Formula One 2015 Season

[ol' boy]

China F1 2015

Ric 3rd in P2

[Tiny]

FP3 got interesting. Vettel's on their heels & so is Kimi & Daniel.
Looking like a great qualy (coming up next) & race.



Practice 3

China

Pos	No	Name	Team	Best Time	Gap	Laps
1	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:37.615		14
2	6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:37.841	0.226	16
3	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1:38.313	0.698	17
4	7	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1:38.512	0.897	16
5	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	1:39.020	1.405	8
6	26	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull Racing	1:39.106	1.491	14
7	55	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso	1:39.113	1.498	17
8	77	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	1:39.243	1.628	15
9	33	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso	1:39.274	1.659	19
10	8	Romain Grosjean	Lotus	1:39.405	1.790	14
11	19	Felipe Massa	Williams	1:39.410	1.795	17
12	27	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	1:39.513	1.898	14
13	9	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	1:39.559	1.944	18
14	12	Felipe Nasr	Sauber	1:39.591	1.976	19
15	22	Jenson Button	McLaren	1:39.694	2.079	16
16	13	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus	1:39.766	2.151	16
17	11	Sergio Perez	Force India	1:39.781	2.166	17
18	28	Will Stevens	Marussia	1:42.928	5.313	15
19	98	Roberto Merhi	Marussia	1:44.956	7.341	9
20	14	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	No time		1

[ol' boy]

WOW!!!!
Im starting to think the Qualifying is more fun than the race these days!
It probably is

[ol' boy]

Well, not a bad race, but i see what Godzilla means, the good ol days are gone.

Better than the race, was the Post Race Press Conference, bahahahahaa, talk about a couple of spliot women having a handbag fight.
I have never seen 2 people that come 1st and 2nd be so unhappy and ungrateful.... anyone would think they came last.
I reckon if you look closely, Vettel was pissing himself under his breath, there is a smile there that was busting to come out.

[Tiny]

yeah he had the same smirk on his face in the Post Qually interview.

[LeroyPatrol]

If this is the tone of the season I think I am almost over f1.
leroy

[Uncle Fester]

If this is the tone of the season I think I am almost over f1.
leroy

Don't let the media gossip take over you.
I didn't see or hear any of that junk on the German coverage of F1.
All I saw was Hamilton and Rosberg shaking hands after the race but I didn't see the P's and Q's and I am now glad I didn't.

The best driving of the last race were the dog fights between Ricciardo and Ericsson. Luckily they showed a fair bit of that, otherwise I may have nodded off too.
Disappointing the last safety car as I was hoping Kimi Räikkönen would still manage to have a go at Vettel as none of those three in front dared to come too close to each other.
The comment from Rosberg complaining that Hamilton was driving too slow at the earlier stage of the race had me totally puzzled.
Then why the heck didn't he attempt to overtake him instead of whinging that the Hamilton's tailwind would destroy his tyres. Gosh these guys always come up with new stuff... or perhaps Hamilton had a bad case of flatulence.
I am sure Ricciardo wouldn't have given a flying fart about any tailwind

[ol' boy]

How funny are Kimi Räikkönen's media comments, he is a man of very few words, almost like a half asleep teenager.
His Radio comments from car are just as funny also.

[LeroyPatrol]

Leroy

[ol' boy]

Bahahahaah, GOLD, good find Leroy, he's not exactly the Face of your Company type person is he

[Godzilla]

Kimi does not give a Fvck....

[Tiny]

[ol' boy]

He will be well versed if he ever goes to court, he is pretty good at not saying much "this is the first i heard" bahahahah.... plays the dummy very well.



Here are some other Kimi quotes

1. Martin Brundle: “Kimi, you missed the presentation by Pele.”
Kimi : “Yeah.”
Martin: “Will you get over it?”
Kimi: “Yeah. I was having a shit.”

2. Interviewer: ”What makes TAG Heuer special?”
Kimi: “It’s OK.”

3.Interviewer: “What kind of a relationship do you have with Peter Sauber?”
Kimi: “He is my boss.”

4. “I read somewhere that I drive with the luck of a drunk.”

5. “Suddenly the steering wheel was in my hands. I tried to put it back on, but it was too late. I was just wondering where I was going to end up.”

6. “I’d rather be probably out of second and third place so I don’t have to go to the prize-giving.”

7. ”Ah, go and interview Mikko Leppilampi. He likes to talk.”

8. Interviewer: “Is it true that sometimes you’re bored in the car?”
Kimi: “Only when I am in front by a country mile, like in Melbourne last year. Then you are thinking about other things or you’re playing with the buttons on the steering wheel.”

9. ”I’m not interested in what people think about me. I’m not Michael Schumacher.”

10. ”The interesting thing will be to see what the weather will do tomorrow. I lost my mirror during the final qualifying session but didn’t notice it, and it had no effect. Now we will see what happens in the race.”

11. “You don’t drive races on paper.”

12. “Driving is the only thing I love about F1.”

13. Interviewer: “The helmet has a special meaning for many drivers. How important is it to you?”
Kimi: “It protects my head.”

14. “The Constructor’s Championship doesn’t really mean anything to me.”

15. “Coulthard can say what he wants. I’m not interested in what he’s saying.”

16. “Montoya’s comments doesn’t interest me.”

17. “I’m not interested in what Jackie says. He hasn’t got anything to do with me.”

18. “Others can sit in the simulators if they want. I´m here to drive.”

19. Interviewer: “The most exciting moment during the race weekend?”
Kimi: “I think so it’s the race start, always.”
Interviewer: “The most boring?”
Kimi: “Now.”

20. Interviewer: ”Do you have any special rituals when the helmet is concerned like many have?”
Kimi: “I wipe it so that I can see better.”

21. When asked about how his yellow flag affected the other drivers:
Kimi: “I don’t care what happened to the others.”

22. “It’s all the same if it rains or not.”

23. “Ferrari’s own parties are the nicest. There are all the crew and their children. I don’t know exactly what I will do there. Maybe I will be Santa. Other parties are official and boring.”

24. Interviewer: “Kimi, what’s the 5th grid place like?”
Kimi: “It’s the 5th grid place.”

25. Interviewer: “What is your feeling before the race?”
Kimi: “It’s alright.”

26. Hungarian GP 2007:
Kimi: “Boring race.”

27. “My life would be much more easier had I been a f1-driver in the 70’s with the guys. I was definitely born in the wrong era.”

28. “I don’t give a damn about what Trulli says.”

29. ”I’m not going to a language school to learn Italian, that’s not what I came to do at Ferrari.”

30. ”If there’s a red light when you leave the pitlane you have to stop. Then some wooden eye [ Lewis Hamilton] crashes into you and breaks the car.”

31. Talking about Michael Schumacher:
Kimi: “He doesn’t come and tell us drivers anything. And at least I don’t need his advice.”

32. Interviewer: “How does it feels to drive at 300 km/h?”
Kimi: “It feels normal.”

33. ”I have not looked at what everyone else is doing and what teams are running, so we are just doing our own thing.”

[Uncle Fester]

Yeah, Kimi is awesome. Thanks for those quotes, OB

These are my favourites:

19. Interviewer: “The most exciting moment during the race weekend?”
Kimi: “I think so it’s the race start, always.”
Interviewer: “The most boring?”
Kimi: “Now.”

20. Interviewer: ”Do you have any special rituals when the helmet is concerned like many have?”
Kimi: “I wipe it so that I can see better.”

32. Interviewer: “How does it feels to drive at 300 km/h?”
Kimi: “It feels normal.”

and this pretty much sums it up:
9. ”I’m not interested in what people think about me. I’m not Michael Schumacher.”

[Tiny]

Looks interesting for qualifying.

Bahrain

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Laps
1	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:33.928	1:32.669	1:32.571	16
2	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1:34.919	1:33.623	1:32.982	12
3	6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:34.398	1:33.878	1:33.129	16
4	7	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1:34.568	1:33.540	1:33.227	15
5	77	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	1:34.161	1:33.897	1:33.381	16
6	19	Felipe Massa	Williams	1:34.488	1:33.551	1:33.744	16
7	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	1:34.691	1:34.403	1:33.832	15
8	27	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	1:35.653	1:34.613	1:34.450	15
9	55	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso	1:35.371	1:34.641	1:34.462	18
10	8	Romain Grosjean	Lotus	1:35.007	1:34.123	1:34.484	20
11	11	Sergio Perez	Force India	1:35.451	1:34.704		12
12	12	Felipe Nasr	Sauber	1:35.310	1:34.737		9
13	9	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	1:35.438	1:35.034		9
14	14	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	1:35.205	1:35.039		10
15	33	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso	1:35.611	1:35.103		14
16	13	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus	1:35.677			7
17	26	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull Racing	1:35.800			6
18	28	Will Stevens	Marussia	1:38.713			6
19	98	Roberto Merhi	Marussia	1:39.722			6
	22	Jenson Button	McLaren	DNS			1

[Tiny]

Well, the beginning & end were interesting & some bits of the middle, however the MotoGp & SBK made it look boring in comparison.

Race result;

Bahrain

1	Lewis Hamilton	GBR	Mercedes	105.809	25
2	Kimi Räikkönen	FIN	Ferrari	+3.38s	18
3	Nico Rosberg	GER	Mercedes	+6.033s	15
4	Valtteri Bottas	FIN	Williams	+42.957s	12
5	Sebastian Vettel	GER	Ferrari	+43.989s	10
6	Daniel Ricciardo	AUS	Red Bull	+61.751s	8
7	Romain Grosjean	FRA	Lotus	+84.763s	6
8	Sergio Perez	MEX	Force India	+1 lap	4
9	Daniil Kvyat	RUS	Red Bull	+1 lap	2
10	Felipe Massa	BRA	Williams	+1 lap	1
11	Fernando Alonso	ESP	McLaren	+1 lap	0
12	Felipe Nasr	BRA	Sauber	+1 lap	0
13	Nico Hulkenberg	GER	Force India	+1 lap	0
14	Marcus Ericsson	SWE	Sauber	+1 lap	0
15	Pastor Maldonado	VEN	Lotus	+1 lap	0
16	Will Stevens	GBR	Marussia	+2 laps	0
17	Roberto Merhi	ESP	Marussia	+3 laps	0
RT	Max Verstappen	NED	Toro Rosso	DNF	0
RT	Carlos Sainz	ESP	Toro Rosso	DNF	0
DNS	Jenson Button	GBR	McLaren	DNS	0

Fastest lap - Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari, 1m 36.311s (lap 42)

[Bigfella237]

And check-off yet another Renault ICE for Ricciardo, the third for this season already... and how lucky was he to save sixth place, they'd been skipping practice laps trying to save mileage on the engine and the thing explodes metres before the finish line!



When is somebody gonna start handing out ass-kickings in frog-land?

[Uncle Fester]

Was an enjoyable race. Tyre strategy definitely helped Kimi, but I think his driving skills in the curves may have given him the edge over the normally more powerful Mercedes.
I really don't buy the excuse from Mercedes that a bit of back bench traffic f-d up Rosberg brakes. Imagine what Vettel's poor brakes must of suffered in his late curve braking that got him no where nearer to Bottas.
Kimi got a deserved second, to me it looked like he would have got Rosberg then in the last lap even without the brake 'failure'.

[Tiny]

F1 tonight, lets go,
Qualifying

Spain

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Laps
1	6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:26.490s	1:25.166s	1:24.681s	18
2	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:26.382s	1:25.740s	1:24.948s	17
3	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1:27.534s	1:26.167s	1:25.458s	15
4	77	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	1:27.262s	1:26.197s	1:25.694s	16
5	55	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso	1:26.773s	1:26.475s	1:26.136s	17
6	33	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso	1:27.393s	1:26.441s	1:26.249s	20
7	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:26.637s	1:26.016s	1:26.414s	16
8	26	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull	1:27.833s	1:26.889s	1:26.629s	16
9	19	Felipe Massa	Williams	1:27.165s	1:26.147s	1:26.757s	16
10	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull	1:27.611s	1:26.692s	1:26.770s	16
11	8	Romain Grosjean	Lotus	1:27.383s	1:27.375s		13
12	13	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus	1:27.281s	1:27.450s		13
13	14	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	1:27.941s	1:27.760s		11
14	22	Jenson Button	McLaren	1:27.813s	1:27.854s		12
15	12	Felipe Nasr	Sauber	1:27.625s	1:28.005s		14
16	9	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	1:28.112s			6
17	27	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	1:28.365s			6
18	11	Sergio Perez	Force India	1:28.442s			7
19	28	Will Stevens	Marussia	1:31.200s			6
20	98	Roberto Merhi	Marussia	1:32.038s			4

Q1 107% Time: 1:32.428

[Tiny]

Not an extremely exciting race, however good entertainment with strategies coming into play.


Race

Spain

Pos.	Driver	Country	Team	Time	Points
1	Nico Rosberg	GER	Mercedes	1:41:12.555s	25
2	Lewis Hamilton	GBR	Mercedes	17.551s	18
3	Sebastian Vettel	GER	Ferrari	45.342s	15
4	Valtteri Bottas	FIN	Williams	59.217s	12
5	Kimi Räikkönen	FIN	Ferrari	60.002s	10
6	Felipe Massa	BRA	Williams	81.314s	8
7	Daniel Ricciardo	AUS	Red Bull	1 lap	6
8	Romain Grosjean	FRA	Lotus	1 lap	4
9	Carlos Sainz	ESP	Toro Rosso	1 lap	2
10	Daniil Kvyat	RUS	Red Bull	1 lap	1
11	Max Verstappen	NED	Toro Rosso	1 lap	0
12	Felipe Nasr	BRA	Sauber	1 lap	0
13	Sergio Perez	MEX	Force India	1 lap	0
14	Marcus Ericsson	SWE	Sauber	1 lap	0
15	Nico Hulkenberg	GER	Force India	1 lap	0
16	Jenson Button	GBR	McLaren	1 lap	0
17	Will Stevens	GBR	Marussia	3 laps	0
18	Roberto Merhi	ESP	Marussia	4 laps	0
RT	Pastor Maldonado	VEN	Lotus	DNF	0
RT	Fernando Alonso	ESP	McLaren	DNF	0

Fastest lap - Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, 1m 28.270s (lap 54)