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[Janner_Sy]

Malaysian GP on the weekend. Whats everyone's thoughts on how its oing to turn out.

friday and saturday qand sunday has a forecast of heavy showers and thundersorms in Kuala Lumpur
 

lewis and jenson have both said they are optimistic of gould results, but thats not the most confident ive heard them before, so who knows, kubica reckons the circuit isnt the best one for the renaul team,

[hammyhammer]

thunderstorms happen most days in Kuala Limpar.  If the race is the same time as last year then we should see a repeat as they tend to hit around 5pm.

I would tip vettel although not sure his car is up to it.

Mclarens should be strong with the long straights there - i reckon it could be another classic in the making,

[RedRobin]

Crikey! How utterly dull and boring are those Oz police re Lewis' "intentional loss of traction".

Perhaps a bit daft of LH to do with the Rozzers watching?  Perhaps?

Was on a Public Highway and he took the P, end of.

....Yes, you're absolutely right. But don't be so dull! A word of warning would have been more appropriate IMO.. And then a grin and a thumbs up.

[Janner_Sy]

hamilton fastest in the first two practice sessions.  vettel is right up his arse end though

[RobH]

McLaren getting complasent these days, and could cost them at the end of the season if they carry on like this.

Guess they'll have to do it the hard way .

[Janner_Sy]

just watched the qualifying, looking forward to tomorrows race now.  should be a stormer literally. 

Mclaren and ferrari??????????????? WTF.  shhoould be good seeing them get them selves back through to the front of the pack.


question though

the top ten cars have to start the race on the tyres they qualified in,  so if they qualified on intermediates, what is the deal if it is well and truly pissing it down for the start of the race tomorrow??? can they swap, would they have to start from the pits and gove up the grid positions etc

[RobH]

Good point i would of thought in those circumstances they would be aloud to swap though.

I can see their being a big accident at the first corner with the fezzas and mclaren flying through the pack from nowhere and the conditions and visabiltiy being poor.

[VC]

damn SKY+ and the channel change 

missed the 2nd half of the race, watched the recorded 1st half on the player, switched to BBC 2 to see the podiums 

[Neimad]

damn SKY+ and the channel change 

missed the 2nd half of the race, watched the recorded 1st half on the player, switched to BBC 2 to see the podiums 

I had the same problem... bloody BBC are as much to blame as the Sky box though, even ITV managed to show an entire race on the same channel even if they did miss all the good bits by showing adverts...

[Greeners]

Buemi's catastrophic suspension failure this morning!! 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8624282.stm

[Hedge]

Eeek. Looks like it was just as he started braking, or hit the jettison front wheels button. 

I bet he touched cloth. 

[VC]

[hammyhammer]

that was crazy.

love his response the wheels just fell off like it is a common occurance

[john_o]

sh*t the bed. he's just lucky it was this circuit and that runoff. many other places and his toboggan may have not slowed so smoothly 

[Top Cat]

He must have put on, some of those Chinese reps with the wrong bolts.