I had the pleasure of seeing the Red Bull show car (think it was the 2008 car) in my hometown last year. As I was working at it with a sound company, I was able to get up close and personal with the car and engineers. It was really awesome. DC came and drove up and down our city centre and donuts etc. But the one thing that you can never forget is the shear noise of an F1 car. It is unbelievable. I remember, me a few guys and my Boss were sitting round waiting for it to all get going, and my Boss was not really into the F1 thing, and they fired up the engine and we all stopped and looked at each other and all were like, holy fuck, is that for real? LOL. WIll never forget it. F1 cars are seriously amazing pieces of engineering. My boss after that had completely changed his perspective on F1 (as he thought it was kinda boring) after that, and now has huge respect for them.

a176

Canada6688 Posts

April 02 2011 04:36 GMT

#122

red bull caught cheating

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/01042011/23/exposed-secret-red-bull-racing-f1-dominance.html

Chewits

Northern Ireland1200 Posts

April 02 2011 18:11 GMT

#123

On April 02 2011 13:36 a176 wrote:
red bull caught cheating

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/01042011/23/exposed-secret-red-bull-racing-f1-dominance.html

lol pretty terrible April foools. Could have made it a bit more believable lol

T0fuuu

Australia2275 Posts

April 03 2011 08:35 GMT

#124

Events passed and old car but I love these onboard cameras.

jaebigdong

87 Posts

April 04 2011 05:06 GMT

#125

wow didn't know that the Senna documentary was out already. Grabbing it now and cant' wait to watch. Just hope my eyes don't get watery.

Sreypech

United States28 Posts

April 04 2011 16:00 GMT

#126

I just started watching F1 this season, after watching Top Gear for years and watching the Ayrton Senna documentary. Best choice for something new to follow since starting to watch SC:BW 2-3 years ago.

bmml

United Kingdom962 Posts

April 08 2011 15:01 GMT

#127

Sepang in a few hours, shame about all Renault's problems in practice today, hopefully they'll fix em. Some crazy stuff seems to be going on with the tyres though, we'll see how it goes. Malaysia is always a good race though.

thebigdonkey

United States354 Posts

April 08 2011 16:28 GMT

#128

Going to be interesting how the tires play out this weekend. I think Red Bull is sandbagging a little though. I doubt McLaren are that close to them. I think in FP3, we'll see Webber and Vettel pull out a four tenths lead at least.

zere

Germany1287 Posts

April 08 2011 16:40 GMT

#129

I think Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari are sandbagging altogether. That would put even more pressure on HRT, but since the weather forecast for both saturday's qualifying and sunday's race says heavy rain, they might have a chance to qualify within the 107%.

thebigdonkey

United States354 Posts

April 08 2011 16:45 GMT

#130

On April 09 2011 01:40 zere wrote:
I think Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari are sandbagging altogether. That would put even more pressure on HRT, but since the weather forecast for both saturday's qualifying and sunday's race says heavy rain, they might have a chance to qualify within the 107%.

Yeah, it's never a question of if it's going to rain in Sepang, it's a question of when.

thehitman

1105 Posts

April 08 2011 17:14 GMT

#131

meh bottom 4 teams look really weak right now. Hopefully this doesn't turn into a 2 horse race like so many of F1 seasons.

Aristodemus

England2010 Posts

April 08 2011 17:29 GMT

#132

They are not sandbagging, they are practicing. Times dont mean shit, they working on set-up and assessing tyres on different fuel loads.

zere

Germany1287 Posts

April 09 2011 09:25 GMT

#133

0.1 of a second, that was close. /// Renault fighting!

+ Show Spoiler [Starting grid] +

1. Vettel (Red Bull)
2. Hamilton (McLaren)
3. Webber (Red Bull)
4. Button (McLaren)
5. Alonso (Ferrari)
6. Heidfeld (Renault)
7. Massa (Ferrari)
8. Petrov (Renault)
9. Rosberg (Mercedes)
10. Kobayashi (Sauber)
11. Schumacher (Mercedes)
12. Buemi (Toro Rosso)
13. Alguersuari (Toro Rosso)
14. di Resta (Force India)
15. Barrichello (Williams)
16. Perez (Sauber)
17. Sutil (Force India)
18. Maldonado (Williams)
19. Kovalainen (Lotus)
20. Trulli (Lotus)
21. Glock (Marussia Virgin)
22. D'Ambrosio (Marussia Virgin)
23. Liuzzi (HRT)
24. Karthikeyan (HRT)

Poll: Malaysia GP winner?

Hamilton (9)

47%

Vettel (5)

26%

Webber (3)

16%

Button (1)

5%

Heidfeld (1)

5%

Alonso (0)

0%

other driver (0)

0%

19 total votes

Your vote: Malaysia GP winner?

(Vote): Vettel
(Vote): Hamilton
(Vote): Webber
(Vote): Button
(Vote): Alonso
(Vote): Heidfeld
(Vote): other driver

Poll: Renault finishing on the podium?

No (8)

62%

Yes (5)

38%

13 total votes

Your vote: Renault finishing on the podium?

(Vote): Yes
(Vote): No

Poll: Will HRT finish the race?

No (11)

79%

Yes, with one of their cars (2)

14%

Yes, with both their cars (1)

7%

14 total votes

Your vote: Will HRT finish the race?

(Vote): Yes, with both their cars
(Vote): Yes, with one of their cars
(Vote): No

Existential

Australia2107 Posts

April 09 2011 09:27 GMT

#134

Congrats to Vettel on getting pole position.

Greg_J

China4409 Posts

April 09 2011 09:52 GMT

#135

I really like how the movable rear wing causees the teams trouble deciding what gear ratios to run. They where moaning about it making it hard for the teams on the BBC but I think it adds anouther interesting element of having to choose between set ups that are best for the race or ones that are best for qualifying. I hated taking refueling out of F1 because it meant there where less options to cause different statergies and it seems really stupid to me to be compensating for this by making tyres that delibrately wear away fast to try and encoruage different stratergies.

Anway good job vettel pulling out a great lap to just pick Hamilton to the pole. Good job Mclarren making the car so competive again already with Ferrai been a bit slow right now if Mclarren hadn't managed to find the speed the start to this season would have been a lot of boring precession and 1-2's for Red Bull.

storm8ring3r

Germany227 Posts

April 09 2011 09:55 GMT

#136

Mercedes GP has lots of problems on their car still with the rear wing system -.- Once that's all sorted I even think they'll be contenders for the top... let's hope for some rain tomorrow. What a disgrace for Schumacher to be driving a second tier car :-(

G3CKO

Canada1430 Posts

April 09 2011 10:32 GMT

#137

I really miss Senna's driving

Chewits

Northern Ireland1200 Posts

April 10 2011 07:25 GMT

#138

Rain expected for race. Hope so. Love this race because the threat of rain is always there. If its dry, Vettel has this imo. If the rain comes, its really hard to tell, as most of the teams have no wet rain testing, so its really a complete unknown!