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

Button doesn't actually do that well on a full wet track - I'd favour hamilton, alonso or schumacher in that situation.

But when the rain stops and a dry line starts to form, the guy is a legend.

The last time MSc was legendary on a wet track was...erm...I can't remember - maybe 10 years ago. He was ok at Canada 2011, though that wasn't totally soaked.

Hamilton - the guy has either been "reduced" OR is going through an unusually long spell of bad (race) form.

Alonso - in the wet, in arguably the most difficult car to drive - I cannot see how Alonso can win on a damp or wet track.

That leaves Button.
 
The back end on the Ferrari in dry let alone wet :eke: I would expect Ferrari to lose massively if it was wet. With midfield teams improving, wet tracks as they say are an equaliser. Except if the rear ends got no grip anyway.
 
The back end on the Ferrari in dry let alone wet :eke: I would expect Ferrari to lose massively if it was wet. With midfield teams improving, wet tracks as they say are an equaliser. Except if the rear ends got no grip anyway.

they would win the spinning race hands down :D
 
If it does end up being wet, especially all weekend as it looks at the moment, it will be pretty hard to predict, could see some big upsets, especially as it's still so early in the season and the teams and drivers don't have much wet info yet.

Just hope it doesn't end up getting red flagged.
 
The last time MSc was legendary on a wet track was...erm...I can't remember - maybe 10 years ago. He was ok at Canada 2011, though that wasn

lol okay.... he was the fastest person on the track and if you were watching live timing you would have saw him going purple in every sector , he was catching vettel and then the track started to dry and once a dry line apeared the true merc pace showed its ugly head

buttons laptimes looked slow compared to schumachers...
 
everyone will probably have extra cooling here , i reckon redbull will have to turn their engine mode down for the race and there kers will probably overheat.

merc had the exhaust gills on display in AUS
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i guess thats mercs cooling package for malaysia
 
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lol okay.... he was the fastest person on the track and if you were watching live timing you would have saw him going purple in every sector , he was catching vettel and then the track started to dry and once a dry line apeared the true merc pace showed its ugly head

buttons laptimes looked slow compared to schumachers...

If memory serves me correct, I believe Merc said that they gambled on a wet race. As such they put on a wet setup. While RBR and McLaren had gone for an "in-between" setup.

What this meant was that in the wet, the Merc was indeed fast. But the moment it started to dry, the RBR and McLaren cars were much much faster and MSc got eaten up.

Would MSc be able to beat Button in a wet race, fair and square?
I think it is has been proved beyond reasonable doubt (over the last few years), that moment the track is wet, Button, for whatever reason, begins to move up places. When Hamilton hadn't been "broken", he would beat Button almost every time in a dry race, but in the wet races, Button was the boss. For evidence of this see the first 4 races of 2010 (2 of them were wet and Button was leading the title race...we then hit the dry races and Hamilton usurped him).

If you check every single wet race over the last 2 years, comparing Button with MSc - there is no comparison...Button has an uncanny method of moving up the field. MSc does not possess this ability.

Don't get me wrong, in his first career, MSc was daddy of F1. He was the man to beat. Even when Alonso beat him in 2005, MSc was still the daddy. But the moment Alonso beat him in 2006, MSc knew the game was up and decided to call it quits...the mantle had passed on. In his 2nd career, MSc is not the same driver he was 10 years ago.
 
I don't know what's worse. Filming them selves in the first place without thinking it will end up on the internet, or acting all shocked when it inevitably does.

The least they could do is make a decent video though ;)
 
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