isaidno Posted 13 April 2007 Posted 13 April 2007 Friday morning practice times from Sakhir 1. RAIKKONEN Ferrari 1m33.162s 2. MASSA Ferrari 1m33.679s 3. HAMILTON McLaren 1m34.110s 4. ALONSO McLaren 1m34.161s 5. TRULLI Toyota 1m34.896s 6. HEIDFELD BMW Sauber 1m35.076s 7. KUBICA BMW Sauber 1m35.248s 8. LIUZZI Toro Rosso 1m35.292s 9. ROSBERG Williams 1m35.375s 10. WURZ Williams 1m35.398s 11. BUTTON Honda 1m35.445s 12. KOVALAINEN Renault 1m35.474s 13. SCHUMACHER Toyota 1m35.573s 14. FISICHELLA Renault 1m35.697s 15. SPEED Toro Rosso 1m35.726s 16. SATO Super Aguri 1m35.856s 17. BARRICHELLO Honda 1m35.911s 18. DAVIDSON Super Aguri 1m36.243s 19. WEBBER Red Bull 1m36.483s 20. COULTHARD Red Bull 1m36.513s 21. SUTIL Spyker 1m37.084s 22. ALBERS Spyker 1m38.258s
Brainy Posted 13 April 2007 Author Posted 13 April 2007 The Honda's are slightly improving. BMW not doing very well...
isaidno Posted 13 April 2007 Posted 13 April 2007 Friday afternoon practice times from Sakhir 1. RAIKKONEN Ferrari 1m33.527s 2. HAMILTON McLaren 1m33.540s 3. KUBICA BMW 1m33.732s 4. MASSA Ferrari 1m33.772s 5. ALONSO McLaren 1m33.784s 6. WURZ Williams 1m33.973s 7. HEIDFELD BMW 1m34.076s 8. ROSBERG Williams 1m34.189s 9. COULTHARD Red Bull 1m34.359s 10. TRULLI Toyota 1m34.366s 11. BARRICHELLO Honda 1m34.391s 12. KOVALAINEN Renault 1m34.585s 13. DAVIDSON Super Aguri 1m34.595s 14. WEBBER Red Bull 1m34.677s 15. FISICHELLA Renault 1m34.796s 16. SATO Super Aguri 1m35.001s 17. LIUZZI Toro Rosso 1m35.268s 18. SCHUMACHER Toyota 1m35.427s 19. SUTIL Spyker 1m35.582s 20. SPEED Toro Rosso 1m35.687s 21. ALBERS Spyker 1m35.835s 22. BUTTON Honda 1m36.079s
Brainy Posted 13 April 2007 Author Posted 13 April 2007 The Honda's are slightly improving. BMW not doing very well... Friday afternoon practice times from Sakhir1. RAIKKONEN Ferrari 1m33.527s 2. HAMILTON McLaren 1m33.540s 3. KUBICA BMW 1m33.732s ------------------------------------------------------- 22. BUTTON Honda 1m36.079s Oh,
isaidno Posted 13 April 2007 Posted 13 April 2007 Jenson Button’s fortunes moved in the opposite direction after his mildly encouraging morning. An hour into the afternoon’s running his RA107 suffered an apparent engine failure, with flames emanating from the rear and the ensuing oil slick throwing Massa into a spin. If Button changes his engine does he get a 10 place grid penalty ?
Brainy Posted 13 April 2007 Author Posted 13 April 2007 Don't take it of me but I think that happens if his engine blew up in qualifying?
Brainy Posted 14 April 2007 Author Posted 14 April 2007 Button disappointing again, just about made it into the second qualifying session.
Brainy Posted 14 April 2007 Author Posted 14 April 2007 Drivers participated in a qualifying session at midday Bahrain Grand Prix Pos Driver Team Time 1 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:32.652 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:32.935 3 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:33.131 4 Fernando Alonso McLaren-Mercedes 1:33.192 5 Nick Heidfeld BMW 1:33.404 6 Robert Kubica BMW1:33.710 7 Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 1:34.056 8 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:34.106 9 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:34.154 10 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:34.399 11 Alexander Wurz Williams-Toyota 1:32.915 12 Heikki Kovalainen Renault 1:32.935 13 Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 1:33.082 14 Ralf Schumacher Toyota 1:33.294 15 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:33.624 16 Jenson Button Honda 1:33.731 17 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 1:33.984 18 Vitantonio Liuzzi STR-Ferrari 1:34.024 19 Scott Speed STR-Ferrari 1:34.333 20 Adrian Sutil Spyker-Ferrari 1:35.280 21 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1:35.341 22 Christijan Albers Spyker-Ferrari 1:35.533
potter3 Posted 15 April 2007 Posted 15 April 2007 Massa Hamilton Raikkonen Heidfeld Alonso Kubica Trulli Fisichella
Brainy Posted 15 April 2007 Author Posted 15 April 2007 2007 Bahrain Grand Prix Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 5 Felipe Massa Ferrari 57 Winner 1 10 2 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 57 +2.3 secs 2 8 3 6 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 57 +10.8 secs 3 6 4 9 Nick Heidfeld BMW 57 +13.8 secs 5 5 5 1 Fernando Alonso McLaren-Mercedes 57 +14.4 secs 4 4 6 10 Robert Kubica BMW 57 +45.5 secs 6 3 7 12 Jarno Trulli Toyota 57 +81.3 secs 9 2 8 3 Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 57 +81.7 secs 7 1 9 4 Heikki Kovalainen Renault 57 +89.4 secs 12 10 16 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 57 +89.9 secs 10 11 17 Alexander Wurz Williams-Toyota 56 +1 Lap 11 12 11 Ralf Schumacher Toyota 56 +1 Lap 14 13 8 Rubens Barrichello Honda 56 +1 Lap 15 14 21 Christijan Albers Spyker-Ferrari 55 +2 Laps 22 15 20 Adrian Sutil Spyker-Ferrari 53 +4 Laps 20 16 23 Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 51 +6 Laps 13 Ret 15 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 41 +16 Laps 8 Ret 14 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 36 +21 Laps 21 Ret 22 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 34 +23 Laps 17 Ret 18 Vitantonio Liuzzi STR-Ferrari 26 +31 Laps 18 Ret 7 Jenson Button Honda 0 +57 Laps 16 Ret 19 Scott Speed STR-Ferrari 0 +57 Laps 19
Brainy Posted 15 April 2007 Author Posted 15 April 2007 Drivers Championship Standings: Maybes 22 pts sheephead 22 potter 22 Turtles Head 17 lildave3 15 Standupandsing 8 isaidno 4 JoeB 1 Christopher 1 sparky 1 Mat_j101 0 Manwell_Pablo 0 bertfox -2 City_4_Life -2 dandannieldanok -2 Isle Of Wight Fox -2 Brummie-FOX -3 bigneville -3 callglombarddirect Joe. -5 Gooner Fox -5 Flynny -7
Brainy Posted 15 April 2007 Author Posted 15 April 2007 Constructors Championship Standings: McLaren 46 Ferrari 39 BMW 16 Renault 9 Toyota 5 Honda -3 Williams -3 Super Aguri -5 Toro Rosso -4 Red Bull -10 Spyker - 13
Brainy Posted 3 May 2007 Author Posted 3 May 2007 Rosberg crash sends Williams home 02 May 2007 Williams have decided to end their Barcelona test session early after Nico Rosberg crashed heavily on Wednesday morning. Rosberg emerged unscathed, but extensive damage to his FW29 has prompted the team to head home to the UK. With the test having been extended into Thursday due to Tuesday’s poor weather, it means Williams will miss out on a day and a half’s worth of running at the Spanish Grand Prix circuit. Rosberg lost control over a kerb after just two laps and spun before impacting with the wall, tearing off the car’s nose and much of its right-side bodywork. It was Williams’ second big accident of the week, following test driver Kazuki Nakajima’s shunt on Monday. That one caused delays to the team’s programme and Williams’ woes were further compounded by Tuesday’s rainstorms, which prevented any serious development running. In total the team have completed just 90 laps this week - far fewer than they would have hoped for ahead of next weekend’s Spanish race. Ouch
Brainy Posted 10 May 2007 Author Posted 10 May 2007 Spanish Grand Pre-view This weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix at the Circuit de Catalunya, just outside Barcelona, kicks off the first European leg of the 2007 FIA Formula One World Championship. And it follows hard on the heels of prolonged testing by all of the teams there last week. Generally, the view is that Ferrari made progress in the test, with Kimi Raikkonen setting the fastest time. However, circuit conditions at the race weekend are usually quite different to those during tests, with the amount of rubber that goes down from all of the F1 activity plus the GP2 and other support races, and also wind and weather patterns exerting their effect. Testing times can thus sometimes be misleading, the more so because it is not always clear in what configuration teams were running their cars. Last year Fernando Alonso took pole for Renault with 1m 14.648s and won the race from Michael Schumacher (who is expected to attend this weekend) and Giancarlo Fisichella. Felipe Massa set fastest lap for Ferrari in 1m 16.648s. Times last week were six to seven seconds slower than Alonso’s pole. However, modifications to the penultimate corner of the track have now turned the two final high-speed corners into a chicane. The final corner is now a flat-out run on to the long pit straight. While the lap times have been slowed, overtaking down the pit straight may be better. Tyre performance will be less of an issue than it has been in recent years, with everybody running the same two choices of Bridgestone tyre. This particular weekend the options are the Japanese company’s hard and medium compounds. The latter will be distinguished by the white groove. Kees van de Grint, who oversees Bridgestone’s track engineering, had some interesting observations on the tests. “In the past, the nature of this circuit has resulted in high degradation and graining, particularly on the front left tyres. However, this has become less of an issue now as the construction of the 2007 tyres provides a good balance for the cars and that, in combination with the track layout changes and the introduction of the chicane, which make speeds lower through the final turns, has resulted in a less severe circuit from a tyre manufacturer’s point of view.†The testing indicated that the medium compound is the more competitive, but van der Grint added: “We should keep in mind that track temperatures last week and in February were on the low side and we also had rain which meant we had quite a green track at times. Should we experience higher temperatures during the race weekend the hard compound tyre could well come into play. Last week’s test also enabled the teams to run both the wet and extreme wet weather tyres and, in our opinion, both performed well in each of their respective windows.†The Circuit de Catalunya places a premium on aerodynamic efficiency, and tends to highlight which teams have spent their wind tunnel time most effectively. All of the teams have spent the weeks since Bahrain working on revised aero packages. Ferrari seem to be in the pound seats thus far, and believe they have made further progress, but McLaren came away quietly satisfied with the runs by local heroes Fernando Alonso and Pedro de la Rosa. Renault believe they have made some much-needed progress with new parts on their R27s, and Red Bull also had their tail up after David Coulthard went quite quickly. The RB3s will have quickshift gearbox technology this weekend, but it remains to be seen if the Toro Rossos are similarly equipped. Toyota seem quietly confident that changes to the TF107 will help raise their game, particularly for Ralf Schumacher, who has not found the car much to his liking thus far. And at Japanese rivals Honda, the pressure is on to finally get some 2007 points in the bag this weekend. Poor stability under braking has been among the RA107’s weaknesses to date and the team trialled a number of aero mods at the Barcelona test, among them the rather unusual-looking ‘elephant ear’ wings on the car’s nose. With so many pre-race variables coming into play, it would be a brave person who tried to predict Sunday’s winner in Spain. One thing is almost certain, though - with three men - Alonso, Raikkonen and Hamilton - currently level at the top of the driver standings, we should come away with a new championship leader.
Brainy Posted 12 May 2007 Author Posted 12 May 2007 Drivers participated in a Qualifying session earlier this afternoon. Spanish Grand Prix Pos Driver Team Time 1 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:21.421 2 Fernando Alonso McLaren-Mercedes 1:21.451 3 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:21.723 4 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:21.785 5 Robert Kubica BMW 1:22.253 6 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:22.324 7 Nick Heidfeld BMW 1:22.389 8 Heikki Kovalainen Renault 1:22.568 9 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1:22.749 10 Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 1:22.881 11 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:21.968 12 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:22.097 13 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda1:22.115 14 Jenson Button Honda 1:22.120 15 Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 1:22.295 16 Vitantonio Liuzzi STR-Ferrari 1:22.508 17 Ralf Schumacher Toyota 1:22.666 18 Alexander Wurz Williams-Toyota 1:22.769 19 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:23.398 20 Adrian Sutil Spyker-Ferrari 1:23.811 21 Christijan Albers Spyker-Ferrari 1:23.990 22 Scott Speed STR-Ferrari No time
Brainy Posted 13 May 2007 Author Posted 13 May 2007 2007 Spanish Grand Prix Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 5 Felipe Massa Ferrari 65 Winner 1 10 2 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 65 +6.7 secs 4 8 3 1 Fernando Alonso McLaren-Mercedes 65 +17.4 secs 2 6 4 10 Robert Kubica BMW 65 +31.6 secs 5 5 5 14 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 65 +58.3 secs 9 4 6 16 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 65 +59.5 secs 11 3 7 4 Heikki Kovalainen Renault 65 +62.1 secs 8 2 8 22 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 64 +1 Lap 13 1 9 3 Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 64 +1 Lap 10 10 8 Rubens Barrichello Honda 64 +1 Lap 12 11 23 Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 64 +1 Lap 15 12 7 Jenson Button Honda 64 +1 Lap 14 13 20 Adrian Sutil Spyker-Ferrari 63 +2 Laps 20 14 21 Christijan Albers Spyker-Ferrari 63 +2 Laps 21 Ret 9 Nick Heidfeld BMW 46 Gearbox 7 Ret 11 Ralf Schumacher Toyota 44 +21 Laps 17 Ret 18 Vitantonio Liuzzi STR-Ferrari 19 +46 Laps 16 Ret 19 Scott Speed STR-Ferrari 9 +56 Laps 22 Ret 6 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 9 +56 Laps 3 Ret 12 Jarno Trulli Toyota 8 +57 Laps 6 Ret 15 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 7 +58 Laps 19 Ret 17 Alexander Wurz Williams-Toyota 1 +64 Laps 18
Brainy Posted 13 May 2007 Author Posted 13 May 2007 Drivers Championship Standings: potter3 30 pts sheephead 28 Turtles Head 27 Maybes 20 lildave3 13 Standupandsing 8 sparky 6 Mat_j101 3 Christopher 3 isaidno 2 Manwell_Pablo 0 bigneville 0 JoeB -1 Bert -1 Isle Of Wight Fox Brummie-FOX -3 Flynny -3 dandannieldanok -4 City_4_Life -4 Messi -5 callglombarddirect -6 Joe. -7
Brainy Posted 13 May 2007 Author Posted 13 May 2007 Constructors Championship Standings: McLaren 60 pts Ferrari 47 BMW 20 Renault 11 Toyota 0 Honda -3 Williams -3 Super Aguri -4 Red Bull -8 Toro Rosso -9 Spyker -13
Father Ted Posted 13 May 2007 Posted 13 May 2007 Am i still allowed to join?? if so, put me for Felipe Massa
Brainy Posted 13 May 2007 Author Posted 13 May 2007 Unfortunately, all spaces are taken, But because im generous, if you find a member who you'd like to be partners with, ill let you two join together. Some people signed up for the sake of it, and are not really interested, so you might be in with a chance.. Note: this won't be becoming a regular thing. Just giving UpTheFoxes the chance to join..
Father Ted Posted 13 May 2007 Posted 13 May 2007 Unfortunately, all spaces are taken,But because im generous, if you find a member who you'd like to be partners with, ill let you two join together. Some people signed up for the sake of it, and are not really interested, so you might be in with a chance.. Note: this won't be becoming a regular thing. Just giving UpTheFoxes the chance to join.. Cheers Now just finding someone as i only joined the other day! ANYONE???
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