Official Formula 1 Grand Prix du Canada 2012 Chat & Predictions

Lewis is so strong here, but knowing quali, anybody could pull one out of the bag, some people are not showing what they really have.

 

The Mercedes have been too quiet so far today...

 

Lewis only gained about 2 tenths on the SuperSoft there...

 

Wall of champions claims another victim!!!

 

Senna in the champions wall I think, not a very good start. He has been leaving the track a lot.

I think the name is losing it's credibility.

 

Red Flag, Lewis was on a flyer before Bruno hit the wall.

 

He was far too agressive into those turns.

 

Hamilton, Vettel and Kobayashi are the top 3. Only separated by about 4 tenths.

 

Maldonado is really taking the lead role in Williams now, not bad for a pay driver...

 

Don't think Lewis' time will be beaten now, not with all that cement dust on the track.

 

Maybe he purposely crashed so people could think of him as a champion? How do you go backwards into it anyway? :/

 

Same here. Was it on ss's?

 

I think so yeah, he only improved by 0.180 though so maybe if anybody is crazy enough to go for it through there on the SS they might beat it.

 

What do you think about how quali looks in terms of, who has the pace?

 

Mercedes are sandbagging. Both Rosberg and Schumacher were next to each other in the times until people started to set qualifying times on the super soft. And it looks like they are not even bothering to open the DRS.

Mercedes=Very quiet
McLaren
Lotus=Very quiet
RBR///Ferrari///Sauber

 

They aren't at all. Just race programming. Mclaren I think are being truthful and giving it all they have got.
Lotus are quiet also, and sauber look handy.
Williams and Ferrari don't look too brilliant.... no idea about redbull.

Scrap that I think this.

Mercedes, Mclaren, Lotus = Sauber, Ferrari = Redbull,

 

Crofty is saying that Hamilton and Rosberg are matching each other in the mid 19's/20's as most cars are doing race sim's on the SuperSoft's.

 

Red Bull look strong, don't know what has happened to Lotus. Must be sandbagging surely.

 

Looks like it will be a standard qualifying session, i.e. chaos.

 

They're always crap when it's cold. I think it will be all McLaren and Mercedes in qualifying. Really tight for the rest of the places, even di Resta looked quick, should be a good battle to get into Q3, I don't think there's much between Red Bull, Ferrari, Lotus, Sauber and Force India. Williams don't look great here.

The race should be interesting, if it's warm and they qualify well I expect Red Bull and Lotus to have a real go at McLaren and Mercedes for the win. If it's cold and damp that will probably bring Ferrari and Sauber into play a bit more.