Alonso returns home and Kevin and Terry revert to the familiar homely feeling of calling him the c-word. Webber is homesick and takes a trip down under, Alonso’s engineer is the most italian person ever and did Hamilton slow or speed up?
Another tardy late podcast as Kevin has been sunning it in Spain.
They discuss the safety first of Mark Webber, Alonso cracking his chassis, and Rosberg getting angry!
After an age, the hungarian grand prix podcast finally goes up.
The sound quality is bad, we lost one version of it and we forgot most of what happened.
Just like Massa…
Williams are still keeping up with the practice beating game, this time getting a 1-2 for Rosberg and Nakajima.
Previous experience tells us that this will mean utterly nothing, but they too have a lot of new bits on the car and this 1-2 is enough to leave me to leave rosberg on my fantasy F1.
We will soon find out if this was foolish or not.
Alonso got up to third, and we can expect his car to be empty but for some fuel fumes and a lot of love come qualifying.
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Rosberg Williams-Toyota (B) 1:21.588 43 2. Nakajima Williams-Toyota (B) 1:21.740 + 0.152 40 3. Alonso Renault (B) 1:21.781 + 0.193 36 4. Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes (B) 1:21.843 + 0.255 39 5. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:22.027 + 0.439 37 6. Button Brawn-Mercedes (B) 1:22.052 + 0.464 35 7. Vettel Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:22.082 + 0.494 45 8. Piquet Renault (B) 1:22.349 + 0.761 26 9. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:22.571 + 0.983 17 10. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) 1:22.599 + 1.011 40 11. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:22.615 + 1.027 30 12. Fisichella Force India-Mercedes (B) 1:22.670 + 1.082 32 13. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:22.809 + 1.221 31 14. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:22.876 + 1.288 29 15. Massa Ferrari (B) 1:22.878 + 1.290 35 16. Kubica BMW-Sauber (B) 1:22.948 + 1.360 40 17. Heidfeld BMW-Sauber (B) 1:23.173 + 1.585 39 18. Glock Toyota (B) 1:23.360 + 1.772 46 19. Trulli Toyota (B) 1:23.623 + 2.035 47 20. Sutil Force India-Mercedes (B)
Isn’t this just getting a little embarrassing for Rosberg and Williams? Yet again another top of the timesheets in a way that always fails to convert to quali or race pace.
We’re starting to wonder if the other teams go slow on purpose in some big practical joke. “aha, nico, you weren’t fastest at all – wankerrrr”
Conversely Alonso spent the whole practice dead last, making Piquet believe for a precious few minutes that maybe he was good after all, but then Fernando blitzed round in a 1:33 and Nelson knew he was totally fucked
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Rosberg Williams-Toyota (B) 1:33.339 36 2. Alonso Renault (B) 1:33.530 + 0.191 25 3. Trulli Toyota (B) 1:33.616 + 0.277 37 4. Vettel Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:33.661 + 0.322 29 5. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:33.676 + 0.337 32 6. Button Brawn-Mercedes (B) 1:33.694 + 0.355 35 7. Sutil Force India-Mercedes (B) 1:33.763 + 0.424 30 8. Glock Toyota (B) 1:33.764 + 0.425 37 9. Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes (B) 1:33.885 + 0.546 30 10. Nakajima Williams-Toyota (B) 1:33.899 + 0.560 36 11. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:33.994 + 0.655 30 12. Fisichella Force India-Mercedes (B) 1:34.025 + 0.686 23 13. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:34.127 + 0.788 37 14. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:34.366 + 1.027 26 15. Piquet Renault (B) 1:34.411 + 1.072 29 16. Massa Ferrari (B) 1:34.564 + 1.225 34 17. Kubica BMW-Sauber (B) 1:34.605 + 1.266 31 18. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) 1:34.670 + 1.331 28 19. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:34.764 + 1.425 35 20. Heidfeld BMW-Sauber (B) 1:34.790 + 1.451 33
Rosberg banged it back up to the top, yet again giving us hope of a proper Williams revival. but first he took up his duties as part of the F1 re-enactment society by sliding off into the Super Bonus Mega Gravel Trap in the pitlane just like Lewis Hamilton did in 2007 to lose the championship.
The only other notables were the lack of running from both the Red Bulls and Alonso in the Renault. The Red Bull cars have been crippled by some kind of drive shaft thing that apparently costs fuck all but is shit and is breaking things. Sorry if you can’t keep up with the technical jargons there.
So Red Bull’s and Alonso must therefore be fucked for qualifying, that is all I know (and I am not writing this up after qualifying to make me look stupid or clever… yes I am doing exactly that).
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:36.133 17 2. Trulli Toyota 1:36.272 + 0.139 22 3. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:36.330 + 0.197 17 4. Button Brawn GP-Mercedes 1:36.463 + 0.330 16 5. Piquet Renault 1:36.464 + 0.331 16 6. Massa Ferrari 1:36.528 + 0.395 18 7. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:36.547 + 0.414 13 8. Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:36.560 + 0.427 17 9. Raikkonen Ferrari 1:36.568 + 0.435 17 10. Barrichello Brawn GP-Mercedes 1:36.642 + 0.509 17 11. Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:36.702 + 0.569 14 12. Kubica BMW Sauber 1:36.742 + 0.609 14 13. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:36.742 + 0.609 16 14. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:36.834 + 0.701 17 15. Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:37.330 + 1.197 8 16. Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:37.349 + 1.216 7 17. Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:37.534 + 1.401 17 18. Fisichella Force India-Mercedes 1:37.732 + 1.599 18 19. Alonso Renault 1:38.003 + 1.870 6 20. Glock Toyota 1:39.110 + 2.977 6
The official F1 website has released extra footage of three of the contentious incidents from Sundays Grand Prix watch them here. Obviously you should make your own mind up but for me the most important on board shots from Bourdais car are not shown.
Kevin & Terry got up early and watched the race and then tiredly talk about this eventful Japanese Grand Prix, Alonso’s second win of the season and Hamilton using the championship lead as an excuse to fuck it all up (again)
Kevin and Terry are eating Singapore Noodles from Marks & Spencer (with their eyes shut) to pay tribute to Formula One’s first ever night race.
And what a doozy, with Alonso become podcast hero number one, despite what we said last year. And Massa providing more comedy than either of us can manage on our circuit.
The gloves designed by Honda’s aero team, Wurz in a medical car, Piquet being reversed psychologied into the wall and Hamilton having just enough of a championship lead to still be able to fuck it up.
The angry episode.
Kevin and Terry both get some stuff off their chests whilst discussing the turkish grand prix, namely Hamilton being ad-sucking-cock-man and the crazy frog selling out.
Also Honda are nice to the boys and in return they slag off barrichello and warm to alonso and get scared of rabid wild dogs