Formula 1 2013

5 place grid pelanty for Steve.

Mark Webber has signed a 5 year contract to drive for Porsche LMP1.

Good luck to him.

Bahrain Grand Prix

Sakhir, 19-21 April

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Originally Posted by Grimandi's Perm

Mark Webber has signed a 5 year contract to drive for Porsche LMP1.

Good luck to him.

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It'll be sad to see him go, hope he publically punches Vettel in the face and makes him cry before he leaves.

Yeah, he's one of the good guys. He should definitely punch Vettel in the face and balls.

Q2 is under way, Alonso fastest in Q1.

Vettel fatest in Q2.

Grosjean, Perez, Ricciardo, Hulkenberg, Bottas and Vergne drop out.

Button squeaks in to Q3 in 10th.

What do McLaren spend all their money on in the off season?

Q3 under way.

:popcorn:

Apparently the wind tunnel tyres (60% of full size) that were given to McLaren don't behave the same way as the race tyres, which affects the front suspension which is throwing the whole aero package out of wack.

Massive upgrade is coming for Barcelona, but I fear it's too little too late.

 

Rosberg on pole! Congrats to him. Vettel second, Alonso third. Then Hamilton (though he drops five places for the race), Webber (who has his own pelanty), Massa, Di Resta, Sutil, Raikkonen and Button, who couldn't be arsed setting a time although it's understandable with that dog of a car.

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Originally Posted by Grimandi's Perm

Apparently the wind tunnel tyres (60% of full size) that were given to McLaren don't behave the same way as the race tyres, which affects the front suspension which is throwing the whole aero package out of wack.

Massive upgrade is coming for Barcelona, but I fear it's too little too late.

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One way or another, that's either poor planning or poor checking. Might be too little too late to get ahead of Red Bull/Ferrari/Mercedes but they can probably salvage fourth in the constructors.

Track is 46 degrees. :blink:

Pitstops galore coming up then presumably.

mostly 3 stops, I would think

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Happy 200th Webber. Surprised Vettel wasn't invited. Or rather, just took the knife off of Mark from behind. :ninja:

Formation lap underway.

Bit of a brave move from Rosberg to cut off Vettel there, Alonso ahead of Vettel now!

Vettel takes second back! What a move.

Rosberg, Vettel and Alonso. :lol:

So close between them.

Vettel now leads! Great driving, he'll have to defend against DRS now though.

Alonso ahead of Rosberg now.

Button and Perez are up to 7th and 8th respectively.

Di Resta up to third. :blink:

Alonso has his DRS open going in to a corner. :haha:

That can't be good.

It has gone again, even after pitting, he's going to have to not use DRS throughout the whole race, unless they decide it is unsafe.

Alonso has had to pit again in fact. That has completely knackered his race.

Pic annihilated Vergne's car. :lol:

Di Resta in second. :bow:

Button ahead of Rosberg!

Rosberg, Button and Massa having a tear-up.

Vettel now passes Raikkonen! Having a bit of a stormer. Raikkonen still has to pit.

Massa has to pit to try and fix his tyres.

Button ahead of Rosberg again, this time for third.

Button is having a great race.

Finally found the right thread this time.

Perez, Button and Rosberg going for the same position. :lol:

So many times today there have been three cars in bunches.

Vettel pits from the lead and comes back out in the lead.

Metallica are there in the pit lane apparently. :haha:

Button and Perez. :bow:

Very close from Perez, lost a bit of his front wing.

:doh:

Button and Perez are still going at it!

Raikkonen up to second ahead of Di Resta.

Oh look, Button and Perez scrapping again. Alonso gets in ahead of Button though!