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Schumacher was really unlucky in Q1, oh well, I'm sure he can get up to a points scoring position tomorrow.
2012 Bahrain Grand Prix
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Schumacher was really unlucky in Q1, oh well, I'm sure he can get up to a points scoring position tomorrow.
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I'd just like to point out Daniel Ricciardo's performance today, 0.49s off pole and a whopping 2.1 seconds faster than Vergne.
There are a couple of things to explain this though - Vergne's time was set in a different session with more traffic and I'm not sure he ran softs. But even so a very impressive performance and the Toro Rosso hasn't looked amazing so far this year.
He even did it with only one run in Q3 as well, so quite a bit of extra pressure to put the lap in.
There are a couple of things to explain this though - Vergne's time was set in a different session with more traffic and I'm not sure he ran softs. But even so a very impressive performance and the Toro Rosso hasn't looked amazing so far this year.
He even did it with only one run in Q3 as well, so quite a bit of extra pressure to put the lap in.
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I have few doubts that Schumacher will score points tomorrow; that is if his luck doesn't take a turn for the worse again. We're only three races in and he's already had more than his fair share of bad luck; he retired in Australia while in a strong position with gearbox issues and again in China with a loose wheel. Hopefully his luck will hold up tomorrow.
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Glad to see the finger is back!
Hopefully we'll see the same old Vettel from the front and he'll run away with this one.
Hopefully we'll see the same old Vettel from the front and he'll run away with this one.
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Hamilton will be ahead into turn one, Vettel 2nd, Button 3rd, Webber about 8th probably. Schumacher will monster through the field and then get KO'd by Grosjean or something on lap 2. 
I really really hope this isn't the point where it just returns to being last season all over again.
Hoping for a good race. If any track needs an exciting race this year it's here.
I really really hope this isn't the point where it just returns to being last season all over again.
Hoping for a good race. If any track needs an exciting race this year it's here.
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Glad to see the finger is back!
Hopefully we'll see the same old Vettel from the front and he'll run away with this one.
Its not the first time I saw him use a finger this season TBH... I was always taught that using the finger wasnt very polite but I must admit that the last time he used it was much worse.
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Hamilton will be ahead into turn one, Vettel 2nd, Button 3rd, Webber about 8th probably. Schumacher will monster through the field and then get KO'd by Grosjean or something on lap 2.
I really really hope this isn't the point where it just returns to being last season all over again.
Hoping for a good race. If any track needs an exciting race this year it's here.
Knowing his luck, it will somehow start raining in Bahrain and will crash into Karthikayen when lapping him.
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Bernies comments on not showing any Force India coverage during qualification are ridiculous. The man needs a slap sometimes.
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Link? I want to see this...
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I'm pasting it here as it is stupid.
Force India has refused to comment on claims that its television exposure during qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix was deliberately kept to a minimum because of the team's decision to skip Friday afternoon's second free practice session.
The Silverstone-based team's screen time during qualifying appeared to be very limited in Q1 and Q2 despite Paul di Resta qualifying in the top 10 in what one team member described to AUTOSPORT as "payback" for the refusal to run.
Di Resta did not attempt a lap in Q3, but did complete an in- and an out-lap.
Di Resta himself admitted that he was aware of the comments about what happened, but declined to make any further comment on the situation when pressed.
"I have seen some stuff on Twitter but I was sat in the car driving," said the Scot. "So I saw my car."
Bernie Ecclestone, whose FOM company is responsible for producing the live coverage, scotched the suggestions that Force India was deliberately ignored.
He insisted that fans are interested only in frontrunners, hence the lack of Force India screen time.
"Nobody cares if someone is ninth or 11th," Ecclestone told Reuters. "Only the people that are watching a particular team.
"I spoke to our people and they were more or less concentrating on who was going to be on pole, rather than somebody going to be 10th."
F1 really is putting me off now. Bernie you 🤬 . No wonder the sport gets in crap when you say things like that.
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Well done Vettel! Pole in arguably the third fastest car in normal conditions is quite an accomplishment. Granted, he obviously benefited from Rosberg messing up his only Q3 run, Schumacher not being there and the McLarens underperforming, but a brilliant lap all the same.
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F1 this year:
Q1 is the least exciting out of the 3 sessions.
Q2 is the most exciting session.
Q2 is the most exciting session.
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Rosberg was on a poor(by what was expected lap) and it was clear from when Webber beat him in Sector 1, yet the camera stayed on him.
Anyway, 2 Grand Prix ago, nobody expected results from Rosberg, look at how much focus he got today, what a difference a week makes.
Anyway, 2 Grand Prix ago, nobody expected results from Rosberg, look at how much focus he got today, what a difference a week makes.
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In the first two GP of the season, it wouldn't have been unexpected if Rosberg had gotten pole because of the advantage Mercedes gets in qualifying with the double DRS. But because of Mercedes' struggles with tire wear and the simple fact they don't get to to use their DRS advantage over a normal race lap, the McLarens and even the Red Bulls were better cars in race conditions, so nobody expected Rosberg to win races or even be close to competing for them. After the surprise in China, the question is whether the Mercedes has fixed their issues and can compete for race wins regularly or whether the win in China was a fluke because of the unusually cold conditions that favoured them. That's why they are getting more attention than the first two races, because they might actually be relevant now.Anyway, 2 Grand Prix ago, nobody expected results from Rosberg, look at how much focus he got today, what a difference a week makes.
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Bernie - "If you don't support Ferrari, McLaren, or Red Bull, you basically don't exist."
Tactful as always.
Tactful as always.
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For God's sake it's Rosberg. Not ...burg. Not everything is Burger. Bloody Americans.
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Brilliant!!!
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I don't think there was a massive conspiracy against Force India. We haven't seen much of them all year, and while di Resta was out on the circuit, there were six other drivers who were all setting lap times that would have been good enough to get them into Q3 (but Raikkonen was bumped out and Senna blew it on his final lap). Given the choice between focusing on one guy on a flying lap, and six drivers who are close together on flying laps, I'll always pick the latter.
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