2011 CHINESE GRAND PRIX - Live Thread

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CHINESE GRAND PRIX

Venue: Shanghai International Circuit
Date: Sunday 17 April, 0800 BST
Lap length: 3.387 miles
Race laps: 56
2010 winner: Jenson Button (McLaren)
First grand prix: 2004

Fri Cloudy 25c

Sat Partly Sunny 15c

Sun Partly Clody 20c

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McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh wants to keep Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton together for at least another five years. "We've had some long driver relationships but personally I hope this one goes on for many more years," he said.
Full story: Daily Star

Sauber driver Sergio Perez has revealed he was lucky to escape injury after debris from another car flew into his cockpit during the Malaysia Grand Prix. Perez will be driving a new car in Sunday's race in China after the chassis of his previous model was wrecked during the incident.
Full story: autosport

Red Bull driver Mark Webber has insisted he has not lost sleep over the dominant performances of his team-mate Sebastian Vettel. The German has won the first two races of the season, with Webber finishing fifth and fourth. But the Australian said: "If you're much, much younger, you'd be panicking but I'm not panicking at all. He's not just beating me, he's beating everyone." (Associated Press)

Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso is expecting another difficult weekend after his team struggled in the first two races of the season. Ahead of the the Chinese Grand Prix, he stated: "There is not much time to change cars so I expect a difficult pace, a difficult weekend again. The race is long."
Full story: ESPN F1

[Leo Farnsworth]

Thanks a bunch!

[jeffc]

It’s fun to watch, but I really despise racing on that track (on RACE 07). Maybe if I had triple monitors....

[dragonblustar]

Thanks for the post!!

[Chode]

i wish somebody would make a headset wi 180degree vision

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welcome...

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Practice # 1 ends with Red Bull quickest out of the box.

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2nd practice

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Time/Retired	Gap	Laps
1	1	Sebastian Vettel	RBR-Renault	1:37.688		34
2	3	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:37.854	0.166	22
3	4	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:37.935	0.247	31
4	8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:37.943	0.255	34
5	7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1:38.105	0.417	29
6	6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:38.507	0.819	36
7	14	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:38.735	1.047	35
8	9	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	1:38.805	1.117	26
9	10	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1:38.859	1.171	31
10	2	Mark Webber	RBR-Renault	1:39.327	1.639	33
11	16	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1:39.538	1.850	33
12	12	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Cosworth	1:39.667	1.979	37
13	18	Sebastien Buemi	STR-Ferrari	1:39.771	2.083	18
14	5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:39.779	2.091	17
15	19	Jaime Alguersuari	STR-Ferrari	1:39.828	2.140	25
16	11	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1:39.925	2.237	32
17	17	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1:39.953	2.265	30
18	20	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault	1:40.476	2.788	30
19	21	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Renault	1:41.482	3.794	32
20	22	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	1:42.902	5.214	25
21	23	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT-Cosworth	1:43.850	6.162	3
22	25	Jerome d'Ambrosio	Virgin-Cosworth	1:44.008	6.320	35
23	24	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1:44.747	7.059	12
24	15	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	No time		0

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Pos	No	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Laps
1	1	Sebastian Vettel	RBR-Renault	1:35.674	1:34.776	1:33.706	14
2	4	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:35.924	1:34.662	1:34.421	13
3	3	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:36.091	1:34.486	1:34.463	11
4	8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:35.272	1:35.850	1:34.670	19
5	5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:35.389	1:35.165	1:35.119	18
6	6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:35.478	1:35.437	1:35.145	18
7	19	Jaime Alguersuari	STR-Ferrari	1:36.133	1:35.563	1:36.158	16
8	15	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1:35.702	1:35.858	1:36.190	17
9	18	Sebastien Buemi	STR-Ferrari	1:36.110	1:35.500	1:36.203	16
10	10	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1:35.370	1:35.149	No time	11
11	14	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:36.092	1:35.874		14
12	17	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1:36.046	1:36.053		16
13	16	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1:36.147	1:36.236		11
14	7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1:35.508	1:36.457		16
15	11	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1:35.911	1:36.465		15
16	9	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	1:35.910	1:36.611		11
17	12	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Cosworth	1:36.121	1:36.956		17
18	2	Mark Webber	RBR-Renault	1:36.468			8
19	20	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault	1:37.894			7
20	21	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Renault	1:38.318			10
21	25	Jerome d'Ambrosio	Virgin-Cosworth	1:39.119			8
22	24	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1:39.708			8
23	23	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT-Cosworth	1:40.212			9
24	22	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	1:40.445			9
		Q1 107% Time		1:41.941

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Bernie Ecclestone has travelled to Germany to meet a state prosecutor investigating alleged payments of $50m to a German banker during the sale of Formula 1's commercial rights five years ago.Full story: Reuters

Bernie Ecclestone, the billionaire head of Formula 1, has traveled to Germany to clear his name of involvement in one of the country's biggest corruption scandals. Full story: The Times

The most sought-after seat in Formula 1 belongs to Red Bull's Mark Webber. McLaren's Lewis Hamilton has been linked with it and so has Nico Rosberg from Mercedes. But Christian Horner, the Red Bull team principal, has insisted that it is not up for grabs, even though Webber will be 35 this summer and is only on a year-to-year agreement.Full story: The Guardian

Lewis Hamilton has been warned that he must make his tyres last for a full race weekend if he is to avoid a repeat of last Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix, when he had to make an unscheduled fourth stop towards the end of the race which relegated him from second to seventh place. Full story: Daily Telegraph

The dense pollution cloud that shrouded Shanghai's showpiece racing circuit on Friday was the perfect allegory for the technological mist that has fallen on millions of brains. F1 in its latest incarnation is in danger of becoming not so much a chariot race as a secret society in which team principals confess to using codes to communicate and the gadgets and gizmos are the significant factors in helping to decide who is fastest at the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday. Full story: The Times

Group Lotus has managed to secure funding amounting to $440 million to fund its planned expansion in the course of the next seven years. Full story: Joe Saward's Grand Prix blog

Pirelli is ready to sit down with teams to discuss whether the situation of tyre 'marbles' in Formula 1 needs to be improved - but reckons the matter is well under control.Full story: Autosport

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Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts
1	3	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	56	1:36:58.226	3	25
2	1	Sebastian Vettel	RBR-Renault	56	+5.1 secs	1	18
3	2	Mark Webber	RBR-Renault	56	+7.5 secs	18	15
4	4	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	56	+10.0 secs	2	12
5	8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	56	+13.4 secs	4	10
6	6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	56	+15.8 secs	6	8
7	5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	56	+30.6 secs	5	6
8	7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	56	+31.0 secs	14	4
9	10	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	56	+57.4 secs	10	2
10	16	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	56	+63.2 secs	13	1
11	15	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	56	+68.7 secs	8
12	9	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	56	+72.7 secs	16
13	11	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	56	+90.1 secs	15
14	18	Sebastien Buemi	STR-Ferrari	56	+90.6 secs	9
15	14	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	55	+1 Lap	11
16	20	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault	55	+1 Lap	19
17	17	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	55	+1 Lap	12
18	12	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Cosworth	55	+1 Lap	17
19	21	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Renault	55	+1 Lap	20
20	25	Jerome d'Ambrosio	Virgin-Cosworth	54	+2 Laps	21
21	24	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	54	+2 Laps	22
22	23	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT-Cosworth	54	+2 Laps	23
23	22	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	54	+2 Laps	24
Ret	19	Jaime Alguersuari	STR-Ferrari	9	Wheel	7

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[gura]

Remember when Adrian Sutil was the supposed “hot” driver pickup from a 2nd-line team? That’s no longer appears to be the case.

[Betis70]

That might have been the best dry-weather race I’ve seen a very long time.

Webber storming through the field was a thing of beauty, and Hamilton did a great job with the win.

[Chode]

pretty much...

[Chode]

it was a great race... and the lads did well

but this you can / you can't use the wing is pure crap!!!

[Betis70]

I agree, esp since they can use it at will in practice and qualifying.

Either have it or not.