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.
- Yeongam Qualifying (about that new track)
- F1 Official Site
- Speed Racecast
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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Oops.
At least the pretty tables work.
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It’s rained. All the rubber is gone.
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Dust now turned to mud.
Pit entrance still bad.
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They had to rebuild his rear end.
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At least during recon.
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Pure mud.
Oy.
Flaming chunks of twisted metal.
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Given how wet it is I’m surprised they noticed.
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We’re talking puddles.
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Who knows what it will be like in the rain?
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You can’t bounce off them.
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Alonso 8th because of the crash?
Good news for Hamilton and Vettel.
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10 minute rain delay already.
Everyone on Full Wets (note, never been tested on this track).
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If I really cared about this I’d know that.
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No one knows where the standing water is.
Commonwealth Games?
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Which Ferrari lobbied for (to save an engine, after a water pump failure?)?
Cars stopped.
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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.
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The rain has let up, but the track is not draining.
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You can’t follow direct.
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All behind the safety car.
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They expecting another 15 feet?
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Nobody parked.
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We’ll see.
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Webber did it on his own.
D. N. F.
Back under the Safety Car.
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Vettel and Hamilton hoping the race ends now.
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They must be talking about time.
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Yee Haw.
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Need a 75% race distance.
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Premature for all the teams.
Starting to get dam again.
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People are changing.
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And a massive twist on early adopters in the back pack.
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And a browser crash.
Many Teams in for Inters, Hamilton stays out, #2.
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33 of 55
Everyone on Inters
Vettel
Hamilton
Alonso
Massa
Schumacher
Barrichello
Petrov
Hulkenberg
Kobayashi
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Another Yellow.
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Vettel
Alonso
Hamilton
Massa
Schumacher
Barrichello
Hulkenberg
Kubica
Liuzzi
Kobayashi
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Red Bull done.
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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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