2005 Chinese Grand Prix - Shanghai (discussion)

**^^v** · 14-10-2005 02:06 PM

its the final round ... noooooo T_T

and offcourse it signals the end of the V10 era! =/..

the constructors battle should come down to the wire (among other things

)... with Renault only ahead by 2 points... should be an interesting finale ...

oh btw boys... last round of tips for the f1 comp...!

good luck bahahaaa

**TwEigh** · 14-10-2005 02:09 PM

yes last GP, and im going to get 8 points for the tip this time

Fisichella just spinned ahhaha
grid penalty for him probably.

**^^v** · 14-10-2005 02:11 PM

how do you know? ?_?... satellite tv?
all i knew is he stopped in s1... din know what happened though...
focken f1 Live timing ><

**j3z3z** · 14-10-2005 02:14 PM

"pedro de la rosa" was the fastes in 1st practice with a 1.33.463. rubens was 2nd in the mid 1.35s followed buy "zonta" kimi, m.s, jpm, alonso, webber also in the 1.35s then coulthard and button rounding out the top 10 times in the low 1.36's

**TwEigh** · 14-10-2005 02:14 PM

actually F1Central has comments in their live timing

**j3z3z** · 14-10-2005 02:17 PM

lol the practice is over just go to formula1.com and sign up with there live timing lol

**j3z3z** · 14-10-2005 02:21 PM

there you all go

**TwEigh** · 14-10-2005 09:38 PM

you just missed all my and ^^v points...

**^^v** · 15-10-2005 01:39 PM

hmmm BAR r sporting a new colour scheme this round...

i perfer the red...

**bigteethygrin** · 16-10-2005 05:02 PM

omg why did channel ten keep bill woods and neil crompton commentating!.. you could clearly hear the ITV commentators when they switched to short interviews but they instead chose to keep bill and neil who are pretty much the worst motorsport commentators I've ever heard!.. I mean even at the first safety car when montoya came in there was neil raising his voice saying "and in comes kimi!"

Interesting race and the strange events with the drainage grate popping up was phenominal but yeah woulda liked to hear what brundle had to say about all the events.

GRRRR!

**Vivski** · 16-10-2005 06:11 PM

What a stupid event. Never go back to Shanghai I reckon. The track is rubbish, the marshals are hopeless and there is no overtaking. How could they leave that stupid grate there? How dumb can you get!?!?

Well, that's the end for Sato. He had another shocking race.

That was possibly the most dull event of the season.
- Fisichella held everyone up so Alonso could effortlessly drive off into the distance.
- Raikonen should have stayed out and led the race instead of pitting under the SC.
. . He was almost 1s/lap faster than Alonso, so I'm sure he could've pulled a gap.
- Webber was stuck behind the driver infront of him the entire race.
- Montoya's bad luck continues when he was looking very good for a podium.

Interesting to see the difference between Webber and Button at the end of the race. As soon as Webber passed Rubens, he only took 1 lap to get onto the back of Massa whereas Button couldn't bridge the gap at all. Every race Webber finishes ahead of Button, I'll think back to the time Button paid Williams a stupidly big sum of money to stay at Honda.

I wonder if Sato's jump-start was driver error or a problem with the launch control system. Either way, with all the mistakes he's made in these last few races, I will be very surprised if someone pays him any money at all to drive their car next year.

**Vivski** · 16-10-2005 06:14 PM

How was Neil Crompton saying Karthikeyan crashed under the Safety Car? Not very observant commentary. It was obvious that Karthikeyan had understeered off into the barriers under green flag. A bad mistake on cold tyres, but not as stupid as crashing under Safety Car... like someone else did this race... not mentioning any names...