Australian Grand Prix 2011, Albert Park Circuit - Race 1/19

Hastarius · 27 Mar 2011 at 09:45

That was hilarious, I do like Red Bulls after parties

Flibster · 27 Mar 2011 at 09:46

Aaaah, the classic F1 tradition. Receive cake, get cake in face.

That may be one of the last times they interview Vettel live.

Psycho Ned · 27 Mar 2011 at 09:46

Lol Vettel is gonna get DC the sack if he ain't careful making innuendo and now swearing!!

Ceryndrion · 27 Mar 2011 at 09:46

oooh naughty word from vettel there...

Azza · 27 Mar 2011 at 09:46

Did he just say ****? Or was that my hearing?

therealnerd2 · 27 Mar 2011 at 09:46

Vettel's brilliant. Swearing and ... was that a white liquid joke?

Flibster · 27 Mar 2011 at 09:48

therealnerd2 said:
Vettel's brilliant. Swearing and ... was that a white liquid joke?

Given that he said that it wasn't chocolate and as you get older it gets harder to keep things in, I think it's more to do with the word he said later.

therealnerd2 · 27 Mar 2011 at 09:49

Flibster said:
Given that he said that as you get older it gets harder to keep things in, I think it's more to do with the word he said later.

ahh i see. But how did that get on his face?

Flibster · 27 Mar 2011 at 09:50

Get rid of tarmac runoffs, add more grass and gravel. Or even just taller kerbs or speed bumps.

Leave the track - get a punishment.

Flibster · 27 Mar 2011 at 09:50

therealnerd2 said:
ahh i see. But how did that get on his face?

Could have been Horners? Got to keep the boss happy. :eek:

deuse · 27 Mar 2011 at 09:51

So vettel had all four wheels off the track when he overtook Button but never got a drive through!

therealnerd2 · 27 Mar 2011 at 09:51

Flibster said:
Get rid of tarmac runoffs, add more grass and gravel. Or even just taller kerbs or speed bumps.

Leave the track - get a punishment.

The thing about tarnac runoffs, is they keep more cars in the race, battling, for longer.

If button hadn't had that runoff route, there may well have been carnage.

madindehead · 27 Mar 2011 at 09:51

I must admit, I am very happy with the progress that McLaren have made with their car! Excellent result from Hamilton (hope it sticks), shame about Button however.

Glaucus · 27 Mar 2011 at 09:53

Spiked run offs needed, i do get annoyed, drivers crash but due to run offs no damage.

mmj_uk · 27 Mar 2011 at 09:54

therealnerd2 said:
If button hadn't had that runoff route, there may well have been carnage.

He would have simply braked and got in behind Massa, he went off purely because Alonso would have had a run at him.

BTW the F1 forum has been about 10 times more entertaining than the actual race.

Glaucus · 27 Mar 2011 at 09:55

therealnerd2 said:
If button hadn't had that runoff route, there may well have been carnage.

Thats what we need.

Flibster · 27 Mar 2011 at 09:56

di Resta. Umm.... He's umm... annoying me.. umm... Maybe it's umm.. his way of umm speaking?

dannyjo22 · 27 Mar 2011 at 09:56

This should be a short title fight. To have that advantage without Kers is game over. I was banking on Red Bull having an unreliable Kers system which would even things up, but they don't even need to run it.

Surely though they need to get used to using it and taking the failures other teams have had over the previous year of using it. Better now when they have a second per lap atleast in hand??

I'm not a fan of the wing but won't write it off just yet. Last year this forum had loads of knee jerk reactions after Bahrain and the season turned out fine.

I think RB have a bigger advantage than last year, which is stunning as a team but gutting to watch the fourth or fith best driver in F1 walk to a title.

Flibster · 27 Mar 2011 at 09:58

twitter people said:
On the BBC's driver tracker software, HRT are currently shown on the 7:15 flight to Heathrow #bbcf1 #f1

Glaucus · 27 Mar 2011 at 09:59

dannyjo22 said:
Surely though they need to get used to using it and taking the failures other teams have had over the previous year of using it. Better now when they have a second per lap atleast in hand??

But how much of that seconds is because they don;t run KERS, Horn has already said Newey would not compromise the car to put kers in and we all know it unbalances the car due to braking. Perhaps KERS is more of a hinderence, as long as you are out in front. As they've had to design KERS to fit around the car, I expect there is a lot of problems with it. Would be interesting to see what times they have if they use it.

Also be nice to see what mclaren can do when they get their proper revision parts and not components thrown together and protected by titanium.