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[Skyliner]

Cut Timo Cock - he's like loose skin

Glock is actually doing pretty well. Trulli is obviously my favorite driver, but Glock usually holds his own. Hell, Trulli is only a half a point ahead of him so far this year.

I think Glock's gearbox issues screwed up his entire qualifying effort.

Also, I don't know if everyone saw Trulli talking about the earthquake near his home town in Italy, but here is the site for donations.

[Skyliner]

[Skyliner]

Fuel weights, spoilered for big whiny babies.

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Pos. Driver Car weight
1. Vettel 644.0kg
2. Alonso 637.0kg
3. Webber 646.5kg
4. Barrichello 661.0kg
5. Button 659.0kg
6. Trulli 664.5kg
7. Rosberg 650.5kg
8. Raikkonen 673.5kg
9. Hamilton 679.0kg
10. Buemi 673.0kg
11. Heidfeld 679.0kg
12. Kovalainen 697.0kg
13. Massa 690.0kg
14. Glock 652.0kg
15. Nakajima 682.7kg
16. Bourdais 690.0kg
17. Piquet 697.9kg
18. Kubica 659.0kg
19. Sutil 648.0kg
20. Fisichella 679.5kg

Source: Autosport.com article

Analysis of the weights by James Allen

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The fuel weights have been released showing that Sebastien Vettel was 17 kilos lighter than the Brawn of Rubens Barrichello in qualifying this afternoon, this is worth about 6 laps.


Based on these figures I reckon that Vettel will stop around lap 12 or 13, the classic first stint for a three stopper, and he could well be looking at running the soft tyres in that short first stint to get them out of the way. The Red Bull is not able to match the way the Brawn looks after the soft tyre on a long run and this looks like Red Bull strategy guru Neil Martin giving his guys the best way to challenge for the win.

Barrichello looks a shade stronger than Button given that he is ahead despite carrying a little more fuel (2kg). These two will fight Vettel and Webber for the win and I think the Brawns will come out on top. But they don’t want to lose too much ground in the first stint and they are going to have to deal with Webber, who may play a role for his team mate.

What was interesting was the margin between Vettel and Button was the same in the low fuel Q2 as it was with fuel in Q3 and yet the fuel Button had in Q3 was slowing him down by 4/10ths! So he must have either been sandbagging a bit, carrying more than the minimum of fuel. And yet after the session he himself highlighted the relative Q2 performances.

I think this can be partly explained by the Brawn still not being at its best on low fuel single lap running, whereas the Red Bull, a typical Adrian Newey car, is. The Brawn is happier when it has some fuel in it. Rubens was only 3/10ths slower than Vettel but the extra fuel he was carrying slowed him by 6/10ths, so the Brawn is still 3/10ths faster.

Also impressive was the Toyota of Jarno Trulli, who was seven tenths off Vettel, the exact amount his extra fuel is worth. He will need to make up places at the start if he isto use his strategy to challenge for the win.

Alonso is very light but with the field spreading out in the first ten laps, he’ll be hoping that when he pits early, he can take on a lot of fuel for the middle stint on hard tyres and convert his grid slot into a meaningful result.

The Ferrari of Raikkonen and the McLaren of Hamilton both went heavy, some 30kgs more than Vettel, which is 11 laps worth. Fuel adjusted they are not terribly fast, Raikkonen is 2 secs off Vettel and the extra fuel is worth only 1.05secs.

Source: James Allen's Blog

BBC's fuel adjusted top-ten

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1 Barrichello lap 15
2 Button lap 15
3 Trulli lap 16
4 Vettel lap 10
5 Webber lap 11
6 Alonso lap 8/9
7 Raikkonen lap 19
8 Rosberg lap 12
9 Hamilton lap 20
10 Buemi lap 19

[Skyliner]

Hamilton vs. Heikki

[Skyliner]

Supposedly Trulli has never scored a point in China.

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Fuel weights, spoilered for big whiny babies.


Analysis of the weights by James Allen


BBC's fuel adjusted top-ten

thanks

[More&Faster]

Hamilton vs. Heikki

now that is peculiar

[More&Faster]

What have Honda said about your success this season?
“They have been very complementary. I have had some really nice letters from Fukui-san since the start of the season. They are frustrated they can’t be part of it.”


frustrated? they're probably suicidal

[Skyliner]

now that is peculiar

I think Hamilton is the only one with the new diffuser too.

In fact, I think Alonso has new aero bits but Piquet doesn't. I could be wrong about that one though.

[Skyliner]

thanks

You're welcome.

[vietlol]

waiting for password for justintv

[vietlol]

rain forecast hopefully its same sort of intensity as 06 if it does rain

[DocGolem]

The track is wet and the wind is picking up an hour before race time

[yonson]

RAIN!

[DocGolem]

DC thinks it's going to be raining the whole race distance.

Although for him, race distance is a few laps before he crashes into someone.

[yonson]

DC thinks it's going to be raining the whole race distance.

Although for him, race distance is a few laps before he crashes into someone.

[Skyliner]

This does not bode well for Toyota.

[Skyliner]

You know, I wouldn't mind if Vettel became the youngest F1 champion. Mostly because he seems likable enough, and isn't a gigantic douchenozzle.

[Skyliner]

If Trulli gets taken out in the first corner, I'm going to bed.

[Skyliner]

Massa says, "Patience" to Peter Windsor whilst looking like he wants to strangle him for being a bother.

[DocGolem]

Alonso says that it is getting close to having to start behind the safety car. If he says it's so, it's so.

[vietlol]

Just tuning in, its wet

[DocGolem]

SC Start!

[Robert]