Formula 1 2013 Season Opener Melbourne 17th March

[RX-7_FD3S]

Anyone know at what time it start to get dark in australia at this time of the year ?

 

[IforceV8]

Sam Posey

 

[GTPorsche]

NBC would be crazy to end coverage at 3:30. I think they go to paid programming after this ends. After P2 last night it did the same.

 

[mattythedog]

Any know at what time it start to get dark in australia at this time of the year ?

The guy on Sky said 19:37 local time.

 

[paulmac2k9]

Haven't slept yet realised it was on and am watching, bit chaotic Q1, now a whole load of nothing . Silly F1s don't do wet .

 

[dhandeh]

There certainly is a lot of faffing going on. There is a bit of rain, we have got rid of the noobs, so let's get going.

*slow clap*

 

[Grayfox]

The guy on Sky said 19:37 local time.

We Aussies have daylight savings due to the lousy farmers.

 

[CinnamonOD]

I'm eating an habanero, I need a reason to stay awake

 

[Wardez]

lol, nice AJ, I'd just go for some Tijuana style tacos

This is kind of boring now watching dudes clear the water with brooms and ****, anyone heard of trucks with huge blowers and sweepers NASCAR style?

Proud of Perez though, Nico as well. Hamilton got way too excited early on causing that end-plate damage, could've had a lot quicker time, but it's just Q1 so meh.

Surprised at Williams' lack of pace.

 

[shepzki]

Charlie Whiting, the voice of doom....

 

[mattythedog]

Charlie just said they're delaying it to clear debris (fair enough) and to clear water off the track. That's the part I don't understand. This isn't NASCAR, they can race in rain.

 

[F1 fan]

Ugh. If coverage ends at 3:30 as it's slated to, I'm going to be a bit annoyed.

Coming right up, the 50th rerun of the 2013 Danica Pat... Daytona 500. After these commercials.

 

[dhandeh]

The bloke with the leafblower trying to blow the water off the circuit must have the most feckless job in the world.

 

[GTPorsche]

I say we just put the drivers out on pedal powered karts.

 

[Lizard]

Alarm clock.

Y U NO WAKE ME UP ON TIME.

Have I missed much?

 

[shepzki]

I say we just put the drivers out on pedal powered karts.

Even better, send them out in the medical cars, they have looked great so far. 👍

 

[m8h3r]

I say we just put the drivers out on pedal powered karts.

What fuel mix is he running behind me? "Rumour has it he had a fry up for breakfast"

 

[F1 fan]

Alarm clock.

Y U NO WAKE ME UP ON TIME.

Have I missed much?

Fairly crash action packed Q1 with changeable conditions.

You can read up on it here.

 

[paulmac2k9]

Crashes and delays .

 

[IforceV8]

Alarm clock.

Y U NO WAKE ME UP ON TIME.

Have I missed much?

Yeah, half of the cars now have new front wings.

and rain

 

[mattythedog]

Should be around 5 minutes to the start.

 

[Grayfox]

What fuel mix is he running behind me? "Rumour has it he had a fry up for breakfast"

He is like a diesel and is running rich.

 

[m8h3r]

Radio 5 live say its moving to 5 live extra, that was 15 minutes ago, 5 live extra is still offline....

 

[GTPorsche]

20 more minutes.

 

[CinnamonOD]

More delays, this is going to be like Korea 2010

 

[mattythedog]

I should've stayed in bed. *sigh*

 

[zzz_pt]

boring...

 

[Grayfox]

More delays, this is going to be like Korea 2010

Or Monaco Last Year or the year before.

 

[Anghammarad]

I say we just put the drivers out on pedal powered karts.

Alonso would win, comfortably.

 

[Terronium-12]

If I were there I could at least enjoy the rain, but this is getting a bit tedious.