Official Formula 1 2012 thread

[gkobez]

What the hell is going on with Mercedes? So fast in qualy only to have no race pace.

[Massimo]

One of the more exciting races I have seen of late. Interested to see how sauber dose in the next event. Seems like that know something no one else dose lol.

[323iNathan]

What the hell is going on with Mercedes? So fast in qualy only to have no race pace.

Their special DRS + blown front wing must be making the difference in quali and when it comes to the race they can't use it and they're nowhere.

[naplesE30]

I would say MS would have been 5th had he not been tapped by RG, but they are really suffering from tire wear which they knew was an issue in testing..... Makes me wonder if everyone is thinking twice about how great roseberg is now that 2 races in a row he has been outpreformed by MS.
McLaren has really got to be kicking themselves not to have scored more points. They look like rbr a few years ago when they had great cars but just couldnt score the proper amount of points due to crashes/reliabiltiy.
Massa looks even worse the he did in Australia which is an accomplishment. Look for him in indy car soon haha.


Kimi you are in 5th position, you have set the fast lap......... new car new team same result. love it.

[E-Thirty]

point . . . missed . . .

:D

Point... actually so obvious, they made an article on it :p

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/98393

[naplesE30]

Why do they even make full wet tires? As soon as it was wet enough to run them they red flag the race? Then when they restart it was to dry.... I wasnt there but, the only teams complaining about conditions were the guys behind the leader.... of course they were trying to get the race stopped. Seemed a little like nascar throwing a yellow to bunch up the field to me..... its not like malaysia doesnt have any runoff areas. Just my take on it.

[z31maniac]

Even a light steady rain calls for the full wets, but when it rains so hard the cars hydroplane because of steady streams/ponds on the surface they have to stop.

Unfortunately because of the ride heights, it doesn't take much standing water for them to hydroplane.

[Dave]

Point... actually so obvious, they made an article on it :p

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/98393

Well, still a little off. But in the ballpark at least. ;)

[E-Thirty]

Lol well I'll take partial credit. :p

[pharow]

Did they ever say why it showed K. Kobiashi out?

[HarryPotter]

The mercedes are sucking ass because they are eating tires like it's nobodies business. Did anyone catch rosberg getting blown away towards the closing laps? He lost a good 3-4 positions.

[Jean]

Not a fan of Maldonado, and look two races in a row he is out...TOO bad for Grosjean, he did so good. Lewis still butthurt in post races, awesome drive by Perez!

Kimi - I knew he was still good, but I had no idea Lotus would be in top 5 :) I really hope they get even faster and he'll be in top 3!

[CptnVortex]

Man I wanted Perez to win that one so bad! I recon he would have if the team hadnt messed with his Mojo and told him to take it easy. Those little distractions may have contributed to his running wide. Great exciting race though, and the points are shaping up to be an interesting season!

[u3b3rg33k]

I know it's a little OT, but does anyone have a good source for GP2 videos? I can't seem to find them, and I'm not exactly a google noob.

[Jand3rson]

I'm actually really glad that Vettel isn't the front-runner already. He is my favorite driver, and Red Bull Renault is my team, but last season actually started to get really boring. It's the same reason I stopped watching WRC when Sebastian Loeb (must be the name) was dominating EVERY SINGLE STAGE, it just got so boring. Of course I still want Vettel to win the championship again, but I'm really hoping that it will be super-close between the teams, I really like them all this year.

Except Louis Hamilton. FUCK HAMILTON.