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So then what a weekend, BrawnGP

Posted by Andy at 04:51 PM on March 29, 2009

Pos	Driver	Car/Engine	Laps	Time/Delay
1	Jenson Button	Brawn/Mercedes	58	1h 34:15.784
2	Rubens Barrichello	Brawn/Mercedes	58	0.807
3	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren/Mercedes	58	2.914
4	Timo Glock	Toyota	58	4.435
5	Fernando Alonso	Renault	58	4.879
6	Nico Rosberg	Williams/Toyota	58	5.722
7	Sébastien Buemi	Toro Rosso/Ferrari	58	6.004
8	Sébastien Bourdais	Toro Rosso/Ferrari	58	6.298
9	Adrian Sutil	Force India/Mercedes	58	6.335
10	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber/BMW	58	7.085
11	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India/Mercedes	58	7.374
12	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	58	26.604
13	Mark Webber	Red Bull/Renault	57	1 Lap
14	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull/Renault	56	Collision
15	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber/BMW	55	Collision
16	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	55	Differential
-	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	45	Suspension
-	Nelsinho Piquet	Renault	24	Spun off
-	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams/Toyota	17	Spun off
-	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren/Mercedes	0	Collision

Button commanded the race from start to flag

Rubens after a bad messy start inherited 2nd when Vettel/Kubica took each other out

Lewis gets 3rd after Trulli is given a penalty for overtaking him under Yellows

Buemi good start to his career

Webber got caught up in Rubens messy start and needed a new frint wing

Kimi's car met the wall and the wall won

Felipe rolled to a stop

Piquet lost it underbreaking after a safetycar period

Nakajima lossed the back end and hit a wall

Heikki another person involved in Rubens start

Oz Practise

Posted by Andy at 08:05 AM on March 27, 2009

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right, I don't intend on doing the for every race, but hey ho, caught up in the moment

I have worked out the average positions of the drivers and teams after 1st and 2nd practice

Williams 2.75

Brawn 4.25

Toyota 7.25

Ferrari 7.75

Force India 11.25

Redbull 12.25

McLaren 14

Renault 14.75

STR 17.5

So the first 3 teams with trick diffusers are 1-2-3, then we have the old guns Ferrari being best of the rest. Followed by a suprise Force India! However I would imagine that Vettle had a problem in 1st Practise as he was 6 seconds of the pace so I would imagine that Redbull will be ahead of Force India. Mclaren and Renault have already said they have problems. STR, I am a bit suprised that they are that far behind Redbull.

Rosberg 1

Barrichello 3

Nakajima 4.5

Kubica 5

Button 5.5

Raikkonen 7

Glock 7

Trulli 7.5

Massa 8.5

Sutil 9

Webber 10.5

Alonso 11

Kovalainen 11

Heidfeld 12.5

Fisichella 13.5

Vettel 14

Hamilton 17

Bourdais 17.5

Buemi 17.5

Piquet 18.5

Nico getting P1 in both session is a suprise also Piquet being so low shows how much Alonso has hussled the car as usual. Kocalainen seems to of got on top of he new car faster than Hamilton. I think that that is the only way to get the word Fast in a sentance with McLaren today.

Pre season

Posted by Andy at 04:50 AM on March 26, 2009

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Ferrari

Have already admitted that last years late title battle has hurt them this year, but I can not imagine that it will be hurting them for long. However they might have a driver power struggle going on.

McLaren-Mercedes

Seem to be struggling, however I can not imagine them struggling for long but I think it is a bit more of a difficult fix than they are saying

BMW Sauber

Pre season testing has been OK, however they sand bagged a lot last year for preseason

Renault

Alonso has already said they are off the pace, however as they have the ugliest car on the grid, I hope they are not on screen much

Toyota

With Honda pulling the plug, Toyota might be seeing a way out, and good results this year might make it easier to swallow the expense

Torro Rosso-Ferrari

A newey designed car with a ferrari engine, should be good but will struggle to do a repeat of last year, especially as the drive line up might not be as strong

Redbull-Renault

embarassed after last year by the B team, however they now have there star asset from last year

Williams-Toyota

Been fast in preseason perhaps this could be Nico's year. however I think they might not be able to develope as much as other teams during the season

Force India-Mercedes

Have big dreams but have not shown anything good in testing

Brawn-Mercedes

Brawn has saved the Honda team, will need get good results to get the funding for next year.They should be fast, lets just hope the Diffuser issue goes in there favour or it might be Hero to Zero time.