[30stone]

Go button.

Man was good.

Props, although it was lucky the other guy crashed.. so he got into first, he got himself into a good position and to my knowledge.. he produced fastest lap?

[Wildcat!]

Yeah, I think Button did get the fastest lap! I give him props because he is the one who decided to come in for the tire change in the beginning, and that pretty much won him the race. ANd he was able to maintain them till the end. Mclaren did make a huge mistake though bringing Lewis in for a third set of tires, and he was really not happy about it! Like he said, no one in the top 6 changed tires, but him.

[Iceman]

Lewis did okay to salvage them points he got.....so did webber actually....

[pinkmichk]

i think it was actually webber with fastest lap in end but i may be wrong
also that first lap smash button caused (you know the one that made alonso end up wrong way) had that been lewis the FIA would have been all over his arse before he'd finished that lap button is left too it with nothing

[Iceman]

yep webber got fastest lap!

[Wildcat!]

It was a great race, but Lewis Needs to chill. Probably in the heat of the moment, but he needs to learn not to call out his team for getting a strategy wrong. HE can do that behind closed doors, not in interviews. Just acknowleged the strategy didnt work out, and leave it at that. Then give an ear full to that White wash or whatever guy!

Anyways, growing pains! He is gonna win a race soon enough!

[pinkmichk]

i've said it all weekend if he still had his dad as manager and thus trackside i dont think he would be so hot headed his dad kept him grounded imo

[Iceman]

Hard to think that he died 16 years ago, wonder what would have become of him? also would Schumacher and the rest have stood a chance against him?

Youtube video

what a man.

[30stone]

Legend.

Saved the blokes life when no one else stopped to help.

[Iceman]

Yeah, he was such a great man outside of the car aswell as inside, such a tragic way to go.

[Iceman]

Ayrton Senna would have been 50 today. I think not a race goes by without someone in the paddock talking about Senna, the triple world champion who died in a crash at Imola in 1994, and his spirit is certainly still present throughout the series.

Now, of course, his nephew Bruno Senna has arrived in Formula One. I was thinking while interviewing Bruno in Bahrain during the press scrum after his first day in the F1 car, about the huge contrast to his uncle’s career in the series. That is to say, Bruno was some 12 or so seconds off the fastest time in his first practice session in his new Hispania car in what felt hardly just for such a name. But then, as I saw the way Senna spoke about his day, and the guts and simplicity with which he has accepted to start off in such difficult circumstances, I felt complete respect for him.

And I can only imagine how his uncle would be coaching him and helping and encouraging him. And instead of the seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher now racing, perhaps history would have been completely different. Schumacher is the first to say that he would not necessarily have won that first title, at least, had Senna not died on May 1, 1994, at Imola in a Williams that would by the end of the season have regained much of its former strength.

[Iceman]

Youtube video

[Iceman]

Fri 02 April 2010
Practice 1 03:00 - 04:30
Practice 2 07:00 - 08:30

Sat 03 April 2010
Practice 3 06:00 - 07:00
Qualifying 09:00

Sun 04 April 2010
Race 09:00

Round 3 of 19

[pinkmichk]

cant wait although touring car season also kicks off next week so i may have to flick between or set up 2 tvs again

[30stone]

Originally Posted by pinkmichk

cant wait although touring car season also kicks off next week so i may have to flick between or set up 2 tvs again

Can't you record one?

[Iceman]

Originally Posted by 30stone

Can't you record one?

or do the double tv thing, thats what i do!

[Iceman]

Practice 1 FRI 03:00
Practice 2 FRI 07:00
Practice 3 SAT 06:00
Qualifying SAT 09:00
Race SUN 09:00


Thunderstorms forecast for Practice 1.

[Iceman]

MICHAEL SCHUMACHER insists there is "more to come" following a poor start to his Formula One comeback.

The seven-times world champion was heavily criticised after his 10th-place finish in Sunday's Australian Grand Prix.

After an early pit stop for a new nose for his Mercedes, the 41-year-old struggled to make up lost ground.

At one point Schumacher was embarrassingly overtaken by Virgin Racing's Timo Glock, which even prompted a hurry-up from race engineer Andrew Shovlin.

Schumacher has also been out-qualified and out-performed by team-mate Nico Rosberg in the opening two races.

But the German said: "I have taken a lot of positives from the race weekend in Melbourne.

"Whilst it might not be evident at first sight, when you look into the weekend more deeply, we did make some real improvements and have good reasons to be satisfied, just not from the actual result obviously.

"Analysing qualifying, both Nico and I could have been two or three places higher. With hindsight, my set-up was too conservative and too much focused on the race.

"Those better positions would have enabled us to fight closer to the front on Sunday.

"All of this means we are not too far away and I am quite confident there will be more to come."

Schumacher heads to Malaysia this week knowing a big improvement is needed.

He added: "We know we have clearly improved our pace since Bahrain which is a good feeling.

"It was a lot of fun fighting it out on the track in Melbourne, even if it was just for one point.

"But I will enjoy fighting again in Sepang."

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz0jhYV6SvY

[Wildcat!]

Back to back weekend races! I like that!

[Iceman]

Originally Posted by Wildcat!

Back to back weekend races! I like that!

yeah cant wait for europe though......19 races this year....not even begun, once we hit europe car development we'll see whos on top.....pssssssttttt it will be mercedes, you heard it here first!

[pinkmichk]

it'll be double tvs as i only have freeview there isnt much overlap on this race day but there will be a big one later in year
how many laps do we reckon we will get til its red flagged cos weather forecasts look dreadful again and if i wanted to watch powerboat racing over f1 racing i would do i reckon we will get 12 laps before its flagged

[Claymores]

If I achieve a perfect 0 with fewest kms covered (sweepstake Kobayashi) can I claim a hattrick?!

Is there a booby prize in the sweepstake Eion? LOL

[Iceman]

Originally Posted by pinkmichk

it'll be double tvs as i only have freeview there isnt much overlap on this race day but there will be a big one later in year
how many laps do we reckon we will get til its red flagged cos weather forecasts look dreadful again and if i wanted to watch powerboat racing over f1 racing i would do i reckon we will get 12 laps before its flagged

10 laps under safety car start then 4 laps normal race, red flag, schumacher win

[Iceman]

Practice 1 Results

1. Lewis Hamilton
2. Nico Rosberg
3. Jenson Button
4. Michael Schumacher
5. Robert Kubica
6. Mark Webber
7. Adrian Sutil
8. Fernando Alonso
9. Sebastian Vettel
10. Sebastien Buemi
11. Felipe Massa
12. Kamui Kobayashi
13. Jaime Alguersuari
14. Vitaly Petrov
15. Paul di Resta
16. Pedro de la Rosa
17. Nico Hulkenberg
18. Rubens Barrichello
19. Jarno Trulli
20. Timo Glock
21. Lucas di Grassi
22. Fairuz Fauzy
23. Bruno Senna
24. Karun Chandhok

[Iceman]

Practice 2 Results

1. Lewis Hamilton
2. Sebastian Vettel
3. Nico Rosberg
4. Jenson Button
5. Michael Schumacher
6. Robert Kubica
7. Fernando Alonso
8. Sebastien Buemi
9. Vitaly Petrov
10. Adrian Sutil
11. Kamui Kobayashi
12. Vitantonio Liuzzi
13. Pedro de la Rosa
14. Jaime Alguersuari
15. Felipe Massa
16. Rubens Barrichello
17. Nico Hulkenberg
18. Jarno Trulli
19. Heikki Kovalainen
20. Mark Webber
21. Timo Glock
22. Lucas di Grassi
23. Karun Chandhok
24. Bruno Senna