2008 FORMULA 1 Hungarian Grand Prix

[JoostLamers]

Thanks Phil. Lovely video, looks like a 2minute circuit for the F1-cars

[blizzard]

Valencia looks fantastic. Like a European version of Long Beach. I hope the layout from the F3 video is the actual F1 layout, because there was one decent straight for overtaking. Hope they don´t shorten it.


Back to topic: I´m hoping for rain too, but I don´t think it will rain in the afternoon. From what I saw it would rain in the evening, if it´s going to rain.

[Zack]

OT - Live charity Football mach http://www.goutv.com/live/6414.asx
MS - Vettel :cheezy:

[Schumfs]

If it rains the whole tests that some teams did in Jerez will end up nearly useless...
Plus, 2 of 4 races that McLaren won was raining. :P
So, I would like not to rain :P

[Arrows_F1]

if there's rain during the race, a McLaren driver is most likely to win the Grand Prix or maybe we will see a maiden winner like Nick Heidfeld or even somebody from Toyota, Renault or Red Bull.

I listed some wet races and the winner of those:

2008 British Grand Prix - L Hamilton/McLaren-Mercedes
2008 Monaco Grand Prix - L Hamilton/McLaren-Mercedes
2007 Chinese Grand Prix - K Räikkönen/Ferrari
2007 Japanese Grand Prix - L Hamilton/McLaren-Mercedes
2007 European Grand Prix - F Alonso/McLaren-Mercedes
2006 Hungarian Grand Prix - J Button/Honda, 2nd: P de la Rosa/McLaren-Mercedes (grid: 4th)
2005 Belgian Grand Prix (not complete wet) - K Räikkönen/McLaren-Mercedes
2003 US Grand Prix - 2nd: K Räikkönen/McLaren Mercedes
2003 Brazilian Grand Prix - 2nd: K Räikkönen/McLaren-Mercedes

[markpaz455]

if there's rain during the race, a McLaren driver is most likely to win the Grand Prix or maybe we will see a maiden winner like Nick Heidfeld or even somebody from Toyota, Renault or Red Bull.

I listed some wet races and the winner of those:

2008 British Grand Prix - L Hamilton/McLaren-Mercedes
2008 Monaco Grand Prix - L Hamilton/McLaren-Mercedes
2007 Chinese Grand Prix - K Räikkönen/Ferrari
2007 Japanese Grand Prix - L Hamilton/McLaren-Mercedes
2007 European Grand Prix - F Alonso/McLaren-Mercedes
2006 Hungarian Grand Prix - J Button/Honda, 2nd: P de la Rosa/McLaren-Mercedes (grid: 4th)
2005 Belgian Grand Prix (not complete wet) - K Räikkönen/McLaren-Mercedes
2003 US Grand Prix - 2nd: K Räikkönen/McLaren Mercedes
2003 Brazilian Grand Prix - 2nd: K Räikkönen/McLaren-Mercedes

you forgot the 2006 chinese grand prix - M Schumacher/Ferrari

[Fergie1]

Looking forward to the borefest that is Hungary, :tired: At least I can watch Practice with it being no school.

[Sanredrose]

right, not to do with Hungary, but i found a real video of the Valencia street circuit finally: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAzqDuWNa2M

The video is good. But this track brings back memories of Adelaide GP of Australia from the early 90's. It seems to be an interesting circuit ! After a long time probably we will have a circuit who best lap time would be around 1m 48s.

[Sanredrose]

Nah, I think they'll give Bourdais another year with Senna alongside him,while Buemi will race in GP2 again and test for Toro Rosso and Red Bull.But we'll see. And I fancy Vettel to replace Kimi for 2010 at Ferrari

Maybe you're right about the STR stuff, although I think Bourdais is a dead-end driver, and past his sell-by date in terms of age anyway, and I reckon also that Buemi is way experienced enough in F1 and GP2 cars.

Vettel will be on a two year (or possibly even three year) leash. Think 2011/2012 for the Vettel/Ferrari combination.

What about Heikki ??? He has signed a one year contract with Mclaren. So will Mclaren be looking to replace him ??

[pumon]

kimi will win.........

[Ali]

What about Heikki ??? He has signed a one year contract with Mclaren. So will Mclaren be looking to replace him ??

Heikki 'likely' to stay at McLaren

Heikki Kovalainen will in all likelihood partner Lewis Hamilton at McLaren next season, according to Mercedes motorsport director Norbert Haug.

[swca92]

Heikki's the perfect teammate for Lewis.He's not as fast or consistent as Lewis,so he probably won't upset the team,but he's quick enough to help them win the constructors and hinder Ferrari

[XCutor]

I think Kimi will win, but my heart is with Kubica :P

[syafiqa]

I think heiki performance is not enough for a strong team like Mclaren. He must proved that he is a good enough to stay long in Mclaren.

His performance was so imbalance with hamilton. Ferrari duo know are much better compared to Mclaren duo.

In terms of constructor championship, ferrari are gain more change to win.

[JoostLamers]

Just saw weather predictions, for the up coming weekend:
Friday: Mostly Sunny (31C)
Saturday: Partly Cloudy (33C)
Sunday: Sunny (31C)

Note: Today nd Monday it is going to rain, so most likely it will be a dry weekend