Red Bull Give You Wings, then takes one away.
The second version of the podcast (first one got recorded, computer crashed and we thought it best to give the better version to the other team).
But we discuss not being at the British Grand Prix, Red Bull politics, Alonso’s safety messages, Stirling Moss falling over and PATRICK STEWART WHISPERING
They try to avoid talking about a certain Red Bull crash for as long as we can by discussing the “INFAMOUS TURN 8″, the cunt of the week, lotus stealing and Kevin and Terry doing some lip reading
The rain in Malaysia falls mainly on the qualifying. Kevin and Terry discuss Mark Webber bottling it, FIA press accreditation rejection and the sweat that’s pouring from Eddie Jordan.
Lewis Hamilton is treating his McLaren team like a girlfriend he has annoyed. After getting ratty after the Australian Grand Prix he is now buying flowers, grovelling and topping the practice sheets to get back in their good books.
Webber has carried on the Red Bull’s unlucky streak with a possible engine failure, and so far the rain hasn’t bothered them all that much. But the option tyres are looking to be a bit iffy
Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:34.921 19
2. Rosberg Mercedes 1:35.106 + 0.185 19
3. Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:35.207 + 0.286 25
4. Schumacher Mercedes 1:35.225 + 0.304 14
5. Kubica Renault 1:35.402 + 0.481 22
6. Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:35.479 + 0.558 22
7. Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:35.955 + 1.034 20
8. Alonso Ferrari 1:35.959 + 1.038 20
9. Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:35.043 + 1.122 19
10. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:36.100 + 1.179 20
11. Massa Ferrari 1:36.451 + 1.530 22
12. Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1:36.503 + 1.582 28
13. Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:36.645 + 1.724 18
14. Petrov Renault 1:36.712 + 1.791 9
15. di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1:36.891 + 1.970 25
16. de la Rosa Sauber-Ferrari 1:36.899 + 1.978 24
17. Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 1:37.802 + 2.881 27
18. Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1:38.278 + 3.357 18
19. Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 1:39.460 + 4.539 21
20. Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1:39.755 + 4.834 17
21. di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 1:40.159 + 5.238 25
22. Fauzy Lotus-Cosworth 1:40.721 + 5.800 19
23. Senna HRT-Cosworth 1:41.832 + 6.911 27
Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:34.175 27
2. Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:34.441 + 0.266 28
3. Rosberg Mercedes 1:34.443 + 0.268 30
4. Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:34.538 + 0.363 24
5. Schumacher Mercedes 1:34.674 + 0.499 30
6. Kubica Renault 1:35.148 + 0.973 34
7. Alonso Ferrari 1:35.581 + 1.406 34
8. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:35.660 + 1.485 39
9. Petrov Renault 1:35.872 + 1.697 20
10. Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:35.957 + 1.782 32
11. Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1:36.018 + 1.843 38
12. Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 1:36.221 + 2.046 34
13. de la Rosa Sauber-Ferrari 1:36.325 + 2.150 33
14. Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:36.325 + 2.150 39
15. Massa Ferrari 1:36.602 + 2.427 30
16. Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1:36.813 + 2.638 26
17. Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 1:37.415 + 3.240 19
18. Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 1:38.454 + 4.279 34
19. Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 1:38.530 + 4.355 32
20. Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:38.786 + 4.558 13
21. Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1:39.061 + 4.886 23
22. di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 1:39.158 + 4.983 29
23. Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 1:41.084 + 6.909 27
24. Senna HRT-Cosworth 1:41.481 + 7.306 32
24. Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 1:41.966 + 7.045 24
Alonso has gone out and won his first race for Ferrari, putting him right up there with some of the Prancing Horse greats (and Raikkonen) and helping to erase last years horrible anus for the team.
A Ferrari 1-2 was a shot in the arm for them, but mostly came at the expense of Vettel who had to drive around in car so tightly packaged it has to breathe in just to get the engine cover on and a broken spark plug acted like a butt plug for Seb*
But the main story of day really was that nothing really happened.
After a couple of great seasons with wonderful racing (sometimes) and going down to the wire, the changes to refueling and tyres seem to have not only spread the field right back out but also taught all the drivers to back off.
In what has been lauded (rightfully) as the most exciting season ever, with four champions on the grid, the cars close etc, etc. it’s hard to see quite how they’ve made it so dull.
Granted, Bahrain is not the best track in the world for overtaking anyway, but this race was hardly a fitting season opener for a season like this.
The refueling ban should have added a whole extra element of strategy to the randomness of the outcome and calls for people to pit, would the cleverer teams make good calls and cut that horrible overtaking in the pitlane nonsense?
No, the only significant overtaking (Vettel aside) was in the pits.
So now, running around like a chicken with its head cut off and to change the rules now is going to be knee jerk.But the problem perhaps is that the tyres are too good, Bridgestone need to add in some bits of glass to the mix or something to spark up the racing. As it stands the cars can all sail around for ages yet not want to go too fast in case they ruin the tyres.
It’s yet again the shortsightedness of the rulemakers, on paper tyres that fuck up are good for the show as people will have to pit more, in practice the teams will do their utmost to make sure they don’t fuck up the tyres. This was the kind of race where I was willing for a NASCAR style pace car to come up just to try and bunch up the pack.
The new teams did their bit, with only Pretend Lotus finishing. Showing that they may well be a proper midfield team by year end.
Can’t help but feel that they’ve gone and ruined F1, and only use hopeless addicts will stay tuned?
*this assuming that Seb doesn’t like butt plugs, if he does then this analogy doesn’t work so well.
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