Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2011, Yas Marina Circuit - Race 18/19

Todge said:
Yes he did. He really really did.
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He scored 28 goals that season. Thats pretty much near his own record of 32 goals (I think).

Remember, most sports people will suffer a loss of form during a season. This is actually quite normal. You can't expect any sportsman to maintain top form, year after year, month after month. Its possible that Rooney went through a "slight" loss of form, as a matter of course. I'm not familiar with his personal life, so I can't really go in-depth, with regards to Rooney. I'm sure there are many people who live and breathe football, man utd and Rooney, so I wouldn't want to step on their area of expertise. ;)
 
sunama said:
Please name me another driver, who has basically fallen apart due to problems in his personal life.
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James Hunt would probably be the best-known example? Champion in '76, spiralling down into drink, drug use and sex with anything in a short skirt. Mind you, he was already heavily involved in those even when he was winning....:D
 
Rooney's form dipped massively following injury and personal problems. I fully believe he went through a similar thing as Hamilton is now with the poor form at the WC, plus the whole wanting to leave Man Utd episode. He was also probably badly advised, and by the sounds of it Hamilton's current management aren't helping him out a great deal either.

Anyone who thinks an F1 driver can't be affected by life is delusional, also I'm not sure how many other drivers have had relationship breakups with long-standing partners or difficulties with their own father to deal with. Plus, lets not forget, Hamilton is in the spotlight more than any other driver even when things are going well. The pressure from everything on and off track has probably built up for several seasons to a point where he's effectively cracked, and now will probably find it easier to rebuild for next season because of it.

Anyway, FP2...
 
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FP1 results

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[b]Pos  Driver                Team                    Time              Laps[/b]
 1.  Jenson Button         McLaren-Mercedes        1m40.263s           21
 2.  Mark Webber           Red Bull-Renault        1m40.389s  + 0.126  26
 3.  Lewis Hamilton        McLaren-Mercedes        1m40.403s  + 0.140  27
 4.  Sebastian Vettel      Red Bull-Renault        1m40.755s  + 0.492  27
 5.  Fernando Alonso       Ferrari                 1m40.801s  + 0.538  25
 6.  Felipe Massa          Ferrari                 1m41.260s  + 0.997  17
 7.  Adrian Sutil          Force India-Mercedes    1m41.340s  + 1.077  23
 8.  Nico Rosberg          Mercedes                1m42.130s  + 1.867  26
 9.  Paul di Resta         Force India-Mercedes    1m42.151s  + 1.888  28
10.  Jaime Alguersuari     Toro Rosso-Ferrari      1m42.377s  + 2.114  26
11.  Jean-Eric Vergne      Toro Rosso-Ferrari      1m42.633s  + 2.370  26
12.  Romain Grosjean       Renault                 1m42.685s  + 2.422  29
13.  Vitaly Petrov         Renault                 1m43.118s  + 2.855  13
14.  Pastor Maldonado      Williams-Cosworth       1m43.255s  + 2.992  29
15.  Michael Schumacher    Mercedes                1m43.389s  + 3.126  24
16.  Sergio Perez          Sauber-Ferrari          1m44.412s  + 4.149  28
17.  Kamui Kobayashi       Sauber-Ferrari          1m44.484s  + 4.221  18
18.  Heikki Kovalainen     Lotus-Renault           1m44.565s  + 4.302  27
19.  Jarno Trulli          Lotus-Renault           1m44.898s  + 4.635  25
20.  Tonio Liuzzi          HRT-Cosworth            1m46.385s  + 6.122  28
21.  Daniel Ricciardo      HRT-Cosworth            1m46.532s  + 6.269  27
22.  Timo Glock            Virgin-Cosworth         1m48.024s  + 7.761  20
23.  Robert Wickens        Virgin-Cosworth         1m48.551s  + 8.288  23
24.  Rubens Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth                            3


FP2 in 20 mins :)
 
tummelv said:
What happened there flibster? Just caught the end of the story.
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Natalie and Ted were getting into their BBC tech gear for the broadcast.

Ted was wearing shorts and sandals and was told to change out of the sandals. So he was going to change to boots, and as such had to put some trousers on.

Natalie turned her back to allow him some privacy and then they both got very wet. :eek:

The area where they were changing, was directly below Vettel's private room in the red bull facility. :D
 
Flappy Felipe returns.

For those not watching they've got Paul Hembrey from Pirelli in the comms box. Hes said that they're keeping the tyre colouring system again next year, but they're devising ways to make them more obvious. He's also said that they're testing a system (involving RFID I assume) where the type of tyre on the car is detected as the car leaves the pitlane, which will enable FOM to add the type of tyre the car is on to the on-screen graphics.
 
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Flibster said:
Natalie and Ted were getting into their BBC tech gear for the broadcast.

Ted was wearing shorts and sandals and was told to change out of the sandals. So he was going to change to boots, and as such had to put some trousers on.

Natalie turned her back to allow him some privacy and then they both got very wet. :eek:

The area where they were changing, was directly below Vettel's private room in the red bull facility. :D
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Oh my! :o
 
Can see the intake on the Merc front wing F-duct on the middle center of the nose. I think it was using air from the very front of the nose before?
 
Big lap from Alonso — not sure if the other guys are on the experimental softs or not though.

I'm watching with the sounds off. :p

*Edit* and Webber's spun it!
 
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