Kimi Raikkonen has converted a brilliantly working 2-stop strategy to a race wing for Lotus, immediately confirming the long run pace of the E21. Fernando Alonso finished in second place, 10 seconds behind while Sebastian Vettel completes the podium in third.
I can only assume you did not see the amount of rain that was coming down just after Q1? When they cut back to the presenters it was throwing it downhendrix wrote:Don't forget that they stopped qualy after Q1, and they finished q1 with intermediate tyres. If you crash with intermediate maybe you should drive full wet tyres. It was not an aquaplaning question so the show must go on.
Andrew Benson @andrewbensonf1
Two and a half hours until qualifying starts and it's raining again in Melbourne. This could be a long, long day
Grizzle our car has just left Crown Casino, we will be in the paddock in about 10 minutes. If you like I can PM you with updates from Herby Blash so you don't have a grumpy evening?GrizzleBoy wrote:I woke up at 3am to watch FP3 and Quali, then had to go to work for 9am (which I was late for).
Now I'm sitting here waiting for quali to start at midnight, probably followed by an hour or two of sleep, then the race.
Please god, have sympathy on Formula 1 fan and let things go smoothly.
fiohaa wrote:well you clearly don't remember a time when F1 cars used to race in the wet, pre 2009.stefan_ wrote:Although I pulled a whole nighter to watch FP3 and then qualifying and it didn't fell good on me, it was the right decision to delay and then cancel Q2 and Q3.
Heavy rain, wind, poor visibility (+the fact that it was dark because of the clouds and that is a "dirty" kind of darkness), debris brought by the wind on the track and the birds flying too close around the cars were dangerous conditions. Q1 was full of incidents and it was some kind of a mayhem on the track with some spinning, going off, front wings flying all over the place, dirt on the track etc.
People trashing the FIA for today's (because today I feel that they were actually right) decision are simply ridiculous and probably never did any racing apart from Play Station or Xbox.
but no, not anymore, can't let drivers use skill can we - can't have the danger of cars breaking because that would upset the sponsors wouldn't it?
sorry, this has been another example of teams wanting to protect their assets by not racing, its pathetic.
there have been plenty of times in the 00's and before where conditions have been bad and its up to the drivers how much they want to push. Thats like....part of their supposed skill.
Unless cars are literally aquaplaning at 50mph, then its fair enough (malaysia 2001).
Add that to the fact that now full wets are redundant in races, because it brings out a safety car until conditions are good enough for inters, and this 'motorsport' is turning into a joke.
That would be....pretty awesome O_OHail22 wrote:Grizzle our car has just left Crown Casino, we will be in the paddock in about 10 minutes. If you like I can PM you with updates from Herby Blash so you don't have a grumpy evening?GrizzleBoy wrote:I woke up at 3am to watch FP3 and Quali, then had to go to work for 9am (which I was late for).
Now I'm sitting here waiting for quali to start at midnight, probably followed by an hour or two of sleep, then the race.
Please god, have sympathy on Formula 1 fan and let things go smoothly.
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Here's the view of the pit straight from the media centre
