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Driver of the day ?

Sebastian Vettel
7
70%
Mark Webber
3
30%
Jenson Button
0
No votes
Rubens Barrichello
0
No votes
Heikki Kovalainen
0
No votes
Lewis Hamilton
0
No votes
Timo Glock
0
No votes
Sebastien Buemi
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 10

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Post by Ed » Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:22 pm

Now Button goes fastest with a 1:35.679

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Post by Ed » Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:24 pm

14 drivers on the track now. Just 5 minutes remaining

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Post by Ed » Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:25 pm

16 drivers on the track.

The lap times in general are slower and a few cars are running the medium compound

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Post by Ed » Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:26 pm

Rosberg sets the fastest time in S1!

18 cars on the track

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Post by Ed » Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:27 pm

Rosberg moves into second with a 1:35.704. Just 0.025 seconds off!

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Post by Ed » Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:30 pm

Sutil spins but recovers and the session comes to an end

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Post by Ed » Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:33 pm

So the order at the end of the session:

Button (1:35.679), Rosberg (+0.025), Barrichello, Webber, Vettel, Trulli, Nakajima, Glock, Kovalainen (+0.995), Bourdais, Sutil, Massa, Hamilton, Raikkonen, Buemi, Piquet, Kubica, Heidfeld, Alonso and Fisichella.

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Post by Julian Mayo » Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:45 pm

If Flavio's description of the Brawn drivers is accurate, imagine what a couple of real pilots could do...................... :shock: :shock:
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Post by Snowy » Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:27 pm

Flavio doesn't always say what he really thinks, say what he really means or thinks, full stop. Whilst it would be convenient to suppose that Jenson and Ruben's are journey men, the fact of the matter is that both have shown slivers of brilliance in the past. Over the past decade - longer in Rubens case - if it were raining and you couldn't have Schuey in the car you would have wanted Jenson or Rubens and been envious of the teams that had them.
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Post by Julian Mayo » Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:33 pm

Snowy wrote:Flavio doesn't always say what he really thinks, say what he really means or thinks, full stop. Whilst it would be convenient to suppose that Jenson and Ruben's are journey men, the fact of the matter is that both have shown slivers of brilliance in the past. Over the past decade - longer in Rubens case - if it were raining and you couldn't have Schuey in the car you would have wanted Jenson or Rubens and been envious of the teams that had them.
When it comes to rain, I want Webbo in my car. Was it not here that he did some amazing laps in a barge of a jag, to put it on the front row.............my memory may be a tad tatty from too long in the bush, but that's what I recall. 8)
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Post by Snowy » Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:18 pm

Mark is very good in the wet, has upheld the rather odd tradition of Aussies being wet weather specialists and has many other fine qualities but I stand by what I said. :roll:

Jenson apparently turned his nose up at an offer of a drive from "Flav the impala" this year. So that probably goes part way to explaining his rather embittered attack. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. :twisted:
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Post by GhoGho » Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:56 pm

While Mark Jensen and RB are all undoubtedly quick in the wet, and FA is is no slouch either, the one that really impresses me is the young Sebastian Vettel!
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Post by Julian Mayo » Sat Apr 18, 2009 6:48 am

Yup, everything about him says future champion. Unfortunately he reminds me very much of Jochen Rindt, who went out of his way to give time to a certain impressionable young teenager on several occasions.
Still, thats something the head doctors can play with when they come to change my nice white coat next week. :fly2:
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Post by Ed » Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:01 pm

Saturday practice session underway, air temperature is 22 degrees and track temperature is 33 degrees.

15 cars on the track

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Post by Ed » Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:03 pm

Rosberg is off in the gravel on his way into the pits! Similar to were Hamilton got stuck two years ago!

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