Fernando Alonso debuted at Ferrari in the best possible way by winning his first ever race for the Italian team. The Ferrari driver had some help from Red Bull as Vettel's car had a problem and fell back from the lead. Felipe Massa is second, Lewis Hamilton third.
Maybe even more. Cold tires + cold brakes (steel ones on HRTsben_watkins wrote:I'm wandering just how many wings will get knocked off in the first few corners!?!?
My guess is 4
) + full tanks + drivers not used to how the cars feel = mega carnage 
Your wish will be granted sir - my apologies for not posting it in the right placeWhiteBlue wrote:I wish you would post it in the Bahrain weekend thread. That way one can later find it and we don't get in undated with new threads all the time.
KERS from third row maybe, the second row is not impossible, especially when the Mecedes powerplant is there and the possibility of driver error. Pole is also on the outside, the inside cars can dip in on the first turn, straw clutching is not a bad thing.segedunum wrote:It was a lot more than that.ringo wrote:I see no problems after Q3, the main obstacle was a bump in turn 6.
Hmmmmmm. If they had KERS, which is what ultimately saved them last year, and they could use it off the line then that might be somewhat plausible, but that just seems like straw clutching really. TWhat is also good is that the car is in the second row. Hamilton is not the guy to line up behind guys in front of him. That Mclaren will be jumping into P1 come tomorrow and will take control of the race from their. losing time in sector 2 wont even be a problem, as long as they have the top speed on the straights, he wont be passed by any cars making time in sector 2.
Lack of speed? remember the cars are going to be on high fuel, we don't know who has the speed at the start. It's also easy to keep 1 second faster cars behind. It's the perfect track to do so, now that the new part is added in. Damage could be dealt early out before the RB6 finds it sweet spot.They're not going to get that this year. In addition, their lack of speed and the tyre degredation is such that they're unlikely to keep cars that are the thick-end of a second faster than them behind for very long should they somehow miraculously find themselves at the front.
Your theory may be true coming down to the end when the tanks empty again, but it all depends on the condition of the tyres and reliability when that happens.Not going to happen.
True, but it's possible the faster car may not be the fastest at whatever time they chose to pit early out on the softs; some are saying the softs are good for 10 laps?They've then got to keep ahead through the stops which without refuelling they are unlikely to do. As soon as a faster car gets any clear air, that's it, because fuel differences won't slow them down. That's how it works now.
Come tomorrow we will see who bites the Bahrain dust!!!They don't have KERS now, so the notion that they will jump everyone at the start and get into the lead from there is rather wishful.ringo wrote:KERS from third row maybe, the second row is not impossible, especially when the Mecedes powerplant is there and the possibility of driver error.
They're simply not going to jump and then keep cars behind them that are over a second per lap faster, and through tyre stops where they can't use fuel differences to stay ahead. It's just not going to happen. McLaren's tyres will be destroyed before lap 10 even if the first part of that were to come true and they then won't be able to keep crap behind them. Even when they put 160 kilos of fuel in the car, no amount of balance improvement is going to make that performance deficit go away.Lack of speed? remember the cars are going to be on high fuel, we don't know who has the speed at the start. It's also easy to keep 1 second faster cars behind.
They're not my team. I just called their pace in testing and their favourable position from last year with a solid car as I saw it. I don't exactly want a boring anti-climax. The only hope really is that Ferrari can be better over a race distance and overcome any raw performance the Red Bull has in any given lap. Either that or be more reliable. I think that will be the Red Bull's achilles heel rather than tyre issues.Anyway let's stop this back and forth. Your on a high because your team pull through with the pole
Steel does break, indeed. However, you do need to say more. There have been pictures shown in the HRT thread proving how they are actually running CF suspension. Furthermore, I'd really like to know the points in which you base the opinion that Bruno Senna is a muppet. Karun Chandok, although by no means a motorsport ace, looks like a nice chap and, even though my sight is not 20/20, I didn't see any threads directing his arms or, god forbid, his eyebrows.godlameroso wrote:HRT is a muppet team, with muppet drivers, steel breaks, steel suspension? Need I say more?
