US GP Practice 1**Spoilers**

Brian, I had a late night. The bags under my eyes are larger than those plastic ones at your local grocery. On the streets last night was Trulli. I swear I thought I saw Hamilton but my friends said I was wrong, he would not be wearing an Indians Pacers t-shirt. Every Harley was suspect of being Michael. Anyway, caught up some of our SSF members last night, $.50 beers put them away. Heading to the track now, I'm not much on practice, Saturday qualifying is most important, today is souvenir day.

Have a great day. I am off the pharmacy.

 

live timing shows...

1 Alonso
2 Heidfeld
3 Hamilton
4 Massa
5 Kimmi
6 Vettel

with 40 minutes left......

 

Heidfeld? This guy (& Team) is stepping up. Ferrari must be really pleased to see a 2nd team handing them some defeats.

 

1 Hamilton
2 Alonso
3 Heidfeld
4 Massa
5 Kimmi
6 Vettel

with xx minutes left......

 

I think it's great to have more than 1 good team, when you have 3-4 really good teams it makes for great races!! I'm really enjoying this season.



update...

1 Hamilton
2 Alonso
3 Heidfeld
4 Massa
5 Kimi
6 Vettel

with 30 minutes remaining....

 

1 Alonso
2 Hamilton
3 Heidfeld
4 Massa
5 Kimmi
6 Vettel

with 27 minutes left

 

i think ferrari is now a number two team. the mac seems to be on a development tear!!!

kimi has shown nothing to me and has made me sorry that i was rooting so hard for him initially. massa is looking to be more hungry thus driving a bit more inspired. i hope kimi proves me wrong and ferrari finds the hp and kimi find the balls!!

 

Thats tough for Kubica to see.

 

1 Alonso
2 Heidfeld
3 Vettel
4 Hamilton
5 Kimmi
6 Massa

with 13 minutes left...

 

Jesus Lewis....the wall.

 

he hit the wall?????

 

No, he's just a gopher's breath away from it.

This looks like a repeat of last week...McLaren is in another league, although Nick the Quick is in their realm.

 

No, but he swings out so wide and just comes right up against it.

 

end of P1


1 Alonso
2 Heidfeld
3 Hamilton
4 Vettel
5 Kimmi
6 Rosberg



hope no one hits the wall before the race!! damn, i gotta get out of the office and go home to watch P2!!

 

Good job BMW. Coming in 2nd and 4th for practice.

 

If Ferrari loses out to the Macs (and perhaps even to Heidfeld) at Indy, then the season is lost. Ferrari usually performs extremely well at Indy, and if the larger wheelbase holds Ferrari back at this track, than it was obviously not the way to go.

 

the reds need mac back

 

I'm not too worried about the Ferraris just yet. The McLarens set their session leading times with the softer of the two compounds on; the Ferraris stayed on the harder tires. I know the Macs were still faster than the red cars earlier in the session when they both had the harder tires on but you never know fuel levels and so forth.

Practice means nothing, lets see what happens in qualifying before we rule the red cars out.

Mark

 

After P1, it looks as though we went backwards, but really, Macs n BMW went faster.
Vettel in the bmw looks really good and Nick is there.

I was waiting for us to jump up. Something is not right at Ferrari. We look so unstable in the infield section and lack mechanical grip. Mabey we'll find that right balance, but as for now, it aint there or we would have showed it. We're over a second behind and from the looks of it, have been displaced by BMW.

P2 will be on later, my assumption is that if we dont make a huge leap into the top 3, we're going to have a very long race Sunday.

time tables:

P1 times------------------------------------------------------------------


Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points

1 1 Fernando Alonso McLaren-Mercedes 1:11.925

2 9 Nick Heidfeld BMW 1:12.391

3 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:12.628

4 10 Sebastian Vettel BMW 1:12.869

5 6 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:12.966

6 16 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:13.020

7 5 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:13.040

8 14 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1:13.159

9 7 Jenson Button Honda 1:13.597

10 15 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:13.682

11 12 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:13.777

12 38 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:13.786

13 11 Ralf Schumacher Toyota 1:13.819

14 18 Vitantonio Liuzzi STR-Ferrari 1:13.907

15 19 Scott Speed STR-Ferrari 1:13.990

16 3 Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 1:14.000

17 22 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 1:14.037

18 8 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:14.052

19 4 Heikki Kovalainen Renault 1:14.189

20 23 Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 1:14.632

21 21 Christijan Albers Spyker-Ferrari 1:14.636

22 20 Adrian Sutil Spyker-Ferrari 1:14.810


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Best Sector Times

Position No Driver Time

SECTOR 1-----------------------------------------------------------------

1 2 Lewis Hamilton 22.162

2 1 Fernando Alonso 22.189

3 9 Nick Heidfeld 22.226

4 5 Felipe Massa 22.519

5 10 Sebastian Vettel 22.558

6 6 Kimi Räikkönen 22.564

7 7 Jenson Button 22.646

8 3 Giancarlo Fisichella 22.728

9 16 Nico Rosberg 22.729

10 14 David Coulthard 22.757

11 18 Vitantonio Liuzzi 22.770

12 38 Kazuki Nakajima 22.776

13 15 Mark Webber 22.798

14 22 Takuma Sato 22.798

15 19 Scott Speed 22.799

16 11 Ralf Schumacher 22.811

17 12 Jarno Trulli 22.870

18 20 Adrian Sutil 22.939

19 8 Rubens Barrichello 22.943

20 4 Heikki Kovalainen 22.944

21 21 Christijan Albers 22.988

22 23 Anthony Davidson 23.267

SECTOR 2----------------------------------------------------------------

1 1 Fernando Alonso 29.348

2 16 Nico Rosberg 29.624

3 10 Sebastian Vettel 29.665

4 9 Nick Heidfeld 29.727

5 2 Lewis Hamilton 29.785

6 6 Kimi Räikkönen 29.793

7 5 Felipe Massa 29.935

8 11 Ralf Schumacher 29.953

9 14 David Coulthard 29.960

10 12 Jarno Trulli 30.036

11 7 Jenson Button 30.129

12 8 Rubens Barrichello 30.160

13 3 Giancarlo Fisichella 30.189

14 15 Mark Webber 30.196

15 22 Takuma Sato 30.223

16 4 Heikki Kovalainen 30.251

17 23 Anthony Davidson 30.258

18 19 Scott Speed 30.292

19 38 Kazuki Nakajima 30.338

20 18 Vitantonio Liuzzi 30.378

21 21 Christijan Albers 30.414

22 20 Adrian Sutil 30.490

SECTOR 3-----------------------------------------------------------------

1 2 Lewis Hamilton 20.345

2 9 Nick Heidfeld 20.351

3 1 Fernando Alonso 20.388

4 6 Kimi Räikkönen 20.415

5 14 David Coulthard 20.442

6 5 Felipe Massa 20.472

7 10 Sebastian Vettel 20.483

8 15 Mark Webber 20.556

9 19 Scott Speed 20.557

10 7 Jenson Button 20.562

11 18 Vitantonio Liuzzi 20.640

12 3 Giancarlo Fisichella 20.664

13 16 Nico Rosberg 20.667

14 38 Kazuki Nakajima 20.672

15 12 Jarno Trulli 20.754

16 8 Rubens Barrichello 20.830

17 11 Ralf Schumacher 20.853

18 23 Anthony Davidson 20.877

19 4 Heikki Kovalainen 20.904

20 21 Christijan Albers 20.918

21 22 Takuma Sato 20.923

22 20 Adrian Sutil 20.948

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Speed Trap

1 9 Nick Heidfeld 11:07:06 333.3

2 14 David Coulthard 11:00:26 330.4

3 19 Scott Speed 10:28:23 329.5

4 15 Mark Webber 10:47:28 329.1

5 18 Vitantonio Liuzzi 11:27:14 329.1

6 10 Sebastian Vettel 11:07:32 328.4

7 5 Felipe Massa 10:59:22 326.5

8 6 Kimi Räikkönen 10:35:12 326.4

9 3 Giancarlo Fisichella 11:28:18 325.5

10 21 Christijan Albers 11:08:35 324.6

11 2 Lewis Hamilton 10:33:10 324.2

12 7 Jenson Button 11:06:39 324.2

13 11 Ralf Schumacher 11:25:58 323.0

14 8 Rubens Barrichello 11:08:23 322.8

15 12 Jarno Trulli 11:07:57 322.6

16 20 Adrian Sutil 11:28:15 322.3

17 16 Nico Rosberg 11:24:53 321.6

18 38 Kazuki Nakajima 11:28:12 321.6

19 4 Heikki Kovalainen 10:38:42 321.5

20 1 Fernando Alonso 11:04:45 320.3

21 23 Anthony Davidson 11:30:55 317.5

22 22 Takuma Sato 11:28:34 316.2

 

Exactly. I just landed and missed this morning; the real story will be qualifying, not practice.

First time at Indy; very nice people thus far. Hope to see everyone later....

 

Amazing how quick Sebastian Vettel is. Only 0.2 away from Hamilton, I hope he'll keep that level.

 

I wanna be in Indy right nowwwww!

Not arriving till Sunday morning, anyone know of a good place to eat breakfast?

 

listen to what YellowbirdRS has to say, being on the infield, aside the mechanics, and looking them in the eye must have some specific weight towards the situation among our beloved team, real is real.

We have no mechanical grip...since monaco...

Should we give up the hopes for this years championship?

NOW Im worried...I dont like what the drivers said officially and what I hear from Yellowbird...we have no TIRE GRIP!!!...go figure McLaren is flying everywhere...