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Mar 14^th, 2008 at 8:09am

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Seems Redbull have found some performance. Second practice with Lewis and Kimi going for it, Mark Webber has slotted himself between them and is second fastest at the end of the session. Have to wait and see if this can be translated into race pace. Now that would put the cat amongst pigeons for the SimV fantasy F1.

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Reply #1 - Mar 14^th, 2008 at 8:17am

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To be honest, I'd take little from practice 2. one look at the times throws it all off. Redbull didn't find 1.8 seconds from FP1 to FP2 and Kimi for instance didn't lose 2 seconds + in that time.
The overall fastest time was set on hard tyres in practice 1 where as lewis on soft tyres on a rubbered in track was still slower which was strange.
Me thinks markie boy was on a very light qualy run.
I'd like to be wrong though, it'll be interesting to have the red bulls in the mix.

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Reply #2 - Mar 14^th, 2008 at 8:36am

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Craig. wrote on Mar 14^th, 2008 at 8:17am:

To be honest, I'd take little from practice 2. one look at the times throws it all off. Redbull didn't find 1.8 seconds from FP1 to FP2 and Kimi for instance didn't lose 2 seconds + in that time.
The overall fastest time was set on hard tyres in practice 1 where as lewis on soft tyres on a rubbered in track was still slower which was strange.
Me thinks markie boy was on a very light qualy run.
I'd like to be wrong though, it'll be interesting to have the red bulls in the mix.

See, you only get in the news what they want to tell you Roll Eyes

Still, it would be nice. Who supplies the engine package to Redbull?

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Reply #3 - Mar 14^th, 2008 at 8:48am

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Renault engine LOL.
Right now Redbull look the fastest of the midfield, that was fairly clear from both sessions. They were consistent on long runs and as the times show, fast on quick runs, so they will be in the 3rd qualy most races. DC had some technical problems in both sessions, so they've still not got reliability sorted.
BMW are the shocker really, they certainly dont look the class of the midfield like they were predicting. The car looks quick into the corners, but through them and out of them it looks like theres an ice rink under them.

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Reply #4 - Mar 14^th, 2008 at 9:35pm

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this is why testing times are unreadable. Must admit the bmw times left me speechless for a while. Shocked

[tr]Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Kubica BMW Sauber (B) 1:25.613 18
2. Heidfeld BMW Sauber (B) 1:25.950 + 0.337 16
3. Alonso Renault (B) 1:26.082 + 0.469 14
4. Rosberg Williams-Toyota (B) 1:26.171 + 0.558 17
5. Coulthard Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:26.385 + 0.772 14
6. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:26.407 + 0.794 17
7. Button Honda (B) 1:26.502 + 0.889 18
8. Vettel Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:26.663 + 1.050 18
9. Fisichella Force India-Ferrari (B) 1:26.682 + 1.069 18
10. Trulli Toyota (B) 1:26.882 + 1.269 11
11. Massa Ferrari (B) 1:27.020 + 1.407 19
12. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:27.084 + 1.471 14
13. Glock Toyota (B) 1:27.162 + 1.549 15
14. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) 1:27.163 + 1.550 17
15. Piquet Renault (B) 1:27.284 + 1.671 13
16. Barrichello Honda (B) 1:27.333 + 1.720 18
17. Sutil Force India-Ferrari (B) 1:27.489 + 1.876 18
18. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:27.578 + 1.965 17
19. Nakajima Williams-Toyota (B) 1:27.601 + 1.988 15
20. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:27.992 + 2.379 15
21. Sato Super Aguri-Honda (B) 1:28.363 + 2.750 13
22. Davidson Super Aguri-Honda (B) 1:28.912 + 3.299 15[/tr]

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