Gran Premio de España Santander 2012

Who will win the 2012 Gran Premio de España?

Sebastian Vettel
1
2%
Lewis Hamilton
12
27%
Mark Webber
3
7%
Jenson Button
1
2%
Fernando Alonso
6
14%
Nico Rosberg
1
2%
Kimi Raikkonen
16
36%
Romain Grosjean
0
No votes
Other driver
4
9%
 
Total votes: 44

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Re: Gran Premio de España Santander 2012

Post by Zack » 09 May 2012, 05:58

phil1993 wrote:Mercedes should be strong over a lap thanks to their bang tidy DRS system but once the race grows more than ten laps old then Schumi will complain that he doesn't have 65 Bridgestone engineers pandering to his every need, a la 2000-04. Nico will probably end up 5th or 6th after a completely anonymous race.
haha .. using all opportunities!! :lol: Well, I don't blame you. Every one is in love with Formula Pirelli ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... oXeWA#t=4s :p

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Re: Gran Premio de España Santander 2012

Post by François » 09 May 2012, 07:09

phil1993 wrote: Nico will probably end up 5th or 6th after a completely anonymous race.
Hey, who's to say that he won't run another two or three people clean off the road? That surely won't make him anonymous as far as the stewards' office is concerned. :p
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Re: Gran Premio de España Santander 2012

Post by majidasadi » 09 May 2012, 07:57

this race will tell if Ferrari will be competitive for the rest of the season or not...they have massive upgrades and seems like it's their final chance to do somthing about that terrible car...I remember Pat Fry was saying that Ferrari should be aggressive about 2012 car but what we saw in the beginning of the season was everything but aggressive
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Re: Gran Premio de España Santander 2012

Post by phil1993 » 09 May 2012, 09:26

GP3 begins this weekend, here's the line up
Spoiler:
Lotus GP
1 (Ger) Daniel Abt
2 (US) Conor Daly
3 (Fin) Aaro Vainio

MW Arden
4 (NZ) Mitch Evans
5 (It) David Fumanelli
6 (Fin) Matias Laine

Marussia Manor Racing
7 (Rus) Dmitry Suranovich
8 (Bra) Fabiano Machado
9 (Cyp) Tio Ellinas

Status Grand Prix
14 (Fil) Marlon Stöckinger
15 (Jpn) Kotaro Sakurai
16 (UK) Alice Powell

Ocean Racing Technology
17 (It) Kevin Ceccon
18 (Sp) Carmen Jordá
19 (Ire) Robert Cregan

Jenzer Motorsport
20 (Rom) Robert Visoiu
21 (Swi) Patric Niederhauser
22 (Cze) Jakub Klasterka

Trident Racing
23 (It) Vicky Piria
24 (It) Antonio Spavone
25 TBA

Carlin
26 (UK) Alex Brundle
27 (Por) António Félix da Costa
28 (UK) William Buller

Atech CRS Grand Prix
29 (Hun) Tamás Pál Kiss
30 (Bel) John Wartique
31 (US) Ethan Ringel

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Re: Gran Premio de España Santander 2012

Post by François » 09 May 2012, 10:31

What about numbers 10-11-12?
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Re: Gran Premio de España Santander 2012

Post by phil1993 » 09 May 2012, 10:32

François wrote:What about numbers 10-11-12?
Mucke Motorsport pulled out

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Re: Gran Premio de España Santander 2012

Post by François » 09 May 2012, 10:53

That's still 27 cars... should be entertaining to watch. :)

No french driver. :(
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Post by phil1993 » 09 May 2012, 10:58

François wrote:That's still 27 cars... should be entertaining to watch. :)

No french driver. :(
You have 3 in F1, Dillmann in GP2 and Pic & Bianchi in WSR :p

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Re: Gran Premio de España Santander 2012

Post by alex1369 » 09 May 2012, 11:45

François wrote:
phil1993 wrote: Nico will probably end up 5th or 6th after a completely anonymous race.
Hey, who's to say that he won't run another two or three people clean off the road? That surely won't make him anonymous as far as the stewards' office is concerned. :p
They dont have to show that on TV hihi :p

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Re: Gran Premio de España Santander 2012

Post by Adam » 09 May 2012, 12:09

majidasadi wrote:this race will tell if Ferrari will be competitive for the rest of the season or not...they have massive upgrades and seems like it's their final chance to do somthing about that terrible car...I remember Pat Fry was saying that Ferrari should be aggressive about 2012 car but what we saw in the beginning of the season was everything but aggressive
As far as I know most of the heavy upgrades will be installed at Barcelona, at Muguello they focused more on trying to see if the wind tunnel and simulation works are translated to the car as it should, and regarding that it's been a success (Ferrari supposedly had problems with that last year).

I think there are reasons to be optimistic. Gené said on Twitter that Ferrari may be the faster car alongside the Lotus on three turns of Catalunya track.

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Re: Gran Premio de España Santander 2012

Post by tderias » 09 May 2012, 14:09

majidasadi wrote:this race will tell if Ferrari will be competitive for the rest of the season or not...they have massive upgrades and seems like it's their final chance to do somthing about that terrible car...I remember Pat Fry was saying that Ferrari should be aggressive about 2012 car but what we saw in the beginning of the season was everything but aggressive
Ferrari were actually too aggressive with their design and effectively produced an untamed beast. They didn't know how the car behaved, and they couldn't understand why it yielded the results it did.

Anyway, McLaren are to switch to the 'platypus' nose in Barcelona:

http://www.planetf1.com/news/3213/77417 ... or-McLaren

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Re: Gran Premio de España Santander 2012

Post by Ether » 09 May 2012, 14:37

Maybe this time it's Kimi's time to win the race... Damn, this year surely is the best season so far I ever watched! It's quite funny that I always voted Ham for the last 4 races and this one too!! But my feeling says that he might be ended up in podium once again with his new higher-nose car!

But I really hope he get everything just right and dominate this race.. Fingers crossed :-)

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Re: Gran Premio de España Santander 2012

Post by François » 09 May 2012, 14:38

phil1993 wrote:
François wrote:That's still 27 cars... should be entertaining to watch. :)

No french driver. :(
You have 3 in F1, Dillmann in GP2 and Pic & Bianchi in WSR :p
My point exactly: we ought to be everywhere!
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Re: Gran Premio de España Santander 2012

Post by hamilton10000 » 09 May 2012, 16:03

im looking forward to gp3 in monaco as all most of the drivers wont have been there so it will probably be a crash fest

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Re: Gran Premio de España Santander 2012

Post by iceman1 » 09 May 2012, 16:11

François wrote:
phil1993 wrote:
François wrote:That's still 27 cars... should be entertaining to watch. :)

No french driver. :(
You have 3 in F1, Dillmann in GP2 and Pic & Bianchi in WSR :p
My point exactly: we ought to be everywhere!
You are here :lol:

Good feature by Mercedes about DRS and overtaking: http://www.f1zone.net/news/mercedes-qa-on-drs/13856/

FIA Preview of the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix: http://www.fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/pr ... w-esp.aspx?

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