2013 Brazilian Grand Prix - Interlagos

[astracrazy]

Does anyone know what's the weather now in Interlagos?

Says on bbc it is raining till about 4 ish.

bbc now says till 19:00 so looks like wet race

[Hail22]

Does anyone know what's the weather now in Interlagos?

Says on bbc it is raining till about 4 ish.

bbc now says till 19:00 so looks like wet race

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CASGNmf0Pec[/youtube]

That sums up my feelings woohoo! hopefully Teflonso and Britney Spears can pass #Finger.

[Gerhard Berger]

Vettel should still win in the wet, but Alonso and Rosberg have more chance of beating him in those conditions than the dry.

Hope for a standing start. Turns 1-4 provide plenty of passing opportunities at the start.

[mikeerfol]

Both McLaren and Caterham say there is 40% chance of rain at the start of the race, increasing to 60% by mid-race.

[PlatinumZealot]

I think RedBull 1-2. Then Lotus to complete the podium.

[mikeerfol]

Perez will drop 5 places due to gearbox penalty after his crash yesterday.

[FrukostScones]

Dry atm!

Dry start, then inter-condition, then dry again, than full-wet fading to inter-conditon on the edge to dry in the end again.

If I was the director that would be the play. Lots of room for errors.

[AnthonyG]

Webcam http://www.earthcam.com/search/ft_searc ... IL&x=0&y=0

[Juzh]

looks dry enough

[FrukostScones]

Webcam http://www.earthcam.com/search/ft_searc ... IL&x=0&y=0

nice, they have human traffic lights with a flagstaff that force the cyclists to stop. thats progressive, really.

[SectorOne]

I think where they gain the time is traction out of the corner and acceleration up the hill.

Vettel´s speed trap is 276km/h compared to Alonso´s 292km/h, Hamilton/Rosberg´s 285.

Yeah, such discrepancy is strange in itself, but this speed trap is not relevant i think in those conditions. The only one that is relevant is the start/finish straight where I believe everyone was on the limiter.

the speed trap is on the start finish straight. I think the most interesting thing is that top speed for Vettel is with DRS open.
It does look like they cranked up the front wing a lot during qualifying.

Which if it´s dry, might or might not benefit the Merc´s, or Rosberg in particular seeing as he´s the closest.

[Joie de vivre]

let it rain, then stop, then let it rain again, and stop again, and then i want drizzle till the end!

that wpuld be some race indeed

[atanatizante]

Another interesting matter is that Merc boys was Even-Steven with Vettel in Q1, Q2 and in the first part of Q3 when they went the first time with full wet tyres ...
Then in the second run on inters Vettel turns on the TC and all aff a sudden he gain between 0,7 and 1,2 sec. from every top driver on the grid, including Rosberg and Lewis ... anybody knows why?

[Juzh]

Another interesting matter is that Merc boys was Even-Steven with Vettel in Q1, Q2 and in the first part of Q3 when they went the first time with full wet tyres ...
Then in the second run on inters Vettel turns on the TC and all aff a sudden he gain between 0,7 and 1,2 sec. from every top driver on the grid, including Rosberg and Lewis ... anybody knows why?

sandbagging

[kalinka]

I think this is down to RBR's ability tp warm the tyres quicker than others. This was the case in Austin too. Everyone got his quickest lap on their second timed lap, except RBR..they could pull out a competitive laptime in their first timed lap too.