Bahrain: Free Practice 1
After a two week break, F1 returns to the track. Much has been said off the circuit these past seven days, but for now we’re offered a brief respite from all the politics, as cars and drivers take to the asphalt once more.
So, what delights do we have in store today then? First up, it goes without saying it’ll be dry but dusty. The track tends to be reasonably grippy from the off, but given the copious amount of run-off area, we can expect plenty of excursions and spins as drivers find their personal limits.
The session starts at 10am local time (8am BST), and will last for 90 minutes. ITV are broadcasting the session over the net, while the official Formula 1 site offers live timing data.
Please do shout if you are up and about at this slightly more friendly (at least in Europe) time of the day. We’ll be around for both the sessions today, and as ever we try and feature the best of the comments during the podcast round up later today.
Finally, we have a new server in place after the last one struggled through the Malaysian GP, and it’s a lot faster. However yesterday it did suffer some minor connectivity issues which meant it vanished for up to 30 seconds at a time before returning as if nothing had happened! Apologies if it gets annoying, the hosting company are aware of the situation.
April 4th, 2008 at 7:38 amChristine said:
Hi, I’m here
April 4th, 2008 at 7:39 amme said:
here’s a handy circuit map for reference (even though i know you’ve memorised the layout already):
circuit map
April 4th, 2008 at 7:42 amChristine said:
I likes the new preview button by the way.
April 4th, 2008 at 7:43 amlou said:
Hey im here! Im so pleased its a more respectible time in the morning! How is everyone?
Cool a circuit layout!
- yes really should memorise it :S
April 4th, 2008 at 7:48 amChristine said:
Hi Lou! It is a much better time to be talking than 3am
What with scripting the lap for the video, I think the circuit is embedded in my mind already!!
April 4th, 2008 at 7:49 amme said:
online and feeling good.
this is a much better time of day. could get used to this.
April 4th, 2008 at 7:52 amme said:
and we have live video
April 4th, 2008 at 7:55 amChristine said:
My ITV feed is jumpy, but then my Firefox seems to be under the weather, so it’s probably just me.
April 4th, 2008 at 7:55 amDank said:
Morning campers. I’m here for a change due to the fact it’s not at some ungodly hour!
April 4th, 2008 at 7:55 amlou said:
Me too! unfortunatly i go back to classes in just over a weeks time so its going to be harder and harder for me to watch FP1 and 2
but when i get back home or near a computer i will be checking in here to see what i missed 
April 4th, 2008 at 7:57 amlou said:
Massa looks very worried - and has a nose strip on (is that normal? i don’t remember seeing drivers with nose strips on before)
April 4th, 2008 at 7:58 amme said:
appreciate the company.
it’s nice to be enjoying breakfast at breakfast time!
April 4th, 2008 at 7:59 amScott Woodwiss said:
Morning everyone, first time I’m taking part in the live comments thread and i’ve got the ITV F1 live coverage online for company. Let’s hope for some good stuff!
April 4th, 2008 at 8:00 amme said:
rubens often does, not sure about anyone else.
are we taking bets on how long massa can keep out of the gravel?
April 4th, 2008 at 8:00 amme said:
howdy
here’s hoping it’s a good session.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:01 amScott Woodwiss said:
Yeah! off we go!
April 4th, 2008 at 8:02 amlou said:
You learn something new everyday
April 4th, 2008 at 8:05 amlou said:
has anyone elses itv feed frozen? or is it just my connection?
April 4th, 2008 at 8:05 amSteveintheUK said:
Hi, I’m finally here, has that annoying like FireFox 2 been updated lately, both my PC are having major problems running Java for Live timing?
YEAH, the Preview button is back, Thanks you two, now All I have to do is remember to use it
April 4th, 2008 at 8:06 amChristine said:
My ITV feed has been dodgy from the word go. It’s frozen, yea.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:06 amScott Woodwiss said:
Yeah, my live streaming just froze too.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:07 amChristine said:
Everyone’s putting in installation laps. Is it windy? I read somewhere that it was going to be windy this weekend.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:07 amScott Woodwiss said:
It’s back, and not so jumpy. That’s better
April 4th, 2008 at 8:09 amScott Woodwiss said:
Williams were talking to Rosberg on the team radio about the wind on the pit straight. Weather’s supposed to be 27-28C all weekend.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:09 amme said:
according to williams team radio a light crosswind. less than yesterday.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:10 amme said:
kimi the last to do an installation lap.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:11 amScott Woodwiss said:
Yeah, first onboard shot! The world champion at work.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:12 amlou said:
Do we think that there is any reason that Kimi has is visor undone?
April 4th, 2008 at 8:12 amSteveintheUK said:
Quiet a few drivers wore them when there first came out, as did a lot of sports people, but less and less people, in all sports, seem to use them now
April 4th, 2008 at 8:12 amme said:
who’s going to be the first to set a time then?
given the dusty circuit it’ll probably be the smaller teams doing their duty.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:14 amme said:
not a clue? a new one on me.
grandstands look completely deserted.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:14 amSteveintheUK said:
WOW, a hummer can driver up a nice tarmac’d hill, cool, no wonder the US love them
April 4th, 2008 at 8:14 amScott Woodwiss said:
I think so too, either Force India or Super Aguri. Although I’ve noticed that Bourdais likes to be out first so far.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:15 amSteveintheUK said:
Massa, What do I win?
April 4th, 2008 at 8:16 amChristine said:
Sutil is faster than Fisichella so far.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:17 amme said:
le seb fastest in first sector. immediately displaced by fissi.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:17 amScott Woodwiss said:
1′36.483 for Sutil. Average time but then I’d expect nothing less. Speaking of Bourdais, look who just turned up on track!
April 4th, 2008 at 8:19 amChristine said:
Pole in ‘07 was 1 min 32.652.
Sutil’s got a way to go yet
April 4th, 2008 at 8:19 amSteveintheUK said:
My ITV Living timing is updating the times, and reordering them, put not reordering the drivers names, think it’s time for a reboot, Back Soon
April 4th, 2008 at 8:20 amScott Woodwiss said:
Bourdais goes quickest by 3 tenths. Good boy!
April 4th, 2008 at 8:23 amme said:
seems to feel he needs more track time. i imagine he doesn’t have much experience driving in the desert.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:23 amDank said:
Don’t know if it’s my computer, but this streaming seems a little bit well, pants? Is it always like this?!
April 4th, 2008 at 8:23 amScott Woodwiss said:
Live feed froze again. Anyone else get the same?
April 4th, 2008 at 8:24 amlou said:
Both of my feeds seem to have frozen :s
April 4th, 2008 at 8:24 amme said:
australia was bad. malaysia was much better. they seemed to have regressed a little.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:25 amlou said:
oh no my live timings seems to be fine after a reboot.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:25 amChristine said:
I’ve given up with it for now.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:26 amDank said:
I’ll go listen to Five Live Extra me thinks!
April 4th, 2008 at 8:26 amme said:
trulli drops the benchmark in sector 1 on his first hot lap.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:26 amme said:
yep, that at least is still working
April 4th, 2008 at 8:27 amScott Woodwiss said:
I don’t know about you guys, but my idea of a live feed isn’t looking at a still shot of Piquet Jr in his car with 1h 8mins 59 seconds on the clock.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:28 amme said:
x2 toyota’s sit at the top of the timesheets, trulli leading glock.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:30 amme said:
yeah, all gone dark here. just interpreting the live timing. not a lot going on track at the moment. 5live are discussing max mosley.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:30 amDank said:
Awkward conversation on Radio 5 about Max Mosley
April 4th, 2008 at 8:30 amScott Woodwiss said:
Damn, I need to install Real Player just to listen to 5 Live Extra. I’m missing valuable practice time!
April 4th, 2008 at 8:31 amme said:
trulli on a stellar lap, x3 purple sectors drops the benchmark to 1:33.5
April 4th, 2008 at 8:31 amlou said:
mine went black but is back to Piquet Jr.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:32 amScott Woodwiss said:
No worries, I’ve got it on Windows Media now
April 4th, 2008 at 8:32 amSteveintheUK said:
Great I reboot one machine and get Living timing working, and now ITV Live Feed seems to have been killed.
Looks like all extra people watching this week due to it not being at an unearthly hours have crashed the ITV servers, They must be with FastHost.
Guess there are soon benefits to having Free Practice on the the early mornings over here then.
Thanks Christine
April 4th, 2008 at 8:33 amme said:
good point, hadn’t thought of that.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:35 amlou said:
Boy am i looking forward to BBC coverage next year!
April 4th, 2008 at 8:35 amme said:
nothing much happening at the moment anyways, so we’re not missing to much.
rosberg just stuck it into 2 position, while kazuki ends up forth. so we have:
- toyota
- williams
- toyota
- williams
giving the works team a slight edge over the customer team.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:36 amScott Woodwiss said:
Hmm, Toyota seem to think the winter test wasn’t enough. Apparently they’re pounding out the laps. To me, it seems that small advantage they got from testing back in January isn’t enough.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:36 amme said:
big guns take to the track as:
- massa
- kovi
- lewis
all come out to play.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:36 amDank said:
Hamilton puts in a best sector 1 time of 29.9
April 4th, 2008 at 8:37 amDank said:
Hamilton 1:32:705 to go top
April 4th, 2008 at 8:38 amnooon said:
has bbc 5 live extra gone down for anyone else?/
April 4th, 2008 at 8:38 amme said:
certainly looks that way. glock has done as many laps as the STR’s.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:39 amme said:
all good for me. discussing massa at the moment.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:40 amScott Woodwiss said:
Message just came up on the ITV Live Feed screen:
“Live Formula 1 coverage will resume shortly…”
When ITV say shortly, I’m assuming that it won’t go back up until the end of practice 1. Thank god it’s going back to the BBC, though. Hopefully there’ll be none of this.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:40 amSteveintheUK said:
BBC 5 Live just said that Massa claimed hitting the kerb is NOT a driver error? Guess the kerb must have ran out on to the track them
April 4th, 2008 at 8:40 amlou said:
I have just tried to reboot the ITV feed and i got the following message;
:/
April 4th, 2008 at 8:42 amme said:
hahahah
he is top of the timesheets at the moment though. and it’s still pretty dusty out there.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:43 amScott Woodwiss said:
Typical Massa. Blaming his mistake on the kerb saying it was ITS fault and not his. A kerb’s an inanimate object, Massa isn’t. I hardly think blaming his mistake on a small piece of red and white kerb is something a Ferrari driver should be saying.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:43 amlou said:
Hondas, BMW, Super Aguri, and DC not set a time yet…
April 4th, 2008 at 8:44 amDank said:
Woohoo! Practice via ‘the red button’ next year. Not this shonky online feed by ITV!
April 4th, 2008 at 8:44 amlou said:
and we have the video!!
April 4th, 2008 at 8:45 amSteveintheUK said:
ITV is back up, and not jumping
April 4th, 2008 at 8:46 amScott Woodwiss said:
ITV Live Feed is back. Finally…
April 4th, 2008 at 8:47 amSteveintheUK said:
Are we sure about that?
April 4th, 2008 at 8:47 amScott Woodwiss said:
Kimi going wide. Dropped a wheel on the kerb and lost the rear end a bit. Now, where have we seen him do that before?
April 4th, 2008 at 8:47 amlou said:
oooo kimi runs wide…
April 4th, 2008 at 8:48 amDank said:
Massa 1:32:233
Kimi 1:32:356
Hamilton 1:32:705
April 4th, 2008 at 8:48 amme said:
kubica sits directly behind the two maccas and two ferraris.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:49 amChristine said:
So, what’s up with the Hondas?
April 4th, 2008 at 8:49 amme said:
think he picked up some dirty air from the car he was following though didn’t he? he was close behind someone.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:49 amScott Woodwiss said:
Hmm, ITV live feed with 5 live commentary over the top - good combo in my opinion.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:50 amme said:
super aguri probably can’t afford to risk any damage, but not sure about honda.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:51 amlou said:
You beat me to it Christine
Did honda not have engine problems here last year?
April 4th, 2008 at 8:52 amChristine said:
They have engine problems in the heat, so maybe throw in a bit of dust and they’d rather not risk it.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:52 amScott Woodwiss said:
They had a lot of problems last year in general. Wouldn’t surprise me if they did.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:54 amSteveintheUK said:
Wind speed has dropped to between 1 and 2.6mps (meters per second) via ITV Live Timing.
2.6mps is around 5.7mph (9.36kmh), so shouldn’t be much problem for cars doing 190mph+ (314kmh)
April 4th, 2008 at 8:54 amlou said:
There reliability has been good so far this year. but yeah it could be the dust
bit annoyed we have not even seen shots of them in the garage…
April 4th, 2008 at 8:55 amScott Woodwiss said:
Super Aguris up on jacks with the tyre warmers on, as Glock goes wide. Seems to be that last corner that’s catching everyone out. That must be the place which is the dustiest part of the track.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:56 amme said:
TED NEWS (after last years race):
could they suffer the same this year? certainly.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:56 amScott said:
I´m sitting here at work, without the advantage of knowing anything apart from comments posted here, and live-timing. any suspicion on why Sato, Davidson, Button and Barrichello have not posted a complete lap yet? (apologies if it´s discussed elsewhere, i´m pretending to do work)
April 4th, 2008 at 8:57 amChristine said:
I remember reading that out on the podcast!
April 4th, 2008 at 8:58 amlou said:
TED NEWS - brilliant!!
ooo Button on track :)!
April 4th, 2008 at 8:58 amChristine said:
Button is out
April 4th, 2008 at 8:59 amChristine said:
Lou, don’t encourage him! He’ll bring Ted News back and that god-awful jingle
April 4th, 2008 at 8:59 amme said:
haha, bless ya
both honda’s now taken to the track. sa are probably still limited by a parts shortage and can’t risk damage.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:00 amlou said:
hehe at least its not a jiggle
- god i was tired
Both hondas are now out…Button not looking that quick
April 4th, 2008 at 9:01 amme said:
am disappointed by the lack of spinning, crashing and blow-ups this session
bring on the street circuits.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:01 amScott Woodwiss said:
That’s interesting watching that flexi-wing on Heikki’s car. Kinda weird but if it works….
Nice to see a Honda out as well.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:01 amChristine said:
Has Vettel actually stopped yet? He just keeps going round and round!
April 4th, 2008 at 9:02 amScott said:
>sa are probably still limited by a parts shortage and can’t risk damage.
Maybe they should start from pit lane everytime (with a fresh engine, gearbox etc). It would help them avoid crashes at turn 1 (but not help the part situation). a new breed of F1 tactics perhaps?
April 4th, 2008 at 9:03 amSteveintheUK said:
Please don’t use that term unless someone has crashed, you really worried me then, thought I had missed something.
Please use - Button on track
Thats if you don’t mind Christine, Thanks
April 4th, 2008 at 9:04 amChristine said:
Apologies, Steve, didn’t think. Although it wouldn’t be a smiley face if Button had crashed!
April 4th, 2008 at 9:05 amme said:
he’s having some sort of drama that they’re trying to fix. he said it was a repeat of a problem in malaysia, not sure if specified exactly what was up though.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:06 amChristine said:
Do we think Massa is just trying to prove that he’s not useless? No one else is really troubling him.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:06 amScott Woodwiss said:
Looking at the timing screen, that winter testing certainly did Ferrari good. Lewis is nearly half a second slower than Massa. Trulli’s doing well in 6th too.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:07 amSteveintheUK said:
So you still haven’t dumped him from your Team then?
April 4th, 2008 at 9:07 amDank said:
Both STRs have clocked up the most amount of laps so far (22 each)
April 4th, 2008 at 9:09 amChristine said:
Why would I do a thing like that? I keep telling you all, my Team are biding their time.
Plus… I wouldn’t want to hurt his feelings
April 4th, 2008 at 9:10 amme said:
williams aren’t looking great thus far. considering rosberg thinks they’re the forth fastest, they can’t live with toyota, bmw, rbr or even alonso in a rubbish renault.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:11 amlou said:
I have him in my team
Exactly
April 4th, 2008 at 9:11 amScott Woodwiss said:
Seeing that shot of Fisichella just made me realise something. Force India’s just like BAR was back in 1999 - new team (sort of) with loads of money, but just hanging around the back of the field. It’s amazing to think that teams like FA and also Toyota have these massive budgets, yet when it comes to the crunch, they’re off the pace, so they try to make it better by throwing money at the problem. It does seem to be paying off for Toyota at last, though. Their car is better this year and more competitive. If they can get the car as good as they had in 2005, scoring podiums and the like, they’ll be on to something.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:12 amme said:
button and rubens managed just a few laps each, before heading back into cover. neither troubled the top 15!
April 4th, 2008 at 9:12 amScott Woodwiss said:
Davidson’s in his car! YAY!
April 4th, 2008 at 9:13 amSteveintheUK said:
STR seem to run the most number of laps in FP1 so far this session
April 4th, 2008 at 9:13 amScott Woodwiss said:
That last corner gets another victim - the hapless Webber.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:14 amChristine said:
Still, at least neither of the Red Bull’s have fallen apart yet.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:15 amlou said:
Sato getting in his car - Super Aguri going out for a few laps…
April 4th, 2008 at 9:16 amlou said:
Button out on track!!
April 4th, 2008 at 9:16 amScott Woodwiss said:
Looks like Super Aguri got bored of doing nothing and just said “Ah what the heck, let’s send both cars out.”
Sutil making another mistake as Button goes on track.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:16 amDank said:
What happened? Did he just come off wide of the track? Can’t watch the ITV feed so listening to Five Live instead at the mo.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:16 amSteveintheUK said:
Did he overshot, or just change his mind about going into the pits?
April 4th, 2008 at 9:17 amScott Woodwiss said:
I’ll give it until next session
April 4th, 2008 at 9:17 amScott Woodwiss said:
What is it with Sutil and that corner? Car seems to be allergic to it.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:19 amScott Woodwiss said:
Live feed’s jumping a bit.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:19 amSteveintheUK said:
Thanks Guys, just hope you Christine that we don’t see ‘Button is Out’ during this weekend
April 4th, 2008 at 9:19 amme said:
hahaha. was thinking that, three laps in a row.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:20 amChristine said:
Have the Super Aguri’s gone out yet? The numbers say not.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:21 amSteveintheUK said:
Sorry forgot about the Preview button, should have said
Thanks Guys, just hope, FOR Christine, that we don’t see ‘Button is Out’ during this weekend
April 4th, 2008 at 9:21 amScott Woodwiss said:
Wow, ITV live feed is very jumpy!
April 4th, 2008 at 9:21 amme said:
kimi up in sector 1, two-tenths under massa’s benchmark. down in s2 though. no improvement over all
April 4th, 2008 at 9:21 amChristine said:
Okay, Davidson has now. I knew that would happen.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:22 amScott Woodwiss said:
Yep, both Aguris have done at least 1 lap now.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:23 amSteveintheUK said:
Everybody has just got into work and logged on, 9.20am, killing the server again
April 4th, 2008 at 9:23 amScott Woodwiss said:
Lewis locks it up big time at the same place Sutil did. I know those two are friends but….
April 4th, 2008 at 9:24 amSteveintheUK said:
BBC 5 Live, just said Jean Todt is in the Ferrari garage
April 4th, 2008 at 9:24 amScott Woodwiss said:
At last! Davidson on track on camera!
April 4th, 2008 at 9:25 amme said:
davidson over a second off the pace in S1. better in S2, and exactly 1 second off of massa in S3. finally manages a 1:36.1. jeez, you could run faster.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:25 amScott Woodwiss said:
Bourdais on track again, STRs just won’t stop!
April 4th, 2008 at 9:26 amChristine said:
You couldn’t.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:26 amlou said:
Hondas having a longer run this time. Still no improvements in their times though
April 4th, 2008 at 9:26 amSteveintheUK said:
BBC 5 Live have just agreed that Button should get 12 points this year. But only if we get soon wet races.
Will that make Christine happy or not? I think NOT.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:27 amChristine said:
Not heard much of Alonso this session?
April 4th, 2008 at 9:27 amme said:
only alonso and lewis in the garage. busy track for the final 3 minutes.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:28 amlou said:
Still better than last year
April 4th, 2008 at 9:29 amSteveintheUK said:
Maybe they are planning on using a heavy fuel load for the race?
April 4th, 2008 at 9:29 amChristine said:
Why’d they get to that number?
April 4th, 2008 at 9:29 amScott Woodwiss said:
HAHA! STRs playing with each other, what are they doing!
April 4th, 2008 at 9:30 amme said:
jeeez, rosberg makes a massive jump up to 3rd.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:30 amScott Woodwiss said:
1st practice is now over.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:31 amScott Woodwiss said:
Nakajima 6th too, good session for Williams. What’s up with the BMWs though, off the pace a bit it seems.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:32 amme said:
kazuki made it up to 6th. what happened to the williams then? they decide to do a very light run, but no-one else bothered?
April 4th, 2008 at 9:32 amChristine said:
For all the Toro Rosso running, they didn’t really do that well. Did we find out anymore about the problem with Vettel?
April 4th, 2008 at 9:32 amSteveintheUK said:
From the number of wet races they think we will see this year, and the lack of TC. For some reason they think Button will cope better than other drivers.
Maybe they think his engine has a better/smoother power band so should be easier to drive in the wet
April 4th, 2008 at 9:33 amlou said:
The two hondas sandwiched between the Force Indias :/ lets hope they have a better FP2
April 4th, 2008 at 9:33 amme said:
fell further and further backwards. heidfeld’s well off his teammates pace.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:33 amScott Woodwiss said:
More to the point, what happened to Heidfeld? 14th?!? If you’re going to challenge McLaren and Ferrari, I’m pretty sure you need to be faster than that.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:33 amChristine said:
Because he is fabulous in the wet.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:35 amSteveintheUK said:
He should have taken up sailing then.
Sorry
April 4th, 2008 at 9:35 amScott said:
So given the intermittent ITV feed and the slow times of Davidson and Sato, did anyone watching think that the feed was stopped when watching the Auguris - only to realise that the streaming vision of the Auguris was actually fine with no problems at all. They are just really slow. I feel sorry for drivers in bad cars. like Webber. unluckiest man in racing in terms of team moves.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:36 amScott Woodwiss said:
But wasn’t he one of the drivers voicing his worries about racing TC in the wet, along with DC?
I asked that question to Mark Blundell when he was on the Autosport Stage. He hadn’t heard anything about it and said for them to just get in the car and drive and stop being big girl’s blouses (or something like that, anyway :P)
April 4th, 2008 at 9:37 amme said:
looks like renault may struggle to make Q3 this race. assuming bmw pick it up a bit.
no major dramas for any of the teams, aside from some flatspotted tyres.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:37 amSteveintheUK said:
Or, he’s just the unluckiest man in racing full stop.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:37 amScott Woodwiss said:
Did I just see Michael Andretti in the Honda garage just then?
April 4th, 2008 at 9:38 amme said:
how are they supposed to cope with qualifying with only 6 laps under their belt? hopefully they get more time later.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:39 amDank said:
Massa 1:32.233
Kimi 1:32.350
Rosberg 1:32.415
Hamilton 1:32.705
Heikki 1:32.868
Nakajima 1:33.121
Kubica 1:33.333
Trulli 1:33.539
Coulthard 1:33.768
Alonso 1:33.815
Glock 1:33.929
Webber 1:33.950
Piquet 1:34.106
Heidfeld 1:34.106
Bourdais 1:34.235
Vettel 1:34.321
Fisichella 1:34.892
Button 1:34.915
Barrichello 1:35.174
Sutil 1:35.429
Davidson 1:36.145
Sato 1:36.536
April 4th, 2008 at 9:39 amme said:
i saw alesi. he’s here for the speedcar race.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:40 amScott Woodwiss said:
Interesting - Kovalainen was the quickest through all 3 sectors in terms of speed.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:43 amSteveintheUK said:
Hi Chistine & ‘me’
Looks like your new mt server coped with it’s first test, 170+ comments so far on this thread.
It’s seems a little slower to post a comment/refreash today than for the last 2 races weekends, but that may just be down to the fact that we are no into the working day in UK, so the whole network runs a little slower. All looks good for mt not crashing during the race
April 4th, 2008 at 9:46 amme said:
he seemed a little more comfortable than lewis did, but it none of that translated to laptimes. over race distance he might be able to make his tyres last a little longer.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:48 amSteveintheUK said:
But 3kmh down on both Ferrari’s though the speed trap, thats going to make overtaking on the main straight hard
I wonder if the McLaren boys where just practicing one sector at a time, as the fastest sector times are not always on the same lap
April 4th, 2008 at 9:48 amme said:
good stuff, glad to hear it. the slow posting could be relating to a number of factors, but we’ll keep an eye on things.
also, the preview button didn’t break
thanks all for stopping by, we’ll be around the rest of the morning and for the whole of FP2, which starts at 12pm BST. we’ll kick of a new thread about 20mins before the session starts.
feel free to post any thoughts between the sessions as always
April 4th, 2008 at 9:53 amSteveintheUK said:
But, me remembering to use it did. Sorry
I have to go food shopping now, but should be back for FP2, see you all later.
@Christine, is your boss going to let you watch FP2? you said you would have to miss it due to having to work.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:54 amScott Woodwiss said:
No problem, Christine. It was a pleasure to watch my first free practice session with guys (and girls) as nice as you. That’s made my morning, and I’ll definately stick around here for FP2
April 4th, 2008 at 9:55 amlou said:
hehe that was fun! Am really loving this live commenting!
Perfect time to test it if you ask me!
Any predictions for next session?
-Massa still top of the time sheets? Can the Hondas improve on their 12 laps?
April 4th, 2008 at 9:56 amChristine said:
I can see the live timing and comment, but I won’t be able to watch the ITV Feed.
Don’t think I’ll be missing much though, it hasn’t worked well for me this morning!
April 4th, 2008 at 9:57 amChristine said:
I don’t quite know when I’ll have time to get my lunch, because I was too busy commenting to make any this morning!
April 4th, 2008 at 9:57 amScott Woodwiss said:
Hey guys, check out what I found:
http://www.autosport.com/news/grapevine.php/id/66312
Interesting, no?
April 4th, 2008 at 10:03 amme said:
just comparing FP1 in malaysia…
in FP1 two weeks ago BMW were off the pace, and they were again in FP2. roberg did well in 1 but badly in 2. button did a lot better in FP1 compared to this week.
so… the top four probably won’t feature nico, bmw will continue to start well but drop back, expect trulli to be up there somewhere and if STR can solve their issues, vettel might make top 10 too.
April 4th, 2008 at 10:04 amme said:
that is dedication.
April 4th, 2008 at 10:06 amme said:
not sure if he’s not trying to wind schumi up with that comment. michael has pointed out he’s a bit old for motogp, but kimi isn’t.
maybe if kimi wins the championship again this year and alonso joins ferrari, he might try two wheels instead?
April 4th, 2008 at 10:06 amlou said:
I was just wandering..how does everybody juggle all of the sites at once. I try to squish them all onto the screen so that i can seen the live video and live timings while keeping up with the thread. But its always hard to fit them all on. methinks i need a larger laptop screen…
April 4th, 2008 at 10:08 amme said:
just to spin away from racing for a second:
that’s big news, because until now the national authorities had been silent on this matter.
April 4th, 2008 at 10:09 amlou said:
wow, it really is bye bye Mad Max isen’t it
April 4th, 2008 at 10:10 amme said:
that’s a good point, i have the same issue. ideally the live comments could do with being a thin strip that i could move to one side.
we can look into that, because at the moment, they’re a bit fat for my screen. anyone else struggling?
April 4th, 2008 at 10:16 amChristine said:
I’m content just flipping between tabs, but I can see how it would be a problem.
April 4th, 2008 at 10:20 amlou said:
April 4th, 2008 at 10:30 amScott Woodwiss said:
i have one half of the screen with the live feed and timing screen, one on top of the other, and the live comments on the other side. It works quite well actually
Just adding on that ADAC comment about Mosley - since when is it any of their business? In fact, how is it anyone else’s business other than the FIA’s and Max’s. Why the teams are getting involved when there’s a race weekend happening is beyond me. I would just let Max and the FIA sort it out with themselves and have everyone else keep out of it and focus on things more important to the teams - like racing, for example.
These days, F1’s too politically affected, in some cases it’s not a sport. It’s just a business that full of money, scandal, lies and controversy. It was never like this 10 years ago, when racing was actually the main part of F1.
So what Max got off with some Russian hookers? Who cares? Let the FIA and Max sort it out themselves and please leave the racing to be the main focus instead. I’m not sticking up for Max, by the way, this is just my opinion on the matter. I might be wrong, I might be right, it depends on what people think. At the end of the day, what’s happened has happened, so leave the teams and anyone not directly associated with F1 out of it.
April 4th, 2008 at 10:42 amme said:
the main problem is, the anti-semitic inferences made in max’s video. as you can imagine people tend to take issue with such things.
max hasn’t denied that it happened, neither has he claimed the video evidence had been faked or doctored in any way.
that leaves everybody to believe what appeared to be going on was going on, which is why you have both german and both japanese teams making statements and now the national motorsport body of germany weighing in too.
max’s response to the teams yesterday was also incredibly stupid and has bound to have ruffled feathers around the motorsport world.
he should not be in charge of the fia right now. he has the right to clear his name (if he’s able to), but in the same way coughlan was suspended from mclaren last year, awaiting further investigation, the same should happen to max today.
April 4th, 2008 at 11:46 amJourneyer said:
But ADAC IS a member of the FIA, and they voted for Max as president, therefore, it IS their business to talk to their president.
Why are the teams involved? Because they too are part of the FIA. Therefore, it’s THEIR business too.