I know this years driver line ups aint 100% sorted yet, but there is already rumours about 2011 line ups going round.......

Kimi

:) Nice! I wanna see him back in F1

IT could turn out to be utter bullshit, he seems to be happy in the WRC at the moment. But on the other hand, he is sponsord by Red Bull at the moment so makes sense about him going to RBR F1.

It could be.
I don't think Webber will be with Red Bull next year though.
Weather or not Kimi will be there, we shall have to see.

I do plan on going to Barcelona though, so I really hope he is back!

Not too surprising but still...bye bye USF1!!!

Stefan GP were right to be all prepared.
Hopefully we will se Jaques Villeneuve in Bahrain and not just for 60th anniversary title winners parade!
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81819

Yeah, not really that surprising, read that they have asked if they can wait til next year until they appear on the grid.

Link

Also, you heard any news on Campos? Assuming they are gonna be ok for Bahrain considering theres little over a week until the season opener!!

Mostly rumours really, that they took delivery of the Cosworth engines.

That Senna's seat isn't 100% as he hasn't a lot of sponsorship so it looks like Lopez & Chandhok will have the seats. OR that Lopez will be a reserve driver.

And that their shakedown will be in Bahrain.

Oh and they may change their name to Hispania Racing and will unveil their livery on Thursday :D

So I guess we shall see on Thursday
More positive than USF1 anyways :)




Am so freaking excited bout the start of the season!!
Been waiting way too long for this.

Same here!!!

Seems like ages since the end of the 09 season, but it's come round quickly in a wierd sort of way lol.

Is Bahrain one of the races thats on in the middle of the night?

Nope, Its on earlier in the morning.

Was trying to work this out the other day but gave up :)

They are 3 hours ahead of us.....

So the race will be starting here at 11am I think. That's if is starts at 2pm local time. Normally autosport or formula1.com will have it up on their sites and we can convert to our own local time but its not up there yet.

Found it ;)

according to it, race will be 12pm.

Link

Thats good to know. 12pm start :)

BOO to the FIA!!!!!

No entry for Sefan GP!!! How mean!

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81828

They must be struggling to shift Bahrain tickets since that's all you get on the telly here at the mo.

Maybe not having the race on a weekday might make a bit more sense....

Thats shite :( no reason why the couldn't have let them in!!


As for Campos, they're now called Hispania Racing and will definately be there in Bahrain ;)

And Renault have announced that they are gonna be sponsored by Lada! ;)

Told you that would happen

Not long until Bahrain now!!!

Qualifying is on BBC1 at 10:10am and the race is on at 11:10am.

Quite handy as I usually wake up around then at the weekend ;)

I'm so excited :D
I need to find a way so I can watch BBC I player online for practise.
Damn thing won't let me cos am in Ireland.
Boo to that.

Cant you do that thing like they do in the movies were they piggy back off another line?

I remember last year that the practice sessions were shown on the 'red button' channels. On my freeview box it is around channel 300. Managed to recored/ watch a few of them on that! ;)

I got no red button either :(

I did find something last year to put on IE, but it was something you had to pay for. I wish I had kept it now cos I would actually pay for it!!

Press conference tomorrow :D

Some pics from today
http://www.autosport.com/gallery/index.php/id/1958


I freakin LOVE this :D

looks cloudy there doesn't it.

It's just the angle of the shot with the added benefit of it being sandstorm season and the whole east coast of KSA polluting the air for miles around Russ.

You don't really get cloud cover over here but the sky is never really bright blue either.

Thanks for explaining Jim. Are you going to the race?

Nah.

I'd considered it a while ago but the tickets were expensive considering I'm not a fan of F1 and I'll be working on Saturday and Sunday anyways...

Race day itself is the start of the working week in bahrain so it'll only be the folk that can afford to take a day off of work that will be at it.

i am going through next weekend for St patrick's day though :D

Expencice is the word!! I wanted to go to Silverstone this year but i could buy a holiday with those prices they charge! Good on ya for going out Patricks day :)

Leader board so far

1 Germany A Sutil Force India
2 Spain F Alonso Ferrari
3 Poland R Kubica Renault
4 Brazil F Massa Ferrari
5 Great Britain J Button McLaren
6 Great Britain L Hamilton McLaren
7 Italy V Liuzzi Force India
8 Germany N Rosberg Mercedes GP
9 Australia M Webber Red Bull
10 Germany M Schumacher Mercedes GP
11 Spain J Alguersuari Toro Rosso
12 Germany N Hulkenberg Williams
13 Germany S Vettel Red Bull
14 Switzerland S Buemi Toro Rosso
15 Brazil R Barrichello Williams
16 Russia V Petrov Renault
17 Spain P de la Rosa BMW Sauber
18 Japan K Kobayashi BMW Sauber
19 Finland H Kovalainen Lotus F1
20 Italy J Trulli Lotus F1
21 Germany T Glock Virgin Racing
22 Brazil L di Grassi Virgin Racing
23 Brazil B Senna Hispania Racing F1
24 India K Chandhok Hispania Racing F1

Finished!

1 Germany N Rosberg Mercedes GP
2 Great Britain L Hamilton McLaren
3 Germany M Schumacher Mercedes GP
4 Great Britain J Button McLaren
5 Germany S Vettel Red Bull
6 Germany N Hulkenberg Williams
7 Russia V Petrov Renault
8 Spain P de la Rosa BMW Sauber
9 Japan K Kobayashi BMW Sauber
10 Germany A Sutil Force India
11 Brazil R Barrichello Williams
12 Italy V Liuzzi Force India
13 Spain F Alonso Ferrari
14 Poland R Kubica Renault
15 Spain J Alguersuari Toro Rosso
16 Brazil F Massa Ferrari
17 Australia M Webber Red Bull
18 Germany T Glock Virgin Racing
19 Brazil L di Grassi Virgin Racing
20 Finland H Kovalainen Lotus F1
21 Italy J Trulli Lotus F1
22 Brazil B Senna Hispania Racing F1
23 Switzerland S Buemi Toro Rosso
24 India K Chandhok Hispania Racing F1

Senna as lucky not to lose his wheel!!

Still haven't had my proper fix! I need to seeeee it :)
Tomorrow at qualy will be great.
Cannot wait woot!

I recorded practice 1 & 2, but for some reason my aeriel wasn't picking it up properly, so was jumping all over the place at times making parts of it unwatchable.

Never mind, that was the red button channels, BBC1 is always fine and as long as I see the race ;)

Excellent Felipe is second :)
Love so much that he beat Alonso
and that Rosberg beat Schumacher.
Really hope Rubens has a good race from 11th :)

Agreed about Massa beating Alonso!!

Can't really tell what is gonna happen tomorrow as it's the first time we've seen these cars racing while being filled to the brim with fuel!

Think the red bulls are looking strong though!

I thought it was a great race. Without the refueling it makes it more about driving skills and not fuel strategy. Ferrari did well but they got to watch that over heating. If they don't get up in pole at the start of the race i can see them having real problems. Good to see Lewis has still got it and Jenson did push hard towards the end of the race.

I thought it was one of the most boring races i've seen! The cars weren't getting near eachother cos everyone was too bothered about conserving their tyres. I surely hope we aint gonna have a season of races like this.

Thought the race was kinda boring too. The most exciting parts were the pit stops and even they weren't timed right so stupid.
Great that Ferrari had the 1-2 even if it was the wrong way around for my liking!

Vettel would have won it though if he hadn't the exhaust problem. I don't think the Ferrari could have overtaken.

Looking forward to Australia though.

I guess its down to what you want from a race. Would have liked to see more overtaking but that will change as the season goes on. Dont forget this was their first big testing with the new rules and i think its going to get really exciting.

Austrailia this weekend!

Not sur ehow much i'm looking forward to it after the snoozefest in Bahrain, but at least F1 is back on tv!

Will probably miss Qualy as i'll be travelling back from my hol on sat, got it set to record incase I feel like watchin it ;)

It will be good :)

I'll hold you to that ;)

Any idea whet time it's on?

:D
It starts at 5pm and looks like its going to be a cloudy day there.