2012 Chinese Grand Prix

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gorsad
So Hamilton P1 again, Mclaren look set to dominate, hopefully. But I wonder what happened to Jenson Button,meh looked nowhere as quick as his teammate.
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He was second one tenth of his team mate time so what do you mean by that???
 
tribolik
He was second one tenth of his team mate time so what do you mean by that???
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Sorry, only now did I look at the rest of the time sheets. I guess I take back everything I said then.
 
gorsad
Sorry, only now did I look at the rest of the time sheets. I guess I take back everything I said then.
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I got what you meant, you were talking about FP1 and 2.
 
Qualifying about to go live...

Live!

As long as no one goes significantly faster than Hamilton, looks like 107% this session will be 1:43.5. Easy peasy.

And as I say that, Vettel looks to be going much faster... nope... got held up in traffic... but just 0.14 off.

Now Webber does a 136.6. 107% now at 1:43.4. Nice of Formula1.com to have added the 107% counter to live timing... beats having to whip out the calculator...
 
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Massa on a stormer... will he make P1? He does. Seems like the track is starting to dry out... of course, that's probably on the soft tires, so it doesn't mean much.

Maldonado getting his incidents in early this weekend. Maldonado and Kovalainen incident under investigation.
 
Grosjean puts in a 1:36.343 for p1 :o

edit: and alonso, and then perez beat him (both on softs, not sure about grosjean)

1:36.198 for perez
 
Times going even further down... Perez now on top. Vettel is uncomfortably close to relegation... but I don't see any of those guys below him knocking him out.
 
Interesting. Kobayashi squeaked through on medium tires. Perez resorted to soft ones. 0.66 second difference... close to the predicted tire differential.
 
Not till after qualifying. If he poles, as he likely will, he'll start in 6th. Not a big problem. He's still the best positioned driver to lead the championship by the end of this race.
 
Everyone on the softs now, expect the times to return to normal. Kobayashi might have an advantage in Q3 (if he makes it) considering he used primes in Q1.
 
niky
Not till after qualifying. If he poles, as he likely will, he'll start in 6th. Not a big problem. He's still the best positioned driver to lead the championship by the end of this race.
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Still hurts, starting on pole gives you the chance to start well and build a gap, but 6th isn't too bad.
 
schumi and rosberg running 1:35.7(25 for rosberg, 94 for schumacher)

p1 and p2 for the mercs atm
 
Times going down... fast... Kamui frst below 1:36, all the front runners there comfortably... Ferrari... might... be in trouble here...

Ouch... Grosjean scuppers his quick lap.
 
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Vettel having trouble getting his times to stick, Raikonnen in 4th behind hamilton and the mercedes at the moment and Kamui in 5th

Alonso coming out now, sitting on tenth with a 1:36.7 (full second behind Rosberg)
 
What's going on with Red Bull? I don't think their pace will be good enough to get both their cars into Q3
 
Redbull is too slow down the straight, Mercedes is so much faster in terms on top speed.
 
Massa near a full second behind alonso's time and 2 seconds behind rosberg, both ferrari's out for a hotlap.

Alonso .1 behind in sector 1, .06 in sector 2

Alonso with a 1:35.9 into 6th, Massa a 1:36.25 into 10th
Senna 0.03 behind Massa's time, Maldonado .024 behind, Massa safe in 10th

EDIT: Perez takes third and drops Massa down to 11th (1:35.831)

Webber with a 1:35.7 for 1st, vettel knocked to 11th by grosjean!
 
XRFalcon
What's going on with Red Bull? I don't think their pace will be good enough to get both their cars into Q3
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I think that's exaggerating a bit.
Edit:Wow. Didn't see that coming.
 
Red Bull should be safe. It's Alonso and Massa who need to pull off perfect laps to stay in the hunt. Massa is on another hot lap, though.

Alonso 6th... Massa 10th... not good enough... 1:36.255... he could still get relegated...

Massa out... shocker... VETTEL IS OUT!

Waited too long to do his second lap... and he botched it. Rubbish. :grumpy:
 
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Wait... what? Vettel doesn't make it to Q3! :eek:
 
wow wow wow wow
this season of F1 is just mad mad mad
 
Vettel OUT! Prayers have been answered, pleas have been heard, YES! So much win!

Go go Webber! Go go Schumi! Go go Button! Whoever jinxed Vettel, thank you by a MILE!
 
Bizarre! Webber makes it to P1 but Vettel down in 11th and out in Q2 :S
 
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