Formula 1 CFA Comments
Korean GP 2012 - Race
by Cato Batista, 13/10/2012 19:17:42
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Another Red Bull front row but this time is Webber ahead of Vettel. McLaren has one driver on the second row , Hamilton and another on the sixth, Button was affected –like several others- by a very hectic Q2 session. Alonso was satisfied with his 4th place, Raikkonen and Massa were next in row 3, the second Lotus of Grosjean will share row 5 with Force Indias’s Hulkemberg ahead of the Mercedes pair.
Our terrible QF marks are now a season-long well established pattern. With thirteen zeroes on the chart we keep breaking historic records. Fredrik and Sebastian took a chance with WEB on pole to score 2 points (+ HAM 3rd), we only managed a total of 10 points collectively, and the way this is going I’m afraid we’re going to do even worst soon. Let’s not even talk about it.
http://f1.manbos.com/userbets.asp?t=2012&gpn=Korea&nevent=qualifying
The grid for tomorrow:
WEB VET HAM ALO RAI MAS GRO HUL ROS SCH (BUT 11th – PER 12th)
Except for the Red Bull guys it was a very eventful QF session. Hamilton and Alosno were very close to get out in Q1 (16 & 17th) as they sat on their boxes saving a set of option tyres. A last moment yellow flag in Q2 ruined Button’s and both Sauber chances of making it into Q3. Hamilton went all out in the shoot-out trying to catch the Red Bulls, his chances of winning the Championship ...
Korean GP 2012 - QF
by Cato Batista, 12/10/2012 19:57:14
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Red Bull came on top on day 1 but it’s much closer than the numbers suggest. Each one of the top 3 teams was fastest on each of the 3 different sectors. On the first where it’s all about power and top speed McLaren was ahead of their rivals (Schumacher’s Mercedes was quicker in sector 1 to end up 5th overall); Ferrari was slightly in front in the series of fast corners of sector 2 and Red Bull was on its element in the street-circuit-like slow sector 3. The final balance was Vettel 32 thousands of a second ahead of Webber, 3 tenths ahead of Alonso and Button. McLaren got Hamilton’s set up wrong in P2 but looking at Button’s performance (particularly on the super-softs) they have the car to challenge Red Bull in QF and probably the better package for race day. Ferrari is showing they can compete at their level, in race simulation long runs the have the best consistency using both compounds, and for once it seems Massa is performing with confidence and speed.
P1 – HAM (1.39.148) ALO WEB MAS VET SCH ROS GRO DIR BUT
P2- VET (1.38.832) WEB ALO BUT SCH MAS ROS HAM HUL RAI
The surface in Yeongam is smooth and offers low degradation levels for Pirelli to provide their softer compound combo: super-soft (prime) and soft (option). And this could be Ferrari’s best asset, the F2012 was just a bit down on the McLaren’s long run pace but is preserving its tyres ...
Korean GP 2012- Preview
by Cato Batista, 11/10/2012 21:49:25
Ladies and Gentlemen,
As Alonso put it down, this is now a mini-world championship of five races with the first round taken place this weekend in Korea.
The momentum is shifting to Vettel with 2 straight wins and the Red Bull looking better than anytime during the season; Alonso’s Ferrari is lacking the one-lap pace necessary to challenge for the front in QF but is always very strong comes Sunday when it matters the most. Not far behind is Mr. Consistency Raikkonen, the only driver to have completed every racing lap of the season. His Lotus will be the only car with a full range of updates and they confirm they will use their ‘Coanda-effect-exhaust’ for the first time during the race. The last driver with a shot at getting involved is Hamilton, but with a 42 point disadvantage and an uneasy relationship with the team he is leaving soon most likely will play the part of spoiler to the main protagonists.
To make matters more interesting the winners of the 2 previous Korean GPs are Alonso and Vettel with Hamilton in second on both occasions. These three are the only drivers with 3 victories this year.
The 3 sectors of the Yeongam circuit demand complete opposite behaviour from the car pushing the teams to compromise a difficult set-up. The first has 3 straights connected by slow hairpins that required low drag and braking stability; the second is made of fast corners where downforce is key; and the third is made of slow turns where traction is critical. It will ...
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Japanese GP 2012 - Results - Tim's second
by Cato Batista, 07/10/2012 22:34:14
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It was ‘a walk in the park’ for Vettel, his 3rd victory of the season and the first driver to win back to back races this year, but most importantly he has caught Alonso in the fight for the Championship, the Spanish retiring in the opening seconds of the race. It was the most unusual rostrum with Massa & Kobayashi taking the flanking steps.
Despite 4 of the top 6 qualifiers eliminated in the opening stages Tim and Rodrigo found a way to score golds with their 3 surviving selections. Tim takes the overall victory with a better finishing order (1-4-5 vs 1-4-6) With his second win of 2012 he now sits 12th in the standings, a far cry from earlier days when he was fighting at the bottom of the table with names like with Lou (...or me). Matias and Ian came close in second place with 8 points to keep their spots in the top 10.
Picking Vettel first was a life-saver for 20 of us, and if not for 8 votes on target for Button in 4th this could have easily been our worst race of the year. Nobody ever imagined Massa in second (or any other pay paying position) or Kobayashi in third. In the 5th place column only Maria & Tim predicted Hamilton advancing 4 positions and Rodrigo & Fernando were the only ones with Raikkonen in 6th.
Rocco is now worryingly (for the rest of us) stretching his lead atop of the Championship. Uwe lost distance on him this weekend and the gap is now huge: 6 points (105-99). ...
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