Terry and Kevin try to say nice things about the good work done by Alonso as well as welcoming back Nick Heidfeld to the fold and technically explaining the differing types of wing used at Monza with singing.
Oh, and Terry tries to shift a sofa – how many other f1 podcasts can say that?
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!
The dullest race of the year wasn’t quite as dull as it always is. But Terry and Kevin squeeze some life out of Nick Fry’s balls and muck about like it’s the last day of term.
Massa’s ability is called into question, Ferrari’s F-duct is laughed at, Jenson gets the freedom of Frome, Terry does not get the same treatment from his home town.
Chandok gets docked points for the Anthony Davidson Underdog Trophy Award and Lewis ruins his tyres again as Mr boring wins the race that suits him most and the boys uncover the fact that Eddie Jordan did not run the marathon
Badoer lives up to the first three letters of his name as Kimi renders him unable to blame the car.
Fisichella has evidently sold his soul to the devil and Renault shout “Butter fingers” after every pitstop
Oh, and Kevin and Terry are getting very excited about going to the McLaren HQ/Willy Wonkas Chocolate factory
autosport.com > Ferrari threatens to leave F1 in 2010
And so it properly begins, the big guns at ferrari have unzipped their tailored suits and whacked their combined cocks onto the desk and now are waiting for bert and ernie to do the same.
Saying that they will not enter in 2010 if the proposed two tier budget goes ahead (and not at all to do with the fact that they’ve forgotten how to build good cars) the Ferrari management have tried to undo the unity of FOTA in one go.
Bernie, Max… your turn
We’re getting all nostalgic here at anotherf1podcast, today’s practice felt all a bit 2008, with the Ferrari’s locking the top two positions and some mercedes powered cars on 3 and 4.
But obviously, that’s not really the case, Ferrari probably haven’t got enough to actually lock off the front of the actual grid later, but there’s definitely been an improvement from the red cars.
Heidfeld was the talk of the town after thwacking his BMW into a wall, giving payback to any of his engineers who muttered “consistent” under their breath whenever he walks past.
The Brawns and Red Bulls still seem to be the cars that’ll have a good quali, and a banzai alonso…
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Massa Ferrari (B) 1:20.553 18 2. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) 1:20.635 + 0.082 22 3. Button Brawn-Mercedes (B) 1:21.050 + 0.497 19 4. Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes (B) 1:21.163 + 0.610 17 5. Kubica BMW Sauber (B) 1:21.239 + 0.686 21 6. Trulli Toyota (B) 1:21.256 + 0.703 23 7. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:21.346 + 0.793 16 8. Glock Toyota (B) 1:21.377 + 0.824 26 9. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:21.424 + 0.871 19 10. Alonso Renault (B) 1:21.499 + 0.946 17 11. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:21.519 + 0.966 15 12. Rosberg Williams-Toyota (B) 1:21.594 + 1.041 20 13. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:21.629 + 1.076 19 14. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:21.649 + 1.096 19 15. Piquet Renault (B) 1:21.685 + 1.132 18 16. Vettel Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:21.689 + 1.136 18 17. Fisichella Force India-Mercedes (B) 1:21.909 + 1.356 19 18. Nakajima Williams-Toyota (B) 1:22.043 + 1.490 19 19. Sutil Force India-Mercedes (B) 1:22.232 + 1.679 19 20. Heidfeld BMW Sauber (B) 1:23.457 + 2.904 8
What with all the teams having big updates and diffusers, it was kind of expected that this first practice would be yet another shakeup of the already shaky new world order
But it didn’t really happen.
The final result show a glimmer of hope for the disastrous BMW-Sauber season, but it looks, despite a new nose job, that it was just a light fuel run to trick the BMW board into thinking that everything is going ok, honest
Button in his Brawn seems to have the measure of the weekend whereas both McLaren and Ferrari’s changes either haven’t had much effect, or they be hustling…
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Button Brawn-Mercedes (B) 1:21.799 21 2. Trulli Toyota (B) 1:22.154 + 0.355 30 3. Kubica BMW-Sauber (B) 1:22.221 + 0.422 24 4. Heidfeld BMW-Sauber (B) 1:22.658 + 0.859 14 5. Nakajima Williams-Toyota (B) 1:22.659 + 0.860 24 6. Rosberg Williams-Toyota (B) 1:22.667 + 0.868 26 7. Piquet Renault (B) 1:22.753 + 0.954 24 8. Glock Toyota (B) 1:22.828 + 1.029 29 9. Massa Ferrari (B) 1:22.855 + 1.056 15 10. Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes (B) 1:22.859 + 1.060 24 11. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) 1:22.873 + 1.074 20 12. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:22.934 + 1.135 25 13. Vettel Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:22.959 + 1.160 24 14. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:23.077 + 1.278 21 15. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:23.088 + 1.289 30 16. Fisichella Force India-Mercedes (B) 1:23.089 + 1.290 25 17. Alonso Renault (B) 1:23.157 + 1.358 18 18. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:23.185 + 1.386 31 19. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:23.522 + 1.723 17 20. Sutil Force India-Mercedes (B) 1:23.536 + 1.737 19
Glock pushed the Toyota to the top of the list in the final practice for the race and then promptly broke his car. Such is the Toyota way.
The Ferraris and McLarens seem to be more on the pace this weekend, and the Brawns and Red Bulls slightly more off it.
this season might well be shaping up to pretty interesting.
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Glock Toyota 1:32.605 16 2. Massa Ferrari 1:32.728 + 0.123 20 3. Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:32.906 + 0.301 18 4. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:32.975 + 0.370 16 5. Raikkonen Ferrari 1:32.986 + 0.381 18 6. Piquet Renault 1:33.176 + 0.571 19 7. Kubica BMW Sauber 1:33.195 + 0.590 13 8. Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:33.302 + 0.697 17 9. Trulli Toyota 1:33.397 + 0.792 19 10. Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:33.415 + 0.810 14 11. Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:33.443 + 0.838 16 12. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:33.478 + 0.873 12 13. Alonso Renault 1:33.482 + 0.877 13 14. Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:33.534 + 0.929 17 15. Button Brawn GP-Mercedes 1:33.586 + 0.981 17 16. Barrichello Brawn GP-Mercedes 1:33.686 + 1.081 17 17. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:33.720 + 1.115 15 18. Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:33.726 + 1.121 14 19. Fisichella Force India-Mercedes 1:33.962 + 1.357 15 20. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:34.990 + 2.385 7
Ferrari’s incessant whining was drowning out even the awful music the Chinese race organisers where playing to try and distract from the fact the the grandstands had 12 people in them.
The whining failed to deliver any results as Red Bull got their first pole position (in a car with neither fancy diffusers nor KERS (pronounced KERS)) in the shape of 8 month old Sebastian Vettel beating his older team-mate Mark Webber (or Pops) to 3rd place.
Alonso came from precisely nowhere to split the Bulls in his Renault with a hastily sellotaped on double diffuser.
Hamilton got into the top 10, as did Raikkonen. But both their team-mates failed miserably.
But this weeks prize to dufus of qualifying has to go to Kubica who just didn’t really bother and popped home in Q3.
Pos Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Laps 1. Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:36.565 1:35.130 1:36.184 11 2. Alonso Renault 1:36.443 1:35.803 1:36.381 21 3. Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:35.751 1:35.173 1:36.466 19 4. Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes 1:35.701 1:35.503 1:36.493 21 5. Button Brawn-Mercedes 1:35.533 1:35.556 1:36.532 19 6. Trulli Toyota 1:36.308 1:35.645 1:36.835 21 7. Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:35.941 1:35.809 1:37.397 23 8. Raikkonen Ferrari 1:36.137 1:35.856 1:38.089 19 9. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:35.776 1:35.740 1:38.595 17 10. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:36.284 1:35.965 1:39.321 21 11. Heidfeld BMW-Sauber 1:36.525 1:35.975 14 12. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:36.646 1:36.032 10 13. Massa Ferrari 1:36.178 1:36.033 11 14. Glock Toyota 1:36.364 1:36.066 14 15. Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:36.673 1:36.193 13 16. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:36.906 10 17. Piquet Renault 1:36.908 10 18. Kubica BMW-Sauber 1:36.966 8 19. Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:37.669 10 20. Fisichella Force India-Mercedes 1:37.672 10
Button, having had a nasty memory of not being in the lead after first practice, whacked his now totally legal BrawnGP car to the top of the list of cars ordered by lap times in the second practice on the Chinese GP’s second friday practice.
The Red Bull’s also looked strong, despite Ferrari still grumbling in the background that there was no point in any non diffuser car even bothering to turn up and that they were going home, despite never actually doing so.
Rosberg kept up the new tradition of looking great on the friday as the New World Order regained its senses and put Hamilton back down to 13th.
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Button Brawn-Mercedes 1:35.679 35 2. Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:35.704 + 0.025 36 3. Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes 1:35.881 + 0.202 35 4. Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:36.105 + 0.426 32 5. Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:36.167 + 0.488 22 6. Trulli Toyota 1:36.217 + 0.538 42 7. Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:36.377 + 0.698 32 8. Glock Toyota 1:36.548 + 0.869 40 9. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:36.674 + 0.995 34 10. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:36.800 + 1.121 34 11. Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:36.829 + 1.150 30 12. Massa Ferrari 1:36.847 + 1.168 34 13. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:36.941 + 1.262 28 14. Raikkonen Ferrari 1:37.054 + 1.375 33 15. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:37.219 + 1.540 34 16. Piquet Renault 1:37.273 + 1.594 36 17. Kubica BMW-Sauber 1:37.491 + 1.812 34 18. Heidfeld BMW-Sauber 1:37.544 + 1.865 28 19. Alonso Renault 1:37.638 + 1.959 28 20. Fisichella Force India-Mercedes 1:37.750 + 2.071 31