Malaysian GP Raceday**Spoilers**

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening everyone. It's 1230 local time here, and hot as hell. The race will be on in less than 5 hours time, and i thought i'd start the thread early and update everyone on the weather situation here.

It's very sunny and bright, and i doubt the drivers will experience the effect of a later racetime. Over here, compared to Melbourne, 7pm is actually bright. Unless it rains of cos.

It rained terribly between 2pm - 230 pm. And then, later in the evening, it rained heavily between 7pm-9pm.

Anyways, i hope for an interesting race. Rain will definitely add colours to the race.

 

Here's a pic i took yesterday afternoon :

 

Below is the provisional grid for Malaysia with each car's weight. Note - Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel has dropped from third to 13th after his 10-place penalty from last weekend’s Australian race, while Brawn GP’s Rubens Barrichello drops from fourth to eighth after his Friday gearbox change.

1. Jenson Button, Brawn GP, 660kg
2. Jarno Trulli, Toyota, 656.5
3. Timo Glock, Toyota, 656.5
4. Nico Rosberg, Williams, 656
5. Mark Webber, Red Bull, 656
6. Robert Kubica, BMW-Sauber, 663
7. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari, 662.5
8. Rubens Barrichello, Brawn, 664.5
9. Fernando Alonso, Renault, 680.5
10. Nick Heidfeld, BMW-Sauber, 692
11. Kazuki Nakajima,Williams, 683.4
12. Lewis Hamilton, McLaren, 688
13. Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull, 647
14. Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren, 688.9
15. Sebastien Bourdais, Toro Rosso, 670.5
16. Felipe Massa, Ferrari, 689.5
17. Nelson Piquet, Renault, 681.9
18. Giancarlo Fisichella, Force India, 680.5
19. Adrian Sutil, Force India, 655.5
20. Sebastien Buemi, Toro Rosso, 686.5

Heaviest car - P. Massa at 689.5 KG

 

Before 7pm at the circuit yesterday :

 

Kimi's car does not seem much heavier than Brawn's car. Giving that ferrari employs the KERS system, which adds extra weight. Is Kimi carrying less fuel than Button??

 

Ferrari didn't run KERS in some of practice at least.
Maybe not in the race?

 

According to James Allen, Kimi did not use the KERS button for his last flying lap.

 

1330 hours, and it's already raining here

 

Wow Remy just looked at the photo you posted of the tires
, it looks like a quite a down pour! Thanks for sharing.

 

Looked at the weather report earlier and they're expecting thunder storms all day.

With KERS the thing is to not apply it until there's traction. In the dry that means not until onto the straights.
In the wet with water everywhere will they ever have the traction to turn on another 100 HP?

 

1526 hours here, and no sign of rain. The sun is out....

 

Lets hope it makes its mind up in the next hour and a half.
The later start puts the race further into dropping temps than previously.

 

any ideas on streaming online?

 

http://www.justin.tv/ferrari_dragon

 

About 30 mins left to go. It does looks like it's gonna rian. Maybe just drizzle. I'm logging off and heading to my mom's place. I'll see if i can use my bro's laptop and keep u guys updated.

 

Hey everyone!

Fingers crossed Webber makes it to 1st corner

 

right guys i'm on now. Cloudy here, no sign of rain just yet. Hows the online streaming coming for everyone? Mine's stuck at the pic the Toyota.

 

The link I posted above is working great.

 

Watching the BBC on the ferrari_dragon link atm.
There's a backup pass word protected I'll post if this goes down and theres the speed feed link I've already posted.

http://www.justin.tv/ferrari_dragon

 

Good morning everybody!


While it might under normal circumstances be a good idea to load up Massa with as much fuel as he can carry, that strategy fires back if it rains and they'll have to change tires...

 

rain in 30 mins it seems, according to martin whitmarsh.

 

Good point.
As it is he's heaviest.

Yes thanks
Am watching it.

 

nose cone on Button car has been changed.

 

German TV says that a) Heidfeld is heaviest and b) both Ferrari are driving with KERS. Funny thing is, everyone their reporter asks tells them a different time for the rain to start, ranging from "right before the start" (Heidfeld) to "not today" (Ecclestone)