[Kiz]

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha vettel

[Lawls]

WEBBAH

not bad for a number 2 driver eh?

[Desecrated]

Delighted for Nico. Taken since 2010 for Mercedes to start throwing punches, and what a lap. Rooting for him to get his first win tomorrow. If not, hoping for Schumacher.

Will be an awesome race. Many different possibillities can unfold. Don't expect Mercedes to finish first, however. Think that'll belong to a McLaren car.

[Stone Cold 4life]

Happy for Merc and Nico, always rated him. Unfortunately Mercedes still have an issue with tyre wear so I don't expect them to cross the line first.

Sauber are easily 5th/6th best car on the grid at the moment and both of their drivers are entertaining to watch. Hoping they go well, would love to see Kamui get on the podium at the end of the race.

Prediction for podium is Lewis/Nico/Jenson.

[Rising]

What interesting qualifying great to see Rosberg on pole was great lap and with this results should be a very interesting race with Mercedes having tyre degradation problems and aswell will not able use DRS for whole lap


I think Mclearn still are the quickest car after the Mercedes (who won't be that quick in the race)and are the favorites but sauber or Lotus can spring surprise

[haribo]

Maldonado on pole after Hamilton demoted (to the BACK). Is this real life?

[Desecrated]

Can't see past a Lotus winning tomorrow. Will be fucking sweet if its Fernando, very shit car for the first 4 races, then bam. Win. Granted he wouldn't be winning if Hamilton wasn't demoted.

[OOOOOOO Crab paste]

Wa wa waaaaaa Lewis. McLaren trying to do that trick like a few years back failed like a treat. Like hell it was mistake whitmarsh! He tried to cheat plain and simple and the FIA nailed your balls for it.



The RB8 is really showing what a handful it is (Average one weekend, winner the next and then back to average again) they still haven't sorted out that rear exhaust compared with the other top teams. Being slower than Williams and Sauber seems to support that the RB8 isn't as good as people make out. Newey is still fucking around with that tunnel under the floor and he refuses to give it up even if it has taken up weeks of development and yet no improvement, the RB8 is going backwards and it's costing them.

Vettel getting a 2nd and a win and Mark with his constant 4th places, with possibly the 5th best car on the grid shows why RBR hire them as their drivers, not the likes of Massa helping to flatter Alonso in that Ferrari. Both Vettel and Mark are fighting their cars almost as much as Alonso is, it's just everybody expects them to always have the fastest car yet it clearly isn't even the 3rd fastest.

Vettel was conceding he wouldn't of got 5th with the car and their straight line is terrible, almost as slow as HRT.

At least he has got fresh prime tyres spare for a good race, maybe a podium if a lot of shit happens up front, but I would rather start 7th than 24th...

Looks like Alonso is close to getting the car he wanted, Ferrari have chucked everything at it, but I expect him and Maldonado to get sucked in by both Lotus' early on as their race pace in practice 2 was the outright best, followed by McLaren who look out of it already with a shit qualifying. Lets not bother talking about fuel loads or sandbagging in practice as it's far to tight for that shit now and they need all the accurate data they can get.

Lotus 1/2 with Alonso and Vettel fighting for 3rd/4th.

[Jobbed_Out]

Lewis Hamilton loses Spanish pole because of rules on fuel

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton has been excluded from qualifying at the Spanish Grand Prix after stopping his car out on the track at the end of qualifying .

Hamilton qualified on pole but will start from the back of the grid.

He was told to stop because there was insufficient fuel in the car for him to get back to the pits and provide a sample, as required by the rules.

The stewards rejected McLaren's argument that not putting enough fuel in the car was "force majeure".

Article 6.6.2 of the technical regulations: "Competitors must ensure that a one litre sample of fuel may be taken from the car at any time during the event.

"Except in cases of force majeure (accepted as such by the stewards of the meeting), if a sample of fuel is required after a practice session the car concerned must have first been driven back to the pits under its own power."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/18047760

So from memory Kobayashi ran out of fuel too, so is he second last on the grid?

[Kiz]

they mentioned that in the telecast that charlie had changed the rule back in 2010. not that shocked that this happened, still a tad harsh.