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Ahh Turkey this weekend.
One of my favorite tracks. Looking forward to a good race
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hm....silence.
Well, here are the Qualifying results or Turkey:

1 15 Flag of Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:27.330 1:27.016 1:28.316 1
2 22 Flag of the United Kingdom Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes 1:27.355 1:27.230 1:28.421 2
3 23 Flag of Brazil Rubens Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes 1:27.371 1:27.418 1:28.579 3
4 14 Flag of Australia Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:27.466 1:27.416 1:28.613 4
5 9 Flag of Italy Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:27.529 1:27.195 1:28.666 5
6 4‡ Flag of Finland Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1:27.556 1:27.387 1:28.815 6
7 3‡ Flag of Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:27.508 1:27.349 1:28.858 7
8 7 Flag of Spain Fernando Alonso Renault 1:27.988 1:27.473 1:29.075 8
9 16 Flag of Germany Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:27.517 1:27.418 1:29.191 9
10 5 Flag of Poland Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1:27.788 1:27.455 1:29.357 10
11 6 Flag of Germany Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:27.795 1:27.521
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12 17 Flag of Japan Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:27.691 1:27.629
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13 10 Flag of Germany Timo Glock Toyota 1:28.160 1:27.795
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14 2‡ Flag of Finland Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:28.199 1:28.207
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15 20 Flag of Germany Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:28.278 1:28.391
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16 1‡ Flag of the United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:28.318

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17 8 Flag of Brazil Nelson Piquet, Jr. Renault 1:28.582

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18 12 Flag of Switzerland Sébastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:28.708

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19 21 Flag of Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Mercedes 1:28.717

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20 11 Flag of France Sébastien Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:28.918

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Apparently, the race will be playing here @ 3:30 am and they NEVER replay the f1 races...Angry
Damn Americans not liking F1. Ah well, good thing I have nothing to do Sunday, because I'll be waking up at 1:00 PM probably. LOL


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I think I'm talking to myself now but if anyone is out there:
Button is continuing his Schumacher-esque year. Win 6 of 7.

Always had a liking for Webber so glad to see him doing well in the red bull scoring a 2nd place.
In 3rd was Vettel while Kimi, Hami, and Heikki are still doing abysmally.
I'm looking into the last time a driver had a start his amazing.
In 2002 MS had 7 straight podiums to start but only 5 wins.

So is Button off the the best start ever?


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yeah may be

weird to see this things happening, i would have never dreamt about it
So if nothing strange happens, and knowing of course that there is still a lot of races coming, Button will take the crown this year

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yea, its pretty much sewn up. But I suppose you never know.
Maybe we will have a 3 way battle between Button Mark Webber and Rubino!
WackoNever though id say that
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Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

yea, its pretty much sewn up. But I suppose you never know.
Maybe we will have a 3 way battle between Button Mark Webber and Rubino!
WackoNever though id say that
Neither do I, but things look will be like that...ConfusedLOL

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Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

yea, its pretty much sewn up. But I suppose you never know.
Maybe we will have a 3 way battle between Button Mark Webber and Rubino!
WackoNever though id say that
I doubt it, Buttons got Barrichello covered, though if RBR find a tenth or two then Webber and Vettel can challenge.
 
Silverstone next, could well prove to be its last race.
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Yea, though that'd be wild I'm really not expecting anyone to challenge Button. I mean Rubino has been impressive but I think he's just a lil too old to keep pace. Shame to see him the #2 guy again.

And it's funny I'm not European but it still makes to rage to think about these traditional races that are going out the window. Ah well, that's progress, and France was pretty boring.
They should go to Donnington for the British GP, that's what I'd do.
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Thats what they're doing, if they can get the ciurcit ready in time.
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Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Thats what they're doing, if they can get the ciurcit ready in time.


Sleeper, if you let Tilke or anyone of his ilk get within twenty miles of Donnington, I'm going to declare war on the UK and hold you personally accountable.


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http://www.donington-park.co.uk/files/pdf/master_plan.pdf
What?
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Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Thats what they're doing, if they can get the ciurcit ready in time.


LOL Well then....I am brilliant! I could totally be the head of the FIA.

I like the track personally.
EDIT: Visitor you might want to get the troops ready....

Honestly, I don't have the huge beef with Tilke that most do.  I do think he ruined a few good tracks, but I really like his Malaysia, China, and Turkey ones. And I don't know how strict F1 regulations are, (I imagine EXTREMELY) but I really do think he probably does the best he can within the regulations. Though he should stick to new ones and not mess with existing tracks!


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Originally posted by Visitor13 Visitor13 wrote:

Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Thats what they're doing, if they can get the ciurcit ready in time.


Sleeper, if you let Tilke or anyone of his ilk get within twenty miles of Donnington, I'm going to declare war on the UK and hold you personally accountable.

As much as I loath Tilke, he's under strickt instructions to leave the layout of most of the track alone, just changing the Melbourne loop which is a bit micky mouse anyway.
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^ Well thats good. Like I said, he should leave existing tracks alone but I really don't think he's done that bad a job with his brand new created ones. 
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Well, Turkey and Malaysia are great, but Bahrain and China are really boring and he ruined Hockenheim and Fuji.

Le Mans this weekend, really looking forward to it and hope its as good as last years race.
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Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Originally posted by Visitor13 Visitor13 wrote:

Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Thats what they're doing, if they can get the ciurcit ready in time.


Sleeper, if you let Tilke or anyone of his ilk get within twenty miles of Donnington, I'm going to declare war on the UK and hold you personally accountable.

As much as I loath Tilke, he's under strickt instructions to leave the layout of most of the track alone, just changing the Melbourne loop which is a bit micky mouse anyway.


Phew.
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Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Well, Turkey and Malaysia are great, but Bahrain and China are really boring and he ruined Hockenheim and Fuji.

Le Mans this weekend, really looking forward to it and hope its as good as last years race.


I like China, but yea no doubt he ruins existing tracks. Though I wish they didn't go to Fuji. I thought Suzuka was better.


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Originally posted by Visitor13 Visitor13 wrote:

Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Originally posted by Visitor13 Visitor13 wrote:

Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Thats what they're doing, if they can get the ciurcit ready in time.


Sleeper, if you let Tilke or anyone of his ilk get within twenty miles of Donnington, I'm going to declare war on the UK and hold you personally accountable.

As much as I loath Tilke, he's under strickt instructions to leave the layout of most of the track alone, just changing the Melbourne loop which is a bit micky mouse anyway.


Phew.

Have you checked out the link that Dean provided above? The new layout will include the steepest incline in all of F1 (I've been to Donington a few times, that incline is damn steep) and probably some very difficult corners.
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Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Well, Turkey and Malaysia are great, but Bahrain and China are really boring and he ruined Hockenheim and Fuji.

Le Mans this weekend, really looking forward to it and hope its as good as last years race.


I like China, but yea no doubt he ruins existing tracks. Though I wish they didn't go to Fuji. I thought Suzuka was better.

Well, we have Suzuka back this year (yay!) but the rumour is Fuji is thinking of giving up on hosting F1, too expensive to rotate years with Suzuka.
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Hmm, well going to Donnington, back to Suzuka, all my wishes are coming true thus far!
All we need now is the USGP again, (in LaGuna Seca) and I'd be real happy.
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