Malaysia Grand Prix 2012, Kuala Lumpur - Race 2/20

arknor said:
whoever takes massas place isnt going to get anywhere near matching alonso anyway, its going to be a career killer for whoever takes massas place
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Exactly.

I think there are some F1 fans who don't realise just how good Alonso is and what a great job he is currently doing. If you put most drivers into Massa's seat, they would struggle. Pretty much every commentator and former driver has stated that the Ferrari is incredibly difficult to drive.

To be 3 tenths off of Alonso's time, is respectable. Massa's problem will come in the race, when Alonso goes more than 0.3s/lap faster than Massa. It's Alonso's race pace which makes Massa look bad.
 
Sky Sports obcessed with Heikki having a gearbox change which give him the 5 place penalty? Come on, it was only a week ago! It was for overtaking people when coming into the pitlane to retire under the safety car.
 
Flibster said:
Sky Sports obcessed with Heikki having a gearbox change which give him the 5 place penalty? Come on, it was only a week ago! It was for overtaking people when coming into the pitlane to retire under the safety car.
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Umm, Having watched Quali it was pretty clear to me that they were referring to Kimi re: GB change, and Heikki was for an incident during the race. Didn't see them get it wrong once?

No idea what you were watching?
 
Alpherah said:
Umm, Having watched Quali it was pretty clear to me that they were referring to Kimi re: GB change, and Heikki was for an incident during the race. Didn't see them get it wrong once?

No idea what you were watching?
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Just rewound it, showing the grid, they mention that Heikki had a penalty for a gearbox change.

Chatting about Kimi's gearbox change after that, they mention that Heikki's gearbox was changed too.

I know it's early, but....
 
Lewis had a pretty big lock up in pole lap.. Does that mean he will be starting on flat spot front left?
 
smr said:
Lewis had a pretty big lock up in pole lap.. Does that mean he will be starting on flat spot front left?
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If the tyre is considered badly damaged it can be changed with another tyre from the drivers returned tyres that has an equivalent amount of wear.
 
sunama said:
Vettel will still thrash Webber in the race. ;)
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Where has this ability for awesome single laps dissapeared to Sunama? Of course though we will see him hammer out mega fast laps at the start to pull out a DRS gap though, right?

They will still get Vettel ahead, split tyre strategy again with no doubt the better strategy favouring Vettel.

Yet again more evidence about having a car you're comfortable in.

Come on Lewis convert that pole!
 
Qualifying Result

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[b]Pos  Driver                Team                 Time         Gap   [/b]
 1.  Lewis Hamilton        McLaren-Mercedes     1m36.219s
 2.  Jenson Button         McLaren-Mercedes     1m36.368s   + 0.149
 3.  Michael Schumacher    Mercedes             1m36.391s   + 0.172
 4.  Mark Webber           Red Bull-Renault     1m36.461s   + 0.242
 5.  Kimi Raikkonen        Lotus-Renault        1m36.461s   + 0.242
 6.  Sebastian Vettel      Red Bull-Renault     1m36.634s   + 0.415
 7.  Romain Grosjean       Lotus-Renault        1m36.658s   + 0.439
 8.  Nico Rosberg          Mercedes             1m36.664s   + 0.445
 9.  Fernando Alonso       Ferrari              1m37.566s   + 1.347
10.  Sergio Perez          Sauber-Ferrari       1m37.698s   + 1.479
Q2 cut-off time: 1m37.477s                                   Gap **
11.  Pastor Maldonado      Williams-Renault     1m37.589s   + 0.874
12.  Felipe Massa          Ferrari              1m37.731s   + 1.016
13.  Bruno Senna           Williams-Renault     1m37.841s   + 1.126
14.  Paul di Resta         Force India-Mercedes 1m37.877s   + 1.162
15.  Daniel Ricciardo      Toro Rosso-Ferrari   1m37.883s   + 1.168
16.  Nico Hulkenberg       Force India-Mercedes 1m37.890s   + 1.175
17.  Kamui Kobayashi       Sauber-Ferrari       1m38.069s   + 1.354
Q1 cut-off time: 1m38.437s                                   Gap *
18.  Jean-Eric Vergne      Toro Rosso-Ferrari   1m39.077s   + 1.905
19.  Heikki Kovalainen     Caterham-Renault     1m39.306s   + 2.134
20.  Vitaly Petrov         Caterham-Renault     1m39.567s   + 2.395
21.  Timo Glock            Marussia-Cosworth    1m40.903s   + 3.731
22.  Charles Pic           Marussia-Cosworth    1m41.250s   + 4.078
23.  Pedro de la Rosa      HRT-Cosworth         1m42.914s   + 5.742
24.  Narain Karthikeyan    HRT-Cosworth         1m43.655s   + 6.483

107% time: 1m43.974s

* Gap to quickest in Q1 ** Gap to quickest in Q2


HRT just scraping in.
 
Really enjoyed that Quali, good result, nicely set up for tomorrow.

Gad to see Schumi in 3rd if he gets a cracking start good be good.

Webber out qualifying Vettel again is a satisfying watch, Vettel's tyre choice is interesting though.

Felt sorry for Kimi, shame he had to switch his gearbox out... Also the sweat was pouring off him in the interview, the Iceman was certainly melting :p
 
Wouldn't at all be surprised to see Vettel do very well tomorrow, unless someone holds him up.

His race pace is good, and the tyre choice could be key. 5th isn't a bad place to be starting.
 
Nismo said:
Wouldn't at all be surprised to see Vettel do very well tomorrow, unless someone holds him up.

His race pace is good, and the tyre choice could be key. 5th isn't a bad place to be starting.
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While I have only been able to see bits of the weekend so far, it looked to me like vettels shift to the harder tyre was more in response to the car being a bit 'dodgy' on the softs rather then a complete strategy shift.
 
Nismo said:
Wouldn't at all be surprised to see Vettel do very well tomorrow, unless someone holds him up.
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He's the best driver on the grid though so we are repeatedly told, he should be able to dispatch anyone in front of him with consummate ease, as anyone would expect from the best driver in the world :p
 
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