s2ksimon

"I've come all this way and I'm going to drive for ten minutes tomorrow," said Williams driver Mark Webber. I expect to hear crap like this from JV, not MW.. oh marco ?


He's got a point as;

Race fans attending Friday's free practice in Bahrain are likely to be frustrated by a lack of action as their heroes are restricted to no more than three flying laps through the two, hour-long, sessions.

Thanks to large-scale changes to the qualifying changes, as well as new tyre restrictions, most of the top drivers are not expected to spend much time on-track at all during Friday.

Renault confirmed that Fernando Alonso was likely to complete only 10 laps in total for the whole day.

The exceptions to this will be the Friday testers.

Honda's Anthony Davidson and Williams's Alex Wurz, who will be able to run through programmes unfettered by tyre limits and engine reliability concerns, could run more than 60 laps as they bare the brunt of their team's set-up work.

The scenario has come about because of the change in regulations over the winter.

Qualifying for the top runners is now estimated to cover a distance of 130km thanks to the new three-session format, while the old single-lap sessions only used up 15km.

Elistan

Eh? Practice is restricted to 3 laps? By the teams, or FOM? I don't see this mentioned on the F1 site at all. http://www.formula1.com/insight/rule...gs/13/505.html

Marco

I hate MW most over rated, and biggest cry baby in F1

Be happy, you will get to see AD click 30 laps tomorrow morning from 6-7 EST