I beg to differ. The team that comes out flying out of the blocks from the first race will be the one with the advantage. Normally teams that try to turn it around do it just a little bit too late. A look back at the previous seasons will tell u that.

How about the image Kimi projected when he was photoed drunk in a bar?

Anyway glad to hear Mika is back in the team

It's not making a big fuss. F1 drivers are professionals and they have to act as a professional. They have a responsibility towards their fans especially underaged ones. And the media will not hesitate to pounce on anything they find controversial.

Now that's a sexy car!

Just ignore him. He's the biggest troll if i ever know one. Remember the WC?

They give the no. 1 to the previous world champion which is why we run no 1 and 2. We'll also have the first pit garage i believe.

I'm satisfied with the qualy. Good debuts from both our drivers

Alonso 2nd
Hamilton 3rd

Good outing today. What a drive by Hamilton. He's not fazed by anything at all.

I think we're about 0.2 secs off the pace from the Ferrari. We were held back by Heidfeld in the early stages of the race and that set the precedent for the rest of it otherwise I think we could have been alot closer to Kimi. Could see once Heidfeld was behind after the 1st rd of pitstops we could keep pace with the Ferrari ard 15s. But of course closing it down is another matter. I hope we start better for the remaining races.

Did anyone hear the commentators saying Kimi actually signed a contract with Ferrari in July 2005?! The last time i suggested it last season i was flamed for it...but even then i thought he signed it middle of last year

The strategy favoured Alonso. Sato or no Sato it wouldn't have made a difference. Alonso had an extra 2 laps with less fuel on board

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Added on March 18, 2007, 1:15 pmI was peeved last year too but now I'm just speechless....2005 was a good year for us...even with the reliability problems...I don't want to be too quick to judge and i hope the commentators meant 2006..

This post has been edited by verx: Mar 18 2007, 01:15 PM

You really have to hand it to Fernando. Worked his ass off to close the gap during the break. We aren't that far off from Ferrari but we are still lacking straight line speed compared to them. But we absolutely smashed the 2nd sectors today . I think we are still lacking in pace for the long runs as well and it'll be hard to keep Kimi behind but i have faith that we can secure good results tomorrow. We just have to keep close to Ferrari these 1st few rds and wait for the European races to come; we traditionally perform better in Europe.

YES!!! 1-2!!!!

Fantastic drive by both drivers. And i am very impressed with our race pace as well...the gap doesn't seem to be very big

Hamilton on his slowing down lap: "I wanna win."

Hamilton's not only brilliant on the track; his post race conference was one to savour too
He described the Ferraris as red blops
And he said he tricked Massa into making a mistake...he even apologised for it!

Because Alonso has a tremendous work rate and has worked extremely hard behind the scenes to get us back on track. The whole team appears more motivated and u can really see how important it was to the team to achieve the 1-2. It was nice to see Alonso and Hamilton giving high fives to each other after getting out of their cars. We have a really good team this year and the drivers are feeding off each other positively.

linkin is spot on. And i couldn't be more pleased with the way we started off this season. We are traditionally slow starters but one of the best when it comes to developing the car through a season. Alonso has even said that there are more developments planned for the next race so we should see the gap closed further again

This post has been edited by verx: Apr 8 2007, 10:31 PM

Haha that would be much better of course but I think Bahrain is still too early to be able to fully be on pace with them yet....that's why this win is all the sweeter. The fact that we have been racking up the points bodes well for the rest of the season. At least we won't be playing catch up points-wise when the European races come

If i'm not mistaken the gap is still around an average of 0.3s per lap

Maybe he was immitating a drunk person