^ Yep. definitely blown out of context. Must've been a real slow news day. In other news... Jenson to stay in McLaren, after all. Would've been a welcome addition to Ferrari, though.
didn't know this could happen in F1 2011. Wow. Red flagged on Lap 1 at Monaco in the wet (A real Monaco wet race would be nuts!)
Man, I want to give F1 a chance, glad to see you guys liking it. Williams newsI can offer more than Kimi - Rubens
Lewis rocks special-edition boots, Jenson with a special-edition helmet... Vettel crashes at Degner 1... no biggie cuz if you're gonna crash, do it in FP1.
Japanese Grand PrixStarting gridLast updated: 8 Oct 2011 12:41 UK Position Country Driver Qualifying Time 1 Germany S Vettel 1:30.466 2 Great Britain J Button 1:30.475 3 Great Britain L Hamilton 1:30.617 4 Brazil F Massa 1:30.804 5 Spain F Alonso 1:30.886 6 Australia M Webber 1:31.156 7 Japan K Kobayashi 1:32.380 8 Germany M Schumacher 1:32.116 9 Brazil B Senna 1:32.297 10 Russian Federation V Petrov 1:32.245
Good move by the FIA to clarify the spots from P7-P10. Kob deserved that P7. Lewis was so pissed, but he's only got himself to blame. At least he raised his hand and accepted blame. Still... those errors shouldn't happen.
Yup. That was the first thing I did when I fired up the game, actually (taking out Seb at the first corner). You have to be on "Hard" difficulty, and set the race distance to at least 20 percent to make it come out. It does pick up the lead driver, and does what it's supposed to do. You can't overtake the guy ahead of you since the game "auto brakes" your car, but when the "SC in this lap" sign is on, you get back full control of your car just before the rolling restart at the final corner... and it's quite easy to overtake before the line (which results in a penalty). Great drive by Fernando and Jenson. Well-deserved win. Well, season's not done just yet... four races left. Anyway, congratulations to Seb on his second driver's title. Copped it too soon. smh. If Kimi's gonna come back... come back to Ferrari!
I finally got Speed channel With only 5 races left when I got it *shrug* Anyways, that was a fun race. Cant wait for Korea. Happy for Vettel even though I'm not a fan.
Japanese Grand PrixRaceLast updated: 9 Oct 2011 09:29 UK Position Country Driver Race Time 1 Great Britain J Button 1:30:53.427 2 Spain F Alonso 1:30:54.587 3 Germany S Vettel 1:30:55.433 4 Australia M Webber 1:31:01.498 5 Great Britain L Hamilton 1:31:17.695 6 Germany M Schumacher 1:31:20.547 7 Brazil F Massa 1:31:21.667 8 Mexico S Perez 1:31:32.804 9 Russian Federation V Petrov 1:31:36.034 10 Germany N Rosberg 1:31:37.749
I wonder if Red Bull will keep the hammer down for the remainder of the season. Hmmm...Anyway, here's the double world champion on Top Gear over the summer, in case you missed it.
Live Leaderboard Position Country [th="col"]Driver[/th] Team 1 Great Britain L Hamilton McLaren 2 Germany S Vettel Red Bull 3 Great Britain J Button McLaren 4 Australia M Webber Red Bull 5 Brazil F Massa Ferrari 6 Spain F Alonso Ferrari 7 Germany N Rosberg Mercedes 8 Russian Federation V Petrov Renault 9 Great Britain P Di Resta Force India 10 Germany A Sutil Force IndiaFirst pole for Lewis since last year Canada. Stops the incredible run from Red Bull. Man, I hope the grandstands are empty because of the bad weather. Hopefully they're filled for tomorrows race.
An interestingly downbeat Lewis today, despite his P1 Perhaps just keeping his emotions in-check and just focusing on the bigger picture... tomorrow's race. Great lap by him nonetheless... He needs a win in the worse way to get his confidence back up. But damn these overalls.. Hugo Boss needs to stop with these competitions...
By the way, SinnerP was curious how the Safety Car periods are in F1 2011, here's a pic I just took now on the Korean International Circuit. Lap 1 incident -I wasn't involved at all this time around. Is that Mark Webber in the lead of the race? Haven't seen that all season. Just taking my time until I pounce on the restart... or I'll just wait for DRS to kick in and artificially overtake his $##% Red Bull.
It's been a LOOOOOOONG day Korean Grand PrixRaceLast updated: 16 Oct 2011 09:30 UK Position Country Driver Race Time 1 Germany S Vettel 1:38:01.994 2 Great Britain L Hamilton 1:38:14.013 3 Australia M Webber 1:38:14.471 4 Great Britain J Button 1:38:16.688 5 Spain F Alonso 1:38:17.683 6 Brazil F Massa 1:38:27.127 7 Spain J Alguersuari 1:38:51.532 8 Germany N Rosberg 1:38:56.047 9 Switzerland S Buemi 1:39:04.756 10 Great Britain P Di Resta 1:39:10.596
But the big news for today is that Dan Wheldon has died. When the racing world loses one of its family, we all mourn.
Fell asleep after Vettel took a 10 second lead. Was way too tired to stay up through the race. Wonder what's gonna happen with Hamilton after this season; the broadcasters were saying he was pretty disconnected with the team when the race started.
I think he'll be fine. If McLaren can make a more competitive car, and if Lewis can be just a little more patient, he'll live on the podium next season, just like in the past.