2013 FORMULA 1 ROLEX AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX

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First race of the year, good luck to all...

1 posted on 03/14/2013 3:28:42 PM PDT by Chode

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2 posted on 03/14/2013 3:30:43 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)

Tonight, midnight EDT. Australia first practice, NBC Sports (channel 220 - DirecTV)

3 posted on 03/14/2013 3:34:18 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)

unfortunately, i'll be in bed...

4 posted on 03/14/2013 3:50:24 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)

Minor threadjack- anyone here going to be at Sebring? Hit me with a Freepmail if so, I’m about 10 miles from the gate.

5 posted on 03/14/2013 3:50:40 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)

To: FreedomPoster

hope you have a great time... GO LOLA!!!

and i hope that DeltaWing thing don't tip over

6 posted on 03/14/2013 4:00:28 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)

I made fun of that thing all day at Petite Le Mans last Fall, but by the end of the race, I had to admit it was pretty darn fast.

7 posted on 03/14/2013 7:55:03 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)

To: FreedomPoster

fast sure, but i wonder how stable it feels to the driver...

it must be a steep learning curve

8 posted on 03/14/2013 8:01:05 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)

Watching practice right now and away we go into the 2013 season!!

9 posted on 03/14/2013 10:56:44 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)

Red Bull leads the way, by a large amount. Lewis looks like he made a great move.

10 posted on 03/15/2013 6:24:39 AM PDT by Lockbox

Nico is still faster by more than 1/2 second, should be the other way round... but who knows how much fuel any of them has on board

11 posted on 03/15/2013 2:46:25 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)

toooo damn hard to get up in the morning for me to watch, it's hell getting old...

12 posted on 03/15/2013 2:48:57 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)

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13 posted on 03/15/2013 7:58:39 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)

Don’t worry, they’ll build a new car to suit the #1 driver and screw Nico in the process. :-)

14 posted on 03/15/2013 10:02:21 PM PDT by gura (If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)

Have you used www.vipbox.tv

with no problems?

I’m a sceptic probably without good reasons
—just careful where I go on wonderful web.

15 posted on 03/15/2013 10:19:34 PM PDT by truth_seeker

and my favorite wet driver no longer races... shame on the prancing 'whorse' and M-B.... Michael we'll always miss you.

16 posted on 03/15/2013 11:00:15 PM PDT by Elle Bee

washout... qualifing Q2 & Q3 tomorrow

let's see how NBC sports handles the coverage

17 posted on 03/16/2013 1:44:38 AM PDT by Elle Bee

Qualifying delayed until Sunday morning

Qualifying at Albert Park has been postponed until race day amid persistent rainfall, with Q2 and Q3 yet to run. The start of the second grid-deciding phase had been put back on numerous occasions until the looming sunset forced a delay, with the action set to resume at 11am local time (GMT +11) tomorrow morning.

Saturday's opening qualifying session was disrupted before the action had even begun, with race control announcing a trio of ten minute delays following heavy rain showers. Once the action got underway and after a number of lead changes, Nico Rosberg set the initial pace to end Q1 four tenths ahead of Ferrari's Fernando Alonso.

There were a number of incidents during the session, with Lewis Hamilton narrowly avoiding a premature exit after spinning between Turns 1 and 2. Felipe Massa and Giedo van der Garde also suffered early troubles, losing their respective front wings after contact with the barriers. The biggest drama came in the late stages, however, when Charles Pic and Esteban Gutiérrez crashed in the second sector at almost the same moment, bringing out the yellow flags and effectively ending the session early.

After Q1, in which Pastor Maldonado, Gutiérrez, Jules Bianchi, Max Chilton, Giedo van der Garde and Charles Pic were eliminated from the running, there was a wait of around two hours before race control ultimately decided to halt proceedings. Increasing showers and the upcoming sunset ultimately posed too much of an issue.

The last time Formula 1 witnessed a qualifying delay was at the Japanese Grand Prix in 2010, when monsoon conditions hit Suzuka and forced the track to be closed.

Sunday's delayed qualifying session in Melbourne gets underway at 11am local time (GMT +11) and can be tracked via the GPUpdate.net Live Report feature

18 posted on 03/16/2013 2:03:14 AM PDT by Elle Bee

To: truth_seeker

this will be the third season... no problems so far

19 posted on 03/16/2013 5:54:35 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)

20 posted on 03/16/2013 5:57:50 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)

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Race Date:	17 Mar 2013

Circuit Name:	Albert Park

First Grand Prix:	1996

Number of Laps:	58
Circuit Length:	5.303 km
Race Distance:	307.574 km
Lap Record: 1:24.125 - M Schumacher (2004) Fri Sunny 24C Sat Cloudy 22C Sun Cloudy 19C