2006 Australian Grand Prix - Race 3/18

//Mike · 2 Apr 2006 at 06:44

I thought that if you retire as a result of an engine failure you are still penalised by 10 places next time around.

Zip · 2 Apr 2006 at 06:44

Flibster said:
Alonso calls over the radio:
I've very relaxed

His engineer:
I'm pretty chilled out myself

Jenson blows up on the last lap - stops 30meters from the line.

Sato pits on lap 57..

Oh we did get that.

Fisi is lucky buttons car didnt cook him

Stellios · 2 Apr 2006 at 06:44

words cant describe how gobsmacked i am at that.

fuz · 2 Apr 2006 at 06:45

Coulthard must be regretting not trying harder to get past Speed now, loses out on a point

Flibster · 2 Apr 2006 at 06:45

Jenson's helmet is going to go flying I think.

Yes Nick - you have a lot of work - for a start you've got to clean all the oily crap out of that car before you know what went **** up.

Raikkonen did the fastest lap of 1:26.045 on lap 57.

Zip · 2 Apr 2006 at 06:45

Good race for BMW

Creature · 2 Apr 2006 at 06:46

Driver of the day then people?

fuz · 2 Apr 2006 at 06:46

JV 6th from 19th on the grid, all about making the most of the misfortune of others

fuz · 2 Apr 2006 at 06:47

Creature said:
Driver of the day then people?

Ralf

Zip · 2 Apr 2006 at 06:47

Creature said:
Driver of the day then people?

Liutzi before jhe sent it into the wall

//Mike · 2 Apr 2006 at 06:48

Zip said:
Liutzi before jhe sent it into the wall

If only for the move on Michael.

Creature · 2 Apr 2006 at 06:48

fuz said:
Ralf

Good, so i'm not the only one who thinks that.

Stormrider · 2 Apr 2006 at 06:48

Well Ralfs the last person I thought would be third on the podium. Especially after having a drive through.

Flibster · 2 Apr 2006 at 06:48

//Mike said:
I thought that if you retire as a result of an engine failure you are still penalised by 10 places next time around.

I believe so...

If the cause of failure is the engine you should get penalised.
If it's anything other than the engine then you're in the clear.

Will check the regs later. Enjoying the A1GP at the moment.

Team GBR is only 3 seconds behind Malaysia and Darren mannign is going for it.

But Alex Yoong is the Malaysian Driver.

Also - Verstappen has finally found out how to drive that car properly - he's really having fun in it now.

Creature · 2 Apr 2006 at 06:49

Is it just me who's bored of this anthem now?

Zip · 2 Apr 2006 at 06:50

Creature said:
Is it just me who's bored of this anthem now?

Its a nice change after having the commonwealth games a few weeks ago

//Mike · 2 Apr 2006 at 06:50

Flibster said:
I believe so...

If the cause of failure is the engine you should get penalised.
If it's anything other than the engine then you're in the clear.

I seem to remember in Bahrain (or was it Malysia) that one of the runners blew up, but the official cause of retirement was a Hydraulic failure, allowing them to change the engine penalty free. Could have been Fisi?

Flibster · 2 Apr 2006 at 06:50

R.Schumacher is driver of the day for me.

Car isn't much good, plus he had a drive through...

Still got 3rd.

Stellios · 2 Apr 2006 at 06:51

Creature said:
Is it just me who's bored of this anthem now?

Its about time we had a british anthem playing.

Flibster · 2 Apr 2006 at 06:51

//Mike said:
I seem to remember in Bahrain (or was it Malysia) that one of the runners blew up, but the official cause of retirement was a Hydraulic failure, allowing them to change the engine penalty free. Could have been Fisi?

Yup - Bahrain.