predictions for bahrain gp

BANZAI_RUNNER

ok guys prediction time, who is it gonna be .............................. my money is on shumey 10 points
rubens 8 points
and the others can fight over the rest..........:ninja:

Töpher

Schumi to get hit with sand stuck in his radiator!! COME ON!!

projectmayhem

schumi will win
montoya will surprise
button will fail to perform

Doctor J

A freak sand storm during the second half of second qualifying means Da Matta starts from pole and then the race is abandoned 5 laps in cos of too much sand. an unlikely first win for Toyota. Bruni gets his first podium. Despite not finishing, the sun still shines out of Button's ring piece. Put the house on it.

Töpher

ROFL

Kalina

Originally posted by Doctor J
A freak sand storm during the second half of second qualifying means Da Matta starts from pole and then the race is abandoned 5 laps in cos of too much sand. an unlikely first win for Toyota. Bruni gets his first podium. Despite not finishing, the sun still shines out of Button's ring piece. Put the house on it.

Unlikely, but it'd make for a great race!!

All going well, Montoya will win, Kimi 2nd and then a strong show from the Renaults. I'd like to see Webber do well also, expecially after the disasterous race he had in Malaysia.

irishman_abroad

Can see it being a good track for the Bridgestone teams, but will brobably be more of the same:

Ferrari 1,2
Montoya 3
Raikkonen Blown Up

Hope Fissi starts showing how he can really drive and expect Button to be on a high after his first podium.

Kalina

Originally posted by irishman_abroad
Can see it being a good track for the Bridgestone teams, but will brobably be more of the same:

Ferrari 1,2
Montoya 3
Raikkonen Blown Up

Hope Fissi starts showing how he can really drive and expect Button to be on a high after his first podium.

Irishman, I hope you're wrong. If Schuey wins this one aswell people will start to get ticked off with the Ferrari dominence so early in the season. We need Kimi to win this race, or JPM, to even out the scoreboard a bit.

irishman_abroad

Im just being realistic. The Ferraris are going to be strong and you havent even given them a mention in your previous prediction. I actually hope it does get interesting and the others start getting closer, but I cant see it happening at the next race, everyones too far behind the Ferrari.

Kalina

Originally posted by irishman_abroad
The Ferraris are going to be strong and you havent even given them a mention in your previous prediction.

True, I was hoping to send some bad karma their way and make Schuey get a flat tyre or something. Not that I don't like him but I love watching him race when he's down the grid, that's when you see his real talent!

BANZAI_RUNNER

it makes me laugh when people start moaning about ferraris dominance , if the other teams put in as much effort with their car and less effort with P.R. than maybe they would be up there with ferrari , and as Eddie Jordan said last week " when Tiger Woods wins nine golf championships , everyone sings his prasies, but if ferrari start winning everything there is uproar" . poeple should just enjoy the moment , after all we are seeing history being made

Kalina

Originally posted by BANZAI_RUNNER
it makes me laugh when people start moaning about ferraris dominance , if the other teams put in as much effort with their car and less effort with P.R. than maybe they would be up there with ferrari , and as Eddie Jordan said last week " when Tiger Woods wins nine golf championships , everyone sings his prasies, but if ferrari start winning everything there is uproar" . poeple should just enjoy the moment , after all we are seeing history being made

All very good points BANZAI, you're right of course. I'm just itching to see Williams win a drivers championship again, and then Ferrari fight like crazy the following year to win it back. That'd be some great racing!!

irishman_abroad

A little ahead of time.........

Raikkonen Blown up

AngelofFire

1st Montoya
2nd R.schumacher
3rd Button
4th Barichello
5th Alonso
6th Raikkonen
7th Sato
8th Da matta.

the hot temperatures in bahrain will make it michelin teritory. i would be delighted if jordan could get some points but i cant see it happening.

irishman_abroad

Final qualifying times from Bahrain


1 M.SCHUMACHER Ferrari 1m30.139s
2 BARRICHELLO Ferrari 1m30.530s
3 MONTOYA Williams 1m30.581s
4 R.SCHUMACHER Williams 1m30.633s
5 SATO BAR 1m30.827s
6 BUTTON BAR 1m30.856s
7 TRULLI Renault 1m30.971s
8 PANIS Toyota 1m31.686s
9 DA MATTA Toyota 1m31.717s
10 COULTHARD McLaren 1m31.719s
11 FISICHELLA Sauber 1m31.731s
12 KLIEN Jaguar 1m32.332s
13 MASSA Sauber 1m32.536s
14 WEBBER Jaguar 1m32.625s
15 HEIDFELD Jordan 1m33.503s
16 PANTANO Jordan 1m34.105s
17 ALONSO Renault 1m34.130s
18 BRUNI Minardi 1m34.584s
19 BAUMGARTNER Minardi 1m35.787s
20 RAIKKONEN McLaren no time




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Ferrari 1,2
Montoya 3

irishman_abroad

But for Montoya falling out I was dead on.

Doctor J

And the sun shining out of Buttons arse? 10 points to Doctor J!

That's why the rear jack got stuck on his first pit stop, BTW, it expanded with the immense heat radiating from his rectum

Woden

hmm enjoyed that race best of the season imo, respect to sato thought he did a good job

[CrimsonGhost]

Yeah, it was a great race, the new track is superb. A quick roundup of how I felt about different drivers
M.schumacher - he shone, lets face it after qualifying in which he locked up his front wheels on two occasions and still managed poll by 3tenths over rubens the race was a done deal.
Ruben - did was he had to for the team, but pretty unspectacular.
Montoya -very unlucky, but I'm glad I don't particularly like him.
Button - showed that his previous third place wasn't just a fluke, fair play to him.
Sato - Wow this fellow has come on in leaps and bounds, looking forward to seeing more from him.
Klein - a surprise for me, he drove well and had some great fighting with coultard for position, and pulled a couple of nice move on coultard.

I'm certainly looking forward to this track in future years.

I'd love to be looking forward to monza but I'll be working that whole weekend from the thurdays for 16 hour long days. Goddam!

Amnesiac_ie

It's beginning to look a lot like 2002.
I must say I'm very surprised at how strong the BARs look, both in qualifying and race trim. I wouldn't be surprised if they become the team to challenge Ferrari for a period this year. They have lots of interesting solutions planned for their car and could overtake Williams who seem to be stuck in a development rut at the moment.

Kalina

Originally posted by Amnesiac_ie
It's beginning to look a lot like 2002.
I must say I'm very surprised at how strong the BARs look, both in qualifying and race trim. I wouldn't be surprised if they become the team to challenge Ferrari for a period this year. They have lots of interesting solutions planned for their car and could overtake Williams who seem to be stuck in a development rut at the moment.

It's amazing how BAR have improved in leaps and bounds since they got rid of Jacques Villeneuve. I still think he's a loss from the sport but it's better for BAR that he's gone. Button is really showing his potential this year, we might even see him win a race!

aidan_dunne

Kalina's right, BAR have really come on since J.V. left. I think a lot of that might be down to the fact that the money they saved since he left (remember, he was the second highest paid driver in F1 after Michael Schumacher) has been ploughed back into the development of the car for this year and it's really shown. I always thought J.V. was the one thing holding back BAR, the millstone round their neck if you like. Since late 2001 I felt he was just plodding around in order to make a few more bob before he retired, or was kicked out. When Craig Pollock was dumped by BAR I think that was the icing on the cake for Villeneuve and his motivation went right down the jacks. And David Richards coming on board was the end, really. Richards always claimed right from the start that J.V. was not indispensible, that the team was bigger than just one driver alone and, as a result, they never saw eye-to-eye. In actual fact, I think Richards had J.V.'s number right from the start and wasn't going to waste his time with a driver who was obviously lacking motivation and was just looking to secure his pension. I think Richards, BAR and Honda were right to get rid of J.V. and that's definitely now showing this year.

Kalina

Yep, Richards is a team principal who concentrates on BOTH his drivers. Whereas Pollock's reason for existence seemed to be Villeneuve which was obviously bad for te team. That works for a team like Ferrari where the idolised driver can motivate the team and produce results. Villeneuve never appeared to get on well with the team or motivate his mechanics, and the results definitely didn't merit the wage packet he was on.