2005 A1GP Championship - Round 1 - Brands Hatch

[Flibster]

USA have pitted as well...

 

[Flibster]

Germany pits on lap 7.

 

[Byron5184]

Makes F1 look like a bunch of english gentleman having a cup of tea while going 200 MPH

"Lets not overtake and keep it tidy chaps" - Jenson Button

 

[Flibster]

Team GB is right up behind Australia..

0.17 in it...

 

[Flibster]

Jos is shopwing his experience now. - Up to 7th from last!

 

[Creature]

Look at all those skid marks

 

[Flibster]

GB catches a lovely twitch behind the Australia car...

 

[Flibster]

Look at all those skid marks

Can't see inside the cockpits??

 

[rpstewart]

There's no refuelling so all these cars have started with 38 laps worth of fuel so the handling's going to be very different from what they had in the sprint race. It's good to see though, plenty of sliding and twitching!

 

[Flibster]

Brazil is driving away from the rest of them - 8.5second ahead already.

Mexico have pitted.

USA in the pits again - Brand new unpainted nose on it and looked like a suspension change...

 

[clv101]

Urm... so where's all the overtaking then?

 

[Flibster]

Italy and Malaysia pit on lap 10

 

[Flibster]

Urm... so where's all the overtaking then?

Brands Hatch is a bad circuit for overtaking. It's too narrow at the important points and there's no real big braking areas where thats most likely to happen.

 

[Creature]

Brazil now 10.04 seconds ahead of Australia, who are 0.5 ahead of GB.

 

[Flibster]

Team GB still behind Australia - 0.25 now...

 

[Flibster]

Pakistan, Netherlands pit on lap 13

 

[Flibster]

Look at the smoke coming from the brakes...

 

[Byron5184]

WHOA

That was a NASTY crash

 

[Flibster]

WOAH - Italy and Lebanon all over the place -

Lebanon rolling and upside down...

 

[Creature]

Major Ouchage