Live Commenting: Turkey - Free Practice 2
Free Practice 1 was something of an odd affair, with track organisers seemingly keen to disrupt proceedings by cleaning two sections of the track just prior to practice beginning. With teams seemingly unwilling to risk running on a part wet / part dry circuit they all opted to stay in the garages until late into the session.
On top of this FOM’s weather data appears to have failed completely, leaving us to peer at the sky for meteorology indications. Bernie owns this track, but you’d struggle to see he’s influence anywhere this morning.
What we do know is that when the cars finally made it out of their garages the results were chaotic. Almost everyone managed at least one spin as the tyres struggled with the green track and the cooler climate Turkey is experiencing right now.
During the break the GP2 cars have been practicing under darkening skies, and we might see some rain during this next 90 minute session.
Free Practice 2 begins at 2pm local time (12pm in the UK). As before we’re following Formula 1’s live timing online and watching ITV’s video coverage too.
5Live Sports Extra again have full audio coverage for this session. Usually it’s Maurice and Ian in the commentary box for the second session of the day.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:54 ambrendan stallard said:
Me,
0700 an in a groggy and ‘getting ready for a storm’ Atlanta.
brendan
May 9th, 2008 at 11:54 amme said:
the good news is broadband came back after it’s brief hiccup at the end of FP1.
have also now found 5live on DAB so that should continue uninterrupted and there’s a 3G modem on standby should anything go off.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:54 amme said:
howdy sir. can you hear / see any coverage all the way over there?
May 9th, 2008 at 11:56 amAlianora La Canta said:
That’s good news, me. Wonder if the FOM have fixed their gremlins yet?
May 9th, 2008 at 11:57 amLadySnowcat said:
The pics on ITV show everyone looking a bit cold….
May 9th, 2008 at 11:57 amScott Woodwiss said:
I wonder if this session will be more lively so that I don’t wander off somewhere else this time
McLaren look stronger this weekend, but Kimi seems to be having some problems.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:57 amme said:
race control: “rain to stop in 5 mins. no further rain expected”
gonna be another quiet start?
May 9th, 2008 at 11:57 amKathi said:
aha. I’ve found the editing feature. I should have allowed script a bit earlier *blushes*
May 9th, 2008 at 11:58 amAlianora La Canta said:
It’s raining!
May 9th, 2008 at 11:58 amme said:
i have a track temp of 18deg, it was blank before.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:58 amAlianora La Canta said:
Good news - the Weather and Speed setting works again.
Track temperature 18 degrees, air temperature 13 degrees, a wet value of 1 (whatever that means), wind speed 1.3 metres per second, 64% humidity (and falling) and 1000 millibars of pressure.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:59 amLynch said:
*says hello to all the Sidepoddies*
May 9th, 2008 at 11:59 amLadySnowcat said:
Kimi getting out of his coat for action…
May 9th, 2008 at 12:00 pmme said:
hey, they have a digiflag working
May 9th, 2008 at 12:00 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Everyone has complied with the pit lane light this time around.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:01 pmme said:
howdy lynch, where be you watching from?
May 9th, 2008 at 12:01 pmLadySnowcat said:
Nick looks pretty awful…
A bad hair day…
May 9th, 2008 at 12:01 pmChristine said:
Tuned in just in time to see Bourdais. Perfect timing.
Hi all.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:02 pmme said:
hehe, no news on fissi’s transgression as yet is there? you think they’ll just let it go?
May 9th, 2008 at 12:02 pmLadySnowcat said:
Temperature 13degrees!!!…
Kimi’s gearbox fixed…
May 9th, 2008 at 12:03 pmDank said:
Fisi dropped three places for his FP1 error? Blimey!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:03 pmLynch said:
Ah, I am in the UK, got me 5live on the TV and ITV webstream, its a welcome distraction from revison….
May 9th, 2008 at 12:03 pmLadySnowcat said:
THREE GRID POSITIONS FOR FISI…
WOW!!….
May 9th, 2008 at 12:03 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Jarno’s on track!
And my guess is that Fisi will quietly be fined, but no sporting penalty will be issued. Or maybe not (Dank and Snowcat were typing at the same time as me, by the look of it…)
May 9th, 2008 at 12:04 pmme said:
shoot, that seems a bit harsh.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:07 pmAlianora La Canta said:
I suppose the FIA has to do something to make sure that people actually check the pit lane light before exiting the pit lane (disqualifying drivers in the race doesn’t appear to have worked!) Though I think we can safely rule out Force India making it into Q2…
May 9th, 2008 at 12:07 pmDevil said:
Hi from Sydney, Australia. I can’t get anything but live timing here. Not even 5live radio. It tells me that due to contractual obligations blah blah blah
May 9th, 2008 at 12:08 pmKathi said:
Interview with Luca: They’ve changed Kimi’s gearbox as precaution
May 9th, 2008 at 12:09 pmme said:
awww, jeez. monaco it is then.
will do our best to keep you up to speed.
watching le seb put in a fast lap right now.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:10 pmme said:
ian phillips not on 5live this week, just maurice and david
he’s just off to test it out
May 9th, 2008 at 12:10 pmAlianora La Canta said:
And Sebastien Bourdais has an oversteery moment.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:10 pmLadySnowcat said:
Kimi out..
May 9th, 2008 at 12:10 pmDevil said:
Oh, and it’s just after 9pm here
May 9th, 2008 at 12:10 pmChristine said:
Well, you say “fast”…
May 9th, 2008 at 12:11 pmDank said:
The 5 Live coverage has vanished now!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:12 pmSteven Roy said:
Morning all
Kimi made it back to the pits. i suppose that is a good sign
May 9th, 2008 at 12:12 pmLadySnowcat said:
Just an installation lap unusually…they have obviously be listening to “me”…
May 9th, 2008 at 12:14 pmDevil said:
purple sector 2 though
May 9th, 2008 at 12:14 pmAlianora La Canta said:
That doesn’t mean a lot. Nobody’s putting in a serious time at the moment…
May 9th, 2008 at 12:15 pmme said:
howdy.
five live suggesting teams want to be out there. it’s too dry / too wet.. brilliant.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:15 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Massa’s getting his helmet on. He might be out in… …15 minutes, maybe 20.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:15 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Nakajima’s just told Williams he needs to wait a bit more for track conditions.
Ooh, nice pretty raincloud image there!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:16 pmme said:
i’ll hold ya to that
May 9th, 2008 at 12:16 pmChristine said:
My live timing appears to be stuck.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:17 pmSteven Roy said:
F1 looks boring without SA. Who knew they provided so much entertainment?
May 9th, 2008 at 12:18 pmme said:
maurice being ultra-cynical and anti-bernie on r5live. i likes it
bemoaning the fact nobody is in attendance.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:18 pmSteven Roy said:
My live timing says
Please Wait…
Please Wait…
Please Wait…
in big orange letters
May 9th, 2008 at 12:19 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Live timing went on the blink. And Raikkonen’s out.
Wait a minute - live timing’s back on again.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:19 pmme said:
yup mine too.
eurosport seems to be behind as well.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:19 pmDevil said:
Mine gets stuck if I look at in a tab. It’s okay if I open another browser window.
Hope that helps.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:20 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Fisichella looks like he’ll be P1 for about 10 seconds…
May 9th, 2008 at 12:20 pmAlianora La Canta said:
OK, maybe 6…
May 9th, 2008 at 12:21 pmSteven Roy said:
I have live commenting, timing and vid is separate windows so that I can watch them all at the same time. I still have regular live timing problems
May 9th, 2008 at 12:22 pmme said:
fissi out on the soft tyres.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:22 pmKathi said:
Sometimes it helps if you enlarge/reduce it.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:23 pmSteven Roy said:
Kimi on a flyer 3 purple sectors
May 9th, 2008 at 12:23 pmAlianora La Canta said:
I have a three-window set-up as well. This is the first time (admittedly in two Fridays) that I’ve had the stuck timing problem.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:24 pmbrendan stallard said:
“howdy sir. can you hear / see any coverage all the way over there?”
Me,
Yup, I gots ole Speedy with me, with that eejit Varsha and the smart fellow Matchett with the good stuff.
I’ve actually managed to get me laptop working with the wireless: so I can participate in this stuff too…..
brendan
May 9th, 2008 at 12:25 pmSteven Roy said:
The vid and live timing are 40 seconds out of sync again
May 9th, 2008 at 12:25 pmme said:
good to hear. yell if you (or stevo) spots anything interesting.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:26 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Good to see you, brendan!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:27 pmLadySnowcat said:
I like the idea of naming turn 8….
May 9th, 2008 at 12:27 pmDevil said:
It must be dry now right?
May 9th, 2008 at 12:27 pmme said:
all but vettel out on track.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:28 pmLadySnowcat said:
They are nearly all out…
May 9th, 2008 at 12:28 pmChristine said:
Gah, I was just about to say everyone was out on track, then Raikkonen went in the pits.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:28 pmSteven Roy said:
Timing is showing Kimi in the pits
May 9th, 2008 at 12:29 pmme said:
massa locks a front left into the tight left-hander at turn 1. sending him wide.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:29 pmme said:
yup, track now appears to be visually dry now.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:29 pmSteven Roy said:
I think Kimi should get a penalty for that. It was totally unnecessary
May 9th, 2008 at 12:30 pmAlianora La Canta said:
The timing screen resembles a fruit machine, as Martin Brundle might say.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:31 pmKathi said:
Wbber crashed
May 9th, 2008 at 12:31 pmme said:
red flag, webber broke.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:31 pmDank said:
Oh no. Not Red Bull again
May 9th, 2008 at 12:31 pmme said:
didn’t see it, what did he do?
May 9th, 2008 at 12:31 pmKathi said:
red flag
May 9th, 2008 at 12:31 pmDevil said:
Waah! I can see what’s going on - penalty for what?
May 9th, 2008 at 12:31 pmLadySnowcat said:
Red flag…
Another disintegration by a Red Bull…
Kimi will just love this interruption…
May 9th, 2008 at 12:32 pmSteven Roy said:
Must be getting slippy.
Webber has trashed his car
May 9th, 2008 at 12:32 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Adrian treats a straight like a chicane, and Rosberg treats a corner as a rallycross opportunity.
Webber treats his car like a banger and there’s a red flag.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:32 pmme said:
shucks! that’s caused some damage. he lost that on the kerbs didn’t he?
May 9th, 2008 at 12:33 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Waah! I can see what’s going on - penalty for what? {Devil - 4 posts ago}
A penalty for not being on the track when everyone else is. I think Steven was joking…
May 9th, 2008 at 12:33 pmChristine said:
Do the marshals have to wave their red flags the whole time, even though there’s no cars out there?
May 9th, 2008 at 12:34 pmSteven Roy said:
Kimi pulled in to stop in his pit. Then he pulled away with a load of wheelspin to put rubber there for the race and the mechanics had to go down the pitlane and pull him in. If he does it everyone will and eventually we are going to have a pitlane full of mechanics pulling cars in.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:34 pmme said:
webber went wide coming out of turn 6, caught the kerbs. he car spun violently across the track and into the barriers.
helicoper now over the scene?
May 9th, 2008 at 12:34 pmSteven Roy said:
The red flags have to keep waving just in case
May 9th, 2008 at 12:35 pmme said:
oh phew!
that went over head
May 9th, 2008 at 12:35 pmme said:
if they don’t go too far, it won’t be a problem will it?
May 9th, 2008 at 12:36 pmSteven Roy said:
I had just finished typing the track looked slippy when he dropped it. A few seconds later and he would have seen my warning.
Horner doesn’t look very happy
May 9th, 2008 at 12:36 pmChristine said:
Serious arm-ache!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:36 pmDevil said:
D’Oh!
So frustrating not getting decent coverage here in Aust.
Hope Mark is ok.
Looks like it will be another 1-2 for Kimi and Massa with Lewis third. Too early to make that call?
May 9th, 2008 at 12:36 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Christine, yes they do have to wave the flags the whole time. Otherwise someone might think the session’s back on and go out when they shouldn’t.
Re-start in a minute.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:37 pmme said:
i get the impression the helicopter pilot thinks he’s in airwolf!
taking a low look at the redbull, you’d think the camera lens didn’t have zoom
May 9th, 2008 at 12:37 pmSteven Roy said:
Imagine 4 stops each in a session thats 80 lots of mechanics pulling cars in that don’t need to be there in the first place. It will eventually cause an accident.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:38 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Kovalainen’s as keen as mustard to go.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:38 pmDevil said:
Why do they lay rubber in the pits (like a drag car) and not on the grid - especially when they are on the ‘dirty’ side
May 9th, 2008 at 12:39 pmme said:
apparently he’s fine. probably a bit embarrassed but otherwise ok.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:39 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Coulthard patiently lets someone photograph him in the cockpit.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:39 pmLadySnowcat said:
Steven
Re Kimi….If you are around the pits on a race weekend all the drivers do this to lay rubber…it’s standard practice…
May 9th, 2008 at 12:40 pmme said:
kimi’s playing catch up and massa can’t keep it on the black stuff. so, yeah just a little
May 9th, 2008 at 12:40 pmLadySnowcat said:
They do it in the pits to help with pit stops…
May 9th, 2008 at 12:40 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Why do they lay rubber in the pits (like a drag car) and not on the grid - especially when they are on the ‘dirty’ side {Devil - 3 posts ago}
Because it’s harder to put rubber down on the grid during normal running without either getting in someone else’s way or being hauled off to the stewards for being a potential track hazard. If they could find a way of making the grid grippier, I think the drivers would.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:41 pmChristine said:
Heikki is keen.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:41 pmSteven Roy said:
Devil,
You can get the Speed Channel vid at http://www.tvunetworks.com/
Pick channel 53060. They call it Wheels but it is Speed
May 9th, 2008 at 12:41 pmme said:
at the moment they don’t know which side of the grid they’ll start on. by the time they do there’s no running left to do.
although they get one chance on the formation lap.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:41 pmDevil said:
Catch up? “Try to keep up with me” more like it!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:42 pmLadySnowcat said:
5Live are mentioning how brill Ant is at commentary…
May 9th, 2008 at 12:43 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Nicely caught oversteer for Kubica!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:44 pmSteven Roy said:
In the days before race fuel qualifying there was a short warm up session on the Sunday morning and all the drivers used to run over their grid slots then. Gilles Villeneuve used to lock up all four wheels every time he ran over his and people though he was just being an idiot until he explained why he did it. No-one could figure why he always made better starts than anyone else.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:45 pmme said:
i’m surprised he’s not there to be honest. they’ve missed a trick somewhere. especially with the absence of phillips.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:46 pmSteven Roy said:
Alonso off the track
May 9th, 2008 at 12:46 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Nelson nearly crashes his Renault…
May 9th, 2008 at 12:46 pmChristine said:
Both Renaults slipping about!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:46 pmme said:
piquet looks like he’s driving on ice. major wobble on corner entry.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:46 pmSteven Roy said:
One of us had a Murray moment
May 9th, 2008 at 12:47 pmChristine said:
Coulthard is up there with the best of them - an improvement on FP1, eh?
May 9th, 2008 at 12:47 pmSteven Roy said:
Must have been me then
May 9th, 2008 at 12:48 pmSteven Roy said:
Big lock up from Button
May 9th, 2008 at 12:48 pmChristine said:
They both did.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:49 pmme said:
trulli has done the least amount of laps so far (exl. MW), 8 places behind his teammate and currently sat in the pits.
does he have a problem?
May 9th, 2008 at 12:49 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Still nobody can touch Kimi - my Finnish friend-and-fellow-commuter will be pleased…
May 9th, 2008 at 12:49 pmSteven Roy said:
Thanks Christine. You are not just saying that to make me feel good are you?
May 9th, 2008 at 12:50 pmSteven Roy said:
Bourdais isn’t last any more
May 9th, 2008 at 12:50 pmDevil said:
It would be nice if they had a section in live timing for best sector time, and who it was by, permanently on screen
May 9th, 2008 at 12:51 pmChristine said:
If only the race could be like this.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:51 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Trulli’s back out again. Though I would like Sutil to move from the foot of the timesheet…
May 9th, 2008 at 12:53 pmme said:
yeah, i tried opening two windows before, but each time one of the stops working. you could do it with two PC’s.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:55 pmDevil said:
@me: I don’t see how that would help. I can see when Kimi isn’t running that his best sector times are there (assuming he is no. 1 in all sectors)
May 9th, 2008 at 12:57 pmme said:
on tab 2 “weather & speed”, you have best sector speeds. isn’t that what you’re after?
i’d like to be able to see tabs 1 & 2 on screen at the same time.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:57 pmAlianora La Canta said:
The two-browser method doesn’t work either. The second one isn’t allowed into the live timing. The nearest I can do is two tabs.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:58 pmAlianora La Canta said:
And Fisi takes an odd line round a corner.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:58 pmDevil said:
@me:
So it does! Thanks for that.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:59 pmAlianora La Canta said:
The engine cover and nosecone of Adrian Sutil’s cars are off. I don’t think he’s planning on running again this session.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:00 pmDevil said:
What I’d really like is a big spreadsheet after each session that has every sector by every driver so I can see who is quick, where.
Am I asking too much?
May 9th, 2008 at 1:00 pmLadySnowcat said:
Alonso on options…
In fact a number are going out on options now…
May 9th, 2008 at 1:00 pmSteven Roy said:
Odd looking devices on that FIF1. Instead of dumbo ears it looks like they have nicked a couple of mudguards from a Caterham 7.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:02 pmme said:
seems an odd decision? was anyone doing work on the chassis, there’s 30mins left to run?
May 9th, 2008 at 1:02 pmKathi said:
And of course on which tyre.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:02 pmSteven Roy said:
It does seem odd that you can’t get a detailed timing sheet. The British FFord championship give you every lap time on their website so it seems odd that high-tech F1 can’t
May 9th, 2008 at 1:03 pmDevil said:
I suppose the fuel load is classified info? He he
May 9th, 2008 at 1:03 pmLadySnowcat said:
Kimi’s on a long stint…
May 9th, 2008 at 1:03 pmChristine said:
That was a bit close to the wall for Bourdais, wasn’t it?
May 9th, 2008 at 1:04 pmChristine said:
There were some people around it, and one guy was polishing it.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:04 pmLadySnowcat said:
Kimi just doing a drive through and start on the pit lane…
May 9th, 2008 at 1:05 pmSteven Roy said:
DC P3
When did that happen?
May 9th, 2008 at 1:05 pmDevil said:
Shame Mark is out - look at the times DC is doing!
May 9th, 2008 at 1:06 pmme said:
excellent, well you would wouldn’t ya?
shoot, if piquet slides slidways like that his tyres won’t last two laps!
May 9th, 2008 at 1:06 pmme said:
when he switched to the softer tyre.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:06 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Devil, I have such a spreadsheet. I collected the data in the process of answering a completely different question. Keith Collantine of F1 Fanatic’s got the latest copy, but I will be updating it to include the results from the Turkish weekend.
Unfortunately it doesn’t say which tyre the fastest sectors were set on for each driver.
I like the sound of that…
me, they are working on Adrian’s car, but it looks like a long job they’re doing on there.
And as I type a Renault’s gone wide again…
May 9th, 2008 at 1:07 pmSteven Roy said:
I guess they need a much bigger fin on that Renault
May 9th, 2008 at 1:08 pmSteven Roy said:
Bourdais has finally gone faster than Vettel
May 9th, 2008 at 1:08 pmLadySnowcat said:
Heikki seems to have the edge over Lewis…
Does this mean Lewis will be visiting the scenery shortly…
May 9th, 2008 at 1:09 pmme said:
more of sail, i’d suggest.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:10 pmSteven Roy said:
Webber’s engineer looked like he was saying ‘when you fill in the insurance form remember you were only doing 65mph when…’
May 9th, 2008 at 1:10 pmme said:
you should put it on your website
May 9th, 2008 at 1:11 pmKathi said:
Dear commentators, don’t talk when the pitradio sign comes up. Hmpf!
May 9th, 2008 at 1:11 pmLadySnowcat said:
Felipe is really trying to be faster than Kimi was but he’s had to resort to the options to be faster…
And even then he isn’t…
May 9th, 2008 at 1:11 pmme said:
haha, he did the same thing that hamilton did in bahrain.
oddly massa does it frequently, yet he never finds a wall. is that ferrari stability or does massa have more experience at catching spins?
May 9th, 2008 at 1:11 pmSteven Roy said:
Massa was looking erratic at the start of the session but he looks really in control now
May 9th, 2008 at 1:12 pmSteven Roy said:
I think Fisi needs to jack up his rear suspension a couple of inches
May 9th, 2008 at 1:13 pmSteven Roy said:
Every time I post a comment or F5 the page spends 10 seconds shuffling things round to get the layout. I have never noticed that on this site before.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:14 pmLadySnowcat said:
I can’t believe Kimi has done so few laps given his problems this morning…
May 9th, 2008 at 1:15 pmme said:
hmmm, haven’t noticed it meself and we’re not hammering the server like we do during a race.
i can turn off comment editing for a second if you fancy testing it for us?
May 9th, 2008 at 1:15 pmme said:
i swear he has massa doing the hard work for him.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:16 pmLadySnowcat said:
Kimi out…
May 9th, 2008 at 1:17 pmChristine said:
Barrichello has the lowest number of laps (minus MW and AS), he has no excuse for that. The Honda needs the practice.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:17 pmSteven Roy said:
OK try it without editing
May 9th, 2008 at 1:17 pmme said:
nico putting in x2 green sectors.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:17 pmLadySnowcat said:
No me…
Kimi doesn’t use Felipe’s set up… you know better than that…
May 9th, 2008 at 1:18 pmme said:
comment editing is (temporarily) off.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:18 pmSteven Roy said:
I hadn’t noticed how fast Nico was
May 9th, 2008 at 1:19 pmme said:
not a great showing from him at the moment. neither was it in the previous session.
his teammate’s throwing it around a lot though.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:19 pmSteven Roy said:
That is much better. It is instantly stable. No shuffling.
I guess there is no point editing a live comment anyway.
Thanks
May 9th, 2008 at 1:19 pmKathi said:
The page doesn’t jump around anymore when I reload it.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:20 pmChristine said:
Isn’t everyone?
May 9th, 2008 at 1:20 pmSteven Roy said:
Jenson checking out traction on the grasscrete
May 9th, 2008 at 1:20 pmme said:
no, but, tyre data maybe? maybe he’s just playing with felipe’s head.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:21 pmbrendan stallard said:
My connection is dropping in and out: (wife is downstairs watching sewing machine porn, no doubt) so I’ll chip in what I can.
Matchett is spending some time talking about how Webbers nose piece seemed to deform completely when hitting the barriers and then reform completely when he left the barriers, while the wheels smashed off apart from the ties.
Varsha comments that Trulli has had more conversations with his team mate Glock in the past week than he had in all the years with Ralf Schumacher.
brendan
May 9th, 2008 at 1:21 pmme said:
ahh shucks. thanks for that. ok, will leave off for the time being.
cheers.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:22 pmme said:
really? is he serious, may have to watch that again.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:23 pmSteven Roy said:
A bit sarcastic of Red Bull giving Webber a rubber nose
May 9th, 2008 at 1:24 pmLadySnowcat said:
The fact that the Kimster did so well straight out of the box is interesting…
Subsequently he’s just been setting so so laps…
From what Heikki is doing it doesn’t look as though the options are that “hot”….
May 9th, 2008 at 1:25 pmKathi said:
I guess it’s too cold
May 9th, 2008 at 1:26 pmSteven Roy said:
I want to see that Glock ‘off’ again. He looked like he was making the turn until he steered off the track.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:26 pmme said:
glock smashing his front wing to pieces as he comes back on the track? debris everywhere.
now back in the pits.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:26 pmLadySnowcat said:
Looks like rain… definitely…
May 9th, 2008 at 1:26 pmLadySnowcat said:
Lewis on one…
May 9th, 2008 at 1:27 pmSteven Roy said:
The track temp and air temp have barely changed for the whole session
May 9th, 2008 at 1:27 pmme said:
hamilton responds on the same set. bit of a wobble. maybe kovi is heavy?
May 9th, 2008 at 1:28 pmSteven Roy said:
Looks like we have a cat/pigeons interface situation
May 9th, 2008 at 1:28 pmChristine said:
Hamilton P2 even with a massive wobble.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:29 pmme said:
was that the exit of T8? that would’ve cost him a bit too.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:29 pmme said:
all that can be out on track, are now out
May 9th, 2008 at 1:31 pmme said:
kimi not up for the fight. dc on 2 green sectors.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:32 pmme said:
massa squeezes in one more tail slide!
May 9th, 2008 at 1:32 pmSteven Roy said:
Massa blew his lap
May 9th, 2008 at 1:32 pmSteven Roy said:
How can DC be 0.220s off Kimi?
May 9th, 2008 at 1:33 pmLadySnowcat said:
As anticipated the Ferrari’s don’t get the heat into their tyres quickly enough… unlike the Maccas…
The low temperatures help McLaren….
I hope it’s warmer tomorrow…
May 9th, 2008 at 1:33 pmSteven Roy said:
How can DC be 0.220s off Kimi when Alonso is another0.9 away with the same engine?
May 9th, 2008 at 1:34 pmbrendan stallard said:
“really? is he serious”
Me,
Yurp: I’ve seen it slo mo a coupla times and it looks like magic:)
brendan
May 9th, 2008 at 1:34 pmme said:
a very good question. i guess we’re not really seeing the fastest possible performance. everyone else is roughly where you’d expect them to be though.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:34 pmLadySnowcat said:
Ferrari are going to have a problem regarding strategy tomorrow…
I can’t see them anywhere near pole at present…
May 9th, 2008 at 1:35 pmKathi said:
If I remember correctly Kimi set his fastest time on the hard tyre and it seemed spent the rest of the session working on race set-up. Doing long stints, testing how good the options hold up
May 9th, 2008 at 1:35 pmbrendan stallard said:
Coulthard is a well known friday specialist: he’s never been lower than 8th on Fridays.
He’ll show his true form as the mobile crash barrier tomorrow and Sunday.
brendan
May 9th, 2008 at 1:36 pmme said:
in the race ferrari should have the advantage, although they could be in trouble at the start. it would make a better race of it if macca qualified ahead.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:38 pmAlianora La Canta said:
I’m back. Dad got home and I had to sort out lunch, then Dad and I had to squeeze in round the computer to watch the last bit of practise, so I couldn’t use the keyboard.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:38 pmme said:
yeah i see it. it looks to me as though the barrier deformed and the nose stayed in place though.
depends if the barrier can do that or not?
May 9th, 2008 at 1:39 pmme said:
does he not know about your podium position?
May 9th, 2008 at 1:39 pmAlianora La Canta said:
I don’t know how to put an Excel document up such that it will display properly to a blog user, me.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:41 pmme said:
couple of options:
- excel has a save as webpage option.
- you could get a free converter and create a pdf.
- you could save as a csv file and there’s a few web sites that will convert that to html for free for you.
it would be useful to have in any format.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:41 pmLadySnowcat said:
I am not sure that my heart can stand…”A better race”…
But I guess you are right…
May 9th, 2008 at 1:44 pmJourneyer said:
I think Ferrari gave us the go-around today. Methinks they’re sandbagging (or at least not doing quali simulations). Methinks they’ll grab the pole tomorrow anyway. Which one of them will take it though? That’s the question.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:44 pmSteven Roy said:
We still have FP3 and qualifying before the race and I am going to miss quali
May 9th, 2008 at 1:44 pmme said:
phew, thank the lord that was a more exciting practice than the first one.
anyone fancy taking a punt on qually now? i may have to go change my fantasyracers line up
thanks everyone for joining us. much fun all round. there’ll be another thread tomorrow morning at 08:30 (uk time), if you’re up for some more
as ever, we’ll be online for the rest of the day.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:45 pmAlianora La Canta said:
No he doesn’t, me. I don’t think he’s terribly bothered about my comment counts…
May 9th, 2008 at 1:45 pmSteven Roy said:
I think Massa for pole
May 9th, 2008 at 1:46 pmSteven Roy said:
You must have that podium by now Ali
May 9th, 2008 at 1:46 pmme said:
you need a phone like christine’s, she manages to check the comments feed from anywhere (literally, including half of europe).
with one of them, you’ll miss nothing.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:47 pmSteven Roy said:
Scott Woodwiss (513)
lou (378)
Alianora La Canta (209)
Steven Roy (185)
SteveintheUK (100)
May 9th, 2008 at 1:48 pmme said:
it’s still close. she’s pulled away from steve though.
that also only shows the last 30 days. we should maybe look at all the races put together
May 9th, 2008 at 1:48 pmSteven Roy said:
Unfortunately I am driving at the time or I would have taken my laptop and y new mobile broadband stick. I accidently bought one. You know how that happens.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:50 pmbrendan stallard said:
“Good to see you, brendan!”
Alionora,
Et tu, ma’am:)
brendan
May 9th, 2008 at 1:50 pmme said:
times at end of fp2:
May 9th, 2008 at 1:50 pmDevil said:
Alianora,
Any chance you can email me that spreadsheet? Personal use only, I promise.
I know this is a big ask so I’ll understand completely if you say no.
thedigitaldevil at mac dot com
May 9th, 2008 at 1:55 pmSteven Roy said:
I assume by your technical query and the interest shown you are going to post it on your blog?
I must get time to listen to your last couple of podcasts later today.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:55 pmDevil said:
I think Kimi, Massa, Hamilton in that order for both qauli and race.
Lewis will put in a bit more fuel than the Ferraris and go slightly longer in the race, but with their speed, it won’t help.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:55 pmAlenyaa said:
Too bad I just missed the sessions.
I’ll see if I can make it for tomorrow’s FP though!
I’m taking a chance with my Fantasy Racers choices though, chances are it will backfire.
Best of luck to all of you this weekend!
May 9th, 2008 at 1:56 pmme said:
i do, and it was a lifesaver today
radio5live for you then.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:57 pmSteven Roy said:
I missed FP1 but FP2 was not exactly the most exciting session I have ever seen Alenyaa
May 9th, 2008 at 1:59 pmSteven Roy said:
My car has just had a bit of work done to it and since I got it back regardless which station I tune the radio to it flips to the local commercial station aftr 30 seconds. Very odd. I think I am going to have to commit the ultimate sin and read the instructions.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:59 pmme said:
agreed, although webber and massa spiced up the action a little.
itv seemed more ontop of it today, although still delayed. not sure how much i really learnt at the end of it though?
May 9th, 2008 at 2:01 pmSteven Roy said:
STR is slow and it could rain for the race. Not much else.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:02 pmChristine said:
Steven - don’t do it. Don’t give in to the dark side.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:02 pmAlianora La Canta said:
I’m in a slightly awkward position. In fact, having now checked my spreadsheet, I’m in a slightly awkward position for two reasons. The first is that I’ve promised Keith at F1 Fanatic can use it first, so I really need to wait until after the weekend before I can start publishing the spreadsheet on my blog.
The other problem only emerged as I looked through my spreadsheet a couple of minutes ago. I thought it had the data for all the sectors on, but it turns out all those extra columns in there mean something else (gaps and number of laps, as it turns out). The only way I can see of getting the sector times is by screen-shotting the live timing straight after the relevant practise session. I now have such a screenshot for Friday practise 2 for Turkey, but not for anywhere else. Sorry about that
May 9th, 2008 at 2:06 pmDevil said:
Goodnight from Down Under. Awesome to be part of this live commenting - thanks to all for the info that live timing couldn’t provide. I will have to learn how to use a UK proxy so I can get video and radio as well.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:06 pmme said:
no probs, i’m sure he’ll put it up somewhere, saving you the hassle
that is a bigger problem.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:06 pmSteven Roy said:
I guess we also learned that Sutil’s car had a problem that couldn’t be solved by polishing it.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:07 pmAlianora La Canta said:
All is not lost, though. I’ve found the “Best Sector Times” bit of Formula1.com. I can now put in the data, and I will be happy again
May 9th, 2008 at 2:07 pmme said:
appreciate it devil. join us tomorrow if you can
May 9th, 2008 at 2:07 pmme said:
hahaha! genius.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:07 pmSteven Roy said:
Devil,
you can get the vid at tvunetworks.com on the wheels channel. I posted this ages ago but I guess you missed it
May 9th, 2008 at 2:08 pmAlianora La Canta said:
I like that one!
May 9th, 2008 at 2:10 pmLadySnowcat said:
I have a sinking feeling that Mr Hamilton may take pole because of the tyre issue…
I want it to be Kimi… but am certainly not sure based on today’s showing….
I shall hold my predictions until tomorrow…after practice…
The weather is going to play a deciding hand…
May 9th, 2008 at 2:11 pmSteven Roy said:
I suppose the other thing we have learned from watching Fridays this season is that if they had scrapped Fridays and made GPs a two day event there may be a lot more incidents in quali and the race.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:13 pmSteven Roy said:
I suppose BMW were sandbagging. They can’t really be that slow.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:14 pmme said:
good point. we have yet to see how a lack of traction control will mix things up.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:15 pmLadySnowcat said:
Don’t forget all the race weekends have been pretty hot so far…even Barce was toasty….
BMW may not like cold weather…
May 9th, 2008 at 2:15 pmme said:
that’s about their usual for a friday isn’t it?
May 9th, 2008 at 2:26 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Indeed so.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:28 pmSteven Roy said:
According to itv-f1.com FIF1 simply couldn’t get Sutil’s engine to run. Surely that can’t be right with a rev limited, homologated engine.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:29 pmme said:
something i was going to mention earlier is a new plan to enhance live commenting. at the moment with wordpress we’re all restricted to using text and links. it would be nice to be able to post screenshots and things too.
as a possible solution, we’re currently trialling something called Drop.io. which is a big bucket in the cloud that you can drop stuff into. images, video, audio pretty much anything multimedia.
i’ll do a whole post on this later, and i wouldn’ve mentioned it earlier but the site was down
anyhow, you can see it here:
http://www.drop.io/sidepodcast
so far i’ve put some livetiming screenshots up there and by some coincidence a video of webber’s crash appeared there too! feel free to try it out and drop your own stuff in and let us know what you think.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:34 pmKathi said:
rofl
May 9th, 2008 at 2:35 pmSteven Roy said:
That looks intersting.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:40 pmme said:
no, no, no, no no.
that.is.just.wrong!
i know those mclaren suits are quite stiff, but the guy is more wooden than the trojan horse.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:45 pmSteven Roy said:
So the Greek Gods were Nomex clad and wore prominent TAG Heuer watches. Puts a whole new spin on Apollo, Zeus and Co
May 9th, 2008 at 2:56 pmKathi said:
No no ‘me’, you don’t understand. He was in his acting zone
May 9th, 2008 at 2:57 pmLadySnowcat said:
How silly is that…
Poor Lewis looked very uncomfortable..perhaps it was to do with the fit of the harness…
May 9th, 2008 at 3:05 pmme said:
ahh, my mistake. of course
how daft that we consider it to be, well, hanging there and waving. de niro better watch out.
if that wasn’t heavily padded he must be in an awful lot of pain right now.
May 9th, 2008 at 3:25 pmAlianora La Canta said:
It just doesn’t fit into the story of the Trojan Horse to have someone in fireproof overalls and a watch. Unless it was a reinterpretation of history where the Trojan Horse was set ablaze by the enemy and one of them volunteers to stay in there to see how long it takes the fire brigade to turn up…
May 9th, 2008 at 3:38 pmSteven Roy said:
I can’t imagine that harness is very different to his seat belts and there was only 1 g on that one
May 9th, 2008 at 7:41 pmlou said:
So i have not lost my 2nd place then. thats good
I still have the rest of the weekend to catch Scott up! 
Me, Thanks so much for the twitter messages!!
May 9th, 2008 at 7:47 pmme said:
not a problem, although it was slightly poor timing as i’m boycotting twitter until they sort out their rubbish infrastructure.
May 9th, 2008 at 7:54 pmlou said:
:D. Sorry, I will try and sort out internet on my phone for monaco so I can check the Friday practice timings when i come out of my exams. :s i hope twitter gets sorted soon.
May 9th, 2008 at 9:03 pmlou said:
So how did Louise Goodman get to go to Rubens golf tournament?She was presenting a clip on honda racing TV about it, why did they get her to do it? they usually have another guy. She was not there as part of the ITV team i don’t think….So they must have asked her to do it… how strange…
May 9th, 2008 at 9:10 pmme said:
good spot
i would guess they didn’t fancy paying for alistair’s plane ticket to turkey, and seeing as she was around maybe it seemed like the most cost effective solution. an odd choice though.
the only other thing that comes to mind is itv might do a ‘feature’ on it tomorrow, so they gave honda the footage or something?
May 9th, 2008 at 9:23 pmlou said:
ooo thats very likely, however in the introduction she only mentioned honda racing tv… i suppose a different introduction… either that or Louise has found herself a new job.
May 9th, 2008 at 9:50 pmme said:
time will tell
May 9th, 2008 at 9:52 pmlou said:
I have just looked at Rubens website for the first time. Its actually pretty good, he has a nice column too. here is a link to his latest entry.
http://barrichello.com.br/coluna_rubens.php?l=2
Its nice to hear Rubens opinions. Its interesting that Honda think Rubens would have been 5th if he had finished.