2010 formula 1 Grand Prix season

[TBWG]

Hi F1 Bums ~~~~  Suzuka results


Pos.   #   Driver   Team
1   5   Sebastian Vettel   Red Bull
2   6   Mark Webber   Red Bull
3   8   Fernando Alonso   Ferrari
4   1   Jenson Button   McLaren
5   2   Lewis Hamilton   McLaren
6   3   Michael Schumacher   Mercedes
7   23   Kamui Kobayashi   Sauber
8   22   Nick Heidfeld   Sauber
9   9   Rubens Barrichello   Williams
10   16   Sebastien Buemi   Toro Rosso
11   17   Jaime Alguersuari   Toro Rosso
12   19   Heikki Kovalainen   Lotus
13   18   Jarno Trulli   Lotus
14   24   Timo Glock   Virgin
15   21   Bruno Senna   HRT
16   20   Sakon Yamamoto   HRT

Not classified: Lucas di Grassi, Vitantonio Liuzzi, Vitaly Petrov, Nico Hülkenberg, Felipe Massa, Robert Kubica, Adrian Sutil, Nico Rosberg

2010 Japanese Grand Prix

Championship standings


Drivers’ championship
Position   Driver   Points

1   Mark Webber   220
2   Fernando Alonso   206
3   Sebastian Vettel   206
4   Lewis Hamilton   192
5   Jenson Button   189
6   Felipe Massa   128
7   Nico Rosberg   122
8   Robert Kubica   114
9   Michael Schumacher   54
10   Adrian Sutil   47
11   Rubens Barrichello   41
12   Kamui Kobayashi   27
13   Vitaly Petrov   19
14   Nico Hülkenberg   17
15   Vitantonio Liuzzi   13
16   Sebastien Buemi   8
17   Pedro de la Rosa   6
18   Nick Heidfeld   4
19   Jaime Alguersuari   3
20   Heikki Kovalainen   0
21   Jarno Trulli   0
22   Karun Chandhok   0
23   Lucas di Grassi   0
24   Timo Glock   0
25   Bruno Senna   0
26   Sakon Yamamoto   0
27   Christian Klien   0

Constructors’ championship
Position   Team   Points

1   Red Bull   426
2   McLaren   381
3   Ferrari   334
4   Mercedes   176
5   Renault   133
6   Force India   60
7   Williams   58
8   Sauber   37
9   Toro Rosso   11
10   Lotus   0
11   HRT   0
12   Virgin   0



TBWG

[TBWG]

Hi F1 bums!

Well folks it looks like the Korean GP is on!  Mind you I don't think it was ever a non starter it would just cause to much of a loss to the little greedy ones wallet.

Mind you if you had bought tickets and it had been cancelled you would have been in for a long wait to get your cash back!
I have a buddy who is still waiting for a return after the Spa GP was cancelled due to the track tearing up about 20 years ago.

Anyway I will be watching the Korean GP as we do our packing for the return to Thailand next day ~~~ can't wait on both fronts. 

TBWG

[fox]

TBWG (whats the shortcut of this name?)

have you read this one? 

Steve Parrish's MotoGP column 
Australian MotoGP, Phillip Island
Date: 16-17 October
 
By Steve Parrish
BBC MotoGP commentator 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/motorbikes/9086737.stm

Jorge Lorenzo may have been crowned world champion but that does not mean the 2010 MotoGP season is over - far from it.

I think we could still see some real fireworks in the last few races, mainly between Lorenzo and his biggest rival, Yamaha team-mate and former world champion Valentino Rossi, starting this weekend at Phillip Island in Australia.

Lorenzo confirmed his status as the champion in Malaysia last weekend but Rossi will have been very pleased to steal a bit of his limelight by winning the race, ending his longest barren run for 10 years in the process.

It was a good weekend all round for Yamaha. Rossi proved he is back to his best and Lorenzo won the title but you can almost smell the cordite in the air as you walk through the team garage.

 606: DEBATE
Discuss MotoGP on 606 
Lorenzo's title celebration party ended up with everyone jumping into a swimming pool.

Lots of people got their heads shaved, too. I was talking to Lorenzo's team manager the next day and it took me a while to realise who he was because he looked so different.

Prior to the race in Sepang, Lorenzo said he was going to make sure it was a quiet one as far as he was concerned. He just wanted to make sure he finished the race as champion.

Now that he has achieved that goal, expect a different Lorenzo out on the track, starting this weekend.

He has absorbed everything he can from Rossi over the last few years, which includes the rough stuff, so I would imagine he has got some things up his sleeve for the remaining races this season.

This weekend will not just be about Rossi and Lorenzo, though.

 
Lorenzo seals MotoGP title (UK only)
Casey Stoner will be desperate to impress in his home race, particularly given that he must be as mad as a bear about the way he fell off early in Malaysia because his tyres were not warmed up.

And Dani Pedrosa will be back after missing the last two races with a broken collarbone.

Lorenzo's title win means that next season we will have four world champions on the grid - Rossi, Lorenzo, Stoner and Nicky Hayden.

Then there is Pedrosa, Andrea Dovizioso and Ben Spies, who are potential title challengers. It bodes very well for next year.

But the 2010 season still has a way to run - and this weekend should witness an absolute humdinger of a race.

[nookiebear]

Russia is the latest to be added to the list of venues!!

[TBWG]

TBWG (whats the shortcut of this name?)

Hi Fox   

TBWG is the short cut for Tall Bloke With Glasses 

Here as an interesting article by Joe Saward  ~~~ just reaffirming that we are in the right half of the World not only from an F1 point of view but also from an economical aspect!


Why I am glad to be off to Korea

October 19, 2010 by joesaward

Most of the Formula 1 circus is not looking forward to going to Korea. Many are staying at home, amid the usual rumours about things not being ready, having to eat “doggie and two veg”, and getting lost in world of endless paddy fields, where no-one speaks a word of English… And so on. I am told by my friends that the word “motel” does not mean I am staying in a hotel, but rather in a brothel. Ah well, so long as they don’t rent out my room when I am at the race track, I really don’t care. It cannot be any worse that the first year in Bahrain when I was staying in a place where Russian hookers seemed to rule the roost…

I am sure that it will be fine. In fact I am sure it will be rather less chaotic than living in France at the moment. I live in a country village, about 50 miles from Paris and so I am not really affected by the excesses of the French unions and their short-sighted supporters. I need fuel to get from A to B, but at this time of year A is home and B is Paris, which means that I shuttle backwards and forwards along the same route. The airport is between the two. So a tank of petrol will last me a few weeks, which is a good thing in the current climate. My life is not entirely unaffected by the mess, although yesterday it did take me two hours to cover the journey. There was terrible traffic, presumably due to truck drivers doing their infamous “Operation Escargot”, which means they slow to a crawl and jam everyone behind them. Liberté, égalité et fraternité – pour moi!

One of the petrol stations on my route from A to B

I sneaked on to a different road but then found myself in the middle of a demonstration of college students, who have obviously learned the bad habits of their parents and do not seem to understand that if they win this strike and the government backs down they will not have any kind of pension at all, because France will be bankrupt by the time they are old and ready to retire.

Having dodged around that I stopped for a coffee in a petrol station (disturbed sleep patterns being as they are after two out-and-back trips to Asia, with a third – hopefully – beginning tomorrow). The petrol pumps were dry because the unions are blockading the oil refineries. At least this time the government seems willing to send in the police to restore order in vital places, which is progress compared to the last time we went through all this rigmarole. Having lived through the Thatcher Years in Britain I understand what is needed in France, where the unions have too much power and, in my opinion, misuse it disgracefully. Some may not agree with that opinion, but I know that after the Iron Lady faced down the miners in the UK, and Ronald Reagan dealt with the air traffic controllers in the United States, it was a great deal easier to do business. Unions do have a role to pay in societies where there is real injustice and poor working regulation, but France is anything but that.

When I finally reached home I found an e-mail from a mate who flits between France and England. It said: “now back in London and considering the state of affairs in France, happy to be so”. I thought for a moment that perhaps one day I will move back to the mother country.

In the circumstances I am happy to be going off for a little bit of an adventure in Korea. In the Asia of today they understand that to make progress one has to work, because countries have to compete in a global world, where no-one is protected. No-one is living on past glories, no-one is leeching off the state. As each nation invests in new technology,or embarks on a new mega-project, Europe falls a little further behind. This will not change as long as the current attitudes exist.

It is something that Bernie Ecclestone has been saying for years – and he is right (as usual).

“Europe will be a Third World economy in the next decade, in particular Britain. In South America and Asia there is a work ethic. Over here they want everything for free. The National Health Service means everyone thinks they can have just what they want. I’d get rid of it. We should be running the country like a business rather than social care.”

In the circumstances I think Korea is an infinitely more inviting prospect… at least for four or five days.


TBWG

[buriramboy]

living in England has some serious advantages for lazy folks.
on the other hand, it system is one of the best in the world and support the weaker sector like old people,people with disabilities and holding up the people together. right? don't you think so?
Is it better to have a country like US where you almost get nothing when you are in need for help and send you back to work? or like Thailand?

[TBWG]

living in England has some serious advantages for lazy folks.
on the other hand, it system is one of the best in the world and support the weaker sector like old people,people with disabilities and holding up the people together. right? don't you think so?
Is it better to have a country like US where you almost get nothing when you are in need for help and send you back to work? or like Thailand?

Agreed ~~ when you are in need for help,  unfortunately a lot of people use this as a lifestyle option.


TBWG

[TBWG]

Hi f1 Bums fans!

Well after all the reports of possible doom & gloom for the Korean Grand Prix, it seems to be all systems go and a pretty reasonable circuit

So 1st practice times were pretty meaningless as everyone got to grips with the slippery track, but Hamilton came out on top of the pile.

Second practice was more representative ..........................

1    Webber    Red Bull    1:37.942    128.383 mph

2    Alonso    Ferrari    1:38.132  0.190

3    Hamilton    McLaren    1:38.279    0.337

4    Kubica    Renault    1:38.718   0.776

5    Button    McLaren    1:38.726    0.784

6    Massa    Ferrari    1:38.820    0.878

7    Vettel    Red Bull    1:39.240    1.298

8    Petrov    Renault    1:39.267    1.325

9    Rosberg    Mercedes    1:39.268    1.326

10    Kobayashi    Sauber    1:39.564    1.622

11    Heidfeld    Sauber    1:39.588    1.646

12    Schumacher    Mercedes    1:39.598    1.656

13    Barrichello    Williams    1:39.812    1.870

14    Liuzzi    Force India    1:39.881    1.939

15    Sutil    Force India    1:39.971    2.029

16    Hulkenberg    Williams    1:40.478  2.536

17    Alguersuari    Toro Rosso    1:40.578    2.636

18    Buemi    Toro Rosso    1:40.896    2.954

19    Kovalainen    Lotus    1:42.773    4.831

20    Trulli    Lotus    1:42.801    4.859

21    Glock    Virgin    1:43.115    5.173

22    di Grassi    Virgin    1:44.039    6.097

23    Yamamoto    HRT    1:45.166    7.224

24    Senna    HRT    1:46.649    8.707


So we now wait for qualy to sort out the pecking order, I'll stick my neck out and say this one has Webbah's name on it. 

TBWG

[TBWG]

Hi F1 fans

Well Red Bull tie up the front row ......  although Webbah only 2nd!   With a 60% chance of rain, if so, it could be anybodies  race! 

Pos  Driver         Team                   Q1        Q2        Q3
 1.  Vettel         Red Bull-Renault       1:37.123  1:36.074  1:35.585
 2.  Webber         Red Bull-Renault       1:37.373  1:36.039  1:35.659
 3.  Alonso         Ferrari                1:37.144  1:36.287  1:35.766
 4.  Hamilton       McLaren-Mercedes       1:37.113  1:36.197  1:36.062
 5.  Rosberg        Mercedes               1:37.708  1:36.791  1:36.535
 6.  Massa          Ferrari                1:37.515  1:36.169  1:36.571
 7.  Button         McLaren-Mercedes       1:38.123  1:37.064  1:36.731
 8.  Kubica         Renault                1:37.703  1:37.179  1:36.824
 9.  Schumacher     Mercedes               1:37.980  1:37.077  1:36.950
10.  Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth      1:38.257  1:37.511  1:36.998
11.  Hulkenberg     Williams-Cosworth      1:38.115  1:37.620
12.  Kobayashi      Sauber-Ferrari         1:38.429  1:37.643
13.  Heidfeld       Sauber-Ferrari         1:38.171  1:37.715
14.  Sutil          Force India-Mercedes   1:38.572  1:37.783
15.  Petrov         Renault                1:38.174  1:37.799 *
16.  Alguersuari    Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1:38.583  1:37.853
17.  Buemi          Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1:38.621  1:38.594
18.  Liuzzi         Force India-Mercedes   1:38.955
19.  Trulli         Lotus-Cosworth         1:40.521
20.  Glock          Virgin-Cosworth        1:40.748
21.  Kovalainen     Lotus-Cosworth         1:41.768
22.  di Grassi      Virgin-Cosworth        1:42.325
23.  Yamamoto       HRT-Cosworth           1:42.444
24.  Senna          HRT-Cosworth           1:43.283

* Drops five places for Japan penalty

All Timing Unofficial



TBWG

[Admin]

[TBWG]

Hi F1 fans .... Well that was an incident packed race , with for me the worst possible outcome! However credit to Alonso he did not put a foot wrong!


1    Alonso    Ferrari    2h 48:20.810
2    Hamilton    McLaren    + 0:14.999
3    Massa    Ferrari    + 0:30.868
4    Schumacher    Mercedes    + 0:39.688
5    Kubica    Renault    + 0:47.734
6    Liuzzi    Force India + 0:53.571
7    Barrichello    Williams    + 1:09.257
8    Kobayashi    Sauber    + 1:17.889
9    Heidfeld    Sauber    + 1:20.107
10    Hulkenberg Williams    + 1:20.851
11    Alguersuari Toro Rosso + 1:21.146
12    Button    McLaren    + 1:29.939
13    Kovalainen Lotus    + 1 Lap
14    Senna    HRT            + 2 Laps
15    Yamamoto HRT            + 2 Laps
   Sutil    Force India    46 Accident
   Vettel    Red Bull    45 Engine
   Petrov    Renault    39Accident
   Glock    Virgin    31Accident
   Buemi    Toro Rosso 30 Accident
       di Grassi    Virgin     25  Retired
   Trulli      Lotus    22 Hydraulics
   Webber    Red Bull    18 Accident
   Rosberg    Mercedes    18 Accident

Fastest Lap: Alonso (Ferrari) 1:50.257 (Lap 42)


Drivers' Championship Pos
   

Driver
   

1    Alonso    Ferrari    231    
2    Webber    Red Bull    220    
3    Hamilton    McLaren    210    
4    Vettel    Red Bull    206    
5    Button    McLaren    189    
6    Massa    Ferrari    143          
7    Kubica    Renault    124          
8    Rosberg    Mercedes    122          
9    Schumacher    Mercedes    66          
10    Barrichello    Williams    47          
11    Sutil    Force India    47          
12    Kobayashi    Sauber    31          
13    Liuzzi    Force India    21          
14    Petrov    Renault    19          
15    Hulkenberg    Williams    18          
16    Buemi    Toro Rosso    8          
17    de la Rosa    Sauber    6          
18    Heidfeld    Sauber    6          
19    Alguersuari    Toro Rosso    3
         
Constructors' Championship


1    Red Bull    426    
2    McLaren    399    
3    Ferrari    374    
4    Mercedes    188          
5    Renault    143          
6    Force India  68          
7    Williams    65          
8    Sauber    43          
9    Toro Rosso 11       


Still its not over till the Fat Bloke sings  ~~~ on to Brazil


TBWG

[John the Traveller]

I echo your sentiments TBWG. There is some talk of RB favouring Mark but I cant see it myself. It will go down to the last lap of the last race methinks 
Your a bit quiet TBWG..................polishing the Fortuner ??   
Bet your glad your back in Satuk.........I wish I was 
Cheers,
John

[TBWG]

 Hi John T

Only arrived in Satuk 24 hours ago, Fortuner battery flat!  bedroom aircon Kaput so not a good start, plus still a bit jet lagged!

So a bit jaded at the moment! Still at least internet is working!

TBWG

[John the Traveller]

Sorry to hear about the battery and A/C  I'm sure you will sort it out in short order
I see Gerhard Berger has accused MW of crashing on purpose in Korea...........I think GB has been smoking rope or has overdone it with the schnapps
Here's too a more successfull Brazillian GP. I think I may throw up if Alonso makes it to the end and picks up the "gong" 
Cheers,
John

[TBWG]

Hi F1 Bums

Well I have just checked the start time for the Brazilian GP this coming weekend ~~~~~  11 pm way past my bedtime! I'll have to see if the boss lady will give me a late pass?


TBWG