Italian Grand Prix 2012, Monza - Race 13/20

not much practice cover in here today, theres normaly a bit of banter going on.

top 5 for fp2

hamilton
button
alonso
massa
rosberg

hamilton and rosberg seperated by 0.15s, mite be close for quali.
 
I only got to see 30 mins of FP2 at the beginning, will be watching the P3 onwards though all the way :)

FP2 Times

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[b]Pos  Driver              Car                   Time       Gap       Laps[/b]
 1.  Lewis Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes      1m25.290s            32
 2.  Jenson Button       McLaren-Mercedes      1m25.328s  + 0.038s  35
 3.  Fernando Alonso     Ferrari               1m25.348s  + 0.058s  17
 4.  Felipe Massa        Ferrari               1m25.430s  + 0.140s  43
 5.  Nico Rosberg        Mercedes              1m25.446s  + 0.156s  41
 6.  Kimi Raikkonen      Lotus-Renault         1m25.504s  + 0.214s  42
 7.  Paul di Resta       Force India-Mercedes  1m25.546s  + 0.256s  40
 8.  Nico Hulkenberg     Force India-Mercedes  1m25.547s  + 0.257s  36
 9.  Sergio Perez        Sauber-Ferrari        1m26.068s  + 0.778s  32
10.  Michael Schumacher  Mercedes              1m26.094s  + 0.804s  38
11.  Mark Webber         Red Bull-Renault      1m26.104s  + 0.814s  35
12.  Jerome d'Ambrosio   Lotus-Renault         1m26.157s  + 0.867s  36
13.  Sebastian Vettel    Red Bull-Renault      1m26.394s  + 1.104s  31
14.  Pastor Maldonado    Williams-Renault      1m26.404s  + 1.114s  42
15.  Daniel Ricciardo    Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m26.724s  + 1.434s  33
16.  Kamui Kobayashi     Sauber-Ferrari        1m26.730s  + 1.440s  17
17.  Bruno Senna         Williams-Renault      1m26.783s  + 1.493s  39
18.  Heikki Kovalainen   Caterham-Renault      1m26.841s  + 1.551s  39
19.  Jean-Eric Vergne    Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m26.864s  + 1.574s  36
20.  Vitaly Petrov       Caterham-Renault      1m27.222s  + 1.932s  36
21.  Timo Glock          Marussia-Cosworth     1m27.944s  + 2.654s  36
22.  Charles Pic         Marussia-Cosworth     1m27.968s  + 2.678s  36
23.  Pedro de la Rosa    HRT-Cosworth          1m28.575s  + 3.285s  34
24.  Narain Karthikeyan  HRT-Cosworth          1m28.779s  + 3.489s  21

Looking very nice for Mclaren and Ferrari at the moment. Force India also quick. Red Bull struggling.

Report - http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/102309
 
Panzerbjorn said:
Why were they (BBC 5 Live) talking about Msc's repaired box in FP1?

They made it sound like if he replaced it he would get a penalty...
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Gearbox needs to last 5 races in a row, the FIA count the race as an event starting on Saturday FP3, so MS would need to put the box he used in Spa in tomorrow and if it was not fixed then would get a penalty.

If you don't finish the previous race then you can change the gearbox without penalty, so Alonso is getting a new one tomorrow anyway after the Spa DNF.
 
Mr Men said:
Gearbox needs to last 5 races in a row, the FIA count the race as an event starting on Saturday FP3, so MS would need to put the box he used in Spa in tomorrow and if it was not fixed then would get a penalty.

If you don't finish the previous race then you can change the gearbox without penalty, so Alonso is getting a new one tomorrow anyway after the Spa DNF.
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Gotcha, this is what confused me from FP1:

BBC Live Text said:
BBC Sport's chief F1 writer Andrew Benson at Monza:
"Michael Schumacher has a bit of a shadow hanging over him here. He lost sixth gear in the closing stages of the Belgian Grand Prix, which damaged the internals of the gearbox. Team boss Ross Brawn said on Thursday that they did not expect to have to change it and incur a five-place grid penalty, but that message to Schumacher from his engineer to 'short-shift' is a reminder that he has to be careful with it for a little while."
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So I assumed he was running his repaired race box in FP1 not a practice box.
 
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