2013 Australian GP - Albert Park

[Hail22]

Mark Webber at the Top Gear Festival yesterday:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzHam2hAVTY[/youtube]


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


Nice backdrop of the Harbour Bridge in Sydney:

[Hail22]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqH6AU-xnQs[/youtube]

[Hobbs04]

Aussie grit Webber for the win. Come on Red Bull let him win his home race. Vettel can have the rest.

Webber has failed in three very favourable chances to win his home race.. I have given up on that long ago.

I agree he had chances but I haven't lost hope.

[Clew]

Although I think Webber is a good driver....he tends to choke occasionally when the pressures on....at home. Mind you, Vettel is the teams golden boy. 2010 should have been Webber''s home victory.

[khaliweed]

Well, it seems we will be spotting a few showers in Melbourne On saturday and sunday.
http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml

[Guisson]

I've Missed these predictions ..x)

QUALIFYING:

1-HAM
2-ALO
3-VET
4-ROS
5-BUT
6-WEB
7-PER
8-RAI
9-MAS
10-MAL

[kilcoo316]

Well, it seems we will be spotting a few showers in Melbourne On saturday and sunday.
http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml

Forget about the showers - look at the temperatures!

If it is nearer to the predicted minimum than the max, and there is a lot of cloud cover, track temperatures may not be too much above the Barce testing temps.

[Mika1]

Well, it seems we will be spotting a few showers in Melbourne On saturday and sunday.
http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml

Forget about the showers - look at the temperatures!

If it is nearer to the predicted minimum than the max, and there is a lot of cloud cover, track temperatures may not be too much above the Barce testing temps.

Music to my ears as Mercedes AMG fan.

[khaliweed]

Well, it seems we will be spotting a few showers in Melbourne On saturday and sunday.
http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml

Forget about the showers - look at the temperatures!

If it is nearer to the predicted minimum than the max, and there is a lot of cloud cover, track temperatures may not be too much above the Barce testing temps.

Music to my ears as Mercedes AMG fan.

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[Donuts]

Copy & Paste from "2013 Season car rankings".

Start grid:

1. Romain Grosjean
2. Fernando Alonso
3. Kimi Raikkonen
4. Sebastian Vettel
5. Jenson Button
6. Mark Webber
7. Lewis Hamilton
8. Nico Rosberg
9. Felipe Masa
10. Nico Hulkenberg

Wildcard: Pastor Maldonado(anywhere between 5-10)

[Adamski]

I've Missed these predictions ..x)

QUALIFYING:

1-HAM
2-ALO
3-VET
4-ROS
5-BUT
6-WEB
7-PER
8-RAI
9-MAS
10-MAL

I think it will be dominated by Vettel (or even Red Bull), but Alonso will not too far away. Behind him are the Lotus drivers, than just the McLaren's and Mercedes'.

[SamH123]

Fixed.

Took me a few seconds to see what you had changed but

[Nando]

Although I think Webber is a good driver....he tends to choke occasionally when the pressures on....at home. Mind you, Vettel is the teams golden boy. 2010 should have been Webber''s home victory.

He chokes every year after summer break.
At the start he´s very good but he just dies for some reason.
The only time he was close to getting the title was because his teammate messed up and had reliability issues.

Good Qualifier though.

[raymondu999]

IMO he can't take title pressure and goes too conservative or too aggressive (depending on his mood). Also, he seems very bad on all Tilke circuits. I wonder... Is it something in the way Tilke designs his circuits? Or perhaps a manufacturing thing, eg Webber doesn't like the type of asphalt Tilke's contractors use?

[rssh]

Is there any change out to the layout of the Kerbs this year in Melbourne (like the curb extended at T4 exit) ?

My prediction for Qualy

1 Vettel
2 Alonso
3 Webber
4 Button
5 Massa
6 Groj
7 Perez
8 Kimi
9 Ros
10 Ham/ Hulk

Ps - This can is wildly off the target in Qualy ,like shooting and arrow in the dark