Australian GP 2011 - Albert Park, 24-27 March

[n_anirudh]

The Renault engines sounded a lot croaky compared to the Ferrari's and Mclaren...esp thru corners 3-5.definately FEE

[747heavy]

some data from BREMBO about the brake usage can be found here:

http://www.brembo.com/ENG/Formula1/2011 ... ne_ENG.pdf

[n_anirudh]

DRS testing on Friday FP 2

[donskar]

if someone is interested to see the weather/rain fall radar for the area, it can be found here:

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR024.loop.shtml#skip

Very cool, thanks for the link. Sadly, here on the East Coast of the United States, qualifying and the race are in the middle of the night and my advanced age prohibits me from being able to stay awake to watch them. I will check the radar before going to bed so that I can dream about Melbourne, maybe in the rain, with KERS and DRS and new cars and all the wonderful things that can go bump in the night, err, daylight.

Oh, come now. I'm 63, I'll work 10-11 hours tomorrow, grab a bottle of George Dickel bourbon on the way home and then watch the race, starting at 0100 locsal time. You'll be dead forever. Enjoy F1 now.

[raymondu999]

As the Pirellis don't rubber the track, Does that mean the track won't go much faster, other than cleaning up the track?

[Sean H]

I love the shots of the cars coming out of the corners with the rear wing wide open and the car sideways. Alonso especially.

[Sean H]

Vettel with a very quick 1:24.5

[CHT]

Vettel with a very quick 1:24.5

FIA is going to ban Red Bull soon.

[raymondu999]

Interesting that there's 8 and a half tenths between Vettel and Webber.

[Tamburello]

Interesting that there's 8 and a half tenths between Vettel and Webber.

Webber was 6/10 of sec off Vettel just in the last sector so I don't think he did a perfect lap...

[raymondu999]

he was 0.8 seconds slower too when both were on hards. And 0.037 slower when Vettel was on hards and Webber on softs. Which is why I was thinking maybe Webber didn't use DRS/KERS or something

[Jimi_Hendrix_1967]

They want to let cars start from the pitlane that dont make the 107% rule time. In the case of HRT, being 17 seconds off the pace thats plain madness, isnt it?

[Mr Alcatraz]

Vettel with a very quick 1:24.5

Looks like I'm going to have to find another Hobby. This season may lose my interest rather rapidly!

[PlatinumZealot]

Season over

[Caito]

Just for reference:

Last year's pole: Vettel 1.23.919


That's 6 tents more than last year. I don't know if in Vettel's lap he used all his kers and used drs all along the circuit. Somehow I thought there would be a greater margin