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Old 08-28-2009, 05:17 AM
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Webber's fastest at the moment, and has been for a while. But you can only tell so much from practice (Alguersuari is 5th!).
Old 08-28-2009, 05:24 AM
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Originally Posted by lovegroova,Aug 28 2009, 09:38 AM
Red Bulls will be difficult to beat.
especially with Polish Wodka
Old 08-28-2009, 06:42 AM
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2nd Practice
1 great britain Lewis Hamilton 1 McLaren-Mercedes 1:47.201
2 germany Timo Glock 10 Toyota 1:47.217
3 finland Kimi Raikkonen 4 Ferrari 1:47.285
4 australia Mark Webber 14 Red Bull-Renault 1:47.329
5 france Romain Grosjean 8 Renault 1:47.333
6 italy Giancarlo Fisichella 21 Force India-Mercedes 1:47.506
7 italy Jarno Trulli 9 Toyota 1:47.559
8 poland Robert Kubica 5 BMW Sauber 1:47.578
9 spain Jaime Alguersuari 11 Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:47.579
10 germany Sebastian Vettel 15 Red Bull-Renault 1:47.602
11 switzerland Sebastien Buemi 12 Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:47.702
12 finland Heikki Kovalainen 2 McLaren-Mercedes 1:47.743
13 germany Adrian Sutil 20 Force India-Mercedes 1:47.790
14 spain Fernando Alonso 7 Renault 1:47.862
15 japan Kazuki Nakajima 17 Williams-Toyota 1:47.961
16 germany Nick Heidfeld 6 BMW Sauber 1:48.017
17 great britain Jenson Button 22 Brawn-Mercedes 1:48.125
18 brazil Rubens Barrichello 23 Brawn-Mercedes 1:48.130
19 germany Nico Rosberg 16 Williams-Toyota 1:48.360
20 italy Luca Badoer 3 Ferrari 1:49.211

I like Luca Badoer, seems a decent chap, but 2 seconds off the pace! The tifosi will hang him out to dry at Immola next race, but I hear he will be replaced by then anyhow
Old 08-28-2009, 06:51 AM
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[QUOTE=s2k_Nut,Aug 28 2009, 03:42 PM] I like Luca Badoer, seems a decent chap, but 2 seconds off the pace! The tifosi will hang him out to dry at Immola next race, but I hear he will be replaced by then anyhow
Old 08-28-2009, 07:18 AM
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Originally Posted by s2k_Nut,Aug 28 2009, 02:42 PM
I like Luca Badoer, seems a decent chap, but 2 seconds off the pace! The tifosi will hang him out to dry at Immola next race, but I hear he will be replaced by then anyhow
The Tifosi won't bother with Badoer if he's at Imola as they'll all be at Monza for the next race
Old 08-28-2009, 11:03 AM
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[QUOTE=corgi_watkins,Aug 28 2009, 03:18 PM]The Tifosi won't bother with Badoer if he's at Imola as they'll all be at Monza for the next race
Old 08-28-2009, 11:55 AM
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I know its only Friday practice, but I worry about the Brawns for this race. I hope they can prove me wrong!

This should be a circuit where KERS is an advantage, but I wonder if some of this advantage will be mitigated / diluted by the fact it is such a long lap?
Old 08-28-2009, 01:43 PM
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It was interesting to see whereabouts on the lap Kova was using KERS, just after the La Source hairpin, and at the start of the Kemmel straight, just after Radillon, and again just after Stavelot. essentially anywhere where there was going to be a long run of full throttle, to get an extra shove at the start of that.
Old 08-29-2009, 05:02 AM
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Can someone just explain to me who (and why) is on pole?!!!
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Great result for Force India and Fisi.

Utter utter shite from Button. I'm usually not one for predictions, but he isn't going to win the championship this year, I think Barichello will do it by a couple of points.


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