FIA Formula One Championship 2013

[ClaNker]

Bahrain 1st Practice is finished. Damn Ferraris are hot.

[ClaNker]

Bahrain 2nd Practice is finished. Ferraris lost the edge on mediums.

Iceman bags this session.

[Retz]

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humahataw si kimi.

[niky]

Practice means nothing. Note that the "medium" times from P2 are faster than the P1 times.

We won't know (without telemetry) who's sandbagging until qualifying.

[ClaNker]

Practice means nothing. Note that the "medium" times from P2 are faster than the P1 times.

We won't know (without telemetry) who's sandbagging until qualifying.

That's what I have in mind as well.

[niky]

Whoops. My mistake. P1 is hard, P2 is medium... so it's the softer compound. Anyway, I have a feeling Merc is sandbagging... and we know Vettel is always playing little games, and can be a few tenths faster come qualifying...

I still don't doubt both Lotus and Ferrari will be fast. Nice seeing a shake-up in the order this year.

[niky]

Whoops. My mistake. P1 is hard, P2 is medium... so it's the softer compound. Anyway, I have a feeling Merc is sandbagging... and we know Vettel is always playing little games, and can be a few tenths faster come qualifying...

I still don't doubt both Lotus and Ferrari will be fast. Nice seeing a shake-up in the order this year.

[ClaNker]

^ Yerp P2 is on medium except for some. Vettel did some run on low fuel, but did not mentioned whether that was in P1 or P2.

Good thing Pirelli will do some minor change on their hard and soft compound tires, but they should have included the medium as well. Their tire this season is just butter rubbish.

[ClaNker]

Bahrain P3 result. Alonso back on top, but the two Red Bulls are on his tail. Still pretty tight P3.

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[niky]

Everyone within a second of each other... still think it doesn't mean much, but suggests that maybe we'll have an interesting qualifying.

[ClaNker]

Everyone within a second of each other... still think it doesn't mean much, but suggests that maybe we'll have an interesting qualifying.

Actually qualifying means nothing if your car just eat tire during race day.

Good thing soft compounds are out in Bahrain otherwise Q3 will go down on a shoot-out, meaning no car on the track until the last 3 mins of Q3. :hysterical:

[CVT]

Q results in a few minutes...

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[ClaNker]

Bahrain Q3 result. Roseberg out of nowhere!



Interesting race tomorrow on hard compound since Vettel sets the fastest lap on P3 on hard compound.

[Verbl Kint]

McLaren was celebrating just for reaching Q3. How times have indeed changed.

Perez underperformed yet again.

Without a doubt, Hamilton made the right decision moving out of a team seemingly in decline at the moment.


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[CVT]

Tyre management and strategy is the key for winning the race tomorrow.... Profound!

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[niky]

So... what did I say about sandbagging?

Rare turn of speed for Nico. He outperformed everyone in Q2 and Q3. Wonder if Lewis had set-up problems after that gearbox change.

Massa a dark horse for the win. Starting in P4 with the hard tires. As long as the Ferraris can do their trademark quick starts tomorrow, it's in the bag.

[ClaNker]

Tyre management and strategy is the key for winning the race tomorrow.... Profound!

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Delamination seems to be a norm of Pirelli's butter tire this season.

[ClaNker]

So... what did I say about sandbagging?

Rare turn of speed for Nico. He outperformed everyone in Q2 and Q3. Wonder if Lewis had set-up problems after that gearbox change.

Massa a dark horse for the win. Starting in P4 with the hard tires. As long as the Ferraris can do their trademark quick starts tomorrow, it's in the bag.

Let's see if Nico will have a race pace tomorrow. Vettel must overtake Nico the soonest else his front tires will start chipping away.

[niky]

Let's see if Nico will have a race pace tomorrow. Vettel must overtake Nico the soonest else his front tires will start chipping away.

Nice is a very aggressive defender, but if the Merc is heavy off the line or doesn't work on cold tires, he's minced meat. He's got Vettel and Alonso behind him, and all bets say that they won't be there for very long.

[CVT]

So... what did I say about sandbagging?

Rare turn of speed for Nico. He outperformed everyone in Q2 and Q3. Wonder if Lewis had set-up problems after that gearbox change.

Massa a dark horse for the win. Starting in P4 with the hard tires. As long as the Ferraris can do their trademark quick starts tomorrow, it's in the bag.

Yup, I am closely observing Massa's strategy tonight....... Could be a winner.....

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