F1 GP Canada.. Your predictions

[MWISimmer]

It's come round again lads.

I'll get in first...

1 Alonso
2 Massa
3 Fisichella  :o  ;)

Get em in, preferably before the 15min board goes out.... cspyro  ;)

[Craig.]

Personally I would like to see the predictions required before qualy since these days its pretty much the result anyway but Its not a big deal.
I am going.
1: Massa
2: Raikonnen
3: Alonso

Anyone taking bets on who the wall of champions will claim this year? I'm saying Fisi.

[MWISimmer]

Anyone taking bets on who the wall of champions will claim this year? I'm saying Fisi.

Lewis?

Well he is a future champion..  8-)

Agree on the qualy thing as well.

[Craig.]

I was thinking Lewis based on his drifting style of driving but he seems to just have it under control, if not there maybe turn 4 where Alonso went into the wall a few years back, thats the slippiest part of the track with no room for sliding the car.

[cspyro21]

Massa
Hamilton
Alonso

...here we are, plenty of time now

[Mictheslik]

Now to caryy on with Brits or to not carry on with Brits...

Well...I have to put Lewis at the top again...or maybe not...maybe the race I put him second he will win

1.Hamilton (couldnt stop myself lol)
2.Alonso (wow...im really changing tactics here )
3.Coulthrd

.mic

[Craig.]

law of averages says you have to come good at some point mic.

[ATI_7500]

1: Raikkonen
2: Hamilton
3: Massa

[C]

Hopefully Alonso will do his job properly this time and take out both Ferraris at the first corner....

1) Hamilton (I'll say this til he wins...)
2) Webber
3) Bob the builder (or Nick Heidfeld)

[C]

Well, a good start, he's got pole, and maybe more significantly pushed Alonso into making a mistake on his final lap...

[Craig.]

Alonso gave him that pole.
His sector times were that much faster that his final corner mistake wouldn't have made much of a differance. Lifting off the gas and turning the car towards the other side of the track before the line is what gave Lewis the pole.
But hey not a bad thing. Now he needs to be certain of getting into turn one 1'st to avoid the likely pile up.

[C]

Alonso gave him that pole.
His sector times were that much faster that his final corner mistake wouldn't have made much of a differance. Lifting off the gas and turning the car towards the other side of the track before the line is what gave Lewis the pole.
But hey not a bad thing. Now he needs to be certain of getting into turn one 1'st to avoid the likely pile up.

Alonso wouldn't have given him anything. He's a racing driver, and his sector times were not that much faster, and as he said, his mistake cost him 2 or 3 tenths - bearing in mind that with the new rubber and 3 laps less fuel, Lewis beat his own best time by the best part of .75 of a second, and Alonso's by .49ish...

[MWISimmer]

Lewis' pole lap was a cracker. In the last chicane he was faster than anyone I've seen through there in recent times  8-)
Roll on tomorrow.  :)

[The Ruptured Duck]

Alonso gave him that pole.
His sector times were that much faster that his final corner mistake wouldn't have made much of a differance. Lifting off the gas and turning the car towards the other side of the track before the line is what gave Lewis the pole.
But hey not a bad thing. Now he needs to be certain of getting into turn one 1'st to avoid the likely pile up.

Wow, now that schumi is out of the drivers seat, you have become quite the pessimist.  Was it you that said that F-1 would lose its excitement when he left?

[Craig.]

I'm not saying he turned round slammed the brakes on and did a handstand over the line, just watch the way he takes the final straight though, he made a simmilar mistake in free practise and even put the car sideways out of the final corner which only lost him .2 of a second. He was up on Hamiltons time through sectors 1 and 2 by over .350 of a second and I really cant see why pushing to the end even with the mistake wouldn't have got him pole. Maybe he thought "well i've made the mistake i'm not close enough so i'll back off to save the car" bare in mind the split times he was getting on his dashboard would have been for the previous fastest lap and would have been irrelevent since Lewis then went faster. I am guessing he was told while going up the backstraight lewis went faster so again his thoughts could have been his sector times wouldn't have been good enough to beat them with the mistake.
as for excitment, yes theres been some great races this year, I think the title race would be differant if schumi was around, but him not has at least kept it close amoungst the 3 perhaps 4 drivers instead of the usual 2 horse race. In the end though aside from the first lap gains by hamilton, its still pretty much the same usual procession that F1 is. Your not going to see any driver on the grid today having a brazil like race, they are all stuck in cars becoming even tougher to pass as developments go on. The only driver on the grid who could do it is Alonso, but unless you get those exceptional circumstances like brazil, its never going to happen, the mclaren is just too fast to end up in the mid or back of the field.