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posted 04-07-2008 12:10
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British GP will be at Donington Park as of 2010, for 10 years.
End of an era etc.
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posted 04-07-2008 12:15
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It's been at Silverstone for too long. I preferred it when they used to spread it around a bit more. Anyone else ever been to Aintree for car racing?
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posted 04-07-2008 12:51
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That must be spectacular with all those fences to negotiate.
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posted 04-07-2008 16:27
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I'll be interested to see what Donington plan to do with the local roads. It's mental around there when Moto GP or Download is on.
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posted 05-07-2008 15:27
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Yeah.
Because rural Buckinghamshire is the touchstone when it comes to well-managed transport infrastructure, isn't it?
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posted 06-07-2008 11:18
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I'm only a part time viewer of F1 at best, so can someone explain why the qualifying times are as follows? What's going on?
Qualifying times for British GP:
1. Heikki Kovalainen (Fin) McLaren-Mercedes one minute 21.049 seconds
2. Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault 1:21.554
3. Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Ferrari 1:21.706
4. Lewis Hamilton (GB) McLaren-Mercedes 1:21.835
5. Nick Heidfeld (Ger) BMW Sauber 1:21.873
6. Fernando Alonso (Spa) Renault 1:22.029
7. Nelson Piquet (Bra) Renault 1:22.491
8. Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:23.251
9. Felipe Massa (Bra) Ferrari 1:23.305
10. Robert Kubica (Pol) BMW Sauber no time
11. David Coulthard (GB) Red Bull-Renault 1:20.174
12. Timo Glock (Ger) Toyota 1:20.274
13. Sebastien Bourdais (Fra) Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:20.531
14. Jarno Trulli (Ita) Toyota 1:20.601
15. Kazuki Nakajima (Jap) Williams-Toyota 1:21.112
16. Rubens Barrichello (Bra) Honda 1:21.512
17. Jenson Button (GB) Honda 1:21.631
18. Nico Rosberg (Ger) Williams-Toyota 1:21.668
19. Adrian Sutil (Ger) Force India-Ferrari 1:21.786
20. Giancarlo Fisichella (Ita) Force India-Ferrari 1:21.885
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posted 06-07-2008 13:25
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It's dependent on lots of things. How much fuel the cars take into qualifying, what the conditions are like (it was windy and sporadically rainy yesterday) etc.
Kovalainen drove a beauty, Webber had a low fuel load (16 laps or so) and Hamilton, despite being fastest all weekend had a wobble in his 2nd last qualifying lap so had to make 100% sure he got the car round in one piece in the last one. And Massa had an off and missed the last round of qualifying.
Superb start to the race today. Hamilton was brilliant and Kovalainen's move to hold him off at the 2nd turn was excellent.
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Last Edit: 06-07-2008 13:27 By hobbes.
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posted 06-07-2008 13:31
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Oh hang on, I see what you mean. There are 3 qualifying rounds. You have to be in the top 15 to go into round 2 and top 10 to go into round 3.
The times are lower as in Q3 it was wet and windy. The top drivers were putting in 1.19's etc. for Q1.
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posted 06-07-2008 14:59
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That was a superb race. Hamilton kicked everyones arse too.
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posted 06-07-2008 15:27
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Gotcha, i understand now. The bottom ranks were knocked out in faster conditions and the top dogs fought for pole when it was raining.
Nice to see hamilton win, well done him.
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posted 06-07-2008 19:24
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Guy Potger wrote:
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Yeah.
Because rural Buckinghamshire is the touchstone when it comes to well-managed transport infrastructure, isn't it?
Northamptonshire.
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posted 07-07-2008 12:09
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Yeah. Nothing of interest is in Bucks. Nothing at all.
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posted 07-07-2008 12:18
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I have no idea Guy, as I've never been to/been past Silverstone on a race day. I do however regularly go past Donington. It may only be 3 miles from the M1, but there also happens to be an international airport between the two.
Great race yesterday, they should all be held in the rain I reckon.
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posted 07-07-2008 13:11
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Agreed that running them all in the rain would be ace, though we would have to change our tickets for Monza.
Ferrari need to get a new weather guy (or just assume that this one's predictions are always wrong).
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posted 07-07-2008 13:30
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I hate to hear it when a circuit is dropped (or considered for being dropped) because of the weather. I'm pretty certain they wanted to drop Ile de Notre Dame for that reason. I much prefer to see drivers having to cope with adverse conditions. After all, F1/FIA would be guilty of inconsistency if they say that they want to take away technological 'driver aids' to make their skill paramount, but then cossett them by protecting them from any sort of meteorological unpleasantness.
(Zandvoort was fair enough, though - you can't have sand dunes drifting onto a track!)
I miss Brands Hatch. :-( I used to love the part where they'd disappear into the trees. However, they don't even use the full circuit for Touring Cars, these days - is it really that dangerous?
From a purely selfish perspective, I wouldn't mind seeing the Grand Prix come to Thruxton. Not going to happen, though.
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posted 07-07-2008 13:32
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They should bring back Spa, that always had fun weather.
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