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[vaptin]

Lewis to get P3 tomorrow please!!

Why are you asking for that and not q3?

[scotty]

Massa is having LOTS of problems, i'm seriously worried about him.

Someone said the McLarens were now ahead of Ferrari, i'd agree with that here to an extent, they seem to be better on circuits with high speed corners. So it may just change back in Canda where it's a bit more stop-start. That said, Alonso is still keeping them pretty honest at any track!

Also, Webber got held up on his fastest lap in FP2. RB still looking ridiculously quick.

[Denthúl]

Another Webber pole would be pretty nice, but hopefully the McLarens have a chance of catching. I'd like to see a team really taking the fight to Red Bull and here the McLaren cars seem to be the ones that would have a chance. Of course, as has become the norm lately, things look competitive in practice but, when it counts in qualifying, Red Bull are just awesome.

I do miss the closeness of 2009's qualifying sessions, particularly in the middle of the season.

[racechick]

Anthony Davison said to watch the speed round turn 8 as thats an indicator of true form. The Red Bulld were (20%?)something lke that faster round there. That doesnt bode well

[Datsun]

Anthony Davison said to watch the speed round turn 8 as thats an indicator of true form. The Red Bulld were (20%?)something lke that faster round there. That doesnt bode well

It was the same with Barcelona at turn 9 (Campsa) supposedly the Red Bulls were a gear up on everyone else and flat-out through the turn...Newey must be feeling pretty chuffed right about now.

[f1ea]

Anthony Davison said to watch the speed round turn 8 as thats an indicator of true form. The Red Bulld were (20%?)something lke that faster round there. That doesnt bode well

Within a tenth-of-a-second of the top four was Fernando Alonso's Ferrari, although the Italian team spent most of the session several seconds off the pace, running heavy fuel. Felipe Massa finished 10th overall after destroying his soft tyres when he spun off in the high-speed turn eight. A bump unsettled the car and he ran wide onto the astroturf, causing him to lose the rear end. He wasn't alone in making a mistake in the 170mph corner, but rather ominously the Red Bulls barely lifted the throttle through it as they exploited their extra downforce and comfortably set the fastest middle-sector times.

seems they are set to dominate again
What i am most confused about is how far ahead of everyone they pop out in Q, and yet for the race and practices they are solid, but not out of this world (regardless of failures). What in the heck are they running in Q

[texasmr2]

What in the heck are they running in Q

A secret formula of RedBull with 100x's the caffiene of regular .

[Hexagram]

What i am most confused about is how far ahead of everyone they (Red Bull) pop out in Q, and yet for the race and practices they are solid, but not out of this world (regardless of failures). What in the heck are they running in Q

Ya . Everyone expected them to walk away with it at Barcelona but you could see after 10 -15 laps that Hamilton and Alonso could sort of hold onto them.

I really hope the FIA doesn't find a strange part on their car that was helping them during Qualifying, like that damper Renault had in 06.

[Denthúl]

This is probably ridiculous, but...could Red Bull have designed their car to suit qualifying conditions better than the race, thinking that with refuelling being banned and one-stop strategies being the norm throughout the season added to the fact that overtaking and even following cars in F1 is difficult the key would be qualifying at the front every race?

I don't think it would really make sense, especially when you look at how they've also dominated the races where they've been out front, but the thought did occur to me as I sat down at the special school this morning.

[EwanM]

This is probably ridiculous, but...could Red Bull have designed their car to suit qualifying conditions better than the race, thinking that with refuelling being banned and one-stop strategies being the norm throughout the season added to the fact that overtaking and even following cars in F1 is difficult the key would be qualifying at the front every race?

I don't think it would really make sense, especially when you look at how they've also dominated the races where they've been out front, but the thought did occur to me as I sat down at the special school this morning.

Suffragette city

[EwanM]

Did anyone else notice that Lewis looks like he is wearing a stud in his ear this weekend?

Is he trying to copy the man in my Avatar the ladies man of F1 (according to Clive James) Christian Danner?

[kerc]

Poor Heikki has been reduced to play golf on his iPhone at his hotel room, according to his Twitter feed.

[f1ea]

This is probably ridiculous, but...could Red Bull have designed their car to suit qualifying conditions better than the race, thinking that with refuelling being banned and one-stop strategies being the norm throughout the season added to the fact that overtaking and even following cars in F1 is difficult the key would be qualifying at the front every race?

I don't think it would really make sense, especially when you look at how they've also dominated the races where they've been out front, but the thought did occur to me as I sat down at the special school this morning.

Yes: Great low fuel pace... not so great full tank pace as seen in practice.

... But
HOW?
(ie what or in what direction could be something so special that the other teams havent been able to match)
Hopefully they teach tomorrow at special school

[Denthúl]

Hopefully they teach tomorrow at special school

You may have misinterpreted. It's a school for students with disabilities and special needs, I was just wasting some time thinking

[RyRy]

So where are people's predictions for qualli???

For this weekend, I have a feeling that McLaren will have it in the bag for several reasons.
1) McLaren cars are not as prone to overheating and failure under the hot weather like Red Bull and if you look in the practice sessions today we saw that Red Bull had issues with overheating (Webbers engine blew, the heat could of made it go) Vettel had issues with water pressure which for this track is vital.
2) Red Bull's qualli speed wont be like before (due to heat, if its cold at silverstone then red bull will dominate unless some other teams make some major aero updates)
3) McLaren have a fully functional, tested and tweaked F-Duct (RWSD as I and Force India like to call it) and have had alot of time to test and perfect it. (For this race speed on those straights could help alot)
4) McLaren's new front wing endplates design is fabulous and will surely be a big helper this weekend.


I'm going for:

Hamilton
Vettel
Button
@@@ Scrap for P4 between Webber, Rosberg and Schumacher @@@
Alonso (might get into the P4 scrap)
Kubica
Massa
Vitaly Petrov
Adrian Sutil