2009 Formula One Chinese Grand Prix

Kennett Ylitalo · Apr 18, 2009

Anthony Davidson is great as a commentator. Really telling what it feels like to drive those beasts.

Kennett Ylitalo · Apr 18, 2009

Piquet was surprising. 5th in third practice.

Dan Coldrick · Apr 18, 2009

Lewis 3rd, Button 4th

Nice, shame it doesn't mean a thing until quali.

Dan Coldrick · Apr 18, 2009

Kennett Ylitalo said:
Anthony Davidson is great as a commentator. Really telling what it feels like to drive those beasts.

He is good, he's got the experience so it does give us some insight into the F1 cars.

Ramon van Rijn · Apr 18, 2009

Once again nice pre-program at BBC 1

Koray Can · Apr 18, 2009

The Renault guy made it clear that he was done with the diffuser talk. Geez.

Kennett Ylitalo · Apr 18, 2009

VETTEL! Wow, this season is looking fine. And the KERS is dead and buried at the moment. That's too bad but hey, what can you do.. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work so get rid of it.

now for some shuteye..

Koray Can · Apr 18, 2009

Alonso's done very well. Let's see the fuel loads especially for the Brawn's and below.

Jamie Mac · Apr 18, 2009

Agreed that Kers doesn't seem that great right now. If they increase the minimum weight of the cars and up the power they can output it will be a different story.

Sander Hogendoorn · Apr 18, 2009

Weights:

Code:

1. Vettel 644
2. Alonso 637
3. Webber 646.5
4. Barrichello 661
5. Button 659
6. Trulli 664.5
7. Rosberg 650.5
8. Raikkonen 673.5
9. Hamilton 679
10. Buemi 673
11. Heidfeld 679
12. Kovalainen 697
13. Massa 690
14. Glock 652
15. Nakajima 682.7
16. Bourdais 690
17. Piquet 697.7
18. Kubica 659
19. Sutil 648
20. Fisichella 679.5

http://www.fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/f1_media/Documents/chn09_weights.pdf

Damian Henderson · Apr 18, 2009

Driver Weight 1st Stop
1. Vettel 644.0 14
2. Alonso 637.0 12
3. Webber 646.5 15
4. Barichello 661.0 20
5. Button 659.0 20
6. Trulli 664.5 22
7. Rosberg 650.5 17
8. Raikkonen 673.5 25
9. Hamilton 679.0 27
10. Buemi 673.0 25
11. Heidfeld 679.0 27
12. Kovalainen 697.0 33
13. Massa 690.0 31
14. Glock 652.0 17
15. Nakajima 682.7 28
16. Bourdais 690.0 31
17. Piquet 697.9 34
18. Kubica 659.0 20
19. Sutil 648.0 16
20. Fisichella 679.5 27

Code:

Fuel corrected qualifying
Barrichello    34,624
Button        34,733
Trulli        34,844
Vettel        34,910
Webber        35,105
Alonso        35,352
Räikkönen    35,783
Rosberg        35,896
Hamilton    36,096
Buemi        37,032

Kyle Evers · Apr 18, 2009

I was really surprised with Webber's performance in qualifying last night. He did very well.

Steven Palmer · Apr 18, 2009

It's going to be a great fight between the Red Bull's and the Braun cars for the win tomorrow :dance2:

Richard Kay · Apr 18, 2009

What source is that fuel corrected info from Damian? Nice stat that, I like it.

Bram Hengeveld · Apr 19, 2009

Steven Palmer said:
It's going to be a great fight between the Red Bull's and the Braun cars for the win tomorrow :dance2:

Will it be between just those two? Hamilton? Raikonen?

So far it looks that RBR has the best papers, was really impressed today by Webber and ofcourse Vettel. Great to see his enthusiasm after snatching pole in the last lap.

So far this year F1 really surprised me, i hope the enforced some heavy rule changing every year :rotfl:

Kennett Ylitalo said:
Found a proxy but at the moment justin.tv has got the BBC on stream..

Linky?

Kyle Evers · Apr 19, 2009

7 hours until race start!

Which means I will be waking at 3:00am in order to watch the race, and 2:30am if I want to catch the preshow which I think I am.