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Race Date: 16 May 2010
Circuit Name: Circuit de Monaco
Number of Laps: 78
Circuit Length: 3.340 km
Race Distance: 260.520 km
Lap Record: 1:14.439 - M Schumacher (2004)

Thursday FP1

Funny how even first practice shows the forces in the teams. Nando in front of Felipe, Seb beating Mark, Bob waaaaay ahead of Vitaly, Hamilton and Button very close, Sutil giving Tonio driving lessons and so on all the way to the back with Glock a full second in front of Di Grassi.

Lets just hope this will carry on to Saturday, I'm sick of Red Bull getting the front row every race. I wonder if any the big names will get held up and not make it out of Q1.

I think the really big guys have enough difference to make it in any case. For the middle teams, it will be more of a lottery. The 6 new cars will be out in Q1, but it will be interesting to see who joins them. Could be any of the Williams, Toro Rosso, Sauber, plus Petrov and Liuzzi.

Thursday FP2

Don't you just love tilt shift.



And this button cuts my hair the same shape as my helmet.



More nice piccies here.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsp...sions.html

Who do we expect to crash first?

I've got a brand new fiver here to say it won't be Jenson.

(05-13-2010 07:27 PM)Yaaay Wrote: [ -> ]I've got a brand new fiver here to say it won't be Jenson.

pff, not much gusto in saying who it won't be. tell us who it will be.

i've got my money on kobash.

Frank, I don't think we have properly addressed the rather large group of forum mmembers who insisted Jenson was not only an unworthy champion but these same people went on to decalre in no uncertain words that he would be crushed and destroyed by the Hamilton git.

It seems your unwillingness to take my fiver bet that you are one of them and therefore completely wrong.

(05-13-2010 08:19 PM)Yaaay Wrote: [ -> ]Frank, I don't think we have properly addressed the rather large group of forum mmembers who insisted Jenson was not only an unworthy champion but these same people went on to decalre in no uncertain words that he would be crushed and destroyed by the Hamilton git.

if there's any dead horse we've beaten on this board, it's that one.

(05-13-2010 08:19 PM)Yaaay Wrote: [ -> ]It seems your unwillingness to take my fiver bet that you are one of them and therefore completely wrong.

if i was willing to take your bet, i would be disagreeing with you. by saying that i think it will be kobash, i was impliedly saying that i agree it would not be jenson.

I think the horse is very much alive, but I thank you for your support. I can now regard you as a fellow Jenson supporter.

i will say that i was a bit surprised by jenson's performance this year. the excellent article on him and lewis in last week's autosport made his success after floundering so long at bar/honda more understandable.

though i still consider lewis to be notably (but not vastly) superior.

I'll predict Petrov as first crash, can we have bonus points in the predictions competition?

If you hit this button it releases the Kraken!

(05-13-2010 10:45 PM)chemics Wrote: [ -> ]I'll predict Petrov as first crash, can we have bonus points in the predictions competition?

Vettel takes out Webber and Alonso on the first corner

This button (no pun intended)Jenson calls Nicole, the one below Beyonce and on the left nobbles Luscious Liz

(05-14-2010 05:03 AM)leonbray Wrote: [ -> ]Vettel takes out Webber and Alonso on the first corner

If it were Vettel takes out Hamilton and Alonso it would be all my dreams come true in one incident!

(05-13-2010 05:28 PM)Yaaay Wrote: [ -> ]More nice piccies here.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsp...sions.html

Wait, *who* takes a curve? - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsp...ml?image=8

Oddly, not actually the helmets they're *using* this weekend: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsp...l?image=11

(Incidentally, doesn't it seem a bit odd that there's enough space for those gigantic laurel leaf logos on the wheel? Oughtn't there be, well, controls in there?)

(05-14-2010 09:40 AM)gr Wrote: [ -> ](Incidentally, doesn't it seem a bit odd that there's enough space for those gigantic laurel leaf logos on the wheel? Oughtn't there be, well, controls in there?)

Its in place of where the Mercedes logo would be normally but still looks very simple and uncluttered compared to other teams.

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Here's a demo of ferrari's wheel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6HFvF-QfTo

(05-14-2010 05:03 AM)leonbray Wrote: [ -> ]Vettel takes out Webber and Alonso on the first corner

My preference would be that Webber is not taken out - after all I am looking forward to the extra points in the tipping competition when he wins this weekend Lets see - Massa to take out Hoonilton, Schumacher to take out Vettel (assuming Vettel doesn't break his car first)

F1 News Shorts: Monaco

The trial of Nigel Stepney started in Sassuolo, Italy this week. He is accused of trying to sabotage the Ferraris before the 2007 Monaco Grand Prix with white powder. Stepney’s lawyers have indicated that they wish to plea bargain, according to La Gazzetta dello Sport. Stepney himself will appear before the court on May 21.

McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh confirmed that designer Pat Fry has left the team. Fry has been with McLaren for 17 years and is one of two designers who takes it in turns to design the F1 cars. He was responsible for last year’s car and was in charge of next year’s car, the designs for which are now well advanced.

Renault strengthens its business case Renault has made two announcements in the last couple of days, adding a new partner in the form of Tarek Obaid, with whom Renault boss Gerard Lopez has had a long relationship, and a new sponsor in the form of Trina Solar, a Chinese manufaturer of high quality solar panels.

Obaid is also the Co-Founder, Co-Partner and CEO of PetroSaudi International, a private Oil and Gas company, based in Saudi Arabia.

F1 turns 60 Formula 1 as a sport celebrated its 60th birthday yesterday, the anniversary of the first ever F1 Grand Prix 13th May 1950 at Silverstone. The race was won by Nino Farina in an Alfa Romeo. Last night there was a celebration at the Hermitage hotel in Monaco.

Hill among the stewards 1996 world champion Damon Hill is the former driver representative on the FIA steward panel at Monaco this weekend. The initiative of having a former driver helping the three other stewards with decisions on penalties has proved a success, although it is noticeable that there has been some more leniency shown in key decisions than was evident in previous years. Monaco often turns up controversial incidents and with 24 cars in the field and a five to six second gap in qualifying between the fastest and slowest cars, there are likely to be some penalties handed out for blocking.

McLaren has made some major strides this season in its online activity with a new website, a prolific Twitter feed in the name of @thefifthdriver and a Facebook page, which today hit 100,000 followers.

McLaren has invested quite heavily in its online offerings and the website in particular has some unique content, such as the live telemetry updates.

Jensen don't let your girlfriend go on the US Dancing with the Stars, look at this video of Nicole making out with her professional dance instructor.

(05-14-2010 02:34 PM)trickydicky Wrote: [ -> ]McLaren has made some major strides this season in its online activity with a new website, a prolific Twitter feed in the name of @thefifthdriver and a Facebook page, which today hit 100,000 followers.

Red Bull are also very active - a well laid out and informative website - active twitter at least from the team and Webber (I assume Vettel has one) and their E-magazine which is not a bad read - not sure about facebook but I would imagine they are up on it.