OK you clever boys - why do I get a black screen on going to The Official F1 page? - and get 'error occurred on Youtubes - which used to work? recently went to Firefox 13.0.1 - have I got a 'viewer incompatible issue?'
Sounds like you've got yourself a flashing problem, did I say flashing, I meant Flash Go to the "About Firefox" menu and it should prompt you for some sort of patch download. If not either Mozilla have made one heck of a balls up or you've blocked flash somehow or if your on Firefox now try https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/ look out for anything talking about flash
OT, but does anyone know why the Canada race edit isn't up yet? If I remember correctly they had the same problem last year.
One of CTA's members is an autosport subscriber and has apparently read this line by McLaren Paddy Lowe "Valencia will be about taking the best set-up from both sides, and running a much more converged set-up on both drivers in the direction we believe to be better." To be honest that sounds like they are going to Hinder Hamilton even more. He has a winning set up and they are going to force him mix it with a set up that came 16th in Canada and was really poor in the 3 races before hand. Sounds like Button will benefit a little and Hamilton will recieve a negative impact.
Massa thinks he can win this weekend: His past form in Valencia: 2008: pole position, half a second ahead of Kimi in qualifying, easily won the race 2010: 0.052 behind Alonso in qualifying (much closer than normal) 2011: 0.081 behind Alonso in qualifying (much closer than normal), outdrove Button
doubt that will happen. as i don't think the team will force any setup on a driver. more likely they will ask both drivers to try it in practice and then button will probably take it and work with it, and hamilton will go back to his.
Alonso sounds reasonably confident about his chances this weekend and didn't seem bothered about the high temperatures. It was quite difference to Hamilton, who immediately said "yeah" when asked whether it would be a tougher weekend and said "overheating the tyres is gonna happen". He also said "I'm here to win.. but whether or not our car will enable us to do that.. we will find out". He also believed Lotus, Sauber and Ferrari would be quick. Comments from Ted Kravitz: "No, the McLaren does not suit this circuit particularly well" "The hot conditions don't suit the McLaren as well as they suit the Red Bull" "The last hot race we had was Bahrain; Sebastian Vettel won, and the Lotus drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean were on the podium alongside Sebastian Vettel, so I think thats the picture we're looking at this weekend in Valencia" "I think both of the McLaren guys will just be going for some decent solid points" "I don't think it's out of the question that we could have an eighth winner out of eight races this year, but I think it's more likely to come from the Lotus team drivers of Grosjean and Raikkonen"
I dont trust what the drivers say as Vettel said the same things last year at Spa and Monza, we all know how that turned out! Sounds more like McLaren are trying to downplay their chances this weekend so I'll believe it when I see it if they do struggle...
It's not the same though. In the slower corners Lotus, Red Bull, Mercedes and Ferrari are better than McLaren. They're not necessarily bad in this area, others are just superior. It wasn't like that with the RB7, which was quick in both fast and slow corners. They had good top speed in Spa and went for shorter gear ratios for Monza, which worked. (Also regarding Spa I think McLaren had the better car, but Vettel did a beast lap in qualifying and in the race Hamilton ****ed himself while Button's qualifying position left him with too much to do.)
New Ferrari front wing endplate on Alonso's car, the side and rear of Massa's car is covered in aero paint.
