The Motorsport Thread - 2012

Renault is always mid pack (sometimes higher sometimes lower) and maybe this year they will be on the higher side.
Mercedes is looking strong, though it may be due to this....maybe illegal body work

McLaren is certainly going to be very strong (Hami claims to have put his 2011 demons aside and feels fresh) RBR might have to fight and Ferrari is looking down. 2012 will be f**kin crazy!

These drivers are never amused with interviews...only ones to ever seem not depressed to be there are Schumi, Vettel, and Hami.
Yet only the first two are "smug" hmmmm..........

That's a pretty cool looking track. Quite blatant Monaco homage, has some twisty sections, long straights, that roundabout. Pretty much like all the others  Didn't know Argentina was hoping for one. Goodness are we going ot have like 24+ races in the future??

A lot of races and a lot of talent in the field, both equipment and driver. Man I'm excited.
Also tired...will most likely pass out when this is done and shall comment later tomm

Only been off season testing (and one quali session) but certainly looks like another down year for Ferrari
Strong start for Mercedes, McLaren may be the team to beat and the Wunderkind will need to really fight for his third title

Here's to a great 2012 season blokes

edit: Oh! And James...you do know that if McLaren dominates and they win all their races by starting on the front row, building a huge 2 lap lead and coasting to victory (a la Vettel) you lose pretty much any credibility in criticizing him :P


Edited by JJLehto - March 18 2012 at 01:07

Button is driving like a god.

Edited by memowakeman - March 18 2012 at 02:03

Congrats to Button on the very Vettel-esque win.
Quite evident who the top 4 are going to be this year.

Huge congrats to Alonso for his herculian effort to nab 5th.

I was gunna eat my words and say the pay driver (who stumped around in GP2) Maldonado had a brilliant drive until he crashed himself on the last lap!
Still not sure what happened with all that madness in the very end. Congrats to Kam and Kimi who negotiated the shuffle to get 6th and 7th. Of course I am ecstatic about Kimi's great drive. Perez nabs some points and Di Resta rounds it out.
Edit: Ricciardo in 9th?? Wow, Maldonado f**ked everything up! 6th to 12th thrown into total madness.

Good race, and with that...time to pass out!


Edited by JJLehto - March 18 2012 at 02:54

Yeah the 16 race season feels like so long ago, not sure why back in the day I thought it crazy to exceed 20. More the better!


Looks like the 12 hours of Sebring has been condensed into 2 hours.....
Well, really no point...I just looked up the winners on Wikipedia

JJLehto wrote: A lot of races and a lot of talent in the field, both equipment and driver. Man I'm excited. Also tired...will most likely pass out when this is done and shall comment later tomm Only been off season testing (and one quali session) but certainly looks like another down year for Ferrari Strong start for Mercedes, McLaren may be the team to beat and the Wunderkind will need to really fight for his third title Here's to a great 2012 season blokes edit: Oh! And James...you do know that if McLaren dominates and they win all their races by starting on the front row, building a huge 2 lap lead and coasting to victory (a la Vettel) you lose pretty much any credibility in criticizing him :P

What?

Nope.  Hamilton and Button are better drivers than Vettel.

Don't get me wrong James, you already had no credibility with your hatred but now it'd really be thrown out the window!

Edit: It's especially irnoic because I see Hami as the worst attitude in the paddock. What a f**kin lil baby he seems to have become. w**ker.


For sure Sleeper, this field is great.
Supposedly there was debris from Maldonado's wreck which is why Rosberg got messed up and that whole back 6 got all jumbled. Right when everyone was about to give Pastor some kudos he had to muck it up!




Edited by JJLehto - March 19 2012 at 12:17

I feel sorry for Brunno with Massa's kack handed defence, he would have been in the thick of the fight for the last points on the last lap without that.

Did anybody see the Sebring 12 Hours, those GT cars really got their elbows out for the last lap.

Practice times for Malaysia. I like this race, the best of all the Tilke tracks and with Turkey now gone thats by some way. I'm not certain but I've heard that the start time has been moved back by an hour this year. The last time it started this late was 2009 and that race got red flagged on lap 35, which will almost certainly happen again since thje rain turns up like clockwork everyday in the early evening there.

Second Practice

Friday, 23 March 2012

Position	Country	Driver	Car number	Team	Fastest Lap
1	great britain	Lewis Hamilton	4	McLaren-Mercedes	1:38.172
2	germany	Michael Schumacher	7	Mercedes GP	1:38.533
3	great britain	Jenson Button	3	McLaren-Mercedes	1:38.535
4	germany	Nico Rosberg	8	Mercedes GP	1:38.696
5	australia	Daniel Ricciardo	16	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:38.853
6	spain	Fernando Alonso	5	Ferrari	1:38.891
7	australia	Mark Webber	2	Red Bull-Renault	1:39.133
8	france	Jean-Eric Vergne	17	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:39.297
9	switzerland	Romain Grosjean	10	Lotus-Renault	1:39.311
10	germany	Sebastian Vettel	1	Red Bull-Renault	1:39.402
11	venezuela	Pastor Maldonado	18	Williams-Renault	1:39.444
12	germany	Nico Hulkenberg	12	Force India-Mercedes	1:39.464
13	great britain	Paul Di Resta	11	Force India-Mercedes	1:39.625
14	japan	Kamui Kobayashi	14	Sauber	1:39.687
15	finland	Kimi Raikkonen	9	Lotus-Renault	1:39.696
16	brazil	Felipe Massa	6	Ferrari	1:40.271
17	brazil	Bruno Senna	19	Williams-Renault	1:40.678
18	mexico	Sergio Perez	15	Sauber	1:40.947
19	russian federation	Vitaly Petrov	21	Caterham-Renault	1:41.464
20	germany	Timo Glock	24	Marussia-Cosworth	1:41.681
21	finland	Heikki Kovalainen	20	Caterham-Renault	1:42.594
22	france	Charles Pic	25	Marussia-Cosworth	1:42.874
23	india	Narain Karthikeyan	23	HRT-Cosworth	1:43.658
24	spain	Pedro de la Rosa	22	HRT-Cosworth	1:43.823