Malaysian Grand Prix 2013, Kuala Lumpur - Race 2/19

~Mike~ · 23 Mar 2013 at 08:12

Rybo89 said:
Yeah it is working fine on the laptop.

Just a poop app on Nexus 7.

Are you using SkyGo app or in a browser?

~Mike~ · 23 Mar 2013 at 08:13

Tenzo said:
Mclaren looking much stronger?

Seems some sort of improvement, MB said they had made progress understanding the car. Lets hope so.

Rybo89 · 23 Mar 2013 at 08:16

Mike306 said:
Are you using SkyGo app or in a browser?

Skygo app on the nexus 7.

Doesn't matter now anyway, its on laptop now.

Flibster · 23 Mar 2013 at 08:18

Red Bull not turned everything up to 11 yet? Both well off the pace so far.

gilchrd · 23 Mar 2013 at 08:19

Wow Webber 15th.

the1gooner · 23 Mar 2013 at 08:19

Red bull really struggling here.

drunkenmaster · 23 Mar 2013 at 08:19

Tenzo said:
Mclaren looking much stronger?

Mike306 said:
Seems some sort of improvement, MB said they had made progress understanding the car. Lets hope so.

Brundle is such a donkey, how often do the top guys go relatively easy in Q1 and Q2, get into Q3 and leave the rest behind. Because Button is only 3 tenths off now in Q1 where its mostly only 10th backwards really pushing hard, and while the track is fairly slow in comparison to where it will be end of Q1, he's claiming Mclaren have almost fixed their problems.

Almost every single race Brundle overstates how good someone is doing in Q1 and often Q2, just to see them no where near the fight in Q3. There are going to be odd races where this won't happen and ridiculous temperature tracks is certainly a possibility. I seriously doubt Mclaren are anywhere yet though. Race pace is WAY more important than quali pace, Lotus qualified pretty rubbish last week which apparently is already long since forgotten, and ALonso was pretty cack in qualifying all last year. Mclaren put in fast laps in testing but their race pace looked horrible.

Button was less than a tenth off Vettel in Q1 last week, faster than Vettel in Q2, and 3 seconds behind in Q3.

Here I'd also seriously wonder where the guys think the race is going, if they are expecting a mini monsoon tomorrow and are setup for that, they could look really poor in the dry yet finish laps ahead tomorrow in wet conditions.

deuse · 23 Mar 2013 at 08:20

Was rosberg on hard tires?

~Mike~ · 23 Mar 2013 at 08:21

Red Bulll WOW :confused:

Guerrilla · 23 Mar 2013 at 08:22

Good lap from Bianchi there not far off the Williams.

Tenzo · 23 Mar 2013 at 08:24

deuse said:
Was rosberg on hard tires?

Yes. Merc/Ferrari on hards, Lotus/RBR/force India on Meds

drunkenmaster · 23 Mar 2013 at 08:25

deuse said:
Was rosberg on hard tires?

Ham and Rosberg, and the Ferrari's I believe were on the hard tires, tomorrow though, who knows, the theory is not about going super fast but having three sets of fresh hards for tomorrow, start on mediums, come in early onto hards which will hopefully fall apart less. Obviously the risk there is you use mediums in Q1, q2 and Q3, if you destroy a set in Q2/q3 with a big lock up, you'll be pretty much screwed, either doing a q3 time on used and slower mediums and starting the race on really used tires.

Will be interesting if that happens to anyone, of course rain tomorrow can change the required tyre changes and usage meaning they'd likely have loads of spare tires.

englishpremier · 23 Mar 2013 at 08:27

Bianchi is absolutely raping Chilton. The latter won't last long in F1 at this rate.

deuse · 23 Mar 2013 at 08:28

Tenzo said:
Yes. Merc/Ferrari on hards, Lotus/RBR/force India on Meds

drunkenmaster said:
Ham and Rosberg, and the Ferrari's I believe were on the hard tires, tomorrow though, who knows, the theory is not about going super fast but having three sets of fresh hards for tomorrow, start on mediums, come in early onto hards which will hopefully fall apart less. Obviously the risk there is you use mediums in Q1, q2 and Q3, if you destroy a set in Q2/q3 with a big lock up, you'll be pretty much screwed, either doing a q3 time on used and slower mediums and starting the race on really used tires.

Will be interesting if that happens to anyone, of course rain tomorrow can change the required tyre changes and usage meaning they'd likely have loads of spare tires.

Thanks

Flibster · 23 Mar 2013 at 08:33

Drivers who used hard tyres in Q1:
Ricciardo, Guitierrez, Maldonado and Hulkenberg - These chaps also used a set of mediums.
Rosberg, Hamilton, Perez, Alonso, Massa, Button, Vergne and Bottas only used the harder tyre.

drunkenmaster · 23 Mar 2013 at 08:33

Also worth noting someone might do what I thought more might have done last week, do a slow Q3 lap on hard tyres and start the race on the potentially better race tyre, get into a Sutil like position due to longer first stint, hold people up, ruin their strategy if you can keep them behind, and do a quick stint. They didn't show it but lap times showed Sutil did something on the softs, they weren't slow at the end, he must have either gone off or locked up or something. Its still a potentially very good strategy.

~Mike~ · 23 Mar 2013 at 08:34

Skeeter · 23 Mar 2013 at 08:34

Rain!

drunkenmaster · 23 Mar 2013 at 08:34

Flibster said:
Drivers who used hard tyres in Q1:
Ricciardo, Guitierrez, Maldonado and Hulkenberg - These chaps also used a set of mediums.
Rosberg, Hamilton, Perez, Alonso, Massa, Button, Vergne and Bottas only used the harder tyre.

lol, Bottas didn't use the softer tyre at all... what a great idea... and also had he been on the soft, maybe even Vergne aswell, might have seen Vettel go out

gilchrd · 23 Mar 2013 at 08:34

Here comes the rain.