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2012 UBS Chinese Grand Prix (April 13-15)
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Author:  Gabriel [ Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:06 pm ]
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2012 Chinese Grand Prix

After 2 very interesting Grand Prix, the F1 circus moves to Shanghai for the third race of the 2012 season. Can Lewis Hamilton finally translate a great QLF result to a race win? Can Ferrari and Alonso keep momentum from their win in Malaysia? Will Vettel and Red Bull be able to fight for the victory? Can Mercedes fix their race pace and be actually a contender on sunday? Will teams like Lotus, Sauber and Williams get a podium finish after showing really good pace in the first 2 races? Will HRT be inside the 107%? Will Caterham finally get their first points finish? Will Grosjean stay in the race at least until the first round of pitstops? Will Massa be anything else than utterly useless?

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Lap record: M Schumacher, 1:32.238, 2004.
2011's lap record: S Vettel, 1:33.706, Q3.

Timetable (Local/GMT/EDT):
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Friday, April 13th

10:00am/2:00am/10:00pm(thu) - Free Practice 1
2:00pm/6:00am/2:00am - Free Practice 2

Saturday, April 14th

11:00am/3:00am/11:00pm(fri) - Free Practice 3
2:00pm/6:00am/2:00am - Qualifying

Sunday, April 15th

3:00pm/7:00am/3:00am - Race (56 laps / 305.066 km / 189.564 mi)


Past Winners:

2011 Lewis Hamilton (McLaren-Mercedes)
2010 Jenson Button (McLaren-Mercedes)
2009 Sebastien Vettel (Red Bull-Renault)
2008 Lewis Hamilton (McLaren-Mercedes)
2007 Kimi Räikkönen (Ferrari)
2006 Michael Schumacher (Ferrari)
2005 Fernando Alonso (Renault)
2004 Rubens Barrichello (Ferrari)

STREAM: Sky Sports F1 http://www.vipbox.tv/watch/32669/1/sky- ... nline.html
Author:  amq55 [ Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:31 am ]
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I'll leave this Sopcast link, which a high quality Sky stream. Requires Sopcast and is not very reliable, because it worked fine in Australia, but in Malaysia it only started about 10 laps into the race.

sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/106723
Author:  alex1369 [ Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:29 pm ]
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I just hope it will be a normal race weekend with good wheather so we can see of the teams their true race pace - specially Mercedes
Author:  kals [ Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:51 pm ]
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We have seen the true Mercedes pace, did you miss Australia? :lol: :lol: :lol:
Author:  asshat [ Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:37 am ]
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I quite like this track. 3 good tracks in a row now. Then onto 3 shitty tracks! Hopefully HRT can do something in 3 weeks.
Author:  Tobias [ Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:32 am ]
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this is a track I have gradually come to like. The fact that there are buildings emerging around the track which provides for some scenery is a very welcome sight in comparison to the normally desolate locations of Tilke tracks.
Author:  Lucasjeha [ Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:46 am ]
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Tobias wrote:
this is a track I have gradually come to like. The fact that there are buildings emerging around the track which provides for some scenery is a very welcome sight in comparison to the normally desolate locations of Tilke tracks.

Same here! And the fact that this track has provided some great races in the past years, helped it even more... some nice wet races and last year, propably the best race of the season, with the great lead battle.
Author:  alex1369 [ Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:28 pm ]
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kals wrote:
We have seen the true Mercedes pace, did you miss Australia? :lol: :lol: :lol:


No, but i hope they can change something.... well see
Author:  Omega [ Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:12 pm ]
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alex1369 wrote:
kals wrote:
We have seen the true Mercedes pace, did you miss Australia? :lol: :lol: :lol:


No, but i hope they can change something.... well see

I would not expect that before the mid-season test in May.
Author:  Lucasjeha [ Sat Mar 31, 2012 2:21 am ]
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They have a 3 weeks break, so they can work hard, I bet Ferrari will come up with something new as well as Mercedes will try to work out a solution for the badly tire wear they are facing... of course that its not going to be something big as without the real tests its hard to improve too much... but I believe Mercedes will come to Shanghai with a better race pace. Just hope Williams can keep the good pace in the race.
Author:  Juihi [ Sat Mar 31, 2012 2:32 am ]
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Lucasjeha wrote:
Mercedes will try to work out a solution for the badly tire wear they are facing


I'm not sure they are suffering tyre wear this time around, at least not in Malaysia, when Rosberg came into the pits for more inters the team said he tyres they took off were practically still new yet he could hardly drive on them 8O
Author:  silverstone [ Sun Apr 01, 2012 12:38 pm ]
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ni hao!
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Author:  Scirocco [ Sun Apr 01, 2012 11:07 pm ]
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Welocme... You got more than 1 billion people and you couldn't hire one that could spell it correctly. Nice work China.
Author:  EAS [ Mon Apr 02, 2012 12:00 am ]
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:lol: at the poll. By the way, that's the ad we see in Brazil right before and after the races. The vehicle Massa is driving here seems very appropriate actually.
Author:  Fabs [ Mon Apr 02, 2012 6:28 pm ]
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Can we change the answer to the poll to "Yes and Mercedes have built another shitty car" ?

Also: possible asian rain.
Author:  highgroove [ Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:08 pm ]
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News round -.- style

FIA re-assessing Mercedes rear wing design. Sooooooooooo that will probably be classed Illegal this Thursday.

In other news...

HRT sign new technical director, after 6 months... :tumble:
Author:  codename_47 [ Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:51 pm ]
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Can we have a Mod look into the poll please?

Some fanboys have voted yes just to troll, when its clear anyone who isn't trying to get a reaction out of other posters would actually apply logic to the situation and vote yes.
Author:  kals [ Tue Apr 03, 2012 3:20 am ]
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EAS wrote:
The vehicle Massa is driving here seems very appropriate actually.


How so? I'd go as far as saying the vehicle is very much less appropriate. Afterall, instead of just endangering 23 other drivers every other Sunday he's now faced with sharing the road with thousands of others.
Author:  EAS [ Tue Apr 03, 2012 4:02 am ]
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LMFAO. I fear more for the cold macaroni people will have from Massa's Fiorino.
Author:  Soul Reaver [ Tue Apr 03, 2012 6:08 am ]
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Info from a Ferrari insider says that Massa was testing new equipment in the other races. Wich seems very reasonable due to the shitty car they've made.
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