FIA Formula 1 Championship 2012

[Retz]

racetime baby! sunny weather today drivers opt using soft tyres.

[Verbl Kint]

Turns out Vettel was really given the 20 second penalty, demoting him to 5th and robbing him of 8 points from the standings.

There's always the next race...

It was pretty obvious that Vettel did overtake outside the track. Raikkonen gets a podium which the Lotus team richly deserve.

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[CoDer]

Another ouch to Vettel.

Looks like ferrari got a good car. The spaniard will cruise to the Championship if they keep this up. Forget about Massa thought, ferrari only got one boy racer in their team.

[Monseratto]

After the 20 second penalty has been handed out. Still same standings.



Kimi, despite never winning a GP, has overtaken Lewis...

Hope he does one better next time.

[CVT]

Puzzling move (for my inexperienced observation) by Mercedes GP.... MS changed tyres (from H to S) while he was running 5th behind KR, with ~13(?) laps to go.

This resulted to KK and SP passing him (and relegating him to 7th)... And although he was setting the fastest laps, these were not good enough as they were only about 0.5sec faster than the rest....So, he was really struggling to overtake SP during the last laps...

Unless he had severe tyre degradation when they changed tyres, then IMO, it was a bad call by Mercedes GP.

16.3K:shower:

[Ry_Tower]

Mukhang maganda na position ni FA ah. hmm

[fourtheboys96]

Third win for the season by Alonso!
Alonso now with a 34 point championship lead in a tight race among closely matched front running cars.
Vettel came in second but given a 20sec penalty for passing by Button out of the racetrack.

Regarding MSC and tire change, Canada could be in their minds. The reason they use the word "cliff" to describe the tyres' performance is due to the sudden drop in lap times. We are talking seconds or maybe two slower per lap on very old tyres. Canada showed that pitting late have more benefits than making the tyres reach the cliff.

[niky]

Boom boom Massa...

[Retz]

2012 Belgian Grand Prix Practice 2

[Monseratto]

Third free practice results - 2012 Belgian Formula 1 Grand Prix

Pos. Driver Team Time Laps
1. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 01:48.542 18
2. Kimi Räikkönen Lotus 01:48.683 21
3. Sergio Perez Sauber 01:48.850 23
4. Kamui Kobayashi Sauber 01:48.863 20
5. Jenson Button McLaren 01:49.091 18
6. Felipe Massa Ferrari 01:49.092 16
7. Mark Webber Red Bull 01:49.164 21
8. Romain Grosjean Lotus 01:49.266 23
9. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 01:49.292 23
10. Paul di Resta Force India 01:49.382 22
11. Pastor Maldonado Williams 01:49.561 23
12. Lewis Hamilton McLaren 01:49.615 19
13. Michael Schumacher Mercedes 01:49.621 26
14. Nico Hülkenberg Force India 01:49.674 23
15. Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso 01:49.710 21
16. Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso 01:49.776 22
17. Bruno Senna Williams 01:50.027 20
18. Heikki Kovalainen Caterham 01:52.339 21
19. Charles Pic Marussia 01:52.566 20
20. Timo Glock Marussia 01:52.630 18
21. Vitaly Petrov Caterham 01:52.809 22
22. Pedro de la Rosa HRT 01:53.383 22
23. Narain Karthikeyan HRT 01:53.562 23
24. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 01:58.113 5

[CoDer]

Looks like ferrari is in top shape, the spaniard will surely cruise to the championship if this continues.

[ZENMasterTYL]

go scuderia f

[Monseratto]

Kimi has almost equal points to 2nd place Lewis in the championship, but never won a race...

[Verbl Kint]

Saw the blu-ray. Surprisingly balanced considering the opportunity to turn the docu into hero-worship.

[niky]

Can't wait!

So they didn't gloss over the fact that he was a tremendous asshole on track?

[Retz]

Can't wait!

So they didn't gloss over the fact that he was a tremendous asshole on track?

haha, sir niky naman.

[Monseratto]

Nakakalungkot yung part ng accident niya. I was able to watch it live sa Star Sport...18 years ago na pala.

[niky]

One of the worst moments in motorsports, really.

haha, sir niky naman.

While he was an incredible genius behind the wheel, there's no denying that Senna, like Schumacher, had his cheating moments.

Will still be watching it. Despite what I've said, I hold Senna in high regard as probably ome of the three best drivers ever in F1.

[Monseratto]

[niky]

Too bad. The strange thing is, in the races that he's finished, he's been finishing ahead of Nico Rosberg.

Perhaps Mercedes is retiring the wrong driver?