USA GP Chat and Predictions, The Penultimate Showdown.

They're fawning all over Jenson for a long time and he's lapping it all up. I haven't seen him this happy for ages.

 

Yes, he comes from the era of sweeps and blocks (senna/prost/mansell era), and then that is gone it will just be (press a button) and overtake racing.
Pathetic.

 

You've got two on your avatar!

 

Will have to take your word for that!

 

Baaaah. I like a good ole fashion push to the pit wall.

 

That's not me, unless i was sidekick to the Joker in a past life?

And that's pigtails, not a ponytail.

 

Ah, I was only joking. I couldn't resist.

Anyway, how do I know you're not related to the Joker?

 

Because i'm real, and The Joker and Harley Quinn are fictional characters.

 

Kyle really is in a bad mood. ;p

 

Well it wasn't really, it was on track after the pit wall.

 

Yeah... he just ran out of wall.

 

Oh dear, I was joking, as I said. Let's just leave it.

 

Lol, Hamilton's dad slagging off Dennis about keeping trophies

 

Just noticed something about Massa:

Points scored in second half of season so far:
Alonso - 106
Massa - 84

Good stuff from Massa, despite being denied a podium in Korea and probably being robbed of a podium in Austin as well. In those same races Webber has scored only 47 points, and Button resurgence has only amounted to 95 points. Hamilton has only 98 points. When you consider that those three drivers have had a much faster car than Ferrari in the second half of the season, I think Massa's done a brilliant job.

 

Yep, kudos to Massa, definitely, but Lewis's points have been massively depleted by his failing car.

 

Correct me if im wrong but Massa has had better reliability than all of them right? No doubt he has improved a lot though. He is now looking much more like a worthy number two to Fernando. Wonder what Ferrari will do if he makes a good start to 2013.

 

Can someone tell me what Vettel actually said over his radio? People are talking about it but I must've missed it.

 

He said something like "these stupid overtakes" Croft and Brudle weren't really sure if he was having a go at Hamilton for getting too close when he passes or the DRS.

 

That's what I thought at the time but it was actually about cucumber who held him up through the esses, him and Hamilton were getting along pretty well after the race so I reckon it's to do with the backmarkers

 

Woop Woop, just got to watch the race on BBC so I'm pretty happy. Fastest laps in the race:<style type="text/css">table.tableizer-table { border: 1px solid #CCC; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
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}</style><table class="tableizer-table"><tr class="tableizer-firstrow"><th>1 </th><th>1 </th><th>Sebastian Vettel</th><th>Red Bull/Renault</th><th>1'39.347</th><th>&nbsp;</th><th>56</th><th>199.772</th></tr>
<tr><td>2 </td><td>6 </td><td>Felipe Massa</td><td>Ferrari</td><td>1'39.402</td><td>0.055</td><td>56</td><td>199.661</td></tr>
<tr><td>3 </td><td>9 </td><td>Kimi Räikkönen</td><td>Lotus/Renault</td><td>1'39.474</td><td>0.127</td><td>56</td><td>199.517</td></tr>
<tr><td>4 </td><td>5 </td><td>Fernando Alonso</td><td>Ferrari</td><td>1'39.672</td><td>0.325</td><td>56</td><td>199.121</td></tr>
<tr><td>5 </td><td>4 </td><td>Lewis Hamilton</td><td>McLaren/Mercedes</td><td>1'39.709</td><td>0.362</td><td>55</td><td>199.047</td></tr>
<tr><td>6 </td><td>3 </td><td>Jenson Button</td><td>McLaren/Mercedes</td><td>1'40.150</td><td>0.803</td><td>54</td><td>198.170</td></tr>
<tr><td>7 </td><td>14 </td><td>Kamui Kobayashi</td><td>Sauber/Ferrari</td><td>1'40.315</td><td>0.968</td><td>55</td><td>197.844</td></tr>
<tr><td>8 </td><td>8 </td><td>Nico Rosberg</td><td>Mercedes</td><td>1'40.428</td><td>1.081</td><td>51</td><td>197.622</td></tr>
<tr><td>9 </td><td>11 </td><td>Paul Di Resta</td><td>Force India/Mercedes</td><td>1'40.594</td><td>1.247</td><td>55</td><td>197.296</td></tr>
<tr><td>10 </td><td>10 </td><td>Romain Grosjean</td><td>Lotus/Renault</td><td>1'40.625</td><td>1.278</td><td>55</td><td>197.235</td></tr>
<tr><td>11 </td><td>15 </td><td>Sergio Pérez</td><td>Sauber/Ferrari</td><td>1'40.701</td><td>1.354</td><td>53</td><td>197.086</td></tr>
<tr><td>12 </td><td>18 </td><td>Pastor Maldonado</td><td>Williams/Renault</td><td>1'40.719</td><td>1.372</td><td>53</td><td>197.051</td></tr>
<tr><td>13 </td><td>19 </td><td>Bruno Senna</td><td>Williams/Renault</td><td>1'40.745</td><td>1.398</td><td>53</td><td>197.000</td></tr>
<tr><td>14 </td><td>16 </td><td>Daniel Ricciardo</td><td>Toro Rosso/Ferrari</td><td>1'40.772</td><td>1.425</td><td>53</td><td>196.947</td></tr>
<tr><td>15 </td><td>7 </td><td>M.Schumacher</td><td>Mercedes</td><td>1'40.923</td><td>1.576</td><td>54</td><td>196.652</td></tr>
<tr><td>16 </td><td>12 </td><td>Nico Hülkenberg</td><td>Force India/Mercedes</td><td>1'41.048</td><td>1.701</td><td>53</td><td>196.409</td></tr>
<tr><td>17 </td><td>25 </td><td>Charles Pic</td><td>Marussia/Cosworth</td><td>1'42.481</td><td>3.134</td><td>54</td><td>193.663</td></tr>
<tr><td>18 </td><td>21 </td><td>Vitaly Petrov</td><td>Caterham/Renault</td><td>1'42.824</td><td>3.477</td><td>55</td><td>193.017</td></tr>
<tr><td>19 </td><td>20 </td><td>H.Kovalainen</td><td>Caterham/Renault</td><td>1'43.072</td><td>3.725</td><td>50</td><td>192.552</td></tr>
<tr><td>20 </td><td>24 </td><td>Timo Glock</td><td>Marussia/Cosworth</td><td>1'43.324</td><td>3.977</td><td>40</td><td>192.083</td></tr>
<tr><td>21 </td><td>2 </td><td>Mark Webber</td><td>Red Bull/Renault</td><td>1'43.599</td><td>4.252</td><td>13</td><td>191.573</td></tr>
<tr><td>22 </td><td>23 </td><td>N.Karthikeyan</td><td>HRT/Cosworth</td><td>1'44.508</td><td>5.161</td><td>51</td><td>189.906</td></tr>
<tr><td>23 </td><td>22 </td><td>Pedro de la Rosa</td><td>HRT/Cosworth</td><td>1'44.664</td><td>5.317</td><td>43</td><td>189.623</td></tr>
<tr><td>24 </td><td>17 </td><td>Jean-Eric Vergne</td><td>Toro Rosso/Ferrari</td><td>1'44.775</td><td>5.428</td><td>12</td><td>189.423</td></tr></table>
That Ferrari had some pace at the end!