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[Gaz]

Monday: Vettel
Max 16 degC - Partly cloudy

Tuesday: Kovalainen, Piquet, Vettel, Buemi, Hulkenberg
Max 16 degC - Partly cloudy

Wednesday: Kovalainen, Piquet, Webber, Bourdais, Nakajima
Max 16 degC - Sunny

Thursday: Hamilton, Alonso, Vettel, Buemi, Rosberg
Max 18 degC - Sunny

Friday: Hamilton, Alonso, Webber, Bourdais, Nakajima (morning), Rosberg (afternoon)
Max 17 degC - Sunny

[EwanM]

Thursday and Friday are going to be big days. Seem they've got the big hitters out.

[Jabberwocky]

it seems a bit mad to open the circuit for one driver

[EwanM]

it seems a bit mad to open the circuit for one driver

lol not when he got that far either...

[Gaz]

Latest Times

1 Buemi Toro Rosso 01'20''054 30
2 Vettel Red Bull 01'22''397 00'02''343 21
3 Kovalainen McLaren 01'23''313 00'03''259 20
4 Hulkenberg Williams 01'24''695 00'04''641 28
5 Piquet Jr Renault 01'29''066 00'09''012 05


ewww - wtf is with the crap below the nose.


shiney naice


2nd best looking car Mclaren being 1st Red Bull 3rd me thinks.


hiding the defuser.

looks like dc is providing advice with RBR like MS with Ferrari and Mika with Mclaren - although dc looks like hes spying!



RBR looking good

[scotty]

looks like dc is providing advice with RBR like MS with Ferrari and Mika with Mclaren - although dc looks like hes spying!

He's trying out for the next James Bond movie i think - Chin Royale.

[Ferrari man 009]

What i dont get is why other teams dont follow ferrari and toyota in going to Bahrain. Ferrari have doinated the last 2 races there and while the Jerez circuit is a good one, there is no race there so the pace the cars show is not really relavent.

[McLaren Fan]

[Jabberwocky]

it is because Jerez is a more diverse circuit.

Are the brake ducts on the McLaren staying
Renault front looks like a toy from pound land

I think I have a little love wee over the Redbull

[cap-dude]

The Red Bull was fastest first time out. Now thats promising no matter what way you look at it.

On the other hand, I'm thinking Renault may have gotten things completely wrong this year. Aside from the car looking awful, they look slow as well. Either that, or Piquet is gonna be worse than last year.

[scotty]

I've come to the conclusion that Renault must have put that nose on to hide their real one to throw others off... Surely there is no way that one can be anywhere near as aerodynamically effective as the others!?

[iPod]

I've come to the conclusion that Renault must have put that nose on to hide their real one to throw others off... Surely there is no way that one can be anywhere near as aerodynamically effective as the others!?

I will not be surprised if Renault have a completely different nose for Melbourne. And like you said, there is no way that it could possibly be aerodynamically efficient. The only way I could see it being an advantage is to get some more weight at the front. But still, that's what lead weights are for.

[Jabberwocky]

from the look of it there is a lead acid car battery in the nose

[7UpJordan]

Good times from Hulkenberg today, he seems to have stepped up the pace and was just 3 tenths of Vettel on apparently a similar 10 lap stint to Vettel when he posted his best time. The FW31 is running very reliably and it was also carrying an inactive KERS device.

But I'm not going to jump the gun yet, there's still a long long way to go until the first race of the season.

[lucky]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXV0zdkTJ4M