,26,Jack Atkinson,J@tko,England

Not 100% sure I'll be there but I'll try

I don't expect to see Mercedes doing anywhere near as well here as they did in China - I don't think they will have solved their tyre problems enough to work well in the hot weather. They'll really struggle keeping their softs alive I think.

"Aus rechtlichen Grunden konnen wir den Livestream nicht auserhalb Deutschlands zeigen. Wir bitten um Verstandnis."

In my appalling German I think that means "Sorry but we can't show this outside Germany"? :P

Local Times:
Fri 20 April 2012
Practice 1 10:00 - 11:30
Practice 2 14:00 - 15:30
Sat 21 April 2012
Practice 3 11:00 - 12:00
Qualifying 14:00
Sun 22 April 2012
Race 15:00

British Time (UTC +1):
Fri 20 April 2012
Practice 1 08:00 - 09:30
Practice 2 12:00 - 13:30
Sat 21 April 2012
Practice 3 09:00 - 10:00
Qualifying 12:00
Sun 22 April 2012
Race 13:00

Tyre Compounds:
Soft
Hard

Previous Winners:
2011: Not Held
2010: Alonso
2009: Button
2008: Massa

Weather:
Hot and sunny (as usual then! :P)

DRS detection is just before the last corner, activation is just before the S/F line. Reverting back to the "normal" track this year after using the Endurance Circuit in 2010.

Will we see any more protests, especially after some Force India mechanics got ... le of a petrol bomb fight?

Last edited by J@tko, Thu 19 Apr 2012, 12:15.

Quote from DevilDare :

Helmut...

That entire article is just

Isn't that what happens when Wilko and Oscar commentate on a race anyway?

Quote from Silverracer :

It says 6' 1" (which is around 184 cm), unless the question has been altered recently.

They must have changed it - I wondered how a 6'11" Mark Webber would fit in an F1 car

I went for Rodriguez. No idea why

I don't really have advice but:

Quote :

wsinda
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Groningen, NL

EDIT
Oh bummer... 2006 :-/

I thought the broadcast was pretty good (Sky Sports piggy-back the NBC race feed, with their own pundits), I only actually saw the last half of the race but it seemed fairly sound

6'11" DEFINITELY isn't 183cm

And Mark Webber definitely isn't 6'11"!

Quote from Bob Smith :

No authorised tweak style app will work with a demo account.

Yes, that ^

I think it's just literally done off what country people listed their sign-up as, I think before they were either combined or completely separated. Thilo will be able to tell you

In all seriousness, this is something to be dealt with privately rather than bringing it into the public eye where nothing good can come out of it

Quote from Whiskey :

Not fine unless you are a licensed driver, is it?

I think tweak for demo is the same as using VOB mods - you're not allowed to talk about it on the forum but you can still technically use it.

We also have a semi-official (well deko is admin :P) FB group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/liveforspeed/

Quote from Yuri Laszlo :

Turns out they still ended up finishing in the top 10, didn't they?

Yeah, loved that traffic jam at the end

Yeah that's the first IndyCar race I've watched in ages and it was pretty good! Nice chase at the end but so sad for Sato

Personally I can't remember the last time I saw so many marbles at a race, although maybe I've not been looking too hard

Quote from Juzaa :

There are many ways to solve the performance loss. Loss of performance in the tires doesn't necessarily require tons of rubber lost. Besides, it's not that Prelli's tires create rubber on the track but the way the tires create these pieces of rubber that act like marbles when driven over.

Ah yes of course - I agree that the vast amount of marbles is annoying but surely it's going to be very difficult to create tyres that deteriorate quickly without creating more marbles than ones that deteriorate slowly. I even remember the rock solid Bridgestones creating quite a few marbles on some tracks

But surely if their tyres deteriorate faster the rubber has to go somewhere?

Quote from Funnybear :

Too much marbling making off the racing line just undrivable meaning that no driver in his right mind would make a go of it except for in a very few 'safe' places. And when they found themselves in a fighting situation, as Webber found himself, there was nothing they could do. And better corner exits, let the cars and the drivers battle out of the corner as well as into it.

Yes, this. So many people tried the cutback at the T5 hairpin but just couldn't go around the outside at the next corner because of the huge amount of marbles. I think that's more the Pirelli tyres specifically rather than a general characteristic though

Quote from Si Mclaren :

Well, i hate the AIRIO yellow flag system, because it only shows a message "HUGE CRASH AHEAD!!!!!!" when you already are seeing a "YELLOW FLAG" message from LFS...

I think that's just on FOX Junkies, which btw is BY FAR the most ANNOYING server in the whole world when it comes to yellow flags. You spin? It spectates you for "security"

Just watched the last 10 or so laps that I missed, so epic! Fab to see lots of teams right up there, especially Williams

Reckon McLaren will dominate again in Bahrain (too hot for Mercedes) followed by Lotus and Red Bull, with Merc and Sauber just behind them. Slightly disappointed with Force India's pace there, expecting Di Resta to get into the points in the race.

Sauber were by far the fastest in a straight line on the back straight, can't decide if that's aero efficiency (would explain Perez's pace in Malaysia) or just low downforce

Quote from spankmeyer :

EDIT: More sirious tone. Can F1 flip over from that? Bumbing tyres can launch a car but could it flip in its own from too much air under floor like the touring car flipouts?

Yeah, just like he did in Valencia

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