Formula 1

[k3rmit]

Haha! Kubica's 2nd in Malysia! At last, the car worked fine and BMW didn't experiment with tactics.

Heidfeld's maneuver on Alonso and Coulthard... marvellous!

A pity for Massa for such a stupid mistake (or brakes malfunction), I wish he could get out of the sand trap and continue racing (behind Kubica of course )

Can't wait for the next week's race in Bahrain!

TOP 15 moments of the 2007 season
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/5J5rqdsXar8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/5J5rqdsXar8</a>

[s18]

i thought that nobody here was interested in F1.

great performance from Ferrari & BMW.

Massa's small mistake cost a Ferrari 1-2 & lots of points ( 8 ) in constructor's.

World Championship standings, round 2:               

Drivers:                                 
 1.  Hamilton      14       
 2.  Heidfeld      11       
 3.   Raikkonen     11     
 4.  Kovalainen    10
 5.  Kubica         8       
 6.  Rosberg        6       
 7.  Alonso         6       
 8.  Trulli         5   
 9.  Barrichello    3       
10.  Webber         2       
11.  Nakajima       2       
12.  Bourdais       1

Constructors:
1.  McLaren-Mercedes       24
2.  BMW Sauber             19
3.  Ferrari                11
 4.  Williams-Toyota         8
5.  Renault                 6
 6.  Toyota                  5
7.  Honda                   3
     8.  Red Bull-Renault        2
9.  Toro Rosso-Ferrari      1

FIA post-race press conference - Malaysia

Fernando Alonso vs David Coulthard was the best part, Alonso on slow renault overtaking a guy who's known for his blocking ways.

[k3rmit]

In an interview Kubica when asked what he had had in mind during the last 10 laps said that he hoped for some rain so he could get closer to Kimi and try to attack for the 1st place... amazing guy

[s18]

Q. The drink in the car. How was that towards the end of the ace?

Robert K: Our drink is already hot at the beginning of the race – extremely hot as in the cockpit we have massive temperatures, so I didn't drink a lot as the drink was too hot. Next time I try to use hot tea inside the bottle.



http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/66058

[NoniousTheNonian]

I hear those cars produce so much downforce that they can run on an upside down track.  I'd like to see someone try that, just for hell of it

[k3rmit]

yeah, I heard what too. The car har to drive at ~170km/h to do that

[s18]

FIA stays silent on Mosley scandal

F1's governing body, the FIA, has kept its distance from sexual allegations in a British tabloid newspaper about president Max Mosley.

 

[s18]

  @ kermit
your fellow pole made a HISTORY & you're not here talking about it


P1. Kubica
P2. Massa
P3. Hamilton

Maiden F1 pole for Kubica, BMW in Bahrain

Robert Kubica took his and BMW Sauber's first Formula One pole position with a stunning lap in qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix.

The Pole beat favourite Felipe Massa (Ferrari), who had dominated Friday practice, by 0.027 seconds.

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen will share the second row.

Massa held provisional pole after the first flying laps of Q3, but only by 0.011 seconds over Kubica.

Hamilton then briefly beat both when he lapped in 1:33.292 on his second run, but the McLaren driver did not stay on top for long, as Kubica responded with a 1:33.096.

Although Massa's second lap was sufficient to reclaim the front row position from Hamilton, his time of 1:33.123 was not enough to beat the BMW driver to pole.

World champion Raikkonen could only manage fourth, three tenths of a second slower than teammate Massa. Heikki Kovalainen completed the top five in the second McLaren.

Kubica's teammate Nick Heidfeld was 0.7 seconds slower than the pole-sitter in sixth place for BMW.

Jarno Trulli (Toyota) and Nico Rosberg (Williams) will share the fourth row, Trulli having been second fastest in the first qualifying segment.

Jenson Button got Honda into the top ten for the first time this season, edging up to 10th in the final moments of Q2 and then securing ninth place, just ahead of Renault's Fernando Alonso. Button's teammate Rubens Barrichello will start 12th.

Red Bull Racing had a disappointing session. While Mark Webber missed out on a top ten spot by 0.009 seconds and will start 11th, while teammate David Coulthard blamed a straightforward lack of speed for his Q1 elimination after ending up 17th on the grid. He was 0.018 seconds away from making it through to Q2.

Timo Glock (Toyota), Nelson Piquet (Renault) and Kazuki Nakajima (Williams) could not match their respective teammates Trulli, Alonso and Rosberg, and were knocked out in Q2.

While Glock briefly made it up to ninth before other drivers' improvements pushed him back to 13th, Piquet and Nakajima's best efforts were only good enough for 14th and 16th.

Sebastien Bourdais out-qualified Toro Rosso teammate Sebastian Vettel for the first time and also made his first Q2 appearance. The Frenchman will start 15th, with Vettel only managing 19th.

Force India again failed to make it beyond Q1. Giancarlo Fisichella moved up to 18th with a last-gasp effort after abandoning his last flying lap following an error, while teammate Adrian Sutil was 20th.

The Super Aguris will fill the back row, with Anthony Davidson ahead of Takuma Sato for the first time this season.

The Japanese driver caused a brief red flag after spinning on the exit of the final corner, damaging his car's rear wing and suspension on the pit entry barrier.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/66373



YAY i'm happy for BMW

[k3rmit]

You should have seen me when I saw the qual results... I hadn't had such a big grin on my face for quite a long time

The race was good. Of course everyone hoped for the win, but it's ok. Moreover, 1,6s behind Raikkonen looks promising for the future

[s18]

LOOOOL

did you see hamilton behind Fisi's force india car?
ham suks as a fighter.
if you look back at Ham's & Kimi's history, ham has scored podium ONLY when he starts from podium, but KImi started from the back of the grid & still WON raceS 

i do support ham. but sometimes he's too arrogant.

[s18]

notice something?


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Kimi vs Kubica - Bahrain GP 2008 - 2nd Lap
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/1BYz2CL777g" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/1BYz2CL777g</a>

kimi overtakin kubica, brilliant racing from both  :

i recorded this on my camera:p

[s18]

Hamilton on Alonso's Back
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/wKcG1iUi1XI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/wKcG1iUi1XI</a>

[altanoni]

This week it was in Istanbul.  Massa won again.

Most exciting moment was the run of two street dogs into the road.

[s18]

^1 of the dog got run over. right?

corky will kill you for saying that as "Most exciting moment"

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what a frustrating race
kimi ruined that superb race of Adrian Sutil of Force India F1 team. poor guy was crying sooo much, it could have beenhis best place finish yet (4th)

[s18]

congrats kermit
 


Kubica leads historic BMW 1-2 in Canada

 

Robert Kubica took the lead in the drivers championship after scoring his and BMW Sauber's first Formula One victory, with teammate Nick Heidfeld finishing second in an astonishing Canadian Grand Prix.

The win was a remarkable way for Kubica to mark his return to Montreal, 12 months after his ferocious accident at the track. It also thrust the Polish driver into the lead of the drivers' championship.

David Coulthard claimed his first points of the season in fine style by taking third for Red Bull, ahead of Toyota's Timo Glock and Felipe Massa's Ferrari.

Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen made a bizarre exit from the race when the McLaren crashed into the back of the Ferrari in the pitlane during a safety car period.

Prior to that incident, Hamilton had looked set for a dominant victory. He calmly pulled away from Kubica and Raikkonen in the early laps, and led by seven seconds when the caution period was called on lap 17 to retrieve Adrian Sutil's Force India, which had parked in a difficult position near Turn 3.

The leaders all poured into the pits, with Hamilton falling behind both Raikkonen and Kubica. The Ferrari and BMW then dutifully halted at the pit exit because the red light was on while the safety car train came past, but Hamilton appeared not to notice the light and ploughed into the back of the Ferrari.

Williams' Nico Rosberg - who had been running a strong fourth after passing Fernando Alonso at the first corner - was also caught off guard and struck the back of Hamilton's McLaren. Unlike Raikkonen and Hamilton, though, Rosberg was able to continue after a second stop for repairs.

The leading eight cars had all stopped during the safety car, meaning that Heidfeld moved up to first position, ahead of Rubens Barrichello (Honda), Kazuki Nakajima (Williams), the two Red Bulls and the two Toyotas.

Kubica was the best of those who had already pitted, but was down in 10th place.

When racing resumed, Heidfeld made the most of this golden opportunity and charged off into the distance, lapping two seconds per lap faster than the heavier Honda of Barrichello.

With Kubica losing time in the traffic, Heidfeld was able to pull sufficiently far ahead that he emerged in front of his teammate when he stopped eight laps later, although with Heidfeld fuelled to the end of the race, Kubica was able to swiftly overtake on the next lap.

Long first stints then meant that Barrichello, Coulthard, Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock all had chances to lead the race, with Kubica moving ever closer to the front as those ahead stopped.

By the time Glock became the last to pit on lap 42, Kubica had a 10-second lead over Heidfeld, with Alonso third and putting the BMW under huge pressure.

The Renault was on the same strategy as Kubica and had another stop to make, only to spin into the wall at Turn 7 on lap 45. The former champion blamed the crumbling track surface at the chicane exit.

Once in clear air, Kubica was able to sprint away from Heidfeld and open up a large enough advantage to guarantee that he would lead BMW Sauber's historic one-two.

He made his final stop on lap 49, and rejoined six seconds clear of Heidfeld, a margin that he continued to extend in the last stint before crossing the line to clinch a remarkable victory........

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/68131


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hamilton made it easy for the pole to win the race by doin this...
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/E8S9FeJU7hA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/E8S9FeJU7hA</a>