Formula One 2010

[hackerjack]

Well that was random, a few weeks ago it was New York and now this out of the blue really.

Can't see an F1 style track being able to survive in Texas though so it seems an odd decision to me.

[Lineker]

Loads of news today.

- Hermann Tilke will be designing the Austin GP circuit

- Johnny Herbert will return to the role of the stewards' driver advisor at this weekend's Turkish Grand Prix

- Pirelli are "on the verge" of securing a solo Formula 1 tyre deal, with no tyre wars until at least 2013

- Force India will be running their f-duct at Turkey whereas RBR will be testing theirs in P1/P2

- Stefano Domenicali says that Massa will be retained after for 2011

So. Pirelli back for the first time since 1991. Will be interesting, and they're sticking with 13 inch wheels too.

[Katsuya]

The other news is that Hispania have dumped Dallara, since they've yet to make any upgrades for the car and aren't even giving them enough spare parts as it is. Can't see the team surviving after this season at this pace...

[Adam]

Does Massa's retention mean the Kubica rumours will end now then? I can't see Alonso leaving after one year.

[Lineker]

P1


Pos  Driver         Team                    Time              Laps

 1.  Hamilton       McLaren-Mercedes        1:28.653            20

 2.  Button         McLaren-Mercedes        1:29.615  + 0.962   20

 3.  Schumacher     Mercedes                1:29.750  + 1.097   24

 4.  Rosberg        Mercedes                1:29.855  + 1.202   24

 5.  Vettel         Red Bull-Renault        1:29.867  + 1.214   30

 6.  Kubica         Renault                 1:30.061  + 1.408   23

 7.  Petrov         Renault                 1:30.065  + 1.412   24

 8.  Webber         Red Bull-Renault        1:30.097  + 1.444   26

 9.  Alonso         Ferrari                 1:30.294  + 1.641   20

10.  Sutil          Force India-Mercedes    1:30.501  + 1.848   17

11.  Kobayashi      Sauber-Ferrari          1:30.615  + 1.962   20

12.  Liuzzi         Force India-Mercedes    1:30.853  + 2.200   21

13.  Massa          Ferrari                 1:30.867  + 2.214   21

14.  Buemi          Toro Rosso-Ferrari      1:31.011  + 2.358   23

15.  de la Rosa     Sauber-Ferrari          1:31.238  + 2.585   17

16.  Hulkenberg     Williams-Cosworth       1:31.355  + 2.702   23

17.  Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth       1:31.464  + 2.811   19

18.  Alguersuari    Toro Rosso-Ferrari      1:31.735  + 3.082   27

19.  Kovalainen     Lotus-Cosworth          1:32.161  + 3.508   24

20.  Trulli         Lotus-Cosworth          1:32.990  + 4.337   22

21.  Chandhok       HRT-Cosworth            1:34.876  + 6.223   13

22.  di Grassi      Virgin-Cosworth         1:35.137  + 6.484   21

23.  Glock          Virgin-Cosworth         1:35.583  + 6.930   15

24.  Yamamoto       HRT-Cosworth            1:36.137  + 7.484   26


All Timing Unofficial[/code]


Sutil had the only accident of the session - he lost control of his Force India at Turn 8 with two minutes to go and spun backwards into the barriers, causing substantial damage to the car. Sakon Yamamoto drove the HRT car instead of Bruno Senna in first practice.

[Lint]

Is there a thread for indy car, or would just a generic, race-related question be acceptible in this topic?

[Lineker]

Sure feel free to ask I guess!

RBR are not running their f-duct tomorrow as they want to properly spend the time analysing all of the data before making a decision for the Canadian GP.

P2


Pos  Driver         Team                     Time              Laps

 1.  Button         McLaren-Mercedes         1:28.280            30

 2.  Webber         Red Bull-Renault         1:28.378  + 0.098   24

 3.  Vettel         Red Bull-Renault         1:28.590  + 0.310   26

 4.  Hamilton       McLaren-Mercedes         1:28.672  + 0.392   32

 5.  Alonso         Ferrari                  1:28.725  + 0.445   30

 6.  Rosberg        Mercedes                 1:28.914  + 0.634   22

 7.  Schumacher     Mercedes                 1:28.974  + 0.694   22

 8.  Kubica         Renault                  1:29.225  + 0.945   34

 9.  Petrov         Renault                  1:29.501  + 1.221   36

10.  Massa          Ferrari                  1:29.620  + 1.340   26

11.  Sutil          Force India-Mercedes     1:29.629  + 1.349   16

12.  Hulkenberg     Williams-Cosworth        1:29.987  + 1.707   17

13.  Kobayashi      Sauber-Ferrari           1:30.053  + 1.773   34

14.  de la Rosa     Sauber-Ferrari           1:30.176  + 1.896   34

15.  Buemi          Toro Rosso-Ferrari       1:30.386  + 2.106   32

16.  Liuzzi         Force India-Mercedes     1:30.627  + 2.347   28

17.  Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth        1:30.766  + 2.486   32

18.  Alguersuari    Toro Rosso-Ferrari       1:30.933  + 2.653   37

19.  Kovalainen     Lotus-Cosworth           1:31.610  + 3.330   37

20.  di Grassi      Virgin-Cosworth          1:33.013  + 4.733   28

21.  Trulli         Lotus-Cosworth           1:33.081  + 4.801   11

22.  Glock          Virgin-Cosworth          1:33.312  + 5.032   29

23.  Senna          HRT-Cosworth             1:33.420  + 5.140   35

24.  Chandhok       HRT-Cosworth             1:33.740  + 5.460   25


All Timing Unofficial[/code]




[code]P3


Pos  Driver         Team                   Time              Laps

 1.  Vettel         Red Bull-Renault         1:27.086            18

 2.  Rosberg        Mercedes                 1:27.359  + 0.273   16

 3.  Hamilton       McLaren-Mercedes         1:27.396  + 0.310   14

 4.  Webber         Red Bull-Renault         1:27.553  + 0.467   15

 5.  Kubica         Renault                  1:27.784  + 0.698   20

 6.  Alonso         Ferrari                  1:27.861  + 0.775   18

 7.  Schumacher     Mercedes                 1:27.879  + 0.793   16

 8.  Button         McLaren-Mercedes         1:27.963  + 0.877   17

 9.  Massa          Ferrari                  1:27.969  + 0.883   20

10.  Petrov         Renault                  1:28.344  + 1.258   18

11.  Buemi          Toro Rosso-Ferrari       1:28.610  + 1.524   22

12.  de la Rosa     Sauber-Ferrari           1:28.652  + 1.566   20

13.  Alguersuari    Toro Rosso-Ferrari       1:28.734  + 1.648   21

14.  Kobayashi      Sauber-Ferrari           1:29.036  + 1.950   20

15.  Hulkenberg     Williams-Cosworth        1:29.044  + 1.958   18

16.  Liuzzi         Force India-Mercedes     1:29.211  + 2.125   15

17.  Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth        1:29.305  + 2.219   14


18.  Trulli         Lotus-Cosworth           1:30.618  + 3.532   19

19.  Kovalainen     Lotus-Cosworth           1:30.884  + 3.798   22

20.  Glock          Virgin-Cosworth          1:31.341  + 4.255   21

21.  di Grassi      Virgin-Cosworth          1:32.180  + 5.094   16

22.  Senna          HRT-Cosworth             1:32.230  + 5.144   21

23.  Chandhok       HRT-Cosworth             1:32.762  + 5.676   19

24.  Sutil          Force India-Mercedes     No time              1


All Timing Unofficial

Qualifying


Pos  Driver         Team                   Q1        Q2        Q3       

 1.  Webber         Red Bull-Renault       1:27.500  1:26.818  1:26.295

 2.  Hamilton       McLaren-Mercedes       1:27.667  1:27.013  1:26.433

 3.  Vettel         Red Bull-Renault       1:27.067  1:26.729  1:26.760

 4.  Button         McLaren-Mercedes       1:27.555  1:27.277  1:26.781

 5.  Schumacher     Mercedes               1:27.756  1:27.438  1:26.857

 6.  Rosberg        Mercedes               1:27.649  1:27.141  1:26.952

 7.  Kubica         Renault                1:27.766  1:27.426  1:27.039

 8.  Massa          Ferrari                1:27.993  1:27.200  1:27.082

 9.  Petrov         Renault                1:27.620  1:27.387  1:27.430

10.  Kobayashi      Sauber-Ferrari         1:28.158  1:27.434  1:28.122

11.  Sutil          Force India-Mercedes   1:27.951  1:27.525

12.  Alonso         Ferrari                1:27.857  1:27.612

13.  de la Rosa     Sauber-Ferrari         1:28.147  1:27.879

14.  Buemi          Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1:28.534  1:28.273

15.  Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth      1:28.336  1:28.392

16.  Alguersuari    Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1:28.460  1:28.540

17.  Hulkenberg     Williams-Cosworth      1:28.227  1:28.841

18.  Liuzzi         Force India-Mercedes   1:28.958

19.  Trulli         Lotus-Cosworth         1:30.237

20.  Kovalainen     Lotus-Cosworth         1:30.519

21.  Glock          Virgin-Cosworth        1:30.744

22.  Senna          HRT-Cosworth           1:31.266

23.  di Grassi      Virgin-Cosworth        1:31.989

24.  Chandhok       HRT-Cosworth           1:32.060


All Timing Unofficial[/code]


Disappointing for the Williams', Liuzzi, and especially Alonso. Kobayashi cracks the top ten again, more consistency from Kubica, better from Schumacher, Vettel very annoyed (a broken rear roll-bar was confirmed as the cause), Hamilton sandwiched inbetweek the two Red Bull's, and another great session from Webber. And the pole-sitter usually goes on to win.


Finally, Michelin is to make an eleventh hour last-ditch bid to try and win the supply deal for next year's Formula 1 tyres, with company representatives due to fly in to Istanbul on Sunday for a meeting with the teams. This is despite the deal with Pirelli being 95% 'done and dusted'. Either wat, Martin Whitmarsh says that the deal will be signed by the Canadian GP.

[Slogger]

Well that was random, a few weeks ago it was New York and now this out of the blue really.

Can't see an F1 style track being able to survive in Texas though so it seems an odd decision to me.

Survive? Can you elaborate on that?

Also, I love how Webber finds just enough speed to get himself P1 after not being that consistent during practice. .

[Asuka's Gonna Kill You]

Webber and Vettel crash into each other and Hamilton comes through into first. Stay like this and it's a great day

[Fry_4000]

What was Vettel thinking?

[Rich]

Proof that Vettel is a dickhead? That crash right there, he just drove into Webber, this is why the guy will not win a world championship yet, unless he sorts out these inconsistencies and mistakes he will not be winning this year.

[LUKIE]

I couldn't stop laughing...

[Fry_4000]

Vettel now throwing a strop as someone tried to interview him.

[Rich]

Seriously, i really dislike Vettel, he is just not the type of guy I want to be world champion in F1, its the same with Hamilton, they are both too impetuous for me to really like them.

Vettel's conduct is never befitting of a world champion race driver, when he does well he is an arrogant, smug cunt, and when it doesn't go his way he throws a ridiculous teenage strop. Horrible, just horrible.

[Rich]

And thats why the McLaren drivers are better

[Fry_4000]

that was close between button and hamilton

[LUKIE]

And thats why the McLaren drivers are better

I was waiting for Hamilton to just run Button straight off the track.

[Rich]

I was biting my lip

[Fry_4000]

Alguersuari with the fastest lap

[Rich]

He has just pitted for fresh tyres though, having said that Webber did and isn't going as fast, must be damage from the Vettel incident.