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

Well what a race that was, everything we thought it wouldn't and couldn't possibly be,
Now I truly believe anything can happen... Iceman leads the WDC, but is also being chased by two of the other fastest drivers in the world at the moment.
Round 2 Malaysia

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TV Links
SKY (Live)Streams:http://www.time4tv.com/2012/03/sky-sports-f1.html
FirstRow Sports/VIPboxSport/Lemon

Schedule:
MARCH 22TH P1: UK 02:00 LOCAL 10:00
MARCH 22TH P2: UK 06:00 LOCAL 14:00
MARCH 23TH P3: UK 05:00 LOCAL 13:00
MARCH 23TH Q: UK 08:00 LOCAL 16:00
MARCH 24TH R: UK 08:00 LOCAL 16:00
Former Winners:

Raikkonen 2003 Schumacher 2004 Alonso 2005 Fisichella 2006 Alonso 2007 Raikkonen 2008 Button 2009 Vettel 2010 Vettel 2011 Alonso 2012 2013?
Most Wins:
Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso:3
Ferrari: 6

Last Race Statistics
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Winner: Alonso
Pole: Lewis Hamilton 1:36:219

Tyre Allocations:
Medium (White) Hard
Other tyres in the season are Soft/SSofts/Inters/Wets

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Thursday, March 21
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Friday, March 22

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Well, who knows what's going to happen?

RBR will go well in the fast corners, Lotus to loo after its tyres, Mercedes may be quick but still seem to have slightly heavy tyre wear and you can bet that Alonso will be in there too.

Looking forward to it!

 

Alonso has a great chance of winning.

• Alonso recently admitted that Sepang was his favourite circuit
• Alonso took his first pole position and podium here
• Ferrari has won this race six times out of fourteen
• Alonso has won this race three times (and with three different constructors)
• Ferrari had arguably the best race pace in Australia, and had very good tyre degradation ( I reckon they could have made a two stop had they not been stuck behind Vettel in the first two stints).
• Ferrari looked very strong in the high speed corners in Melbourne in practice

 

Yep voted Alonso goes really well around here . Has the ingrediants to do his thing but redbull and lotus will be on it hope kimi will bring it aswell . Don't know about mercedes i will make judgement on comments from nico and lewis on how the car feels and general pace hope they can score some descent points. Mclaren well i don't know how they will fare round here might show the cars flawed pace even more bad times for them.

 

Gone for Alonso mainly because they have better dry and wet pace than the Red Bulls. Lotus will be up there no doubt but seemed to struggle in wet conditions (Meant to rain over the weekend), Mclaren will probably have another disastrous race and quali unless they revert back to the MP4-27 spec car or bring substantial updates.

Mercedes had good pace on the hard tyre in testing and i'm hoping they have better speed at this circuit with the high speed and low speed sections plus hotter temperatures. The wet weather pace was good on Rosberg's car too, hope that transfers to Lewis' if the heavens do open there.

 

.....no idea

 

Went for Alonso.

0 votes for Raikonnen?

 

Kimster to do the double!

 

Alonso running away with the predictions at the moment, looks like we are all on the same wavelength!

 

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Nice!!

 

Me neither, I'll have to think about it but just the sight of that circuit reminds me that I love this race, much more than Melbourne, for example.

 

I'd have been so excited about this ten years ago but if it's torrential these days they just red flag it. Mercedes will probably come into play more if it's wet judging by yesterday (or was it today? ).

No idea who's going to win. I went for Alonso thinking his pace was more impressive but Lotus had better tyre preservation. Then thinking about it more, Raikkonen was lapping faster than Alonso with older tyres at the end of the race, he was also very quick in the first stint on the super softs. I think race pace is far more important than quali pace here because of the massive DRS zone(s). I think anyone from Red Bull, Ferrari, Lotus and Mercedes could potentially win this.

 

I am surprised how wide the competition is, but the poll has been narrowed to about Alonso and Raikkonen haha.

 

No wonder you can buy a ticket for £13

 

With my Hamilton cap on, I hope your right

Due to the conditions, Green'ish track to start the race, low track temps, I don't think this race shed too much light on where the teams are, need a full dry race weekend, where the track rubbers in Friday, Saturday and obviously throughout the race and the track temps are high 30s, once we get a couple of few races in these conditions will we then see where everyone is.

However, from this race (Australian GP) we can see the top three cars are Redball, Ferrari and Lotus with Mercedes not far behind.

Full dry and warm then current race pace is Lotus>Ferrari>>Redbull>>Mercedes
Wet then its anyones guess, but I agree, Rosberg looked good in those conditions so the Mercedes boys will be in with a shout.

With regards to this race, why don't they make it non-European TV time friendly? an hour or two earlier, should help avoid the late afternoon Thunderstorms in this part of the world, I don't want a 2 hour Crofty filled rain delay!

 

Can Jonny or someone tell me how you quote different posts in the same post please? I'm a bit thick. I have tried!

 

Say you want to quote post #16 and #17 in this thread then:

- click the button on the right of where it says "reply with quote" on #16
- click the button "reply with quote" on #17

In the reply box under post #17 should be both the quotes.

 

You have been here for nearly 2 years and you don't know how to double quote, pmsl. hahaha