Official F1/Motorsport thread

[NW2013]

I think the Virgin car looks awesome, shame its sooooo slow. Hispania car is also laughable. Liked how they were talking about the 107% rule in the practice session.

[Alastair]

Trulli seemed to struggle in the Lotus a lot more than Kovi. Looks like he may get a showing up. As may Schu come to that, not happy by the sounds of it.

[Flabio]

If Hispania even get both cars round a lap in qualifying tomorrow they'll be happy with the weekend I suspect. The onboard from Senna's 'flying' lap made it clear that it's currently a woeful car. Not quite into Lola Mastercard territory, but not great at all.

[NW2013]

Love the Lotus colour scheme, looks fantastic in the sun.

Haven't watched the practice sessions before but I'm really enjoying it. I wish these guys did the commentary for the race on BBC1.

[PeteJ]

Yeah the commentary is great. Love the maclaren website too

[Rossco]

Bang goes any reason to buy the overpriced iphone app then!

I got the app. It's quite good but didn't get a proper chance to look at it today while the practice was going on. Will check in more detail tomorrow. I reckon it will be much more use on actual race day to see where everyone is at any one time.

[PeteJ]

I got the overpriced app, it's very polished though probably not with the money (though I suppose £1 per race isn't bad). Timings come in quicker than shown on the BBC (delayed broadcast) but the gps keeps cocking up. Great following the cars that aren't shown on tv though. I expect updates soon, especially the driver listing which is not complete on the team info.

First sesh of quali over. Redbull and Ferrari looking great, mclaren less so.

[Roddie]

Can't wait to see the race now. Think there might be quite difference between some of the teams' qualifying and race paces.

[Paulos G]

Yeah. Should be very interesting. I fancy Vettel for the win.

[PeteJ]

I think massa will win followed by alonso. Think the tyre management of the Redbull is going to send them down the pack. Also think mclaren will do well, possibly grabbing third.

[Rossco]

So whats this they briefly talked about in Qualifying yesterday about having to start the race with the tyres you set the best lap on in Qualifying. Then some people might just start not putting a time in when it gets to top ten shootout so they can start on whatever they want. This could ruin some races if the weather changes dramatically before the race starts and you're on the wrong tyres and can't change them.

[cutmymilk]

Yeah, idiotic rule which should be scrapped immediately.

[ChrisF]

I'm a tad bored by this race

[NW2013]

Yeah, wasn't the most exciting. I think it's still an aerodynamic problem. It was rubbish that Webber got stuck behind Schumacher and Button.

Rossco, if it's a wet race everyone can start on wets regardless of what happened in qualy.

[bwi]

well taking out refuelling made it more boring

Bri