Marina Bay Circuit -Singapore Grand Prix 2009 - Race 14/17

Glaucus · 25 Sep 2009 at 11:53

FrankJH said:
100m is pretty small fry compared to Toyota, Ferrari and Mclaren (and maybe even Red Bull ) who spend three or four times that per season, even Renault spend quite a huge amount although not compared to the other three (last figure for Renault I can find is just under $400m for 2008 season)
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As said it is way way more than 100m. Honda gave brawn teh car (100's of millions) then paid them a further 100million to run the car.

Glaucus · 25 Sep 2009 at 12:43

Glaucus · 25 Sep 2009 at 13:09

Dutch Guy said:
/Pedantic mode on
The Technical changes in the first post are the old ones from Monza.
/Pedantic mode off

Like they always are.

Glaucus · 26 Sep 2009 at 09:16

Highlights - Singapore GP second practice
Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel sets the fastest time in second practice for the Singapore Grand Prix while team-mate Mark Webber misses most of the session after a crash.

Highlights - Singapore GP first practice
Brawn's Rubens Barrichello sets the fastest time in first practice in Singapore while Renault's Romain Grosjean crashes at Turn 17.

Inside F1 - Singapore GP preview
BBC Sport's Sally Nugent and Andrew Benson present Inside F1, previewing all the weekend's action at the Singapore GP.

Glaucus · 26 Sep 2009 at 14:57

Glaucus · 26 Sep 2009 at 14:59

Stormrider said:
when was that from? (not got BBC coverage here)

on the bbc coverage.

Glaucus · 26 Sep 2009 at 15:10

Stormrider said:
no, when did he get the shard in his eye?

Oh, I assume one of the practice sessions.

Glaucus · 26 Sep 2009 at 15:16

NathanE said:
How did it get through his visor? Well weird.

No idea, this is the 2nd time it has happened. The last time seems to be carbon brake dust rather than a shard. Can't find any news reports on this latest one though.

Glaucus · 26 Sep 2009 at 15:24

well I think badoer must have been doing an outstanding job in that Ferrari. If Fisi can't get into to q2 and he has race experience with this years cars and so so much more experience. It shows badoer was doing a pretty decent job.

Glaucus · 26 Sep 2009 at 15:24

Ceryndrion said:
I'm sure that some of the teams use highly reflective polish, just for this race.. and slightly metallic paint.

Nothing else would explain that 'shine'

I don't know. Those are very bright lights and of course are not the same colour as natural sun. All the cars look amazing here.

Glaucus · 26 Sep 2009 at 15:27

NathanE said:
Rob Smeadley sooo wants to get his Felipe Baby back

Glaucus · 26 Sep 2009 at 15:29

Christo said:
Thats on the back of one race - What about Monza? Wasnt Badoer clean last pretty much every race, ha.

yes both races. and fisi isn't doing much better. remember that fisi has so so much more experience.

Glaucus · 26 Sep 2009 at 15:44

Glaucus · 26 Sep 2009 at 15:44

iviv said:
Oh dear, poor show from Brawn and Ferrari! And Button has the 5 place drop to come as well

you mean Barrichello

Glaucus · 26 Sep 2009 at 16:01

bad to worse for brawn

Glaucus · 26 Sep 2009 at 16:04

TaKeN said:
What a truely awful circuit. Not enjoyable to watch and throughly boring

better than a lot of circuits. At least there's no stupidly long runoffs.

Glaucus · 26 Sep 2009 at 16:05

They have to restart it.

Glaucus · 26 Sep 2009 at 16:10

Glaucus · 27 Sep 2009 at 09:21

Flibster said:
Button was on a very light fuel load and didn't even get into Q3.
Q2 is generally as light as the cars will ever get this season.

but so are all the other cars, so no advantage. Well a disadvantage as brawn cars work better with heavier fuel loads.