F1 World Championship 2009 Thread

[Subject Delta]

Badoer won't be in the car after this weekend.

[simonlang]

what a starting grid!!!! fisi deserves this pole soooo much; that will deffo secure him a race-seat for next year imho.

ferrari is going backwards with horrible fast pace sice felipe isnt in the team anymore. i hope he ll be back asap!

button shows again what a mediocre driver and undeserved champion he would be (remember, i was one of the few ones who had this opinion already at the very beginning of the year when he was cruising to wins because of a superior car!); rubens owns him here!

bmw seems to have made a step forwards.

[Crazysah]

Force India's Fisichella got Pole position! P1! YAY! He deserves it for sure... and yeah they will secure their drivers for next season. Sutil 11th! This is just amazing!

GO FORCE INDIA! I AM SO HAPPY! Good job by Vijay Mallya and his team!

[macmax]

I hope Force India can score some points tomorrow :) ... 11th for Sutil aint bad either. Hope they both can score points.

[san.W10]

wow. the noob squads are at podium :D

Force India's (FI) target was Q3 & what a way they've achieved their target.

funny thing is, none of the 3 podium sitters know how they ended up there.(post race conf.) lol

i just hope FI score points tomorow and do their best not to throw away them.

[san.W10]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/78107

Rubens, kimi & Lewis (latter two with KERS powerrr!) will definateley make lots of progress, maybe top three in 1st lap :D, my bet is on kimi tho, for the initial period of race tho :p

[.mcman]

Below is the provisional grid for the Belgian Grand Prix with each car's weight.

1. Giancarlo Fisichella, Force India, 648kg

2. Jarno Trulli, Toyota, 656.5

3. Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber, 655

4. Rubens Barrichello, Brawn GP, 644.5

5. Robert Kubica, BMW Sauber, 649

6. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari, 655

7. Timo Glock, Toyota, 648.5

8. Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull, 662.5

9. Mark Webber, Red Bull, 658

10. Nico Rosberg, Williams, 670

11. Adrian Sutil, Force India, 678.5

12. Lewis Hamilton, McLaren, 693.5

13. Fernando Alonso, Renault, 684.4

14. Jenson Button, Brawn GP, 694.2

15. Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren, 697

16. Sebastien Buemi, Toro Rosso, 685

17. Jaime Alguersuari, Toro Rosso, 704.5

18. Kazuki Nakajima, Williams, 706.1

19. Romain Grosjean, Renault, 704.7

20. Luca Badoer, Ferrari, 691.5

Fisichella has more fuel than Barrichello. :o

[Crazysah]

YAY. A win will be hard for FI but points for both drivers will be more or less certain!

[Techno_Funky]

GO!! Force India go lol!! :D

[san.W10]

Webber reprimanded for impeding

Mark Webber has been reprimanded by the Belgian Grand Prix stewards after impeding a rival during qualifying at Spa.

The stewards deemed the Red Bull driver had blocked a rival during the first qualifying segment, but the Australian has escaped a grid penalty and got just a reprimand.

Webber, third in championship, qualified in ninth position.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/78130

[Subject Delta]

Force India on pole... absolutely gobsmacked by that one. Granted they are a little bit light, but I still can't believe it. Also a rather dramatic drop in form for McLaren, would be interesting to know whether they lack downforce or just got their setup wrong, and again a poor event for the championship frontrunners, Button especially really appears to be losing his touch.

The race could theoretically IMO be won by anybody in the top 6, I wouldn't even like to guess where it will go, but Raikkonen's KERS system will be a massive threat off the line.

[Kharat]

My Predicted Result is Barrichello will win the race and first points for Force India Mercedes

[san.W10]

Tyre issues are back, says Brawn

Ross Brawn fears his team's tyre-warming 'curse' has returned, despite earlier optimism that work on the BGP 001 car in Belgium had cured the problem.

Both Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button struggled to get sufficient heat into their tyres in qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix, and Brawn thinks it shows how much more work his team needs to do before it can feel comfortable with the situation.

"It was the curse of the tyre temperatures again," said Brawn. "We were struggling to get the tyres to work, and obviously those teams that managed to get the tyres to work made a very good step.

"With Jenson particularly, we really struggled with the tyres again. On Friday it didn't look too bad, but we just slipped off a little with tyre temperature. Our curse has slightly returned - not as bad as it could have been. On fuel, with a longer run it's not bad. For qualifying we struggled."

Brawn believes that Button's recent struggles, having been edged out by his team-mate in recent races, can be attributed to his smoother driving style.

"He's inherently quieter on the tyres," he said. "Normally that's an advantage but in these circumstances he struggles a bit more. He's quite a smooth, gentle driver which is normally a benefit. But when we are on the edge of getting the tyres to work, he seems to struggle a bit more.

"I think that it is just using the tyres. The approach of how you use them and getting the tyres to work in these circumstances. Perhaps it's no accident that four of the oldest, most experienced, drivers in F1 are at the front of the grid."

Despite the difficulties in qualifying, Brawn thinks that Barrichello, who starts fourth on a light fuel load, can still deliver a strong performance in the race.

"We're pretty light on fuel to try and compensate," he said. "But Rubens is pretty good at starts and he doesn't really have any KERS cars around him this time, so if he can make one or two places on the start he'll have a very strong race.

"The middle period, which will almost certainly be on the hard tyre, he will be very strong. The start and the middle part of the race will be crucial."

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/78165

[acnpt]

Let's hope Force India doesn't get overtaken on the warm up lap :rofl:

I want Fisichella to do well though!

[MightyJordan]

Holy ****, that was a crazy start! :o

[sundayx Veteran]

Does anyone have a live feed link?

[acnpt]

Yeah shame about Hamiliton, he was trying to avoid it.

What happened to Button, did he spin?

[Lovell]

Yeah shame about Hamiliton, he was trying to avoid it.

What happened to Button, did he spin?

Button got nudged from behind by Romain Grosjean and spun.

[acnpt]

Does anyone have a live feed link?

Try BBC One watch live (probally region locked), have a look on atdhe.net too.

[MightyJordan]

What happened to Button, did he spin?

Yeah, he got spun out after someone shunted him while he was making the right turn after the big straight.

[sundayx Veteran]

Try BBC One watch live (probally region locked), have a look on atdhe.net too.

:heart:

[acnpt]

Just found two cool things:

First type a driver's name into google eg mark webber, and it will show you their position and lap.

Fisichella might be driving for Ferrari? -- according to Italian Tv :shifty:

[MightyJordan]

type a driver's name into google eg mark webber, and it will show you their position and lap.

LMAO! Very cool feature! :)

[ahmz]

Great win by Kimi and Ferrari! Fisichella also had a flawless drive and probably would've pulled away from Kimi if he could of kept the lead after the safety car, good stuff for FI.

[san.W10]

was ferrari slow or FI was really quick?

lol

the 2009 rules & regulation has made the biggest impact here at Spa. :D

Kimi couldnt pull off from fisi.

Mclaren-Merc, the engine supplier to FI team could ONLY manage 6th. :rofl:

hats off to fisi for driving flawlessly.

Mallya was sooo douche :rofl:

race- http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/78173