QUANTAS AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX - RACE - **spoiler**

So here's another early start thread - 8 hr 30 min to go. Report about an hour ago had the day starting quite cloudy and the T-Storm icon is showing on the formula1 site. Guess we'll have to keep monitoring the wx during the next 8 hrs to see if it will be normal start or SC start.

Carol

Speedy is at this race, too bad he can't give us live wx reports and other things that he sees from his location on the circuit.

weather.com for Melbourne

4 pm 71°F Showers 40% 57% humidity winds N 5 mph

5 pm 70°F Showers 40% 61% humidity winds N 5 mph

6 pm 70°F Showers 40% 61% humidity winds N 6 mph

Sunset 6:20 pm

7 pm 70°F Showers 40% 63% humidity winds N 6 mph

 

Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain.

3 of the 5 rain masters are back enough so that they would profit from a wet race.

 

+1

A short sleep for me, I hope to be up to watch it unfortunately for me the clocks go forward an hour, so it's even earlier..

 

What no link to a local weather cam?

Slacker

 

here's a few pictures to suffice for now...
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If it makes you feel any better we got snow forecast AGAIN over here..
I'll send you some pics of my feet init...

 

You might want to explain that one to the general population
It was seventy the beginning of the week here, snowing by the end.
Global weirding.

 

Yes similar over here...weird..

 

Dave, I am having great difficulty finding webcams for Melbourne - apparently there's some copywrite issue that keeps coming up, I did, however, find this Melbourne webcam link
http://ritedownload.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&p=16770

and this

http://www.webcams.travel/webcam/1229967436-Weather-Citylink-Power-Street-Melbourne

Carol

 

That will do.



Nicely

 

I hope it rains too since the cars are so friggin' slow anyway.

 

Steve just wanted to let you know my 355 failed to start this past weekend. Fortunately I found out it was just in need of a new battery but I kicked my wife's E320 anyway just because I always blame the Mercedes for any Ferrari bad luck and I know this will spell disaster for Hamilton's hopes today. I am staying up for this one until 1 am here so I plan to needle you all night with Hamilton bad karma.

However I do owe you a "GO Hamilton" so I figured I will just get it out of the way now.

 

According to Lotus just a minute ago - rain is still forecast during the race.

Carol

 

Does anyone know of a good website to stream the race?

 

Normally http://www.p2pstation.net/ seems to be best, but its most likely to have the stream shut down at least once during the race.
There's also http://p2p4u.net/sports/motosport.html for alternative streams

 

Yeah, if you keep both of these open, with one minimized and muted, you can jump from one to the other when the streams gets dumped.

 

Andreas - your wish has come true - It's raining right now in Melbourne and is to continue thru race start (and beyond)

Carol

 

lol....how the hell did you know that!!??

it's just a few drops though, and there's still a few hours to go.

 

Melbourne Weather radar

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR023.loop.shtml

 

Finally a late night race here instead of early morning. I can't get myself out of bed for them. Bahrain would have been REALLY bad that early!

I really hope for rain to add some excitement, especially if it's intermittent throughout. Go Vettel!

 

Mike Gascoyne - he said the track is wet now. And there's rain on the webcam from the harbour.

Carol

 

This could play right into Vettel's hands... He's on pole and he is great in wet conditions.

He could walk this race...unless there's an accident and the safety car shuffles up the order.

I put either probability at close to 50%...

On the bright side, rain always throws up surprise results, so get your popcorn ready!!!

Frank

 

I would hate to see another Vettel/Webber(/Hamilton?) rain incident like Fuji.

 

don't forget Schumi in the rain.

Guess it doesn't matter now since track is dry as of 20 minutes ago.

 

Good morning all. I really hope it rains Will be awesome to see the likes of Alonso, MS, Lewis and Rubens climbing up the field.