Australia: Free Practice 3
Alrighty, it’s a new day and we’re back with more live comment, chat and opinion on the wonder that is free practice. This third session of the weekend is slightly shorter, running 60 minutes in length.
Our friends at ITV have unwisely chosen not to broadcast this particular session so we’re running with blinkers on at the moment, Steven Roy’s on the case though. If anyone has visuals, please do keep us up to speed.
Live timing is, as ever, available on the official site.
Shout if you’re up and about, and don’t forget we’re featuring the best comments and insight on our daily podcasts. The show covering Free Practice 1 & 2 can be listened to here.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:49 pmme said:
engine and gearbox rules apply as of now. any failures result in 10 and 5 place drops respectively.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:00 amChristine said:
It’s started!
March 15th, 2008 at 12:03 amChristine said:
So, half the people came out, then they all went back in again.
Just x2 Red Bull’s now.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:04 amChristine said:
Make that one Red Bull.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:04 amme said:
not the same without TV coverage, is it?
March 15th, 2008 at 12:04 amChristine said:
Make that no Red Bulls.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:06 amlou said:
Why not show the coverage? when they now show everything else? it makes no sense!
March 15th, 2008 at 12:08 amChristine said:
Maybe they have to use a different setup for the simulcasting thing and can’t do both on the same day.
Not that I’m making excuses for ITV, of course.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:10 amme said:
wow, this could be a boring session if teams are going all conservative on us?
March 15th, 2008 at 12:10 amlou said:
March 15th, 2008 at 12:11 amlou said:
ooo davison and bourdais are out!
March 15th, 2008 at 12:12 amme said:
ok
some ontrack action
March 15th, 2008 at 12:13 amme said:
hamilton did a sighter lap. laid down some rubber in his pit box.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:14 amSteven Roy said:
If anyone can read Portuguese have a look at http://redeglobo.globo.com/ TV Globo are showing this session live in Brazil but I can’t find an internet feed on their site
March 15th, 2008 at 12:14 amme said:
this work for anyone:
http://www.tvlizer.com/content/view/203/335/
not on my mac, but christine’s is streaming nicely.
we may be onto something here…
March 15th, 2008 at 12:15 amme said:
will do
March 15th, 2008 at 12:16 amme said:
bourdais seems to be doing a fab job, compared to his teammate.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:17 amSteven Roy said:
Don’t bother with Globo. I got the time zone wrong
March 15th, 2008 at 12:17 amme said:
glock on the grass and kovi off the track.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:19 amme said:
righto, was just subscribing
glock’s off the track again!
March 15th, 2008 at 12:20 amlou said:
erm it works but is very distorted.
but i can stil hear it!
March 15th, 2008 at 12:21 amme said:
massa tops times with a 27.7.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:22 amme said:
alonso straight into first position, a blinding lap. kimi jumps him immediately.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:23 amme said:
alonso follows up with two purple sectors.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:25 amme said:
lewis runs wide. currently sitting in last place.
kimi has a box full of neutrals.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:26 amFelipeLeite said:
I’m in Brazil. Rede Globo is not broadcasting this session not even in cable tv.
But this is odd, because usually they do broadcast all free practices on cable tv and qualifying and race on open tv.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:28 amme said:
with nearly half the session gone, massa has currently done the most laps (9), but sits in 6th position.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:28 amFelipeLeite said:
I’ve heard that http://www.tvtuga.com/content/view/203/335/ is broadcasting this session. But it seems to have a poor quality.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:29 amme said:
hi felipeleite, cheers for the info. wonder why that is?
March 15th, 2008 at 12:30 amChristine said:
It’s quite fun trying to match the blurry blobs of colour to the action on live timing.
Some kind of intelligence test, I think.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:32 amSteven Roy said:
Thanks Felipe.
I saw the Globo schedule and forgot about the time difference to Brazil.
Hamilton now P4
March 15th, 2008 at 12:32 amme said:
piquet doing a worse job than kovi did on his renault debut last year.
flav’s gonna have a lot to say about this
March 15th, 2008 at 12:32 amChristine said:
What’s his excuse gonna be this time? “His sister was driving.”
March 15th, 2008 at 12:33 amme said:
waaaay ahead of kovi
March 15th, 2008 at 12:35 amFelipe Leite said:
I dunno. Maybe because it’s prime time around here (9:30pm).
Globo has two sports channel on cable. One is broadcasting a live volleyball game, and the other one is broadcasting a live football game from south american “Champions League”, but no brazilian team is playing. Rubbish :p
March 15th, 2008 at 12:36 amChristine said:
Trulli’s only done two laps so far.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:38 amChristine said:
Coulthard is five freaking seconds off the pace. But he’s only done four laps, so maybe he has a problem?
Webber’s in 11th, not quite as stellar as yesterday.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:38 amme said:
hamilton purple in final sector. BIG time coming up…
March 15th, 2008 at 12:39 amFelipe Leite said:
P1 for Raikkonen!
March 15th, 2008 at 12:39 amFelipe Leite said:
Just 4ms ahead of Alonso…
March 15th, 2008 at 12:39 amme said:
not this time, but alonso goes purple in the 3rd too. that part of the track must be coming to the drivers now.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:40 amChristine said:
I’m thinking that either the Ferrari pit wall are lousy, or the guys are so quick that they keep catching up to people on their fast laps.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:43 amSteven Roy said:
DC P5
March 15th, 2008 at 12:43 amSteven Roy said:
Trulli P4
March 15th, 2008 at 12:44 amChristine said:
Trulli pops into 4th??
March 15th, 2008 at 12:44 amme said:
wow, pulled that one from nothing. impressive.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:46 amme said:
VETTEL pulls out a purple sector? followed by green.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:46 amme said:
top of the board!!
March 15th, 2008 at 12:48 amSteven Roy said:
Vettel P1
Webber P2
March 15th, 2008 at 12:48 amme said:
fissi 2nd??? big guns are all in the pits. presumably we’ll be expecting a massive jostle in the dying moments?
March 15th, 2008 at 12:49 amme said:
crazy days as the fif1 car puts in another purple sector.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:50 amme said:
who’s renault’s reserve driver???
March 15th, 2008 at 12:50 amSteven Roy said:
Button P4
March 15th, 2008 at 12:51 amChristine said:
Woohooooo Go Button!!
I don’t care how artificial it is, it’s good to see Button in 4th.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:52 amlou said:
BUTTON 4th!!!
yay!
March 15th, 2008 at 12:52 amFelipe Leite said:
Lucas di Grassi. Another brazilian, runner up in GP2 last year… Not a chance for him to replace Piquet IMHO.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:53 amSteven Roy said:
Rosberg P1 0.5s faster than anyone
March 15th, 2008 at 12:55 amme said:
dunno, flav doesn’t look too pleased!
March 15th, 2008 at 12:55 amChristine said:
Bundle!!!
March 15th, 2008 at 12:55 amSteven Roy said:
Hamilton 2 green sectors
March 15th, 2008 at 12:56 amSteven Roy said:
Alonso purple in sector 1 ??
March 15th, 2008 at 12:57 amme said:
impressive in that car. P1.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:58 amSteven Roy said:
Heidfeld now purple in sector 1
Guess the rubber is getting on the track now
March 15th, 2008 at 12:59 amme said:
BMW showing their hand!
March 15th, 2008 at 12:59 amSteven Roy said:
Humidity has gone up 10%. That will improve lap times every time
March 15th, 2008 at 1:01 amSteven Roy said:
Button purple in sector 2 ???????????
March 15th, 2008 at 1:02 amme said:
odd. not great in 1 or 3 though, bad car setup?
March 15th, 2008 at 1:06 amFelipe Leite said:
Well, I guess we can’t take a session like this too seriously. The best Ferrari/Mclaren finished in 11th.
March 15th, 2008 at 1:06 amme said:
session ends kubica up front.
i really enjoyed after the worryingly slow start. lord knows what ITV were thinking not showing it, but it least we saw something.
March 15th, 2008 at 1:06 amme said:
f1 poker
March 15th, 2008 at 1:08 amSteven Roy said:
I guess it is all about being on track at the right time. The humidity chart looks like a spike. It no sooner hit 58% till it started dropping again. So there was a very short optimum time.
March 15th, 2008 at 1:10 amme said:
will have to keep an eye on that during qually. strange that none of the big guns were in the zone though.
March 15th, 2008 at 1:16 amSteven Roy said:
Sometimes you see something in F1 which defies belief. The top 6 speeds at the speed trap were
Massa
Raikkonen
Coulthard
Hamilton
Webber
SUTIL
How can Sutil be doing the same top speed as Webber and be 1km/h slower than Hamilton?
March 15th, 2008 at 1:18 amme said:
i guess the car is suffering balance issues, maybe? so they’ve flattened the aero profile giving a higher top speed but less stability.
it does look a handful.
March 15th, 2008 at 2:19 amlou said:
itv coverage is just about to start if anyone is about. i was planning on sleeping before hand but it never really happened just spent the evening on various f1 sites!
March 15th, 2008 at 2:22 amChristine said:
Lou, I slept much too briefly and I really wish I hadn’t. Sometimes it just makes it worse!
March 15th, 2008 at 2:26 amlou said:
March 15th, 2008 at 3:05 amopenwheel said:
missed the whole session in the US what was the order??? anyone