The Official Not606 Australian GP Chat + Predictions 2013!!!

Eat Sleep Watch F1 Repeat · Mar 7, 2013

Massa seems more confident in the car than Alonso though. I think he will have a stronger season than last but not as strong as Fernando however.

DHCanary · Mar 7, 2013

I guess Ferrari are hoping for a DC/Webber/Barrichello/Irvine style number 2 performance from him this year. Solid, quick enough to challenge for podiums and the odd race win, but never a serious rival for Alonso.

EternalMSC · Mar 7, 2013

I need F1, I feel empty without it. FFS.

Eat Sleep Watch F1 Repeat · Mar 7, 2013

So who's going to watch all the sessions live?

EternalMSC · Mar 7, 2013

I am going to be here 01:30am sharpish on Friday
However I will miss China and Malaysia as I am on holiday.

The Iceman · Mar 7, 2013

I'll probably catch all the sessions, FP2 might be one I miss though.

Smithers · Mar 7, 2013

DHCanary said: ↑

I guess Ferrari are hoping for a DC/Webber/Barrichello/Irvine style number 2 performance from him this year. Solid, quick enough to challenge for podiums and the odd race win, but never a serious rival for Alonso.
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You can see why the looked at Button, I wonder if they would go back in for him in 2014/15

Eat Sleep Watch F1 Repeat · Mar 7, 2013

Sweet, I'll probably miss FP3. But will be on here for FP1 and FP2!

Delete Me · Mar 7, 2013

Sadly not me this time, got an essay to give in a few days after the GP and I don't think screwing up my sleeping patterns is a good idea...

I'll be up for qualifying and the race though, but 1am-4am lol no chance!

Delete Me · Mar 7, 2013

Hulk reckons RB9 was topped up with a lot of fuel. http://sportbild.bild.de/SPORT/form...xklusiv/huelkenberg-macht-den-rennertest.html

EternalMSC · Mar 7, 2013

I've heard about Kimi and Vettel praising Mercedes...
Now Hulk with his revelations on the RB9...
Ferrari saying they are going to max everything in Aus and aim for the podium...
Webber being aggressive...
Mercedes playing down their car...
Williams aiming for the front...
Torro Rosso boys saying they have no friendship...
Sutil saying he has nothing to prove to Di-Resta...
Button being told he needs to stop Perez being cocky...

Pre-season mind games I reckon.

Eat Sleep Watch F1 Repeat · Mar 7, 2013

If the Red Bull were as heavy as people say I doubt they would be up shifting through corners where others lift off.

El_Bando · Mar 7, 2013

Forza Bianchi said: ↑

WOW! Massa sounding REALLY CONFIDENT about the car and his own chances this year!!!

http://youtu.be/4l1EwEcy2Is
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Pfft... Only a podium place? Go for the win boy!

Forza Bianchi · Mar 7, 2013

I was thinking that McLaren's current problems are just set-up related and once they understand the car they would be challenging for wins and podiums. Now I'm not so sure.

BBC's gossip column said:

Jenson Button says McLaren still have "some work to do on outright pace but we're working on that".
Jenson Button on Twitter
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I don't think the MP4-28 is nearly as bad as the F2012, but it is sounding more and more like Ferrari last year. Problem for McLaren is that if the top teams really are closely matched then being a few tenths off the pace could make them 4th or 5th quickest.

Forza Bianchi · Mar 8, 2013

Brilliant article from OmniCorse

OmniCorse said:

Ferrari ready to challenge, but the Red Bull remains before?
Well the Mercedes driven by Hamilton and Rosberg. Disappoint the McLaren's difficult Setup. The Lotus ...

Melbourne calls. The winter testing are behind. Begins to grow waiting for a 2013 season that promises to be thrilling, not granted. Regulatory stability, perhaps, has led to a flattening of the values, but not expect eight different winners in the first eight Races, as happened last year. Raise your hand who would bet to see Mercedes at the top of the list of the times in the last collective practice session in Barcelona.

MERCEDES TO THE HEADLINES The printed him tempone Nico Rosberg, the "wingman", but the change of pace the imposed Lewis Hamilton. At Mercedes have figured out, finally, what is the value of a top driver in giving development guidelines of a machine. The English, in addition to being as always very fast, accelerated response times of Brackley, putting pressure with his requests to a structure that was accustomed to a German programming with timing and strictly defined ways.

A STAR WITH TOO MUCH POLITICS The German company wants to get out of the cocoon and express the full potential of fire that experts like Bob Bell, Aldo Costa, Geoff Willis, Mike Elliot are able to pull off. The problems, if ever, be seen that policy management at the helm there will be too many thinking heads: Niki Lauda, Ross Brawn, Toto Wolff, Nick Fry whom you add even Paddy Lowe McLaren defector, who is already in gardening. It is easy to predict the output of Ross Brawn from this group and predict the arrival of nuclear engineer of Manchester in another structure, to begin a new adventure. There are those who see it with binoculars aimed at Maranello, although it would prefer to remain in Britain.

RED BULL WILL REMAIN FAVORED Mercedes has made a big leap in quality, but it's hard to think it's inning, although very fast with the Supersoft tyres. The prediction remains in favour of Red Bull Racing, team that is very hidden. Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber have never tried the temponi, working heads down on a single-seater that RB9 has the burden to bring in Milton Keynes the fourth world title here and close the cycle of 2.4 liter V8 engines, before the revolution of the V6 Turbo.

NEWEY HAS EXPERIMENTED And it is curious to note that a top teams like Red Bull have shipped from England the second machine in Barcelona for the last two days of testing with a cart, simply covered with a tarpaulin, just as quickly faded into memory. It was a single-seater equipped with the DDRS, complete system of rear wing stall at high speeds, which goes to work not with the air of the ears to either side of the airbox, as their Mercedes, Lotus and Sauber, but the sides of the side pods where there is the tunnel which passes under the ramp of the exhaust blower.

The RB9 WATCH Later We saw a different nose with a "vanity panel" amended (and apparently rejected), new wings and an exhaust system increasingly evolved: the feeling is that Red Bull are aware of the advantage that can still deliver in the short term, and Adrian Newey has pushed the search later in the future, putting together a cocktail of embryonic concepts that will develop during the seasonWhen, arguably, could be eroded the nest egg of tenths that Seb will be able to keep in your pocket.

MILTON KEYNES: THE EVOLUTION CONTINUES There was, therefore, a basic, single-seater RB9 was in continuous becoming and in certain situations suffered as never before the new Pirelli tyres, manifesting minor problems that do not have permission to shoot with the usual tranquility (Red Bull has traveled about 500 miles in less than Ferrari): yet Vettel view tranquility considering Australia, a sign that this doesn't seem in question.

FERRARI IN THE ROLE OF CHALLENGER The most accredited Challenger of "bibitari" is the Ferrari. The F138 returned the smile to Fernando Alonso, after a winter rather pouting of Spanish. The Red seems to have edited the short comings of last year and has put on a very consistent car, able to take excellent performance both with the Spanish, both with Massa. The correlation between the data of wind Gallery in Cologne and the track allows engineers to work with a good prospect.

THE RED IT'S GROWN A LOT A pragmatic Stefano Domenicali said: "we need to make us so Alonso can win with 80% of its talent, while in 2012 had to give 110% always". If so does that mean a Maranello was made a big leap in quality, that, perhaps, will not bring the F138 to be on pole at the first Gp, but certainly near the top.

GRAFITENE AND EDDY CURRENTS The hopeful, as he nicknamed la Rossa President Luca di Montezemolo, hasn't betrayed expectations: does not have any revolutionary solutions (am curious about the "shark mouth" under the nose) but even large flaws. Does not invest, for now, in the DDRS but experiencing new materials: you speak of ... grafitene, useful in nanotechnology discharges that resists temperatures of hot gas (with peaks of 1000 degrees), but by induction is a large electrical conductor.

BEST ELECTRIC SHIELDING This explains the principle of fire that had stopped Pedro De La Rosa on the last day of testing in Jerez: the origin of the fire was not a problem to return, but only the effect. Parasitic in electrostatic discharges would cause the fire (soon tamed by Commissioners). This problem has forced the horse to put in place more effective shields, also because in that crucial area of car there is also the KERS who works with electric power.

THE HUB PORT IS NOT A PROBLEM Seems to have been also found the cause that led to the collapse of the hub port that did lose the right front wheel to Felipe Massa, at the end of the day on Saturday in the last test in Barcelona. No problem project (so much so that Alonso has toured regularly on Sundays), as a likely human error of assembling of a particular.

CLOSED AERODYNAMICS Ferrari, Red Bull, is trying to figure out where limit configurations venturing into development work, preferring a F138 "closed", i.e. with few air vents to ensure maximum aerodynamic efficiency. Of course, a compromise should be sought with the minimal cooling needs, to avoid undermining the proverbial reliability of red, one of the strengths of the Cavallino rampante.

MCLAREN GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT The big disappointment of winter is the McLaren: without a top driver like Hamilton, the Woking team relies on the expertise of Jenson Button and the vehemence of Sergio Perez. Too little for aiming high with regularity. The MP4-28 is a clean break with the recent past: snout, pilot installation in different shell, pull rod front suspension, Ferrari style. The data say that the machine is not worse than that which closed at the top last season, but the quantum leap has not been equal to the initial expectations. Tim Goss, new dt, discovered just how complicated to develop an innovative front suspension. To make adjustments it takes too long (but fix Ferrari last year had not notice?), for the development work is slow and clumsy. The budget for the season led to impose quotas on the material available (a few interesting innovations, such as flow direction below the snout), so the feeling is that the 2013 is intended to be a year of transition for the team directed by Martin Whitmarsh, who merely some sporadic success. Too little for the Blazon McLaren, precisely in the year that celebrates its 50th anniversary.

LOTUS SUFFERS A CHANGE And others? The Lotus has developed around the car body of E20 sophisticated aerodynamics (to Enstone insist on DDRS): Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean found the car easy to drive and consisting in durations. Have never tried the timing with the soft tyres and could be a surprise at the beginning of the League, although they are often plagued by gearbox trouble and electrical parts. The Sauber pays some extremes of tummies close: suffers from high temperatures, but the potential is there, like good ideas.

AND THE REST IS IN THE GROUP Williams has been appended to the Red Bull with discharges to ramp: FW35 is interesting, even if it seems unbalanced between front and rear (solid) (miniaturized), while Force India remains formidable on the slopes fast, but will pay the team's financial instability in the Indian capital. Expected more from Toro Rosso: it cannot be that the team's level of Faenza, but the feeling is that the two pilots are not able to give good information to James Key and Luca Furbatto. Too bad...

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El_Bando · Mar 8, 2013

Bibitari?t

EternalMSC · Mar 8, 2013

Borats doing loads of F1 articles.

Joey Zyla · Mar 8, 2013

Believe In Lewis said: ↑

So who's going to watch all the sessions live?
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I plan to watch all of the ones that will be televised here in the States.

RoadRunner · Mar 8, 2013

This is the only race where the practice sessions are actually broadcast here in Aus. Whether it's because it's the home GP or because it's the first race season I dunno, but assuming I don't have too many uni assessments I'll be able to see them.

TomTom94 · Mar 8, 2013

Uni ends for me today

Screw lie-ins

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