap to Button id displayed at 12.734 seconds.

- Before Vettel gets to turn 11 the Safety Car is deployed, causing every yellow flag to be waved & SC is displayed on all light boards around the track. Vettel passes a board showing SC on the entry to turn 11 and another by turn 12. So he is aware of the situation.

- By the time Vettel is at turn 13 he is 15.938 infront of Button passing multiple SC boards and Yellow flags

- As Vettel enters the pits he is right up behind a Marussia car that was nowhere to be seen through turns 11 & 12. The timing on the bottom of the screen shows he is now 23.195 infront of Button and has lost 10.461 in half a lap.

Now, was Vettel going too fast or Button going to slow ?
The car behind button was Mark Webber, who like Vettel was on an in lap.
As the safety car was deployed Webber trailed Button by 3.088 seconds, and at the time Vettel pitted Webber was 2.789 behind Button.

If we take Vettel as the example, when the safety car was deployed, and to when Vettel pitted this is how much time people lost to Vettel

Button +10.461
Webber +10.162
Maldonado + 11.328
Hamilton +10.982
Raikkonen + 12.495
Alonso +13.789
Perez +13.824

None of these drivers were held up by the saftey car as that was deployed and come onto the track next to Di Resta who was running 12th.
Martin Whitmarsh mentioned about this after the race on the Sky show. So with these figures how can Red Bull & Vettel deny a thing ?

[radosav]

webbers start? he can qualify first but with that kind of start its no use for him. ferrari looked bad in FP3 probably cause they made setup for race pace with heavy fuel.