**** 2007 Malaysian GP ****
 

Finally, after 3 LONG weeks, the second round of the 2007 F1 season is on this weekend: :D

Here are a couple of updates on the testing done on the Sepang Circuit prior to the race (first time this has happened):

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1 - Lap Times
Day 1
Sepang* - 27/03/2007
1 . R. Kubica - BMW Sauber F1.07 - 1:36.187 (+ 0.000 ) - 92 laps
2 . K. Raikkonen - Ferrari F2007 - 1:36.309 (+ 0.122 ) - 54 laps
3 . A. Wurz - Williams Toyota FW29 - 1:36.612 (+ 0.425 ) - 89 laps
4 . R. Barrichello - Honda RA107 - 1:36.826 (+ 0.639 ) - 82 laps
5 . P. de la Rosa - McLaren Mercedes MP4-22 - 1:37.106 (+ 0.919 ) - 60 laps
6 . F. Montagny - Toyota TF107 - 1:37.267 (+ 1.080 ) - 73 laps
7 . T. Sato - Super Aguri Honda SA07 - 1:37.389 (+ 1.202 ) - 72 laps
8 . D. Coulthard - Red Bull Renault RB3 - 1:37.609 (+ 1.422 ) - 83 laps
9 . N. Piquet - Renault R27 - 1:38.199 (+ 2.012 ) - 32 laps
10 . S. Speed - Toro Rosso Ferrari STR2 - 1:38.503 (+ 2.316 ) - 69 laps.

Day 2
Sepang* - 28/03/2007
1 . K. Raikkonen - Ferrari F2007 - 1:35.268 (+ 0.000 ) - 55 laps
2 . A. Wurz - Williams Toyota FW29 - 1:35.702 (+ 0.434 ) - 108 laps
3 . D. Coulthard - Red Bull Renault RB3 - 1:35.712 (+ 0.444 ) - 82 laps
4 . R. Schumacher - Toyota TF107 - 1:35.751 (+ 0.483 ) - 79 laps
5 . R. Kubica - BMW Sauber F1.07 - 1:35.887 (+ 0.619 ) - 108 laps
6 . L. Hamilton - McLaren Mercedes MP4-22 - 1:36.115 (+ 0.847 ) - 65 laps
7 . T. Sato - Super Aguri Honda SA07 - 1:36.306 (+ 1.038 ) - 63 laps
8 . R. Barrichello - Honda RA107 - 1:36.563 (+ 1.295 ) - 36 laps
9 . H. Kovalainen - Renault R27 - 1:36.578 (+ 1.310 ) - 81 laps
10 . J. Button - Honda RA107 - 1:36.617 (+ 1.349 ) - 24 laps
11 . A. Davidson - Super Aguri Honda SA07 - 1:37.876 (+ 2.608 ) - 36 laps
12 . S. Speed - Toro Rosso Ferrari STR2 - 1:37.910 (+ 2.642 ) - 36 laps
13 . V. Liuzzi - Toro Rosso Ferrari STR2 - 1:37.971 (+ 2.703 ) - 27 laps.


Day 3
Sepang* - 29/03/2007 ('Overnight rain and then a shower in the afternoon session')
1 . L. Hamilton - McLaren Mercedes MP4-22 - 1:35.918 (+ 0.000 ) - 57 laps
2 . M. Webber - Red Bull Renault RB3 - 1:36.138 (+ 0.220 ) - 62 laps
3 . R. Schumacher - Toyota TF107 - 1:36.700 (+ 0.782 ) - 69 laps
4 . V. Liuzzi - Toro Rosso Ferrari STR2 - 1:36.712 (+ 0.794 ) - 56 laps
5 . F. Massa - Ferrari F2007 - 1:36.947 (+ 1.029 ) - 65 laps
6 . N. Rosberg - Williams Toyota FW29 - 1:37.070 (+ 1.152 ) - 71 laps
7 . J. Button - Honda RA107 - 1:37.472 (+ 1.554 ) - 93 laps
8 . A. Davidson - Super Aguri Honda SA07 - 1:37.606 (+ 1.688 ) - 44 laps
9 . N. Heidfeld - BMW Sauber F1.07 - 1:38.551 (+ 2.633 ) - 35 laps
10 . H. Kovalainen - Renault R27 - 1:39.654 (+ 3.736 ) - 20 laps.

Day 4
Sepang* - 30/03/2007
1 . H. Kovalainen - Renault R27 - 1:35.757 (+ 0.000 ) - 55 laps
2 . F. Massa - Ferrari F2007 - 1:35.808 (+ 0.051 ) - 71 laps
3 . A. Davidson - Super Aguri Honda SA07 - 1:36.787 (+ 1.030 ) - 68 laps
4 . N. Rosberg - Williams Toyota FW29 - 1:37.002 (+ 1.245 ) - 103 laps
5 . F. Montagny - Toyota TF107 - 1:37.206 (+ 1.449 ) - 77 laps
6 . N. Heidfeld - BMW Sauber F1.07 - 1:37.318 (+ 1.561 ) - 69 laps
7 . J. Button - Honda RA107 - 1:37.326 (+ 1.569 ) - 37 laps
8 . M. Webber - Red Bull Renault RB3 - 1:37.338 (+ 1.581 ) - 43 laps
9 . L. Hamilton - McLaren Mercedes MP4-22 - 1:37.708 (+ 1.951 ) - 42 laps
10 . V. Liuzzi - Toro Rosso Ferrari STR2 - 1:38.542 (+ 2.785 ) - 55 laps
11 . C. Klien - Honda RA107 - 1:39.175 (+ 3.418 ) - 23 laps
12 . P. de la Rosa - McLaren Mercedes MP4-22 - 1:39.303 (+ 3.546 ) - 24 laps.

2 - Rain expected this weekend
From F1 Live:
Teams are bracing for a rain affected Malaysian Grand Prix this weekend. After the Sepang test was hit by rain last week, the south east Asian country's Meteorological Department now predicts that more showers and thunderstorms will coincide with round two of the world championship near Kuala Lumpur.

Interestingly, the bad weather is tipped to strike Sepang on the afternoon of all three days of official F1 action, with the mornings expected to be fine. The worst weather is forecast for Saturday, but Sunday is likely to also be affected by rain. Michael Schumacher won a wet Malaysian GP in 2001.

"We have to see how the field adapts to wet conditions," said Sepang boss Datuk Azmi Murad.

"I've experienced some incredible downpours before in Sepang," BMW Sauber driver Nick Heidfeld commented last week. “Here, the rain is far from normal. When the heavens open, everything disappears under water in no time."

1 . K. Raikkonen - Ferrari F2007 - 1:35.268 (+ 0.000 ) - 55 laps

Fastest lap overall. Ferrari fanboys unite!!!!

^^ Forza Ferrari! :D

Interesting to see some names so high in the list and others so low :shock:

looking forward to this. seeing them handle the rain here should give us a good idea as to how Brazil will end up since it usually rains there as well

Yep, I have my rain god ready just incase :mrgreen:

Friday free practice 1 times from Sepang


1. MASSA Ferrari 1m34.972s
2. ALONSO McLaren 1m35.220s
3. HAMILTON McLaren 1m35.712s
4. RAIKKONEN Ferrari 1m35.779s
5. ROSBERG Williams 1m36.308s
6. WEBBER Red Bull 1m36.522s
7. TRULLI Toyota 1m36.597s
8. NAKAJIMA Williams 1m36.885s
9. SCHUMACHER Toyota 1m37.052s
10. KUBICA BMW 1m37.121s
11. COULTHARD Red Bull 1m37.484s
12. VETTEL BMW 1m37.837s
13. LIUZZI Toro Rosso 1m37.882s
14. KOVALAINEN Renault 1m38.143s
15. FISICHELLA Renault 1m38.300s
16. SUTIL Spyker 1m38.720s
17. SATO Super Aguri 1m38.966s
18. SPEED Toro Rosso 1m39.130s
19. BARRICHELLO Honda 1m39.234s
20. BUTTON Honda 1m39.331s
21. DAVIDSON Super Aguri 1m39.357s
22. ALBERS Spyker 1m40.074s

The first real occasion to see Raikkonen vs Massa except if they change Raikkonen's engine as the rumour say ...

^ I think Raikonnen must be taking it easy on the engine during practice

Don't hope so..

Anyway hope that it rains! :D

Good news for Raikonnen

hahaha .. thats gonna eff massa for sure :lol: ...


good to see the doing better 8)

^^ Yep :wink:

:lol:

i dont like him either ;) :mrgreen:

Too bad Rubens no longer with Ferrari, he's always good in the rain.

I think Rubinho is over the hill. I think he peaked in 2004 flattered by a dominant car. Since then he has done squat.

^^ true ....
well 1 hour to go ....

these damn gf's are annoying ... i didnt sleep all night :| .. its 7 am right now ... :|

Hamilton did great ... i doubt he'd be able to keep the ferrari's behind him in qualificaion ;)

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^^Wow, saadie, nice timing post you got there

so the time chart facinates you more then hamiltons laptime ? :lol: :mrgreen:

thank you :D

I wouldn't worry about it, it means nothing much at this point. only 20 mins to go, we'll find out then.

Very exciting last 1 minute of qualifying. Looks like Mclaren has upped their performance since Australian GP.

^^ owh yes big times ..... lets see if they can mintain the pace ..... i hope they dont haha ... but anyway .. heres another fancy laptime chart 8)

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^^
Fancy - Yes
Readable - No :lol: :wink:

the final 1:36 of Q3 was better than most of the races last year :D With Alonso matching Kimi almost down to the thousandth of a second in every sector and then to have Massa clip them both...AWESOME!

Let's hope that they can keep up the pace in 14 hours :D

Fernando was mentioning that the Ferrari long run pace is stronger than McLaren. So hopefully Kimi will be able to leapfrog the McLaren in the pitstops if he doesnt do so into Turn 1 on the first lap :)

I dont think Kimi can beat Massa this weekend if he is planning to nurse his engine.

I just hope Kimi is going for long fuel runs.

Ferrari's car looks very stable, there's very little steering correction thru complex section of the course

^ Massa is very smooth! A Schumi like lap if I can say so. Its nice to see both Kimi and Massa playing with the brake balance thru the corners. I used to see adjustments only mady bythe one and only Schu.

now who and why deleted my post?

Yeah, I still remember Schumi requesting all kinda controls on his steering wheel in the earlier days (Starting to increase from 99~00). Ferrari's steering always have the most buttons and knobs.

you must have the F1 subice theme :lol: ... well i donno im sorry? :P change to cobalt or subblack :prr:

6 hours 45 mins to go :D :?

That explains why no one else complained :)

yep ... i tried adding a black shadow so you could see it on white but it didnt really work out :?

anyway .. the race is at 12 am my time ... i got up super extra early at 5 am lol :? im soo frigging bored :lol:

Massa f**ked up bad...... :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

07:05 OMG what a start!!! Go A.lonso GO!!! AWESOME HAMILTON!!!
LOL %vz-fe LOL!!XDXDXD

07:08What a first laps!!!! OMG Hamilton... LOL Massa!!!

07:10 What a fu***** idiot Gonzalo Serrano about his doubt of Hamilton.... Have you heard it Dani ??

07:12 LOL Massa EAT GRASS Great Hamilton!!

1º Alonso 2º Hamilton 3º Raikkonen Lets see Lewis with Kimmi

07:25 A spyker burning oin pits ... BBQ !!!

07:36 16 laps, pits dancings coming soon!!

07:39 lap 17 Alonso and kimmi pitstop

07:43 Hamilton over Kimmi affter pitstop :D :D :twisted:

07:48 Heidfield on pits----> Over Massa XD !! Massa's NIghtmare

im going to live timing ---> see you after 35 laps!!!

Ferrari's worst choice....Massa for sure, he sucked!!

no kidding

XD 14 laps to go!! Go A.lonso Go!!!! And lewis on second place :twisted:

what happens with ferrari you fan boys???? :D :D

Kimmi is now chasing Hamilton, hes a sec faster than the bignigga on each lap... Come on Hamilton YOU CAN DO IT!

5 laps to go!!! Alonso 1º, Hamilton 2º and Kimmi 3º.... Kimmi just behind of Hamilton.... i dont think he will overtake Lewis!! Just one second and 2 laps to go !!!

Awesome Race !! GREAT VICTORY for Fernando A.lonso and 2º Place for Hamilton.... Kimmi 3rd XD !! Poor Massa... this wasnt his race!!!

Go A.lonso Go !!!

damn those mclarens had a good start .....
oh well ....

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soo alonso is at 18 points and raikonen at 16 .. hmm

worthless assa is useless at passing... :o

^^ lol .. yeh he showed alot of immaturity .....

I was surprised by the (relatively) poor performances of the Ferraris :| I think that the change of flat undertrays had a more important impact than awaited ...

It seems that having Alonso in a team has a strong impact on performances too :wink: Look where Renault is now ...

The McLaren team was VERY impressive today but I'm not giving up on Ferrari!

fuck!

Massa is completely useless....that's one point well proven today.

His start is poor, then the attempt to pass Lewis is just pure laughable. I bet Lewis is laughing the whole flight home.

Anther thing is, Mclaren is reliable this year.......so not good for Ferrari. :cry:

Disappointing race from a Ferrari standpoint. Kimi did an okay job though with a crippled engine. Massa sucked big time.

Got to hand it to Lewis. What a drive - drove like a champion today. Very good job at keeping the Ferraris behind. Entertaining first few laps and last few laps as well. Good start by Alonso and thereafter he was cruising out there on his own. Good job!

Heidfeld did well too.

As said dissapointing race byMass and Ferrari.

Alonso did quite well but his win was due to Hamilton holding up the Ferrari's IMO. Lewis Hamilton was already my favourite even before driving so well as he does!

I loved the way he talked on the radio after the race:
Ron Dennis: ''Are you allright?''
Lewis Hamilton: ''Yeah Im allright, its just that I want to win! But don't worry Ill win a race somewhere during this season!''

What a champ! 8) :D

lol @ massa at the start and the passing attempts... anyways its still the second race and we just have to wait 7 days for another one

that was nice