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N Ellingworth View Drop Down

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Posted: March 14 2008 at 04:23

The Friday practice times make interesting reading.

First Session:

1. Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari-Ferrari 1min 26.461secs
2. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1min 26.948secs
3. Felipe Massa Ferrari-Ferrari 1min 26.958secs
4. Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1min 27.114secs
5. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1min 28.263secs
6. Fernando Alonso Renault-Renault 1min 28.360secs
7. Robert Kubica BMW-Sauber 1min 28.579secs
8. Timo Glock Toyota-Toyota 1min 28.913secs
9. Sebastian Vettel Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1min 28.957secs
10. Jarno Trulli Toyota-Toyota 1min 29.014secs
11. Jenson Button Honda-Honda 1min 29.124secs
12. Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 1min 29.230secs
13. David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1min 29.301secs
14. Sebastien Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1min 29.363secs
15. Rubens Barrichello Honda-Honda 1min 29.533secs
16. Nick Heidfeld BMW-Sauber 1min 29.561secs
17. Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 1min 30.155secs
18. Nelson Piquet Renault-Renault 1min 30.357secs
19. Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 1min 31.048secs
20. Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 1min 31.771secs
21. Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1min 35.053secs
22. Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota no time

Second Session:

1. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1min 26.559secs
2. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1min 27.473secs
3. Felipe Massa Ferrari-Ferrari 1min 27.640secs
4. Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1min 27.683secs
5. David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1min 28.037secs
6. Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari-Ferrari 1min 28.208secs
7. Jarno Trulli Toyota-Toyota 1min 28.292secs
8. Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1min 28.352secs
9. Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 1min 28.469secs
10. Timo Glock Toyota-Toyota 1min 28.582secs
11. Jenson Button Honda-Honda 1min 28.632secs
12. Nick Heidfeld BMW-Sauber 1min 28.731secs
13. Fernando Alonso Renault-Renault 1min 28.779secs
14. Rubens Barrichello Honda-Honda 1min 28.849secs
15. Robert Kubica BMW-Sauber 1min 28.860secs
16. Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1min 29.077secs
17. Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 1min 29.161secs
18. Sebastian Vettel Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1min 29.193secs
19. Nelson Piquet Renault-Renault 1min 29.518secs
20. Sebastien Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1min 29.605secs
21. Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 1min 30.663secs
22. Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 1min 31.527secs

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Posted: March 14 2008 at 09:55

You beat me to getting the times Nick.

Thats not what I was expecting, I wonder if it'll be this competitive in qually. Speaking of whch, anyone else staying up lat eto watch it and the race tomorrow live?

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Posted: March 14 2008 at 10:02

I'll try to get up early but 3:30 in the morning is a bit too early so I'll probably end up watching the rerun.

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Posted: March 14 2008 at 11:44

I found these on the ITV-F1 website, 3 minute video highlights of the practice sessions.

http://www.itv-f1.com/VideoHighlights.aspx

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Posted: March 14 2008 at 22:29

I need to check for the times...but usually I the Australian GP is on like 10:00 here one of the few times I dont have to stay up till 1 or 2 am or wake up a 7 (the others being Canada and US of course)

Edited by JJLehto - March 14 2008 at 22:29

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Posted: March 14 2008 at 22:32

NASCAR really oughta make a better effort to get these qualifying runs in. Shame to see John Andretti and Jeff Green get the shaft after both being in the top 10 in practice while Michael Waltrip backs his car into the wall and gets saved by rain. Hmph.

Edited by Zappa88 - March 14 2008 at 22:32

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Posted: March 14 2008 at 22:38

Ahhh...theres somethin coming up at 11 (qualifying is it?)

As for NASCAR I feel kind of bad I have fallen soo out of that. I used to watch it every Sunday and now I havnt seen a race in like 2 years ( a full one)

YES! It is Australian qualifying. Oh man I am so excited for this season to begin.

Edited by JJLehto - March 14 2008 at 23:02

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Posted: March 14 2008 at 23:15

Yay for the Interwebs, because without that I could not have watched F1, Rally or MotoGP.
NASCAR is for rednecks. Wink

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Posted: March 15 2008 at 00:00

No!

Kubica had the pole and he blew it. It was an epic slide....but still.

He will win a race this year, he keeps getting better.

Edited by JJLehto - March 15 2008 at 00:26

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Posted: March 15 2008 at 04:25

Yeah the fact that Kubica was still on the front row after that slide is incredible, the removal of traction control definitely seems to be paying off for the fans as the cars are really unstable (by F1 standards) and therefore more entertaining.

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Posted: March 15 2008 at 08:32

JJLehto wrote:

Ahhh...theres somethin coming up at 11 (qualifying is it?)

As for NASCAR I feel kind of bad I have fallen soo out of that. I used to watch it every Sunday and now I havnt seen a race in like 2 years ( a full one)

YES! It is Australian qualifying. Oh man I am so excited for this season to begin.

Same with me and F1, but I really plan on trying to follow it more closely this year.

Hurrah!

Beauty will save the world.

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Posted: March 15 2008 at 10:26

Well IMO NASCAR is not the same it was. I cant explain how...but it just dosnt do the same for me anymore.

I swear all the changes have killed it for me.

And a nice calm day for me. Drive back to PA, watch the 12 hrs of Sebring and later Australia GP

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Posted: March 15 2008 at 10:51

Qualy for those with memory laps Wink

1. HAMILTON McLaren
2. KUBICA BMW

3. KOVALAINEN McLaren

4. MASSA Ferrari

5. HEIDFELD BMW

6. TRULLI Toyota

7. ROSBERG Williams

8. COULTHARD Red Bull

9. VETTEL Toro Rosso

10. BARRICHELLO Honda

11. ALONSO Renault

12. BUTTON Honda

13. NAKAJIMA Williams

14. WEBBER Red Bull

15. RAIKKONEN Ferrari

16. FISCHELLA Force India

17. BOURDAIS Toro Rosso

18. SUTIL Force India
19. GLOCK Toyota*

20. SATO Super Aguri

21. PIQUET Renault
22. DAVIDSON Super Aguri

* demoted five places for gearbox change and a further five places for blocking

Anyone else surprised by how competative the Honda's were? A month ago I wouldnt have thought they could get into the second session, let alone challenge for the top 10! Kimi's going to be exciting tomorrow.

BTW, I dont remember F1 cars being this on the edge the last time we were without TC 10 years ago, and they had less downforce then.

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Posted: March 16 2008 at 05:09

Well that was an interesting race, driver mistakes were definitely punished. I wasn't expecting so many retirements though, it's been a while since we saw such as small number of finishers.

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Posted: March 16 2008 at 12:03

I couldn`t see the race sadly, but now i read just a few cars completed the 57 laps.

So Hamilton hits first and his principal rivals (Ferrari, only scored 1 with Kimi), nice podium i love to see Heidfield there he is a very talented driver, and also not bad debut of Bourdais, a couple of points in his first race is not bad.

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Posted: March 16 2008 at 13:32

Bourdais should have got more points, he was ahead of Alonso and Kovalienen until his engine gave up on him. It seems that this years Ferrari engine is currently very poor since 3 of 4 in the race failed.

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Posted: March 16 2008 at 14:28

WOW what a race!

That was one of the most chaotic races I've ever seen.

And Lewis Hamilton just sat up front all day ahead of the chaos...what a boring win.

But that was one amazing race.
Only 6 cars finished.
In his F1 debut Bourdais was running in 4th place until his engine died.
Barichello had a podium until he got himself disqualified
Kimi had an amazing race going until he flew himself straight off the track
And in this race there were NO Schumacher's in it.

Anyway, I am really impressed with Kovalainen and Kubica I am really pulling for them to get some wins.

Edited by JJLehto - March 16 2008 at 14:39

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Posted: March 16 2008 at 14:37

N Ellingworth wrote:

Bourdais should have got more points, he was ahead of Alonso and Kovalienen until his engine gave up on him. It seems that this years Ferrari engine is currently very poor since 3 of 4 in the race failed.

Actualy, its the same engine as last year, and the year before that, and their are 6 of them (Force India run Ferrari's as well). Still, 3 possibly 4 failures is an alarming number for them. Gutted for Bourdais, that was an excellent drive from him.

Impressive race, its good to see the drivers really having to work the cars hard now, as it should be. I think this is the lowest number of finishers since Monaco 97.

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Posted: March 16 2008 at 14:51

Oh yes I forgot about the Force Indias. Embarrassed