Not606 Italian GP Chat and Predictions

Does anyone know where the corners are, everyone's going off!

 

Thermal cam on 7!

 

Webber has had KERS issues already, they really should stop buying those discount batteries, its always cheaper in the long run to buy good batteries.

 

Red Bull back to form, their impressive straight line speed in Spa is lost in Monza! (FP1)
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<tr><td>2</td><td>19</td><td>Daniel Ricciardo</td><td>11:06:34</td><td>339.0</td></tr>
<tr><td>3</td><td>18</td><td>Jean-Eric Vergne</td><td>11:20:10</td><td>338.2</td></tr>
<tr><td>4</td><td>7</td><td>Kimi Räikkönen</td><td>11:22:00</td><td>337.6</td></tr>
<tr><td>5</td><td>10</td><td>Lewis Hamilton</td><td>10:57:01</td><td>337.5</td></tr>
<tr><td>6</td><td>14</td><td>Paul di Resta</td><td>11:22:41</td><td>337.5</td></tr>
<tr><td>7</td><td>9</td><td>Nico Rosberg</td><td>11:06:26</td><td>336.9</td></tr>
<tr><td>8</td><td>8</td><td>Romain Grosjean</td><td>11:27:51</td><td>336.8</td></tr>
<tr><td>9</td><td>4</td><td>Felipe Massa</td><td>11:25:52</td><td>336.4</td></tr>
<tr><td>10</td><td>3</td><td>Fernando Alonso</td><td>11:26:18</td><td>336.2</td></tr>
<tr><td>11</td><td>23</td><td>Max Chilton</td><td>11:25:33</td><td>334.4</td></tr>
<tr><td>12</td><td>12</td><td>Esteban Gutierrez</td><td>11:22:49</td><td>334.3</td></tr>
<tr><td>13</td><td>6</td><td>Sergio Perez</td><td>11:02:08</td><td>332.0</td></tr>
<tr><td>14</td><td>5</td><td>Jenson Button</td><td>11:01:51</td><td>331.1</td></tr>
<tr><td>15</td><td>11</td><td>Nico Hulkenberg</td><td>11:03:21</td><td>331.0</td></tr>
<tr><td>16</td><td>20</td><td>Charles Pic</td><td>11:05:10</td><td>330.5</td></tr>
<tr><td>17</td><td>21</td><td>Heikki Kovalainen</td><td>11:23:08</td><td>330.0</td></tr>
<tr><td>18</td><td>17</td><td>Valtteri Bottas</td><td>11:04:33</td><td>329.9</td></tr>
<tr><td>19</td><td>22</td><td>Rodolfo Gonzalez</td><td>10:50:55</td><td>329.8</td></tr>
<tr><td>20</td><td>16</td><td>Pastor Maldonado</td><td>10:45:43</td><td>329.6</td></tr>
<tr><td>21</td><td>1</td><td>Sebastian Vettel</td><td>10:41:15</td><td>328.8</td></tr>
<tr><td>22</td><td>2</td><td>Mark Webber</td><td>11:01:16</td><td>328.5</td></tr>
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Well the speed trap was at the top of raidillon so straight line speed wasn't really evident at Spa for Red Bull anyway, but momentum through the straight was very impressive.

 

I think they were above average at the end of the straight as well, was just a well setup balance it seems.

Pirreli predicting a 1 stop!

 

Lots of mistakes being made.

Raikkonen nearly had big brown pants moment!

 

What's the big surprise Crofty? Vettel is **** hot at Monza and Webber is just plain ****e here...

 

Merc's and Ferrari sandbagging?
Or we looking at another "Redbull run's off into the Distance" GP?
If so, not cool!
Don't care who wins, I just don't want the race to be decided after the first few corners!

 

Game over Mercedes on pole, do **** in practice and then dominates qualifying.

 

Mercedes has more sand than the Sahara in their bags.

 

I hope the race is closer than quali otherwise its going to be god awful.

Only 6 drivers within a second of Vettel and none with 0.6s

 

Race day if he is next to Vettel he will have kers, clutch and Gearbox problems...Mark my words...lol

 

I find it strange that their times in FP1 and FP2 are not too far... Something doesn't look right there... Either they are sandbagging or they are testing something different in FP2.

 

The most fantastic qualifying would be for the four top drivers in the four top teams to start on the race on 1st and 2nd rows....that would be sweet!

 

Looks like Red Cows were running lighter:

http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/299825/vettel-expects-much-closer-qualifying/

 

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And the Ma Qing Hua award goes to Rodolfo Gonzalez, who stepped in for Marussia this morning and went 1.6 seconds slower than Chilton.

not that I'm bitter because as a result I've scored no points at all in the sweepstakes, no sir, not at all

 

Andrew Benson &#8207;@andrewbensonf1
Monza race-sim averages: VET 1:28.621 (hard tyre); WEB 29.129; ALO 29.293; HAM 29.461; RAI 29.544 (all medium). ROS 29.149 (hard)
It's possible, as Gary Anderson says, that Vettel was simulating stint two and the others stint one, but VET looks very strong

 

Forza I need a favour from you, what's this Seb saying he wants to "spit in your soup" story going about from? Do you have a link for it?