Qualifying today!!

Becker4 · Post 04 Mar 2004, 21:52

AAAHHHHHHH im so excited, im gonna be giddy all day. what are your guys guesses for who will take pole?

Distomak · Post 05 Mar 2004, 00:33

Jenson will be in the top 3, Obligitory schumacer appearance, and montoya.

3. Jenson Button
2. Juan Pabolo Montoya
1. Michael Schumacher.

rumpelstulskin · Post 05 Mar 2004, 03:18

guys what do you read in the friday free 1 times?
the walrus not superfast?

F1freak · Post 05 Mar 2004, 04:15

Ferrari looks tough as usual. They're ~2 seconds clear of everyone else. However, not sure how much the other teams were trying to conserve their engines. Ferrari of course has a long reliability record that might allow them to fully explore their car's potential.

Aaaaaaarrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhh - I'm so excited!!!!

West · Post 05 Mar 2004, 08:32

F1freak wrote:Ferrari looks tough as usual. They're ~2 seconds clear of everyone else. However, not sure how much the other teams were trying to conserve their engines. Ferrari of course has a long reliability record that might allow them to fully explore their car's potential.

Aaaaaaarrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhh - I'm so excited!!!!

You should remember Ross Brawn worrying at the 2003 USGP about the law of averages... they haven't had a breakdown in so long...

Guest · Post 05 Mar 2004, 11:41

If my name was Willi Webber i would be placing my order for 300 baseball caps that say SEVEN TIMES on them! -Scuderia_Russ...can't log in my pc is having an epileptic fit!

Becker4 · Post 05 Mar 2004, 12:26

i am thrilled to see renaults pace, especially with both drives, not jsut one doing well . . . hopefully they can qualify and race as well.

Distomak · Post 05 Mar 2004, 17:44

Nice to see Jenson in 4th in P2... If he get's up one more place and stays there today, i'll have won £11.25

If he manages to get past the ferrari turbochargers then i'll have won £63.25

Woo and Yay.

mvf4sp · Post 06 Mar 2004, 08:06

I don't know what you guys think but I saw a pretty steady Ferrari today compared to williams, let's see what happends tomorrow, It's gonna be a lovley race!!!

rodders · Post 06 Mar 2004, 08:37

yeh RED cars front row but Webber 6th

give em hell mark

Aradea · Post 06 Mar 2004, 15:10

Great job for BAR, Jense & Takuma are in the top ten !!

Now the only thing to worry is the reliability of the cars on the real race. Not only for BAR, But Other teams as well..
On sunday we'll see how the new engine rules makes all the teams life a living hell!

Distomak · Post 06 Mar 2004, 17:42

Not to mention the fact that the newbies are midfield.

F1freak · Post 06 Mar 2004, 23:50

I think that Ferrari might (must) be on a different race strategy than Williams/Mclaren. As DC pointed out and looking at the lap times (not only Q1 but also all the Practice times), Ferrari's times just look too good to be true. Their Q2 times are faster than any of their Q1 or practice times. Maybe they are on a 3 stop strategy, as some annoucers were commenting was a possibility because of the shorter pit lane. Also, does this not play into their favor from a tyre perspective? Three stops means three tire changes - are Bridgestone's better for short stints versus longer stints?

Thoughts???????

(Only 5 more hours to the race!!!!!!!!!)

Guest · Post 07 Mar 2004, 00:28

Yes, Ferrari are in a 3 stop strategy. But I think JPM and Button will go for 3 pit stops too. Montoya's time would be similar to Ferrari's, if not for his mistake in sector 3. Ralf will go for 2 stops (though his time is slow enough to go for 1 stop...).
And McLaren is in trouble.

Just 4 hours...!

Post 07 Mar 2004, 00:39

I'm very very disappointed in McLaren, I just love that car, but apparently they didn't get it all right yet...

For the format... I find the qualifying VERY BORING, I don't know how, but they should find something else, to me this is just 2 hours waste of time, I watched 1st session until Monty, and then the 10 last drivers in session 2