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Vettel on poll!!!!
Its Vettel, Massa, Alonso.

Lewis is 4th, Button 8th.

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Live Leaderboard
Position Country Driver Team
1 Germany S Vettel Red Bull
2 Brazil F Massa Ferrari
3 Spain F Alonso Ferrari
4 Great Britain L Hamilton McLaren
5 Germany N Rosberg Mercedes
6 Australia M Webber Red Bull
7 Germany M Schumacher Mercedes
8 Great Britain J Button McLaren
9 Poland R Kubica Renault
10 Germany A Sutil Force India
11 Brazil R Barrichello Williams
12 Italy V Liuzzi Force India
13 Germany N Hulkenberg Williams
14 Spain P de la Rosa BMW Sauber
15 Switzerland S Buemi Toro Rosso
16 Japan K Kobayashi BMW Sauber
17 Russia V Petrov Renault
18 Spain J Alguersuari Toro Rosso
19 Germany T Glock Virgin
20 Italy J Trulli Lotus
21 Finland H Kovalainen Lotus
22 Brazil L di Grassi Virgin
23 Brazil B Senna Hispania
24 India K Chandhok Hispania

My bet is that any of Vettel, Massa, Weber or Alonso will take poll.
Button is unlikely to make it into Q3. Correction; Button just squeaked through, there were heads in hands at McLaren when he went out (I might be early with this, but chap boy doesn't have a bright future; he has come to McLaren to die ).

doyin13:
Probably spoke too soon. Mclaren seem to be struggling for
one lap pace.

Only sure thing is Ferrari.

Vettel in second. Okayyyyyyyy

Everything is upside down. Virgin has turned out to be the fastest new team, well against expectations it would be lotus. Exciting times ahead.
Unlike last year, there are full seconds between cars, not tenths as it was last season.

Its Massa, Rosberg, Hamilton currently. Vettel has just gone second. . . And aaaaaaaat last Chandok has turned a wheeel in anger, but he's almost 30 secs of pace.

Rosberg is still faster than schumi.

Alonso cames tops in first practise and is currently leading qualifying.

chic2pimp:
High quality in terms of Drivers.
Has a starting grid ever had so many former and reigning world champs?  . Add them to the likes of Massa and Vettel who I consider future world champions.
It's a shame Kimi has moved to Rallying.
Whilst Rosberg has been faster than Schumi during practice(key word), I think Schumi will still get more points over the course of the season cuz unlike rosberg it's been there and done it.

P:S I'm also waiting to see if the fuels will run out but I some how don't see it happening

Yeah, you're right about the driver lineup. There are 3 World champs and some hot young blood.
I agree about Massa and Vettel (I have a secret wish for Massa to beat Alonso), Massa should do well this year. Vettel is likely to be hampered by an unreliable car, at least for the first few races.

chic2pimp:
For sure, it hasn't given Mclaren the huge advantage Brawn had last year. Brawn were head and shoulders above their nearest opponents and had accumulated a ridiculous amount of points over the the first half of the season that when teams finally made up the advantage, they couldn't still be caught.
I don't see that happening this season however I don't blame other teams for being worried.

The other teams seem to have their own tricks and rule benders, lotus have a strange mini wing deck in the middle of their rear wing, Red Bull have adjustable height suspension, its mutual rule stretching. . . so peace might reign

chic2pimp:
@ Beaf

F1 is far and away my favourite motor sport.
I can't for the start of this new seaso especially with Schumi coming out of retirement(Kinda odd seeing him drive a car other than Ferrari).
If the Mercedes, Mclaren and Ferrari cars are fast enough, this season might just be the best one ever.
Don't think we've ever had such a high quality field starting an F1 race .

High quality? With lotus, virgin and HRT? No, but I'll say there is there has never been a season that started with so much uncertainty; how tires will be managed, if any teams are sandbagging, how will schumi rank against Alonso, Lewis etc (his team mate, Rosberg, already beat him by half a second in todays practice). The biggest thing I'm waiting to see, is if any cars will run out of fuel.

chic2pimp:
Every F1 season always start with some sort of controversy especially when a team's car appears to be faster than that of it's competitors .
What has the FIA council had to say about this controversy?
Tbh, I really don't blame teams for complaining considering what happened with Brawn Last season.

FIA has okayed it, so everyone must go and build their own versions now. But this will not give McLaren the tremendous advantage Brawn had last year tho.

We live in days of high tech. It is straightforward to prove if a call was made or not.