Oct 24 2010

F1: Yeongam

There’s no sugar coating it.  Mclaren needs some Red Bull DNFs and especially Hamilton needs some Webber DNFs.

There are only 3 races left (including this one).

Scuderia Marlboro UPC I expect will blow up, their ’10 powerplants have proven entirely unreliable at least for the non-factory customers.  Renault on the other hand has proven exceptionally durable and also highly successful with the right chassis (that last R in RBR stands for Renault) and the factory team has been competitive.  Webber is using a brand new engine, his last.

A Fail Team is Mercedes.  They’re blaming it on the Brawn chassis (which *ahem* won last year) and Michael Schumacher who may or may not be back, but they also power Mclaren so the engine is good enough.  Not that I have any complaints about the times they’ve parked, things happen.  Mechanical failures are part of the game.

At least they’re not Marlboro.

If Webber parks, and that’s not the evil eye, and Vettel wins you’ll have some chat about team orders.  I don’t think Alonso can hang but he’s pretty fast in the short run.

Otherwise you might just start developing your 2011 car to the extent you can.  I think a big problem with Formula One today is the lack of development time, which I think penalizes the less experienced teams.  If you had track time and data to measure you’d be able to make your car competitive more quickly.

Petrov has a 5 position Grid penalty for booting Hulkenberg on the first lap at Suzuka.  It’s reflected below in the pretty tables.

Repeat @ 4:30 pm on Speed

Starting Grid

Grid Driver Tean Q-Time Laps
1 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 01:35.585 19
2 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 01:35.659 21
3 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 01:35.766 23
4 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 01:36.062 20
5 Nico Rosberg Mercedes GP 01:36.535 18
6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 01:36.571 18
7 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 01:36.731 21
8 Robert Kubica Renault 01:36.824 21
9 Michael Schumacher Mercedes GP 01:36.950 22
10 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 01:36.998 25
11 Nico Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 01:37.620 18
12 Kamui Kobayashi BMW Sauber-Ferrari 01:37.643 15
13 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber-Ferrari 01:37.715 16
14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 01:37.783 18
15 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 01:37.853 18
16 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 01:38.594 16
17 Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 01:38.955 10
18 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 01:40.521 10
19 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 01:40.748 8
20 Vitaly Petrov Renault 01:37.799 18
21 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 01:41.768 9
22 Lucas Di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 01:42.325 10
23 Sakon Yamamoto HRT-Cosworth 01:42.444 10
24 Bruno Senna HRT-Cosworth 01:43.283 7

Driver Standings

Rank Name Team Points
1 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 220
2 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 206
3 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 206
4 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 192
5 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 189
6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 128
7 Nico Rosberg Mercedes GP 122
8 Robert Kubica Renault 114
9 Michael Schumacher Mercedes GP 54
10 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 47
11 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 41
12 Kamui Kobayashi BMW Sauber-Ferrari 27
13 Vitaly Petrov Renault 19
14 Nico Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 17
15 Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 13
16 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 8
17 Pedro de la Rosa BMW Sauber-Ferrari 6
18 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber-Ferrari 4
19 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 3
20 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 0
21 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 0
22 Karun Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 0
23 Lucas di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 0
24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 0
25 Bruno Senna HRT-Cosworth 0
26 Sakon Yamamoto HRT-Cosworth 0

Team Standings

Rank Team Points
1 RBR-Renault 426
2 McLaren-Mercedes 381
3 Ferrari 334
4 Mercedes GP 176
5 Renault 133
6 Force India-Mercedes 60
7 Williams-Cosworth 58
8 BMW Sauber-Ferrari 37
9 STR-Ferrari 11
10 Lotus-Cosworth 0
11 HRT-Cosworth 0
12 Virgin-Cosworth 0

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  1. Oops.

    At least the pretty tables work.

  2. It’s rained.  All the rubber is gone.

  3. Dust now turned to mud.

    Pit entrance still bad.

  4. They had to rebuild his rear end.

  5. At least during recon.

  6. Pure mud.

    Oy.

    Flaming chunks of twisted metal.

  7. Given how wet it is I’m surprised they noticed.

  8. We’re talking puddles.

  9. Who knows what it will be like in the rain?

  10. You can’t bounce off them.

  11. Alonso 8th because of the crash?

    Good news for Hamilton and Vettel.

  12. 10 minute rain delay already.

    Everyone on Full Wets (note, never been tested on this track).

  13. If I really cared about this I’d know that.

  14. No one knows where the standing water is.

    Commonwealth Games?

  15. Which Ferrari lobbied for (to save an engine, after a water pump failure?)?

    Cars stopped.

  17. they’ll count the laps (4) and time (whatever), but the time they spend parked doesn’t come off the 2 hour limit.

    Could have used extra innings somewhere else tonight, now it’s just blocking me.

  18. The rain has let up, but the track is not draining.

  21. You can’t follow direct.

  23. All behind the safety car.

  24. They expecting another 15 feet?

  27. Nobody parked.

  28. We’ll see.

  29. Webber did it on his own.

    D.  N.  F.

    Back under the Safety Car.

  30. Vettel and Hamilton hoping the race ends now.

  32. They must be talking about time.

  34. Yee Haw.

  35. Need a 75% race distance.

  36. Premature for all the teams.

    Starting to get dam again.

  37. People are changing.

  38. And a massive twist on early adopters in the back pack.

  40. And a browser crash.

    Many Teams in for Inters, Hamilton stays out, #2.

  41. 33 of 55

    Everyone on Inters

    Vettel

    Hamilton

    Alonso

    Massa

    Schumacher

    Barrichello

    Petrov

    Hulkenberg

    Kobayashi

  44. Another Yellow.

  46. Vettel

    Alonso

    Hamilton

    Massa

    Schumacher

    Barrichello

    Hulkenberg

    Kubica

    Liuzzi

    Kobayashi

  47. Red Bull done.

  49. 4:30 pm Speed.

    You really want to see this.

    Alonso

    Hamilton

    Massa

    Schumacher

    Kubica

    Liuzzi

    Barrichello

    Kobayashi

    Hiedfeld

    Hulkenberg

    Alguersuari

    Button

    Kovalainen

    Senna

    Yamamoto

    And that’s all that finished.

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