The Chinese Grand Prix TV Schedule and Chat

[tartist]

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I heard that James Allen is quite boring and dull. Looks like I'll be watching Sky coverage for the race and quali

Afterall, I still haven't forgiven the BBC for partly selling F1 off

The practice session commentaries reminded me of the low budget commentaries on some other motor sports events. That woman who made the cuts has lost the plot; not only have they given away half the coverage, the quality side of it went too so what they have left is poor. I bet they completely drop live coverage next year.

[TVC_Colwal]

Still no red button channel

No Jason, it's being a right pig and we are waiting on something, but we are not too sure how long it is going to take

[TVC_Colwal]

What a hypocrite Damon Hill is turning into - as last week he was advising against the the race now it seems he is behind the race.

“I am now 100 percent behind the FIA decision to race in Bahrain. All the arguments have been made for and against,”

Me wonders if he is after a job with the Formula One Group and doesn't want to upset Bernie Ecclestone too much.
Be interesting to see how he reacts to things in the future though and see how brown he tongue gets - after he did a fantastic job in saving Silverstone as the President of the British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC), kind of lost a bit of respect for him over this.

[flibblesan]

I heard that James Allen is quite boring and dull. Looks like I'll be watching Sky coverage for the race and quali

Afterall, I still haven't forgiven the BBC for partly selling F1 off

I'll be watching the race on BBC. Ben Edwards is a fantastic commentator.

[TVC_Colwal]

Practice Three

Pos	Driver	Team	Time		Gap	Laps
1	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1m35.940s			13
2	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1m36.093s	+	0.123	12
3	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m36.389s	+	0.449	16
4	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1m36.512s	+	0.572	17
5	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1m36.635s	+	0.695	16
6	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	1m36.765s	+	0.825	17
7	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1m36.781s	+	0.841	19
8	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1m36.880s	+	0.94	17
9	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1m37.039s	+	1.099	15
10	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus-Renault	1m37.061s	+	1.121	17
11	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1m37.237s	+	1.297	16
12	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	1m37.274s	+	1.334	19
13	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1m37.288s	+	1.348	16
14	Bruno Senna	Williams-Renault	1m37.425s	+	1.485	14
15	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1m37.465s	+	1.525	12
16	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m37.493s	+	1.553	13
17	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m37.628s	+	1.688	14
18	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1m37.831s	+	1.891	14
19	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham-Renault	1m38.701s	+	2.761	19
20	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham-Renault	1m39.198s	+	3.258	19
21	Timo Glock	Marussia-Cosworth	1m39.796s	+	3.856	18
22	Charles Pic	Marussia-Cosworth	1m40.048s	+	4.108	17
23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	1m41.263s	+	5.323	14
24	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT-Cosworth	1m41.499s	+	5.559	18

[stuart08]

Goodbye Vettel haha!

[tartist]

How the mighty are fallen, and what an unexpected top ten. Bodes well for an interesting race tomorrow. Mercedes front row.. did I hear that it's the first Mercedes pole since the 1950s? Ah, just heard it: first time since 1955 that there's been a Mercedes in pole position when there was also a front row lockout; Fangio and Moss.

[TVC_Colwal]

Qualifying

Pos	Driver	Team	Time		Gap
1	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m35.121s
2	Lewis Hamilton***	McLaren-Mercedes	1m35.626s	+	0.505
3	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1m35.691s	+	0.57
4	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1m35.784s	+	0.663
5	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus-Renault	1m35.898s	+	0.777
6	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1m36.191s	+	1.07
7	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1m36.290s	+	1.169
8	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1m36.524s	+	1.403
9	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1m36.622s	+	1.501
10	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	No time
Q2	cut-off time: 1m35.831s				Gap **
11	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1m36.031s	+	0.331
12	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1m36.255s	+	0.555
13	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	1m36.283s	+	0.583
14	Bruno Senna	Williams-Renault	1m36.289s	+	0.589
15	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1m36.317s	+	0.617
16	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1m36.745s	+	1.045
17	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m36.956s	+	1.256
Q1	cut-off time: 1m36.933s				Gap *
18	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m37.714s	+	1.516
19	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham-Renault	1m38.463s	+	2.265
20	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham-Renault	1m38.677s	+	2.479
21	Timo Glock	Marussia-Cosworth	1m39.282s	+	3.084
22	Charles Pic	Marussia-Cosworth	1m39.717s	+	3.519
23	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT-Cosworth	1m40.411s	+	4.213
24	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	1m41.000s	+	4.802
107	% time: 1m42.931s

*** Hamilton drops down to 7th due to a five place grid penalty for a gear box change

[tartist]

Before anyone asks, re Hamilton, the game scores for qualifying are based on his finishing position in qualifying. His 5 position grid penalty concerns the race - not qualifying. In the race, movement-in-the-race points will be based on his actual starting position.

[flibblesan]

Cheers tartist. I was worried about that for a moment.