📰 Auto News F1 2008 Round 1: Melbourne GP Weekend Thread

Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) 1:26.461 25
2. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:26.948 + 0.487 21
3. Massa Ferrari (B) 1:26.958 + 0.497 25
4. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:27.114 + 0.653 19
5. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:28.263 + 1.802 18
6. Alonso Renault (B) 1:28.360 + 1.899 22
7. Kubica BMW Sauber (B) 1:28.579 + 2.118 12
8. Glock Toyota (B) 1:28.913 + 2.452 16
9. Vettel Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:28.957 + 2.496 22
10. Trulli Toyota (B) 1:29.014 + 2.553 23
11. Button Honda (B) 1:29.124 + 2.663 25
12. Fisichella Force India-Ferrari (B) 1:29.230 + 2.769 24
13. Coulthard Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:29.301 + 2.840 5
14. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:29.363 + 2.902 32
15. Barrichello Honda (B) 1:29.533 + 3.072 17
16. Heidfeld BMW Sauber (B) 1:29.561 + 3.100 7
17. Sutil Force India-Ferrari (B) 1:30.155 + 3.694 13
18. Piquet Renault (B) 1:30.357 + 3.896 21
19. Sato Super Aguri-Honda (B) 1:31.048 + 4.587 7
20. Davidson Super Aguri-Honda (B) 1:31.771 + 5.310 7
21. Nakajima Williams-Toyota (B) 1:35.053 + 8.592 3
22. Rosberg Williams-Toyota (B) No time 3



:bowrofl:

no "real" title contenders after all..........but HUGE midfield
and poor williams
 
Force India's new ugly as hell and just when you think they couldnt do worse, livery:
At least the tungsten was cool and blackish and not bright orange homo red.
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and now for the good shit:
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Super Aguri's overalls and team colors are MOTHERFUCKING :bowdown:
 
Honda REALLY DID learn their lesson from last year............poor super aguri


Honda is to steadily withdraw its technical support for satellite team Super Aguri, Nick Fry revealed in Melbourne.

F1 teams have agreed that customer cars will be totally phased out by 2010, but Honda CEO Fry told Reuters that - with new team ownership - Super Aguri will stand on its own feet "a long time before that."

Leafield-based Super Aguri took to the Melbourne track, albeit for just 14 combined laps, on Friday morning in what is effectively last year's RA107.

Fry said the situation will be different in the future.

"We will still support them from a powertrain point of view, and give them a few bits of other technical support, but basically it's going to be on a diminishing basis," he said.

Fry explained that Honda, now working feverishly to improve a second consecutive uncompetitive car, wants to focus single-mindedly on its own team.

"You need to be very singular about Formula One and that's the way our team needs to be and that's the way Ross (Brawn) and I are going to push it," he added.

It is also suggested in the Albert Park paddock that, with usual Managing Director Daniele Audetto conspicuously absent in Melbourne, Super Aguri could soon get a new team boss in the form of Magma Group Chairman Martin Leach.

Aguri Suzuki is expected to stay with the team, but possibly in a different role
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Martin Leach could be awesome :run: and with Suzuki as cocaptain.........might be even more interesting..........sucks for Audetto though :(
 
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Don't know how much I like the new livery.......its got ups and downs...


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Apparently when Honda said they were getting new Aero, they meant new green pants for the team staff cause there sure aint no new aero shit on this car.


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Super Aguri goodness. I predict they will start beating Honda regularly midseason

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Apparently Force India's theme this year is to follow Midland's theme last year and make their livery kinda look like McLaren (wings) so they can mistakenly get extra airtime

oh and...
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