Chinese GP 2012 - Shanghai

[beelsebob]

My race prediction:
1. Perez
2. Button
3. Hamilton
4. Webber

[Mestrades]

Hellou!
Any of you can give me a link with the time per lap of the FP3? The PDF on FIA's website link is broken. Brawn has said that they have been testing high fuel runnings and I would like to see them. Thank you!

[Maelstrom]

Alonso will be faster than them? Really? Massa will be lucky to get P10. I think you were not watching the same qualifying session that I was.

I did. I wonder if you watched last two races...
though I agree with you about massa

Last race doesn't even count. It was a lottery at best. Also Schumacher has had bad luck in both races so you can hardly use them as comparision. But the Ferrari's are struggling. They barely made it into Q3 today (Massa disn't).

I'm not going to say any more about this as frankly this is a ridiculous argument to have.

[Maelstrom]

Mine would be:

1)Hamilton
2)Kobayashi
3)Button/Webber
4)Schumacher
5)Rosberg
6)Raikonnen

I believe that Schumacher has greater race pace and if he gets a good start he'll pip Rosberg. Kobayashi could also get a good start and pull away from both Mercs.

The McLarens are very strong in race pace and Hamilton is hungry for a win. This might be his race.

Why would you have Perez winning the race when his teammate is 4th on the grid, beelsebob ?

[MrBlacky]

Does anyone have a link to the Sky/BBC Pole lap?

[Guisson]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpyNJLWeeVw[/youtube]

Here it is..What A lap , Good Job Britney !

[GrizzleBoy]

Can someone fire Georgie already?

It actually makes me uncomfortable seeing what looks like someone who knows nothing, pretending that anything she does say that sounds knowledgable is a canned line.

I just find her input to be painfully useless and "tacked on" tbh.

[hardingfv32]

If the W03 super-DRS gives around .300 at this track, I believe Nico's flawless lap proves W03 has excellent pace on its own merit minus super-DRS as well.

.3 on this track? He should be eaten alive during the race then, correct? How long he lasts after the DRS is allowed should pretty much demonstrate how effective it is.

How does a flawless lap correlate to the DRS system?

Brian

[Raptor22]

weather forecast for tomorrow is similar to today; 11C to 17C but Sunny instead of the heavy cloud cover.
This means warmer track temp. NIco's car was tweaked for the cooler temps in Q3 and cooler track temp.
If they can't retweak it, he is going to struggle relative to Michael.
I think Mercedes have hedged their bets; they're set up Nico for cooler track temps and Michael for slightly higher track temps.

McLAren are also complaining about tyres not getting up to optimum performance so I believe getting the tyre window right is just a lot tougher with the new Pirelli compounds. I don't think it's a huge Mercedes problem. YThey may still have a smaller window compared to say McLaren but they seem to be less sensitive than other cars out there e.g The Ferrari and Red Bull

[SchumiSutil]

"I did. I wonder if you watched last two races...
though I agree with you about massa"

Last race doesn't even count. It was a lottery at best. Also Schumacher has had bad luck in both races so you can hardly use them as comparision. But the Ferrari's are struggling. They barely made it into Q3 today (Massa disn't).

I'm not going to say any more about this as frankly this is a ridiculous argument to have.

Sorry, but I'm agree with motobaleno.
At least Rosberg had dreadful tyres issues on the first two races. And Alonso was comfortably better in both races, even in Melbourne.

[threep]

What odds for Kimi's first win since returning to F1? We haven't seen the full potential of the Lotus yet. Don't think the Mercs can sustain race pace with their tyre wear. It might come down to who's where after the first lap, KR and KK to scrap it out for the top step of the podium if they get good starts.

[MrBlacky]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpyNJLWeeVw

Here it is..What A lap , Good Job Britney !

Thanks.

[foxmulder_ms]

That was an interesting qualifying.

A little unexpected. I thought McLaren and Redbull would have been a little faster.

In any case, it looks promising; we will have an exciting one coming.

[PlatinumZealot]

Can someone fire Georgie already?

It actually makes me uncomfortable seeing what looks like someone who knows nothing, pretending that anything she does say that sounds knowledgable is a canned line.

I just find her input to be painfully useless and "tacked on" tbh.

Have they fired Damon Hill yet? For an F1 champ he's not much better than Georgie!

[Ferraripilot]

Mine would be:

1)Hamilton
2)Kobayashi
3)Button/Webber
4)Schumacher
5)Rosberg
6)Raikonnen

I believe that Schumacher has greater race pace and if he gets a good start he'll pip Rosberg. Kobayashi could also get a good start and pull away from both Mercs.

The McLarens are very strong in race pace and Hamilton is hungry for a win. This might be his race.

I believe you're very right about Hamilton. I'm very curious in seeing just how race-pace oriented Michael's setup is. If the weather is indeed even somewhat sunny tomorrow, I would wager Nico is going to overheat his tires while Michael would fit right into that 'window' because during qualy today I could easily tell Michael didn't have the same heat in his tires Nico had. Nico was just blistering in Q2. Same goes for Hamilton, not the same level of heat/grip in the rubber.