Free Practice 3 from Canada
Formula 1 World Championship 2012
Published by Christine Blachford
Hamilton was fastest for both practice sessions yesterday, and seems very confident about his chances for success in Canada. Button struggled, whilst both Kovalainen and Senna hit the wall on the first day of action. All three will have some catching up to do, but the possibility of rain could hinder them. One final hour of practice, then, to get set up for qualifying in Montreal.
How is everybody today ?
Afternoon peoples :)
good, thanks. where are you today mr wolf?
Hi there. - doing well.
How does the weather look out there?
Is this a variation on "What's the time, Mr Wolf?"
Almost 10am :-) turn 1 it is again
For those who are looking: www.vipbox.tv/wat…tream-online.html (I find clicking the little red cross, little grey cross, or hovering over the big blue crosses to make the little ones appear, and clicking those - should avoid any more pop-ups. Depending on which are there.)
Sunblock replacing rain poncho today
G'dafternoon
Tea, pork pie and iPad. I'm ready :)
I am studying at work and behaving very well. Doing everything I can to be disciplined. We have about 500 songs that play on a loop. 5 minutes before FP3 starts the 500:1 chance hit. I believe that if the system plays The Chain I have permission to watch
Points for Massa for having Gilles Villeneuve's name on his helmet
fp3 crept up on me!! hey all.
If anyone is looking for a stream the pic on this is particularly good
www.thefirstrow.e…ractice-3%5D.html
Hey Mr C, Steven
My sister brought over her husband's grandchild today and he's been sitting on my lap all afternoon watching classic f1, teaching them young is the right way!
Sadly he's fallen asleep now, this modern f1 ain't for him I guess ;)
Hi Mr C. I understand how it crept up on you. It's not like we have known it was going to happen for the last 6 months
Bonjour
It has to be done Lukeh
Hamilton just waved the crowds on the way out of the pits, nice
Points
Pastor's had a moan apparently
Rosberg parked
ROS is parked
Rosberg stopped on track ..,
That didn't take long for Nico
T7
Looks like it is either stuck in gear or he has his foot jammed hard on the brake in the traditional Mansell manner
Problem mechanique the track radio says, stating the obvious
"Clutch slipping" from Rosberg's radio
heheheeh!
it... i... was watching tennis.
Who won ?
still playing.
Is that not finished yet.
BTW are there any plans to live comment any of the Euro 2012 football championships that started yesterday. It's like the World Cup but only European teams
Christine, by the sound of it :)
Learning your sister's husband has a grandchild has confused me immensely. I thought you were much younger than that.
:)
Don't believe what Lukeh tells you. He is really 45
JW asked yesterday, we want to, but totally haven't had time to think about it. start with england's opening game maybe? see how much interest there is.
I'm 23, but she's a lot older than me
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Good idea.
That whole championship crept up on me. I had no idea it started yesterday until I saw the result of the first game
first i knew was f1wolf saying he was off to find the game on tv!
The World Cup has much better publicity
I completely forgot about euro 2012. It's strange really, used to always get really excited for football tournaments but i barely notice it now
looks lovely there. what a green place.
Really wishing I was in Montreal today...
snap.
me too. Would love to go to the canadian go
*gp
It is a park on the island in the middle of big mass of water. And don't forgot the heavens sent down lots of water yesterday right after practice 2.
It's only about a 5 hour drive for me too...
Seb for pole?
twitter.com/bassa…432355328/photo/1
She is German after all ...
I'm gonna need a bigger monitor. This window, twitter and the SpeedTV video feed are overlapping!
I hope BUT isn't planning to use those tires in the race.
I thought she was signalling to Charles that she is still number 1
I have twitter on a tab behind this so I can change only when it tells me I have unreads.
Ohhh JB is not enjoying this car at all :(
On the fly by: "That is what one is talking about"
I am now up to two monitors when I watch at home and I have the video on TV
He's not enjoyed it all year.
McLaren favouring Lewis in order to get him to sign a new contract
#conspiracy
So strange to see QPR and Chelsea on track :-) those logos as much more obvious live than on TV
I'm trying to cram it all onto a 13" MacBook Air so I can watch from the screened porch. :)
You need a few more square feet of screen
vergne in the wall
They've not been doing a good job in other respects though.
STR almost hit me
JEV in the wall
was about to say, thats right in front of you!
Pics? #plz
what are you wearing, we can see people on tv :)
Wave
Luckily Mr C's nifty web design reflows nicely into a narrower window and I can cut the Twitter window down to only see a couple of tweets at a time.
I was going to say I love comments like this but probably not the most appropriate thing to say
there is a dude recording using his laptop...
yay. exactly what we designed it for :)
That marshall was almost through the fence before the car stopped moving. That's dedication.
yknow, i don't thinks has been so bad on what he's presented so far this weekend with the f1 show and stuff.
BUT complaining about front lock up and smoking the tires, yet he's P1 for the session
http://twitpic.com/9uivw2
Felipe is putting a lot of effort into this one = P15 - oops, maybe not.
That is close
:)
More Red Bull modifications - wheels this time
www.autosport.com…ort.php/id/100230
Sunglasses :-)
massa up to p2
saw a tall guy with a blue cap and a white tee, with a pass thing around his neck.
slippery massa
No cap, grey tee, pass around the neck
hope someone else crashes ;)
mr c in flavio briatore impression shocka
Should've grabbed the screen. #doh
Schumacher shares his data with his team mate. Now that is a shocker
Lewis with a v shakey FW
Lots of Flavio and mr E talk last night :-)
Vergne; "I lost the car"
It's in front of f1wolf
oooh, how was it? value for money?
Not much damage. Just the 4 wishbones. So he damaged every corner of the car. No biggie
it's true. he shared with rubens his contract details, showing him where it says he must let him win.
heheheeheh!!!!
Definitely , very interesting
gutted that joe didn't do a pre-season UK one. Was hoping for a silverstone joe too.
same.
Sam Michael looks guilty.
Just copy all his blogs into a text2speech program, and press play. (Would be better with a Joe setting.)
:)
I demand windows 8 has that!
If Joe does record words for something like that, I'd have a Sat-Nav please.
Thing is many things he talks about he will never write ... That is the most entertaining part of the evening
New gearboxes
Hulk
Pastor
Pic
Type way too slow to get the engine list
we can only dream of having christine's skills
I think BUT is going to need the rain again if he's going to have any hope of repeating last year's victory. :(
On track radio says reason why nico stopped was to go get the breakfast :-)
He has just walked through the paddock with a bowl of cereal.
ooh, must set the fbfb up for tomorrow.
Looks like no chance for any more rain this weekend
Lotus seems to like the sunny track better than the overcast yesterday ...
Interesting that the teams one would expect to go after every possible source of revenue have no merchandise on sale here at all - caterham, marussia, HRT , da Force ... Marketing fail ..., surprised especially with team Fernandes ...
Caterham do have gear but strange that they didn't make it available track side. They been tweeting about it
Intriguing. Definitely not a lack of interest in the likes of caterham that's for sure.
You would think every team would try to sell everything they could at each race. Especially one where there are a lot of people there who are not from a poor country
I was in Melbourne , they had old lotus, and 2 caterham shirts that were only available on Friday ...
tony needs to come back to f1!
I remember Brawn not having any merch available until around Silverstone, but surely the circumstances are a lot different to Caterhams
Stepped noses are still ugly
Surely stepped noses and baseball caps are a match made in heaven.
always will be. onboards are just wrong this year.
:)
I hope McLaren don't go any more stepped than the recent revision. They had (have) the best looking car by far.
Close one for massa...
It's odd. The Speed TV video feed has no commentary by them (I assume it's just world feed) but occasionally I can hear a feint commentary by someone. Like when ALO just went to P1 I could hear someone saying "fastest in the first two sectors" over the engine noise. Anyone know which commentary team that is ?
McLaren changing the right rear camber angle on Lewis's car?? I wouldn't have thought there were enough left hand corners on the track for that to make any difference
The chicane before the wall of champions?
Maybe they are reversing the effect - rather than work on the L/rear.
Maybe. The only lefts are in chicanes. You would think there would be a lot more time to be had working on the other side of the car
Maybe
Cards on the table: who will post the fastest time - only 2mins remaining.
HAM (assuming the adjustments were to his liking)
VET to be unbeaten this session
Vettel
Hamilton for pole though
Kimi being investigated?
HAM for the pole
speeding?
skipped the chicane then turned back into the pitlane, apparently
Late entry
Line of entry I think.
They normally say that rather than Pit Lane Entry
Caption said entry into pit lane. Don't know if he cut in at the last minute or something
:) Agreed
He went off and raced through some escape road and might have continued that way to pits ..,
Paul di resta not happy with Jenson
RdiR is not happy with JB - backed up at chicaine
See you , beer time
Boo Jenson
#sorryLou
Bye
her two favourite drivers in a scuffle!
Later guys
Alo talking to smedley ? What the ..,
shenanigans!
See you all later, sometime before 6.
cheers for the comments all, catch you in a few hours for qualifying.
thread is here if you spot anything in the meantime - sidepodcast.com/e…championship-2012
Have I said my all-important prediction this week? Kimi Räikkönen.
Maybe it was the PA
ahh, yes!
ooooh, I also shall go with kimi. or, for some reason, massa
You are just looking for a French winner. Did you see Franck got a Le Mans drive?
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