Waaay too long and no inter-Red Bull drama to keep the conversation going this time.
Thoughts? Hopes? Predictions?
Here are the current top-5 standings:
Drivers' Championship:
1. Vettel - 77
2. Kimi - 67
3. Hamilton - 50
4. Alonso - 47
5. Webber - 32
Constructors' Championship:
1. RBR - 109
2. Lotus - 93
3. Ferrari - 77
4. Mercedes - 64
5. Force India - 26
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Wish list: Type 44 • Manta • Pre-'85 CGT • 405 Mi16 • SVX • W123 Coupe
Let me be the first to update here about Pirelli:
http://www.f1technical.net/news/1836...8adcd82d91827a
This may turn around the event and make the teams race at full speed all the way to the finish line and forget about conserving tyres. I don't know, your thoughts?
All I care is that Red Bull wins.
Checo will beat out button mark my words. I'm hoping the updates McLaren bring help them get back to the pace where they should be. I always love the Spanish grand Prix for some reason.
2007 BMW 335i: stock for the foreseeable future.
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In the meantime:
http://f1seasonreview.blogspot.fi
What could be the 2013 season review
If you don't want to know what happens this season, DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER. For the rest of you, yes, 2013 is going to be incredible. The season will likely be remembered forever. So much happened, so many plot lines and so many eventful races. These are the snippets of some of the most important parts of the 2013 season:
The championship was won by Sebastian Vettel at the end - again. His fourth consecutive title finally proved once and for all that he is an average driver at best. The speculations about Mark Webber's future could also be put to rest. He commented his departure saying it had been an amazing ride but everything in life must come to an end and he hopes to be always remembered as the guy who almost won a title.
The highlight of the season was Kimi Räikkönen's radio message in Spa. During an intense qualifying session he yelled his engineer to "not talk to him while he's driving". This hilarious quote instantly got a life of its own and became a classic. "Don't talk to him while he's eating his ice cream, he knows what he's doing" and other genius one liners filled the F1 forums for the following 9 months.
Hearts sunk in Hungary when history repeated itself and Felipe Massa was hit by a spring for the second time. However for some odd reason this reverted the changes caused by the first hit and he became fast again. So fast that it eventually ended Alonso's career in Ferrari. Santander thought he hadn't done enough during the four year stint in the team and decided to buy him off replacing him with a younger more driven Spaniard Esteban Gutiérrez. It was extremely awkward when they found out that Gutiérrez was in fact not Spanish at all and actually quite crap.
In Mercedes Lewis Hamilton showed clear dominance over Nico Rosberg by having a total of four poles, two wins and a night with Rosberg's girlfriend. This created a feud between the drivers that is yet to be resolved. Meanwhile in Hamilton's former team Martin Whitmarsh had a shocking revelation after the Monaco GP when he realized that Jenson Button was the number one driver in McLaren. He got severely depressed and quit his job.
Despite a rather tame start, the season also saw numerous of crashes. The worst one happened in Silverstone when Romain Grosjean accidentally rammed Red Bull's pitwall. Fans were delighted and relieved that only Christian Horner was injured. Grosjean later put the blame on Hamilton who had retired from the race earlier and was standing on Mercedes' pitwall, claiming that his incredibly white teeth had reflected sunlight to his eyes.
In Sauber Nico Hülkenberg was once again replaced by a pay driver. Many fans got angry because this pay driver wasn't Kamui Kobayashi. The Japanese driver's loyal fan base actually sent an open letter to all teams, explaining that a couple of ballsy overtakes are a proof that he deserves a seat and how his otherwise mediocre pre-F1 record and F1 career just mask this.
Marussia ended up winning the battle between the backmarker teams, partly because Charles Pic's superlicense was revoked because nobody knew who he was. Giedo van der Garde was also fired and replaced by a rock and Catherham have high hopes its going to be less useless than him.
All in all it's going to be an amazing season and you don't want to miss it!
The Kimi paragraph is gold.
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That is just hilarious equivalent to a stand-up comedy show.
Didn't know about this ...
http://www.f1technical.net/development/407
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Looking forward to this race.
With everyone bringing updates I think it will add some spice. I haven't been keeping up with F1 over the past couple of weeks and I feel somewhat out of it already. Not going to predict anything either.
Really looking forward to the P sessions now that they have some extra tires and therefore will spend more time on the track instead of hiding in the pits.
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Before I forget: What's Lewis' motivation for sucking up to Alonso so hard... It would appear that he says something sickly sweet on a monthly basis about Alonso now?
It's kind of hard to remember that Alonso and Hamilton were team mates, because it only lasted a year.
Seems like Bernie is trying to have two more GP here - one in NJ and one in CA.
I knew about the one in Hoboken, but CA? That's news to me.
Edit: Huh.
http://www.rantsports.com/nascar/201...ormula-1-race/
Last edited by BoldUlysses; 05-09-2013 at 09:11 AM.
Current: '94 MX-6 V6/5 • '72 240Z • '10 Mazda5
Past: '02 330i/5 • '85 RX-7 GSL-SE • '95 540i/6 • '95 525i/5 • '86 635CSi/5 • '88 JZA70 • '86 4K quattro • '85 RX-7 S
Wish list: Type 44 • Manta • Pre-'85 CGT • 405 Mi16 • SVX • W123 Coupe
I really enjoyed watching the Bahrain race. This will be only the second F1 race I've watched since the days of Senna, Prost et al. and even then I was only watching b/c my dad and his pals were watching. Even then I knew Senna was something special...seemed he was always in front lol.
Anyway, looking forward to the race. cheers.
lol
9 more hours to go ...
McLaren isn't sounding overly confident of their new parts and the new tires may hurt Mercedes. I'm going out on a limb here (not) and saying either Red Bull or Ferrari to sweep the top two steps.
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Sky F1 coverage for P3/Qualifying tomorrow AM:
3:45 AM Central Time for P3 (yeah, I think I'm going to skip that)
6:00 AM Central Time for Qualifying (7:00 AM start of actual Qualifying)
so far it's tight. renault, merc, red bull, and ferrari are all quick.
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Lewis Hamilton's lap time in Q2 was amazing. Out of nowhere he put a blistering lap time and I thought he was about to get knocked out in Q2 wile watching other drivers improving. Anyways, great effort from Mercedes for a 1-2 pole position. Mercedes boss now smiles even wider than before.
Apparently Massa and Gutierrez received 3 spot penalties for impeding during Q.
Yep, poor performance from mercedes. Nice to see Massa on the podium. Vettel didn't seem like pushing his car as fast as he typically does. Red Bull just seemed slow today.
I can't believe how bad Mercedes race pace is, it's hilarious. This was a huge win for Ferrari & race fans as they went out there with no regards towards tire wear. Go out & drive as fast as possible & Alonso did just that. Glad RB especially Vettel was off the podium.
You ask any ricer, any serious ricer. It doesn't matter if the other guy is racing or not. A win is a win.
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