This time I am sure of a McLaren victory though... We didn't expect McLaren to be 1 tenth off pole in Hungary did we? It doesn't always pan out how you would expect AG...
McLaren hoping to have a qualifying pace to match their race pace for the next two weekends: McLaren aims to improve qualifying form in second half of 2011
I know how gearing works, i was just curious if a longer gear could possibly hurt their performance during corners. Thank you for the answer given. It's like i said, because of their aggresive quali based gearing, with the car topping out at around 190 mph, they struggle in a straight line.
Vettel please, can you put my points with Nick as I am he. Not bothering with the sweepstakes again as I always lose. Can't wait for Spa, one of my favourite circuits and races.
Practice tomorrow. Hope the BBC are quick uploading their interviews today. No doubt they'll do them, then Holt/Benson will write an article focussing on the most trivial point of one of them, and then they'll upload the videos at about 11PM.
http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2011/8/12422.html Felipe Massa, Ferrari 2010 Qualifying - 6th, 2010 Race - 4th âWork was already carried out before the break to prepare for the next two races in Belgium and in Italy and we will be bringing some aero updates to Spa, including new wings to try out. Everything seems to be going in the direction we expected, so I hope we can have a good weekend. Like most drivers, I love driving at Spa and I have some good memories of winning there in 2008," Massa still thinks he won in 2008. What a tool.
Well the weather is likely to play a big part of this coming weekend. I think with the months lay-off Red Bull will come back strong and I have a sneaky suspition that Webber will come good. Hamilton will be on the podium but Button? First or Fifth!
Interesting. They've replaced the gravel trap at the Rivage hairpin with asphalt run-off. But that's the only change they've made.
History books show he won, if Hamilton didnt cut the corner, it may have been different. And if he didnt cut the corner, he wouldnt have been close enough to Raikkonen to overtake him.
Hamilton won that race and I don't care what alonso fans or massa fans or any fans think. Hamilton gave the place back and the FIA penalise him! Idoits and ****ing ****s the FIA are. Massa also I don't know what he is playing at. He was gifted that win and even Raikkonen deserved it more than him
I can't believe people are still arguing about this. I saw people bickering about it on James Allen's forum and thought we were lucky to avoid it - I spoke (or rather thought) too soon.
Even Kimi Raikonen thought what Hamilton did was fair, he cut the chicane and gave the place back, but the stewards decided to change the rules without telling anyone, it was possibly one of the most flagrant abuses of power I've seen in F1, after all they let Prost, Senna and schumacher deliberately take out their title rivals to win the WDC and not strip them of their titles, how can they have the temerity to penalise someone for following the rules? I'm not a particularly big Lewis fan, but I don't think anyone can look on that decision and be happy about the way he was cheated out of a win, because that's exactly what happened. A case of "it's our ball and we make the rules, when and where we like, depending on who we favour at the time"
The FIA would have a leg to stand on if Raikkonen didn't crash out as well. I think it's a farce, but that's not the issue; Massa boasting about his win as if it was an awesome achievement annoys me.
