Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix

[phil1993]

Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix
Round 4 of the 2013 FIA Formula One World Championship



Timetable (GMT+3)

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Practice 1 		Fri 10:00
Practice 2 		Fri 14:00
Practice 3 		Sat 11:00
Qualifying 		Sat 14:00
Race 		Sun 15:00

Weather will be sunny, with temperatures in the mid-30s.

Mark Webber (3 places) and Esteban Gutierrez (5 places) will take grid penalties into the race.

So, can we get 4 winners from 4 races?

[Joey Zyla]

I think Alonso will win, with Raikkonen in second, and the Red Bulls in third and fourth.

[mikhailv]

Alonso to win. He goes supremely round this track. the weather is going to be extremely hot, ontop of the long straights, I cant see past Alonso winning. I don't think Lotus will win because the heat may make them suffer with tyres as we saw in Malaysia. Mercedes might be unrealiable or fade away, RBR eat their tyres in extreme heat along with lack of straightline speed.

Heres hoping!

[majidasadi]

I think there are not so many people on this planet who love this circuit, but this is one of my favorite tracks!

and i say RedBull will be the team to beat this weekend,last season they were struggling in China,but next week they were fastest,so it seems high tempretures will help them.

[phil1993]

An earthquake has hit Iran. F1 Journalists reporting they felt it in Dubai and Bahrain.

[ASFE]

Massa has also good races in Bahrain.
The race will be held in old layout uh? Not in the rubish 2010!!!?

Can someone post the tyres for this race?

[Ferrari92]

Soft and Hard

[Joey Zyla]

Soft and Hard

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/ ... 14464.html

Tom McCullogh said that Pirelli has allocated the hard and medium compounds for this weekend.

[mikhailv]

Yeah Pirelli are bottling it and caving in to criticism by bringing harder compounds more often this season. most likely because of certain teams' whinging. Gutless Pirelli. it was always Medium and hard this year though, soft-medium was last year which was heavily criticized. This is the problem. people moan about 'artificial' tyre racing. Then they say they want the days of bridgestone and michellin back which were one stop races on lap 55 of 56. Back then people were moaning constantly about nothing happening and it was scalextric!!!!!

On the plus side, I too love the bahrain track. I dont give two shits about the background and whether theres a nice skyscraper, marina or whatever. I care about the tarmac and whats on it; and i love that track.

[phil1993]

It's hard and medium.

And Mikhail *takes breath* I agree. Everyone looks back with rose tinted spectacles and hark back to the 80s (when they didn't push 100%) or the Bridgestone era (which was dull largely). Just watch the Bahrain races from 2007 and 2008. Yawn, yawn, yawn. It's just a different era of F1 at the moment; next year it will be about the Power Units. As Kimi says, it is what it is.

[mikhailv]

It's hard and medium.

And Mikhail *takes breath* I agree. Everyone looks back with rose tinted spectacles and hark back to the 80s (when they didn't push 100%) or the Bridgestone era (which was dull largely). Just watch the Bahrain races from 2007 and 2008. Yawn, yawn, yawn. It's just a different era of F1 at the moment; next year it will be about the Power Units. As Kimi says, it is what it is.

The only thing I miss is the tyre war; The push to make the best most innovative tyre within the rules. Michellin had Bridestone in 05 and 06 and I will always remember the 2006 rain tyre which was something Bridgestone neglected to put focus on. It added to the sport IMO because each tyre had strengths and weaknesses and each car would use those differently. Instead, Bridgestone priced out Michellin then ran away at the end of 2009.

[phil1993]

The tyre war was just different. Yes you had intrigue, but then you had cars limited by the tyres, a bit like now but it wasn't a level playing field.

The Ferrari/Bridgestone relationship dominated F1 for the best part of 5 years. I can't remember what it was, but mid-2003 the FIA banned something on the Michelins and it handed the title on a plate to Ferrari. But with the one set of tyres a race rule, it crippled Ferrari in 2005. Then there were other races where one or the other just ran away with it - in 2006 the Bridgestone was best in full wet conditions but in changeable conditions it was just woeful.

[iceman1]

I am going to Bahrain in few hours.

Who are the drivers that will be present in the first press conference?

[phil1993]

They haven't said yet.

[Ether]

I think Pirelli this year is just so awesome that no one could predict well each race! this really shows that the fastest car not always win the race, and it seems the fastest car changing every race! which is confusing, even for us who watch F1 religiously. Probably people who just watch F1 not knowing exactly what they watch! Let's say, like Webber in China, after 1st lap, he directly went to pit again into prime tyres. It's.... I couldn't say anything about that.. It would be confusing for people who don't understand anything about s*ck Pirelli tyres... And watching driver starting the race and pitting after 5 laps??? what was that? I hate the tyres right now.. too much to the limit. I miss refueling, I miss probably the 2010 Pirelli, it was okay not that bad, and show some degradation like what we want...