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    Default The Official 2009 Bahrain Grand Prix Thread

    OK I've been so swamped with work this week I haven't had time to do an overview yet. If anyone feels like tackling it, you're more than welcome to and I'll copy it to the first post.

    I might have some time to write something tomorrow .
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    For those still awake...

    http://www.justin.tv/ferrari_dragon

    FP1 stream, prob catch FP2 at 5am on it too.
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    I cant write worth shit else i would write one lol

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    Bahrain International Circuit


    Laps: 56
    Circuit Length: 5.412 kilometre (3.37 miles)
    2008 Winner: Felipe Massa - Ferrari - 1h 31m 06.970s (208.153 km/h)
    2008 Pole Sitter: Robert Kubica - BMW Sauber - 1:33.096
    2008 Fastest Lap: Heikki Kovalainen - Mclaren-Mercedes - 1:33.193
    Fastest Lap: Michael Schumacher - Ferrari - 1:30.252 - 2004

    TV Schedule (Mountain Time)

    Qualifying - Saturday April 25th 02:00 AM
    Acura Pre-Race - (Don't know, rage you'll have to fill this in)
    Race - Sunday April 26th 06:00 AM

    * missing the times because haven't found them yet

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    Weather information has been found and will now be added. We're looking at 33 on friday, 34 for qualifying on saturday and 31 for race day. One interesting thing to note is that there is a possibility of sandstorms on Sunday, so we'll see how that affects the race.

    I'll leave the rest of the details for you to fill in Rage.

    Cheers.
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    Some pics to start off the weekend

    McLaren asymmetric exhaust outlets. Anthony Davidson seems to think that with water and oil cooling being on different sides of the car, the outlets are sized accordingly.




    Brawn with virgin galactic livery

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    Some of Toyota's diffuser. I have herd the words "triple deck diffuser mentioned" before. And I guess I can see what they are talking about.



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    Looks like Mclaren was using flow-vis again on Heikki's car in FP1.. Hopefully they are adding some beneficial new parts this weekend!

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    They don't have much changes this race. It's basically the China spec car, with minor changes to the rear diffuser. Flo-vis was used on it. They said it got them a few points in downforce.
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    I'm hoping for a regular boring dry race with no sandstorms.

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    Originally posted by buh_buh
    I'm hoping for a regular boring dry race with no sandstorms.
    +1
    Clean roads, clean driving, Ferrari breakdowns... Everything that makes a good race.

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    Originally posted by Mibz
    +1
    Clean roads, clean driving, Ferrari breakdowns... Everything that makes a good race.
    Hell Yea... Massa at the bottom, and Kimi eating icecream..

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    wow never realized how hard the teams are running their suspension setup, or maybe there hasn't been a race that has really allowed the speed for that set up

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    Depending on this cold, I may stay home for this race vs the party at Rage's :P At least with this race we can all get a decent sleep before the race
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    Good qualifying this morning... Toyota 1-2..

    Now off to work with very little sleep!

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    Sutil was handed a 3 spot penalty for blocking Webber, who gets bumped from 19 to 18 (wooo).
    Trulli and Button both qualified better than their teammates despite more fuel.

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    Grid 	Qualifying 	Name 		Weight 	Fuel (kg) 	First stint (laps)
    1 	1 	Jarno Trulli 		648.5 	43.5 		12
    2 	2 	Timo Glock 		643 	38 		10
    3 	3 	Sebastian Vettel 	659 	54 		15
    4 	4 	Jenson Button 		652.5 	47.5 		13
    5 	5 	Lewis Hamilton 		652.5 	47.5 		13
    6 	6 	Rubens Barrichello 	649 	44 		12
    7 	7 	Fernando Alonso 	650.5 	45.5 		12
    8 	8 	Felipe Massa 		664.5 	59.5 		17
    9 	9 	Nico Rosberg 		670.5 	65.5 		19
    10 	10 	Kimi Raikkonen 		671.5 	66.5 		20
    11 	11 	Heikki Kovalainen 	678.5 	73.5 		22
    12 	12 	Kazuki Nakajima 	680.9 	75.9 		23
    13 	13 	Robert Kubica 		698.6 	93.6 		29
    14 	14 	Nick Heidfeld 		696.3 	91.3 		28
    15 	15 	Nelson Piquet Jnr 	677.6 	72.6 		22
    16 	17 	Sebastien Buemi 	678.5 	73.5 		22
    17 	18 	Giancarlo Fisichella 	652 	47 		13
    18 	19 	Mark Webber 		656 	51 		14
    19 	16 	Adrian Sutil* 		679 	74 		22
    20 	20 	Sebastien Bourdais 	667.5 	62.5 		18
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    It will be interesting to see if the Brawn guys can hang in there, or just fade away. As long as they get on the podium once in a while, it will stay close. Toyota, Brawn, and Red Bull. Add in Lewis Hamilton, and Toyota's poor performance in rain, it could be really interesting.

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    BMW looks like they'll have an interesting pit strategy. If there are no long yellows they might be dangerous.

    Vettel followed by the BMWs would be my bet.

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    hm a 3 grid spot penalty. Obviously there haven't been any precedents set here for someone deliberately swerving across the track to block someone since most of the blocking occurs unknowingly by cars driving in dirty air behind other cars going all out in which they receive 5 or 10 grid spot penalties.

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    Originally posted by buh_buh
    hm a 3 grid spot penalty. Obviously there haven't been any precedents set here for someone deliberately swerving across the track to block someone since most of the blocking occurs unknowingly by cars driving in dirty air behind other cars going all out in which they receive 5 or 10 grid spot penalties.
    I was waiting for Rage to bust that out :P

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    haha. Lucky for Sutil he doesn't drive a McLaren. That would've been a 1 year ban.
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