Nicholas Wirth, yes. Head of Wirth Research or Wirth Design or whatever it is called.That's not Niklaus Wirth, is it?
Formula 1 - 2011 Season
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I'm not sure why the would, they agreed to this amount of races this season, sure, one got pulled from the beginning and thrown to the end, but still, how much of a difference can it make when you planned to have this many races anyway?
Vettel and Rosberg have both posted very low 1m14s times in P3, this is basically 1 second faster than the fastest times in the last few years' quali/practices. Impressive stuff, DRS surely works wonders on this track.
Also their times are at the moment 1s faster than anyone. Rosberg just dipped into the very high 1m13s and Alonso is now in the low 1m14s.
Edit: 7 minutes left and Alonso leads the field at 1m13.701s, 0.218s faster than Rosberg.
Edit2: Vettel fastest, 0.320s faster than Alonso. Incredible times, almost 2 seconds faster than previous years.
Also their times are at the moment 1s faster than anyone. Rosberg just dipped into the very high 1m13s and Alonso is now in the low 1m14s.
Edit: 7 minutes left and Alonso leads the field at 1m13.701s, 0.218s faster than Rosberg.
Edit2: Vettel fastest, 0.320s faster than Alonso. Incredible times, almost 2 seconds faster than previous years.
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Yeah, Vettel rocked it even with a little mistake in the hairpin, but Alonso and Massa did fantastic too. This was probably the first properly exciting qualifying of the year. Amazing lap times, maybe we'll see Rubinho's 2004 lap record being beaten in the race.
McLaren went for a wet setup, and if it rains tomorrow, maybe they will turn out to be geniuses.
McLaren went for a wet setup, and if it rains tomorrow, maybe they will turn out to be geniuses.
. If they fix that before race it will only add to excitment, if not he will be sitting duck for at least 5 top teams.
It took, what, 2 or 3 laps for Hamilton to be involved in 2 incidents from pushing his nose where it doesn't belong, later one caused him to crash luckily instead of Button (karma strikes back ), and he'll be once again in front of stewards after race, 6th time this season.
They really need to give him a threat of some serious penalty like missing few races if he continues this.
), and he'll be once again in front of stewards after race, 6th time this season.They really need to give him a threat of some serious penalty like missing few races if he continues this.
And being in every single position on the grid as well
.Amazing drive, well worth waiting under red flag!
Shumi drove well as well, I was pleased to see him overtaking and defending so well today :smile:.
One of THE races in my opinion!
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Classic race. But they will strip Button of the win, both of the times where investigation are pending it was more his fault than the other driver's.
I really don't know how you come by that opinion. Clearly the Hamilton button incident is Hamilton's fault, Button shouldn't be expected to give up the racing line. The other incident, Button was penalized with a drive through? Or was there something else?
Lauda Slams Hamilton
It was a racing incident. Button didn't see Hamilton, so he didn't have the option of moving out of the way because he didn't know he was there. Hamilton had a good drive out of the corner beforehand and ran out of space to make his move. At the rate he was gaining on Button along the straight, it certainly wasn't implausible that he would have made it past, he just ran out of room.
Every time a pass goes wrong, it seems that it is suddenly "under investigation". I don't remember F1 being like this in the past, and it certainly sucks now; "Pass cleanly first time with at least 3 car widths between you, or get a drive through penalty" isn't how these cars should have to race.
Well Hamilton has to know that window is closing, he should anticipate that Button is going to be there and know that Button isn't psychic.
But it was ruled a racing incident and Button will keep his win.
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/12062011/58/action-taken-button-alonso-clash.html
But it was ruled a racing incident and Button will keep his win.
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/12062011/58/action-taken-button-alonso-clash.html
