Superleague Formula - Estoril!

[Last2LiftOff]

Sunday 6th September 2009
SF Round 4 Portugal at Estoril
Superleague Formula Race 1: 11:00 - 11:45
Superleague Formula Race 2: 14:00 - 14:45
Superleague Formula Super Final: 15:00 - 15:15
All times are in CEST (local time) - GMT +1

http://87.250.137.173/superleagueformula/

[strider]

In case you've found all the ducking and diving between clubs, teams and drivers confusing, here's an Entry list for this weekend.

Timetable.

[lauren1995]

free practice 1

[lauren1995]

free practice 2

[kerrmanningjarv]

Thanks

And practice 3:

Plus Autosport report of the sessions (Anderlecht were quickest overall): http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/78345

[lauren1995]

it's great to have a name like bourdais in the series. he drove this car for two years in champcars right? so actually he has a lot more experience than the rest of the grid & he was very successful in america. therefore he's a good target for the established top superleague drivers to be aiming for.

before the weekend they said in the press release that the rivalry between porto and sporting should attract a lot of attention. well porto has the advantage so far. actually i've been very impressed with parante. if you look at his career he's always been extremely fast in everything but takes a long time to get used to cars. he seems close to the pace already in superleague so hopefully he'll continue this fast progress.

[grantp]

Interesting that Ho-Pin Tung in the Galatasaray car is, depite his experience in the series, trailing at the lower end of the times.

Might that put Scott Mansell's Donington performance in the Galatasaray car into a slightly different perspective? Also Duncan Tappy's results earlier in the season. Or are the chassis swapped around with changed bodywork and selected randomly for each event, thus suggesting lack of continuity?

[lauren1995]

race 1 grid

[lauren1995]

brazilian & argentine drivers on the front row. that works as everyone's talking about the brazil vs argentina world cup qualifying match today.

[strider]

Originally Posted by Mekola

Guerrieri is trying to stay in the Superleague, he might race with the car of the Olympiakos if the negotiations arise.

Sorry, Mekola, I didn't notice your post until today.

It looks as though Guerrieri and Olympiakos have got off to a good start with a front-row starting place for race 1 tomorrow.

[Keyfabe]

Its a shame Davide Rigon's not racing does anyone know why?

[Last2LiftOff]

Oh good, somebody opened a Superleague Formula Estoril thread.

I need more coffee.

There's no coverage on qualifying whatever? And boy, I thought these cars might be too tall an order for Perera this weekend but, pretty good work so far Franck, well done.

[strider]

You could try having a look here, L2LO.

Who knows what delights you may discover when there's some live action in progress.

Right now you should be able watch a small-size video of Bruce Jouanny doing a lap of the circuit with on-board commentary.

[Last2LiftOff]

As usual Strider you're right there willing to help.

Forgive a dreaded occasional user, is there a live stream for qualifying as well? or just Sunday's races?

Top drawer.

[duke_toaster]

The stream is only for the races. Shame really bearing in mind that last year qualifying was quite fun with the knock-out format.

[grantp]

Live timing here. Also available for practice and qualifying iirc. They cover tests as well.

http://www.tsl-timing.com/?loc=major...&eventid=93602

[Last2LiftOff]

Guerrieri!

Originally Posted by duke_toaster

The stream is only for the races.

Yeah, I thought not. Thanks Duke.

[strider]

Great win by Esteban, despite losing the lead in the pit stops. He looked after his new tyres and was able to attack and overtake when required. Smart as well as fast.

[p-matt]

Anyone having a problem with the live feed? It's having to reload itself every few seconds for me ???

[Last2LiftOff]

That's a negative Matt, but that live timing looks painfully familiar.

[blaffer]

Great win by Bourdais in his first Superleague weekend.
Good to see him smile again.

[Keyfabe]

great racing, not keen on having to watch it on my lap top but at least its better than not seeing it, these cars are awesome.

[strider]

Impressive, also, that Parente won first time just a week after winning in GP2 at Spa.

It should look good on his CV if he really is looking for an F1 drive next season.

I didn't have any problems with the live feed after having to give it a refresh to get it going. It was quite good having live timing in a separate window, so I could flick between the two.

[grantp]

Originally Posted by strider

I didn't have any problems with the live feed after having to give it a refresh to get it going. It was quite good having live timing in a separate window, so I could flick between the two.

I had the live timing on the right of the screen and the video feed on the left and could follow both at the same time. Rather good coverage I thought and solid commentary.

Mostly the second race seemed to have noticably slower lap times than the first. Presumably that was simply a factor of track temperature?

Bourdais' comments when asked how difficult is it to drive the cars were interesting. Presumably he thought it easier than his other recent rides because the g forces are less?

[kerrmanningjarv]

Originally Posted by grantp

Interesting that Ho-Pin Tung in the Galatasaray car is, depite his experience in the series, trailing at the lower end of the times.

Might that put Scott Mansell's Donington performance in the Galatasaray car into a slightly different perspective? Also Duncan Tappy's results earlier in the season. Or are the chassis swapped around with changed bodywork and selected randomly for each event, thus suggesting lack of continuity?

He had several "system pressure problems" and other technical difficulties (http://twitter.com/hopintung), so he wasn't able to put in too many representative lap times... Galatasaray's car is run by the same people who run Sevilla, and their car doesn't seem too bad (Seb qualified poorly but raced very well in it) so I'm really not sure why the Galatasaray car seems a lot slower, unless it is problematic like Ho-Pin suggests.