The Official 2010 F1 Thread!!!!!!

[YAN-3]

Did anyone watch the post-qualifying interviews? Webber was very very upset.

yes, i feel for him though. He has the car this year and Sebastian just beat him out for pole. It will be interesting to see the 1st few corners on lap 1, I say he overtakes Vettel and wins. or so i hope.

[E30Kaiser]

yes, i feel for him though. He has the car this year and Sebastian just beat him out for pole. It will be interesting to see the 1st few corners on lap 1, I say he overtakes Vettel and wins. or so i hope.

I think Vettel is back with a vengence after Bahrain, lets just hope the RBR cars hold up.

[elsabor67]

I missed that one. He did look like he had the stronger car for a bit. I feel a bit bad for Massa. Alonso is just totally outdriving him right now and looks like his car is stronger overall.

[Jparkr]

I missed that one. He did look like he had the stronger car for a bit. I feel a bit bad for Massa. Alonso is just totally outdriving him right now and looks like his car is stronger overall.

yeah, but that was to be expected... Alonso is a genius when it comes to car setup/finding time.

[Jand3rson]

YEAH! Vettel on pole again! Can't wait to see the race, let's hope his fucking spark plugs hold up!

[YAN-3]

let's hope his f*cking spark plugs hold up!

[E30Kaiser]

1 lap in and the race is AWESOME so far lol, hope it keeps up. Rain FTW.

[Jand3rson]

I will now no longer look at this thread until tomorrow afternoon.

[E30Kaiser]

This race is friggin ridiculous so far, tons of passing! I am almost glad Bahrain was the first race of the year because otherwise we probably wouldn't have seen a wet Australia.
EDIT: Shit, Vettel has trouble while in the lead AGAIN! Still and awesome race overall though, such a great battle currently between Massa, Alonso, and Webber.

[Hick]

wow

schumi was in for 4th after the first turn. too bad we didnt get to see that race. great run by button, had the big picture in mind and saved his tires for the end.

[E30Kaiser]

Great defense by Kubica to stay in second. This season seems like it will be crazy as far as guessing who will be on the podium. Glad we only have to wait a week until the next race, and this should make the fantasy league sehr interessant.

[Jparkr]

LOL at Hamilton! Button and Alonso out performing him must have hurt that ego BAD.

[naplesE30]

Great first 20 laps....
2nd the great drive by Kubica to hold on to second place.
What a ballsy call by Mclaren to bring in button when he was running in 5th or 6th if I remember correctly for the dry tires, then they make a bad call by bringing in Hamilton for his second set of dry’s.

Hey maybe instead of shortcuts, loop-d-loops, rocket boosters, and whatnot maybe Bernie should just skip the shit ass tracks like Bahrain, Valencia etc or install sprinklers on these track to go off throughout the race.

Vettel is the dominant driver so far this year but has just been continually fucked up the arse by bad luck, and Weber is a freaking idiot, terrible drive by him, and I like Weber but he made several mistakes and has a history of crashing and bad decisions.


David Hobbs is awesome by the way,,,"This sequence of turns takes a large set of attachments"

[naplesE30]

I wouldnt so much say they outpreformed him as much as a better pit strategy for them. 1 less stop for them. Although I think hamiltons driving style in all likelyhood played a part in it.

LOL at Hamilton! Button and Alonso out performing him must have hurt that ego BAD.

[323iNathan]

^We're agreed there, Button's driving style is much more smooth than Hamilton's, who has a pretty aggressive driving style. So while Button could stay out on his soft tyres for 52 laps Hamilton chewed through his quicker necessitating the extra pit stop.

Vettel had a brake failure on the right front corner, thats why he ended up in the gravel. When they interviewed him at the track he was asked "What happened?" he replied "Shit happened!" /interview haha but I can definitely understand his frustration.

All the english articles I've read, and the english commentators I've heard have been going on about how Hamilton was driver of the day, but I think they've been blindsided by their unconditional love for all things Hamilton again, cause Alonso was spun by Button into turn 1, ended up 24th and last and fought back to 4th. Trumping Hamilton's 11th-->6th.

And Naples ease off Webber, he's no idiot. He had fastest lap of the race (1:28.358 on lap 47), he overtook more cars on the track than anyone else, save for Alonso (granted some of those he'd overtaken more than once, but that doesn't take away from that fact). The only reason he ended up buried back in the pack today was because Vettel got first choice of when he wanted to swap to dry tyres cause he had track position, leaving Webber to pit the lap after which lost him enough time to drop him from a comfortable 2nd down to 7th or 8th, and from there it went both ways with him making a couple of mistakes and others around him making mistakes.
Being back in the pack at a race where the track is quite greasy, (this one in particular with all of the white lines because its a public road 360 days a year) and where drivers are moving around all over the track in defense its no surprise that a few drivers had off track excursions (Webber, Vettel, Schumacher, Button, Hamilton, Alonso and Massa to name a few). Also by the end of the race - 18:35 - it was pretty dark, trust me when I say the cameras made quite a difference in brightness between what was on the screens and what I could see.

And Webber has a history of car's giving up on him cause of poor reliability and having much more than his share of bad luck- not just crashes and bad decisions (which you can say about anyone if they're around for long enough), he's easily the most unlucky driver since Johnny Herbert.

/Rant!