Bahrain GP - Race & Qualifying [SPOILERS]

[ÜberDoober]

Massa fastest in practice. Honda's still sucking. Ferrari's 1 and 2. Macca 4 and 5

Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Massa Ferrari (B) 1:32.233 20
2. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) 1:32.350 + 0.117 15
3. Rosberg Williams-Toyota (B) 1:32.415 + 0.182 23
4. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:32.705 + 0.472 21
5. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:32.868 + 0.635 20
6. Nakajima Williams-Toyota (B) 1:33.121 + 0.888 24
7. Kubica BMW Sauber (B) 1:33.333 + 1.100 16
8. Trulli Toyota (B) 1:33.539 + 1.306 27
9. Coulthard Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:33.788 + 1.555 20
10. Alonso Renault (B) 1:33.815 + 1.582 19
11. Glock Toyota (B) 1:33.929 + 1.696 28
12. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:33.950 + 1.717 20
13. Piquet Renault (B) 1:33.981 + 1.748 24
14. Heidfeld BMW Sauber (B) 1:34.106 + 1.873 17
15. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:34.235 + 2.002 27
16. Vettel Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:34.321 + 2.088 32
17. Fisichella Force India-Ferrari (B) 1:34.892 + 2.659 20
18. Button Honda (B) 1:34.915 + 2.682 16
19. Barrichello Honda (B) 1:35.174 + 2.941 12
20. Sutil Force India-Ferrari (B) 1:35.429 + 3.196 22
21. Davidson Super Aguri-Honda (B) 1:36.145 + 3.912 6
22. Sato Super Aguri-Honda (B) 1:36.536 + 4.303 6

The Doober Crew will be watching Qually LIVE on SPUDtv so come join us!

[ÜberDoober]

4:23am Q1 talking to myself! - Sato off! Good run for Seabass with 7 left to go. Jacque V. hanging in the pits.

Red Flag? 4:49 to go. Massa & Kimi top the charts. Uh Oh! Commercial and Felipe may have screwed himself doing something wrong under Sato's yellow.

[DooberRoni]

3 minutes to go in Q1. DC still in the knockout zone. Massa 1.31.9.

Le Frenchman Bourdais makes Q2. DC, Fisi & Vettel bumped!

[ÜberDoober]

11 minutes to go and cars just now taking the track...

Six to go Massa 1.31.1. Heikki to P2. Hammy gets out of the car? Maybe he has to pee?. 2:40 to go and a gaggle of cars leaving the pits.

Bourdais out. Piquet out. Rubens out. Glock out. Kubica & Heidfeld showing some speed.

Q2 is done! Now for Q3 and the new rule deal.

[DooberRoni]

5 to go. Massa purple in sector 1.

Flag is out. Now comes the fun! ROBERT KUBICA ON POLE! :D:D

Simply amazing run. Kubica & Massa on the front row. Hammy and Kimi on row two. This is going to be damn interesting!

First pole since 2005 for BMW. First pole ever for Sauber. First Pol on Pole.

[ÜberDoober]

Great qualifying! Final results:

Pos Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Laps
1. Kubica BMW Sauber 1:32.893 1:31.745 1:33.096 12
2. Massa Ferrari 1:31.937 1:31.188 1:33.123 12
3. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:32.750 1:31.922 1:33.292 13
4. Raikkonen Ferrari 1:32.652 1:31.933 1:33.418 12
5. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:33.057 1:31.718 1:33.488 12
6. Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:33.137 1:31.909 1:33.737 15
7. Trulli Toyota 1:32.493 1:32.159 1:33.994 19
8. Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:32.903 1:32.185 1:34.015 22
9. Button Honda 1:32.793 1:32.362 1:35.057 17
10. Alonso Renault 1:32.947 1:32.345 1:35.115 17
11. Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:33.194 1:32.371 12
12. Barrichello Honda 1:32.944 1:32.508 12
13. Glock Toyota 1:32.800 1:32.528 15
14. Piquet Renault 1:32.975 1:32.790 15
15. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:33.415 1:32.915 15
16. Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:33.386 1:32.943 15
17. Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1:33.433 7
18. Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 1:33.501 5
19. Vettel Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:33.562 9
20. Sutil Force India-Ferrari 1:33.845
21. Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 1:34.140 9
22. Sato Super Aguri-Honda 1:35.725 5

[ÜberDoober]

A few little pics. Onboard with Jarno, in the cockpit with Kimi and Sato backing it into the wall

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g223/EKron/truli.jpg

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g223/EKron/kimi.jpg

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g223/EKron/sato2.jpg

[LittleAlguy]

What a coincidence that I'm listening to "The Chain" while reading this thread! :p

I wonder how light Kubica is (his tank, not himself).

[LittleAlguy]

Hamilton with a dreadful first few laps.

[ÜberDoober]

Ugh! Up at 4:00 with a 101.5 degree fever and dripping sweat. :mad:

What a wild and crazy first lap. Hammy in deep doo doo! Massa checking out already, Kimi to 2nd.

[ÜberDoober]

Kubica keeping Kimi honest but the boys say he's got to be light. Felipe looking good but Raikonnen with fast lap. Will wait to see if Massa screws up again as he's been his own worst enemy so far this year.

Hammy down in 18th. Worst I've seen him do. Well almost. 8 laps in and Massa lapping Sutil (cars looks like Macca's).

[LittleAlguy]

Massa continues to put the hammer down. 1:34.5

[ÜberDoober]

Alonso's wing pretty chewed up but things settling down. We'll soon know who's got what for fuel. Massa bobbles and the boys say he's his own worst enemy right after I typed it. :)

1:34:5 Massa resets fast lap. Kimi takes it back 1:34:3. They ran 1:31's in Q2. Coming up to first stops and we'll know who is light.

[LittleAlguy]

That was all Button there (well, at least much more so than the Massa incident at Melbourne).

[ÜberDoober]

Kubica in. Back on softs. Rosberg in. DC & Button toss it up! Klonk! Nobody can ever get around DC anyway.

Kimi pits before Massa. Long stop. Button done for the day. Massa in takes less fuel than Kimi.

[LittleAlguy]

Two laps extra for Kimi? Massa can't be too happy with that.

[LittleAlguy]

Massa now with the last thing he needed to see in his mirrors aside from Kimi.

[ÜberDoober]

Hamilton up to 13th and finally in for fuel. Looks like he took a good splash? Ferrarri's in the 1:34:0's. Kubica and Quick Nick looking solid in 3rd & 4th. Good move by Hammy letting Raikonnen by.

[ÜberDoober]

Kimi runs a 1:33:7! Kazoom! Hobbs cracks me up.

[LittleAlguy]

Kimi in. Time for "Phil" to put in some quick laps.

[ÜberDoober]

Damn commercials! Why'd Kimi pit early when he had more fuel? Piquet DNF's. Heidfeld 21 seconds ahead of Kubica. Should only need 4 seconds of so of fuel?

[LittleAlguy]

My only guess is harsher than expected tire wear on that stint.

[ÜberDoober]

Only 3 to go and little chance left for Massa to toss it. :) Not the most exciting race compared to the first two. 3 weeks until the next race in Barcelona. :(

Good showing for the BMW's. Kimi moves to the lead in the championship followed by Heidfeld. That's cool.

[ÜberDoober]

That's all she wrote!

Thanks for hanging out, LittleAl! It's just after 6:00 here in sunny Arizona and I'm sick as a dog so I'm heading back to bed!

[ÜberDoober]

Got a few grabs.

Here's Hamilton "mounting" Alonso's car.
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g223/EKron/hamcrash1.jpg

Here's Piquet's spin.
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g223/EKron/f1spin.jpg