Watching f1 live practice now- comments and updates

"Ron Calls on his years of experience....and freezes at the controls" (internerdstuff) 03/12/2015 at 22:53 • Filed to: None

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P1 is ending soon.Here are some things being talked about by the commentators :

Williams have chosen a "calm" engineer in efforts to get the best out of massa.Apparently last year massa took some time to get the best out of the car.

Maldonado is currently leading the top speed charts.That's a big difference from last year!No word yet whether this is their chosen setup or if the car is naturally fast.

Red Bull have changed their long standing aero concept from best theoretical lap speed (good in corners),to higher top speed. I think this was inevitable given they now have to follow other cars.

Alan Jones told a funny story passed on from patrick Head about one of willams past drivers Patrick Neve. The driver kept coming in saying he had "Vy-Shus" oversteer. So the team kept changing the back end of the car to correct the oversteer but it seemed to make no difference. Eventually they realized the car was understeering SO BADLY -and the driver not noticing it!- that front wheels would eventually grip and snap the car into oversteer!No surprise the driver quickly got the nickname "Patrick Naive"

-personal comment : I wish williams would make their martini stripes bigger! It looks like a Stewart on the track :-(

Jenson and KMag were filmed talking in the garage. Barely overheard words were "so quick"and "amazing" .It's not known whether they were talking about their car or others!

More will be added as it happens!

- They are now having a practice run for the virtual safety car

Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow > Ron Calls on his years of experience....and freezes at the controls 03/12/2015 at 23:08

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Just got on and started streaming NBC Sports!

pip bip - choose Corrour > Ron Calls on his years of experience....and freezes at the controls 03/13/2015 at 05:56

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are you trackside?