Formula1 2013 thread

[busydude]

Awesome race. Kimi 2013

Managed tires beautifully. Webber fucked up his start as usual. Good drive from Sutil, but Supersofts are a joke of a tire.. he was lucky to finish behind DIR.

Williams looks like it is back to 2011 form.

Ferrari and lotus look the best in race setting.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Great great great race! Fantastic start of the season for Kimi. I hope he gets another World Championship!

 

[punjabiplaya]

Totally worth staying up to watch.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with Webber? His starts are always just dreadful. That is a major liability in a race series where passing is so limited (plus it seems like a potential safety issue because he always has several people passing him at the start). Overall this was a great race, though, and I was happy to see Kimi win and Ferrari do so well.

 

[punjabiplaya]

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with Webber? His starts are always just dreadful.

Well, in addition to his regularly scheduled shitty starts, he <sigh> had no KERS for the first 20 laps.

 

[busydude]

Well, in addition to his regularly scheduled shitty starts, he <sigh> had no KERS for the first 20 laps.

He also has a malfunctioning ECU at the start. The Red Bull guys are pissed off at McLaren Electronics.

 

[punjabiplaya]

He also has a malfunctioning ECU at the start. The Red Bull guys are pissed off at McLaren Electronics.

Yeah. He was missing telemetry and the broken ECU caused the KERS to disable. /sigh bad luck Webber

 

[m3ta1head]

Yeah. He was missing telemetry and the broken ECU caused the KERS to disable. /sigh bad luck Webber

Ouch. Think RBR will race a shitstorm over it?

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Ouch. Think RBR will race a shitstorm over it?

nope, they have nothing to complain about. the electronics are fia spec, manufactured by mclaren. they might not even by the teams' property at all.

that said, red bull especially have a history of choosing razer-thin margins. sometimes it's faster, sometimes it blows up. that's their, and particularly adrian newey's, choice.

besides, they have no right to complain after being given a race win with an obviously illegal car and a championship after obviously passing under yellow.

 

[boomhower]

It wasn't just Red Bull that had the McLaurin boxes screw up. It seems it was pretty wide spread throughout the weekend, they just got bit hard at the start of the race.

 

[cbrsurfr]

besides, they have no right to complain after being given a race win with an obviously illegal car and a championship after obviously passing under yellow.

WTF are you talking about? If I remember right it was determined that it was a local red and yellow change in track conditions flag not a yellow. Unless you are talking about a different incident...

 

[The Boston Dangler]

WTF are you talking about? If I remember right it was determined that it was a local red and yellow change in track conditions flag not a yellow. Unless you are talking about a different incident...

i know what i saw.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Webber&#8217;s race problems not down to McLaren ECU

 

[punjabiplaya]

The RBR's side pod packaging:

 

[The Boston Dangler]

wow that's quite a picture! those guys can build the entire car just like that. from boxes to track, in a few hours.

 

[LTC8K6]

I thought Alonso's avoidance of Hamilton was great. Hamilton was going to slam into Alonso if Alonso continued the pass, but Alonso saw the massive lockup in his mirror and avoided getting taken out.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

the fia's telemetry system is out again, and will remain out for the race tomorrow.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

top 3 qualifiers:

vettel
massa
alonso

vettel is just the qualifying ace, seems massa's return to form isn't a 1-off, and fenando is dangerous as ever. great track and crazy weather - this is going to be an awesome race!!

 

[satyajitmenon]

Kimi handed 3 place grid penalty for Malaysian Grand Prix

 

[redgtxdi]

If it hasn't been said yet......


THANK GOD BOB VARSHA IS BACK!!!

As I heard it by. The end of last season, he was not gonna move to NBC with the rest and I was gonna be a bit bummed.

Hopefully he's on board for a good long time!!!

 

[The Boston Dangler]

If it hasn't been said yet......


THANK GOD BOB VARSHA IS BACK!!!

As I heard it by. The end of last season, he was not gonna move to NBC with the rest and I was gonna be a bit bummed.

Hopefully he's on board for a good long time!!!

he is doing 3 races while leigh diffey is doing indy

 

[busydude]

DIR and GRO got shafted by the rain.. pretty unlucky for them. Kinda disappointed that it rained at the end.. and also there is high likely hood of rain tomorrow.

 

[LTC8K6]

That was the bonehead decision of the year...Alonso...

 

[LTC8K6]

Hamilton just stopped in the McLaren pit.

 

[punjabiplaya]

quite eventful race and lol @ all the craziness in the pits