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

[Duke]

Thursday pics - http://www.formula1.com/gallery/race/2013/894/general/thursday.html

 

[Shimmy]

Currently tanking it down in KL, as per usual.

If this happens again on Sunday we'll be seeing the Marquees return

 

[GravyMonster]

But is that for race/fp time?
You can't just look at normall weather forecast. As it will rain over there. However that doesn't mean it'll actually rain durying the race/practice times.

Yeah, that was for ~4PM local time according to the BBC weather site for Kuala Lumpur

 

[~Mike~]

Currently tanking it down in KL, as per usual.

If this happens again on Sunday we'll be seeing the Marquees return

 

[arknor]

Still early in the week for this, but BBC predicting:

Fri: Rain / thunder storms
Sat: Rain / slightly less thunder storms
Sun: Rain / thunder storms

Hope the red flag man is warming up.

isn't that the usual Malaysia forecast because the weather is so unpredictable ?

 

[Shimmy]

isn't that the usual Malaysia forecast because the weather is so unpredictable ?

Malaysian weather is extremely predictable, it's the same every day of the year!

Spa is what I class as unpredictable.

 

[Greboth]

Still early in the week for this, but BBC predicting:

Fri: Rain / thunder storms
Sat: Rain / slightly less thunder storms
Sun: Rain / thunder storms

Hope the red flag man is warming up.

With that much rain predicted the red flag man could end up looking like this

 

[Kimi]

Looks like Mclaren are running the old car in China, reckon they will be out of the top 10 here

 

[Tenzo]

Looks like Mclaren are running the old car in China, reckon they will be out of the top 10 here

In practice to compare, or actually in the race?

I thought Titmarsh had stated they would focus on the 2013 car and disregarded using the old one?

edit: He does - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/21858251

 

[Kimi]

I cant really say but its just a rumor i heard, to be raced as the 27b

 

[Shimmy]

Looks like Mclaren are running the old car in China, reckon they will be out of the top 10 here

Where have you read that? In fact it contradicts most of what I've read.

In other news, more Lotus humour.

 

[Nismo]

Better hashtag than the #imsexyandiknowit their Twitter feed was putting out all the time, actually got annoyed seeing that so often

 

[~Mike~]

Looks like Mclaren are running the old car in China, reckon they will be out of the top 10 here

Source?

 

[Kimi]

Cant give a link, i know a couple of people in different teams, again cant say which but thats what i was told, ill find out more later, if its more than 1.5 off the pace tho, hes probably right

 

[sunama]

Why don't the organisers start the race at 1PM (local time)?
This way, even if the race is delayed by upto 4 hours, at some point, we get to see a 2 hour race, before 7PM.

By starting the race at 4PM, they are encouraging an incomplete race.

 

[Tenzo]

Cant give a link, i know a couple of people in different teams, again cant say which but thats what i was told, ill find out more later, if its more than 1.5 off the pace tho, hes probably right

This needs more sauce !

 

[Kimi]

What time does it rain over there? they are probably trying to spice up the show

 

[JeditOjanen]

Why don't the organisers start the race at 1PM (local time)?
This way, even if the race is delayed by upto 4 hours, at some point, we get to see a 2 hour race, before 7PM.

By starting the race at 4PM, they are encouraging an incomplete race.

Race duration is hard capped at four hours including red flag periods.

 

[~Mike~]

Why don't the organisers start the race at 1PM (local time)?
This way, even if the race is delayed by upto 4 hours, at some point, we get to see a 2 hour race, before 7PM.

By starting the race at 4PM, they are encouraging an incomplete race.

It's FOM (Bernie) for European TV coverage.

 

[Mr Men]

What time does it rain over there? they are probably trying to spice up the show

4pm local time