2006 Bahrain Grand Prix - Race 1/18

//Mike · 11 Mar 2006 at 12:11

There's a post at the start of the thread detailing the changes in Quali.

Stellios · 11 Mar 2006 at 12:11

That was easily the best quali ive seen in ages, hope it follows through into the race.

Arc · 11 Mar 2006 at 12:11

Byron5184 said:
Button fastest hes been in first sector. COME ON BUTTON!!

Not fast enough

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All Ferrari front row with Button in 3rd.

Flibster · 11 Mar 2006 at 12:12

Code:

[b]Pos 	Driver		Session 1	Session 2	Session 3[/b]
1	M.Schumacher	1:33.310	1:32.025	1:31.431
2	Massa		1:33.579	1:32.014	1:31.478
3	Button		1:32.603	1:32.025	1:31.549
4	Alonso		1:32.433	1:31.215	1:31.702
5	Montoya		1:33.233	1:31.487	1:32.164
6	Barrichello	1:33.922	1:32.322	1:32.579
7	Webber		1:33.454	1:32.309	1:33.006
8	Klien		1:34.308	1:32.106	1:33.112
9	Fisichella	1:32.934	1:31.831	1:33.496
10	Heidfeld	1:33.374	1:31.958	1:33.926
11	Villeneuve	1:33.882	1:32.456
12	Rosberg		1:32.945	1:32.620
13	Coulthard	1:33.678	1:32.850
14	Trulli		1:33.987	1:33.006
15	Liuzzi		1:34.439	1:33.416
16	Speed		1:33.995	1:34.606
17	R.Schumacher	1:34.702
18	Albers		1:35.724
19	MOnteiro	1:35.900
20	Sato		1:37.411
21	Ide		1:40.20
22	Raikkonen	NO TIME

//Mike · 11 Mar 2006 at 12:15

I think the Ferraris are running a bit light. It appears as though the McLaren, Renaults and Hondas have a better strategy for tomorrow.

Flibster · 11 Mar 2006 at 12:17

BaZ87 said:
Not a big F1 fan, but watch it occasionally. I struggled to understand qualifying last year but this is even more boggling. Anybody explain whats going on?

Riiight...

Session 1:
All car on track
Low fuel
No tyre restrictions
Slowest 6 cars get knocked out and take positions 22-17
At the end of the 15 mins - any car still on a fast lap - loses that time. Only completed laps count towards session 2

Session 2:
Remaining 16 cars on track
Low fuel
No tyre restrictions
Slowerst 6 cars get knocked out and take positions 11-16
At the end of the 15 mins - any car still on a fast lap - loses that time. Only completed laps count towards session 3

Session 3:
Race fuel
No tyre restrictions
Fastest lap gets pole
Every lap within 10% of their fastest lap gets a FIA allocated amount of fuel that they can put back into the car.
When the 20 mins is up you can finish the lap you are on and have it count.

rpstewart · 11 Mar 2006 at 12:17

Yeah, need to wait until it all pans out. I can't say I was all that impressed with session 3. I need someone to justify the need for race fuel qualifying.

Oh, and I need quick reply back!

Flibster · 11 Mar 2006 at 12:19

rpstewart said:
Yeah, need to wait until it all pans out. I can't say I was ll that impressed with session 3. I need someone to justify the need for race fuel qualifying.

Oh, and I need quick reply back!

Errrr....makes the FIA think that they've achieved something by having the cars ar the back of the first 10 achieve slower lap times than those cars who qualified below them?

Arc · 11 Mar 2006 at 12:19

//Mike said:
I think the Ferraris are running a bit light. It appears as though the McLaren, Renaults and Hondas have a better strategy for tomorrow.

Honda arent doing aswell as they would have hopped. Plenty of testing and lots of running today but they dont seem to have the outright speed thats needed. Renaults look heavier than the Ferraris though.

Think Kimi could be the dark horse tomorrow, plenty of sets of new tyres and any fuel load he wants at the start of the race.

//Mike · 11 Mar 2006 at 12:20

Nice that we see the post-quali press conference!

Arc · 11 Mar 2006 at 12:22

Will be interesting to see how that qual format works on some of the smaller tracks, the traffic could be a nightmare at certain places.

Stormrider · 11 Mar 2006 at 12:24

Great to have drivers complaining about traffic in qualy again

Flibster · 11 Mar 2006 at 12:25

So what if he's equalled senna's record...It's been 11 years that Schumacher has raced that Senna hasn't

Senna - 162 races - 65 poles = 40%
Schumacher - 232 races - 65 Poles = 28%

Sorry - not even in the same league of achievement

//Mike · 11 Mar 2006 at 12:26

Arc said:
Will be interesting to see how that qual format works on some of the smaller tracks, the traffic could be a nightmare at certain places.

I think it will be a disaster at the likes of Monaco, San Marino and possible Indy - Not very many opportunities to pass at the best of times, let alone when there's been a stoppage in the session, with 15 runners on track within a few seconds of eachother all jostling for the best quali position!

We could see some very shaken up grids this year.

Richard T · 11 Mar 2006 at 12:27

Flibster said:
So what if he's equalled senna's record...It's been 11 years that Schumacher has raced that Senna hasn't

Senna - 162 races - 65 poles = 40%
Schumacher - 232 races - 65 Poles = 28%

Sorry - not even in the same league of achievement

plus he's a git!.... not a patch on Senna

Flibster · 11 Mar 2006 at 12:28

Arc said:
Honda arent doing aswell as they would have hopped. Plenty of testing and lots of running today but they dont seem to have the outright speed thats needed. Renaults look heavier than the Ferraris though.

Think Kimi could be the dark horse tomorrow, plenty of sets of new tyres and any fuel load he wants at the start of the race.

I reckon that the Renaults and the McLaren and possibly the Honda's were running heavier.

Fisichalla may engine problems - they turned the revs and mix up and performance went down. :confused:

Wrong way tbh.

Richard T · 11 Mar 2006 at 12:29

Flibster said:
I reckon that the Renaults and the McLaren and possibly the Honda's were running heavier.

I'll give you my opinion when I get home from work and watch the tape...... :mad:

nice commentary though guys!!!

Arc · 11 Mar 2006 at 12:30

Flibster said:
So what if he's equalled senna's record...It's been 11 years that Schumacher has raced that Senna hasn't

Senna - 162 races - 65 poles = 40%
Schumacher - 232 races - 65 Poles = 28%

Sorry - not even in the same league of achievement

Yeah, 7 World Championships to, aint in the same league........

SDK^ · 11 Mar 2006 at 12:30

It's a shame Button got held up on his final fast lap, his last sector was slower than it was the previous lap, otherwise he would have got Pole.
Still, at least he's up there with a car that will certainly win races this year

Richard T · 11 Mar 2006 at 12:31

Arc said:
Yeah, 7 World Championships to, aint in the same league........

Senna's team mates were allowed to race him not like shueys