Abu Dhabi GP 2013 - Preview
by Cato Batista, 31/10/2013 22:57:46
Ladies and Gentlemen,
And then there were three...
Seventeenth round of the season coming up in Abu Dhabi this weekend, the mother of all Mickey Mouse circuits with its spectacular evening-to-night changing scenery.
Vettel (2009/10) Hamilton (2011) & RAI (2012) are the drivers that had won in Abu Dhabi, they are also the only ones to have started from the pole position, but only one race was won from the pole, that was Vettel in 2010. Raikkonen’s victory from 4th place on the grid last year was the first time the winner had started off the front row.
With the title already in Vettel’s pocket, the attention centers in the fight for second in the Drivers’ & Constructors’ Champiosnhips between Mercedes, Ferrari, Lotus and their drivers, and of course to see if Vettel can equal Schumacher’s 2004 seven wins in a row, the best run of success of the modern era. The record of nine was set by Alberto Ascari in 1952-53. Ferrari can set a record for most consecutive point finishes dating back to the 2010 German GP. They equalled McLaren’s run of 64 in a row in India last weekend.
Our
CFA winner last year was
Ricardo with 10 points/3
golds. It was a bad outing for our expert panel, particularly for the leaders of the point standings as they stalled with as little as 3 points in a day when nobody got more than 6 points except the winner and
Matias in ...
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Indian GP 2013 - Race
by Cato Batista, 26/10/2013 22:01:20
Ladies and Gentlemen,
As the life expectancy of the soft tyre is very short Q3 was conditioned by race tyre strategy.
Red Bull and Ferrari split their drivers with different strategies; Mercedes opted for the traditional faster option to qualify up front their two cars, McLaren did the opposite with both on mediums. Lotus and Sauber with one car each on Q3 decided for softs.
As result from all these different tactics we have a mixed and very intriguing starting grid. VET is at the front, no problem, follow by the soft-shod Mercedes that were only 2 tenths faster than WEB in the prime tyre, that fast is the Red Bull around here. MAS, RAI and HUL are in options ahead of ALO in primes, same as PER and BUT to close the top 10. GRO was left out in Q1 by a mistake by his team as they were trying to save a set of mediums.
Our CFA results were average, than means, bad as usual. Nine members had 2 points, the rest, one. We all cashed at least one point from VET in first. Thanks Seb! if it wasn’t for you...
http://f1.manbos.com/userbets.asp?t=2013&gpn=India&nevent=qualifying
The grid (tyre: Option, Prime)
VET (o) ROS (o) HAM (o) WEB (p) MAS (o) RAI (o) HUL (o) ALO (p) PER (p) BUT (p)
In theory this is a 2 stopper to cover the 60 laps, the interesting part will be if the leading pack would be able to build up the necessary gap in a few ...
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