Well it’s that time of year again when the sewing machines attack. bmaz has his first Formula One Trash Talk up which covers many of the notable points including the political one that the season opener in Bahrain was canceled due to the jackbooted repression of the Sunni elite and their Saudi Arabian mercenaries.
Here is a season preview from The Telegraph and here is another one from the same source focusing on the drivers and teams.
I like Wikipedia for pop culture (since that’s hardly ever controversial). Their description of the Albert Park course is here.
I can’t claim to have been paying a great deal of attention to last night’s Qualifying (results below) but my take away was that not much has changed. Vettel qualified almost half a second faster than he did last year (as one commentator quipped- “Thank goodness they made the cars slower”). The announcers are still way over rating Scudiero Marlboro which shows no sign of having improved at all. Nor has Team Mercedes or any of the other ‘also rans’ from last year.
It was not known at the end of the broadcast if they would waive the 107% rule so it may be that HRT-Cosworth doesn’t start at all and we proceed with a 22 car field. My interpretation was that they could start from the pit, but I’m not in a position to enforce that. Ecclestone and I ceased talking well before his facist friend Mosley got caught with his jackboots on but his pants down.
In March of that year the News of the World, a British tabloid newspaper, released video footage of Mosley engaged in sado-masochistic sexual acts with five sex workers in a scenario that the paper said involved Nazi role-playing, a situation made more controversial by his father’s association with the Nazis.
Laps is actually kind of significant because of tire and engine wear.
| Grid | Driver | Team | Q-Time | Laps |
| 1 | Sebastian Vettel | RBR-Renault | 01:23.529 | 16 |
| 2 | Lewis Hamilton | McLaren-Mercedes | 01:24.307 | 19 |
| 3 | Mark Webber | RBR-Renault | 01:24.395 | 15 |
| 4 | Jenson Button | McLaren-Mercedes | 01:24.779 | 18 |
| 5 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 01:24.974 | 19 |
| 6 | Vitaly Petrov | Renault | 01:25.247 | 18 |
| 7 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes GP | 01:25.421 | 17 |
| 8 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 01:25.599 | 18 |
| 9 | Kamui Kobayashi | Sauber-Ferrari | 01:25.626 | 17 |
| 10 | Sebastien Buemi | STR-Ferrari | 01:27.066 | 15 |
| 11 | Michael Schumacher | Mercedes GP | 01:25.971 | 13 |
| 12 | Jaime Alguersuari | STR-Ferrari | 01:26.103 | 11 |
| 13 | Sergio Perez | Sauber-Ferrari | 01:26.108 | 9 |
| 14 | Paul di Resta | Force India-Mercedes | 01:26.739 | 16 |
| 15 | Pastor Maldonado | Williams-Cosworth | 01:26.768 | 17 |
| 16 | Adrian Sutil | Force India-Mercedes | 01:31.407 | 15 |
| 17 | Rubens Barrichello | Williams-Cosworth | 01:26.270 | 12 |
| 18 | Nick Heidfeld | Renault | 01:27.239 | 10 |
| 19 | Heikki Kovalainen | Lotus-Renault | 01:29.254 | 10 |
| 20 | Jarno Trulli | Lotus-Renault | 01:29.342 | 12 |
| 21 | Timo Glock | Virgin-Cosworth | 01:29.858 | 10 |
| 22 | Jerome d’ Ambrosio | Virgin-Cosworth | 01:30.822 | 8 |
| DNQ | Vitantonio Liuzzi | HRT-Cosworth | 01:32.978 | 11 |
| DNQ | Narain Karthikeyan | HRT-Cosworth | 01:34.293 | 11 |
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