The Official F1 2009 Thread

[PiercedE30]

So far it doesn't look like Brawn GP was underweight, they look good so far. Let's see how their reliability it though.

[Hick]

arg, mcmerc is fast again too

[PiercedE30]

Hamilton is a bit off pace, but Kovalainen is doing pretty good.

[Hick]

STR looks BAD

Buemi is out pounding away and cant do any better than 17th, 3.2sec off

Sea Bass is setting personal bests 5.4 sec off

[PiercedE30]

Yea, it sucks for STR. Even though I LOVE the Red Bull cars, they don't seem to fair well in F1.

[Hick]

Looks like this season may be a wash for all but 3 teams. im sure the other guys will adjust to the regs and work on their diffusers a little more.

Cars kinda grew on me... stil not as nice looking as last years but they are still F1 cars. :)

[tg318is]

Today was awesome!! the Ferraris are the best looking in real life.ialso like Brawn too! BMW and STR are the loudest cars. One of the Force India was leaving a trail of smoke everytime he broke for the 3rd,it wasn't tyre smoke.

[PiercedE30]

I wouldn't be surprised to see everybody change diffusers for next weekend's race. Especially now that I know what the differences are between the two, it makes a lot more sense.

[oldskool3]

The diffuser's will have to be changed by all teams if they want to have a chance. There is no way williams and brawn should be setting such good times in practice. I can't believe with all the money F1 teams invest in their rides they wouldn't do a better analysis of the car specs to squeeze everything out of them.

[Hick]

What was being said about the difference in diffusers was that most of the teams engineers met to make the rules for the 2009 diffuser. The teams that were not there were Williams, Brawn, and Toyota.

What seems to be is that the other teams are following the spirit of the rule, where as the 3 listed are following the letter of the rule.

If it is found that the diffusers are okay, im sure we will see new diffusers for all the other teams in time for the next round.

[E30Kaiser]

arg, mcmerc is fast again too

I wouldn't really say they are fast, though they could definitely be sand bagging. We will se in just a few hours.

[Hick]

I wouldn't really say they are fast, though they could definitely be sand bagging. We will se in just a few hours.

that was said early on in testing because of Heikkis time. It proved to be slower.... thank god

[Jand3rson]

Just set my DVR to record the Australian Grand Prix tomorrow.

Everyone ready for this bitch to get underway?

[Hick]

its going to be a pretty crazy race

gonna break in my parents newish tv. Dads been waiting for f1 to test it out... 42" LCD FTW (or at least better than my 32" crappy ol' tv)

[T Verdier]

this k.e.r.s. shit is awesome. "Hit the boost button" Lol