2013 Spanish Grand Prix - Barcelona

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pole prediction anyone? im staying loyal and going with Hamilton, I think its unlikely though.
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I'm going with Massa.

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not gonna be much a surprise for any of 6+ drivers to be on pole.
Great stuff

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Hamilton and Mercedes didn't show anything special today.

I would g with Grosjean if whe manages to put perfect lap together. If not then Kimi, he was very fast in FP3
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Grosjean definitely has a good chance
In FP3 he had the worst sector of everyone, 11th in sector 3 so the potential was there to lead FP3

Not sure I back him to put it together in the heat of the moment though

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I have the impression that Mercedes hasn't shown his full potential on these practices. They don't do a qualy lap on P3, they only have done a loaded stint with soft tyre, but nothing else.
I really think we will see a Mercedes on pole.

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Mestrades wrote:I have the impression that Mercedes hasn't shown his full potential on these practices. They don't do a qualy lap on P3, they only have done a loaded stint with soft tyre, but nothing else.
I really think we will see a Mercedes on pole.
And that is maybe the right thing to do, to shift attention towards race pace, because they had strong qualifying pace (2 poles in a row) but in the race they struggled and went backwards rather than manage the pole, get the stints done and win the races.
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SilverArrow10 wrote:im going to say a podium of Alonso, Hamilton and Webber, with Hamilton on pole but being taken by Alonso in the first turn. im also going to go bold here and say that McLaren will actually go even further back. It happened before in 2009 when it got worse before it got better. Just a fun predication though no facts.
Well I was partly right McLaren has got worse, I wonder if I will get the rest right.

hmm close enough, well done Nico!!!!
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Hamilton 6 tenths faster than anyone. Reminds me of last year...
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What's the Mercedes qualy "trick"?

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Qualifying - Live timig
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Hamilton's run in Q2 was beyond everyone. He couldn't repeat it on his Q3 run though. What happened?

EDIT: His Q2 run was actually slower. I thought it was 20 instead of 21 :oops:
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