F1 2008 round 1 - Australian GP, Melbourne (14/03/08-16/03/08).

[koper]

Originally Posted by Alan Green

Nick had stopped first on live timing. Green now.

hehe I do know - I follow live timing

but thanks anyway

my straem is back

[Dixie Flatline]

Usual suspects at the top of the timing sheets - Hamilton, Massa, Raikkonen, though Kovalainen is ahead of Alonso at the moment, with about 11 minutes to go in the session. No completed laps so far from Sato, Davidson or Rosberg. Button struggling in 17th. Glock looking good in 6th. Bourdais outpacing Webber (10th and 11th) but Piquet is struggling in 16th.

[Alan Green]

Strange that live scoring now shows the red was to clear Nelsons car. Nick must have parked his car out of the way somewhere just before Nelson stopped.

What are Williams doing (or not) this session - only three laps each?

[NAC]

Originally Posted by Chaos81

Try this, working just fine for me in the US. Watching this, and following with live timing on the F1 website.


http://itv-80.vo.llnwd.net/d1/broadb...astPlayer.html

Working on the other side of the ditch also. Thanks Chaos

[Dixie Flatline]

Top ten from the first practice session:

1.   K. Raikkonen     1:26.461        25
2.   L. Hamilton      1:26.948  0.487 21
3.   F. Massa         1:26.958  0.497 25
4.   H. Kovalainen    1:27.114  0.653 19
5.   M. Webber        1:28.263  1.802 18
6.   F. Alonso        1:28.360  1.899 22
7.   R. Kubica        1:28.579  2.118 12
8.   T. Glock         1:28.913  2.452 16
9.   S. Vettel        1:28.957  2.496 22
10.  J. Trulli        1:29.014  2.553 23

There's the top four, and then there's the rest.

[Charlies]

As expected up front, Ferrari with a slight advantage over McLaren.

I'm surprised at the gap between the top two teams and the rest, over a second, but at least it's pretty close from fifth to about sixteenth.

The track looked green, plenty of minor mistakes, and a surprising number of reliability problems; Heidfeld, Coulthard and Rosberg.

[RaiseYourFist]

Was Lewis's best lap on the softer tires?

[mjstallard]

That Ferrari is going to do rather well tomorrow I think - typical mind games of setting fairly even times with McLaren up until the last 5 minutes and then getting a 0.5 sec advantage. The McLaren chaps looks a little perplexed after FP1!

Oh well...never mind, we have started F1 '08!

[Spawinte]

I'm not in the uk so couldn't use the stream on itvf1 but i could use the one posted here that contains itv in the url, can anybody explain why? Also thanks

[Good Times]

Thanks for the timing info, keep it up please.

[mp356a]

How soon until free 2? I cannot translate times worth a darn.....

[mjstallard]

2 hours 8 minutes by my watch

[Marbot]

Originally Posted by mp356a

How soon until free 2? I cannot translate times worth a darn.....

2hrs and 10mins from the time of your post.

[mp356a]

thanks. Is that the one on Speed TV then?

[mjstallard]

Not sure about Speed TV...apparently some folk "across the pond" so to speak have had some success with this link:

http://itv-80.vo.llnwd.net/d1/broadb...astPlayer.html

[Stefvh]

Yep, it worked for me

Anyway, just for fun, Avg time per team,

Ferrari     1:26.7095                           
McLaren     1:27.031                           
Red Bull    1:28.784   
Toyota      1:28.9635
BMW         1:29.07                           
Toro Rosso  1:29.16 
Honda       1:29.3285
Renault     1:29.3585
Force India 1:29.6925                 
Super Aguri 1:31.4095                           
Williams    1:35.053

[RaiseYourFist]

Yeah 11 pm eastern time, Speed will be broadcasting it

[Marbot]

Well,that was all fairly predictable wasn't it.

The Ferrari's slightly ahead of the McLarens and then sort of one of each (except Toyota) from each team in the mid-field pack from thereon back.

What happened to Williams? Why is Button 11th?!!! Why is Fisi 12th?!!!!!!

[medius]

Nico had gearbox issues, Jenson has a Honda and Fisi is in a Force India.

Maybe they are both overperforming, or maybe as its the first FP of the year?

[orrmate]

Williams had mechanical issues from what I saw. Rosberg ended up going into neutral unexpectedly (thats what it appeared to be, anyway) on his outlap and went into pitlane. Not sure what happened with Nakajima.

[Marbot]

Originally Posted by medius

Jenson has a Honda and Fisi is in a Force India.

Maybe they are both overperforming, or maybe as its the first FP of the year?

I wouldn't like to say.

But it does look like Honda aren't quite so bad as maybe we all thought and certainly Force India aren't going to be the two cars running at the back of the field.

[Marbot]

For those of you who couldn't watch.

http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpa...s_art_id=34103

[pirenzo]

Odd that Williams should do no running at all. Even if there was a fault on Nico's car you'd have expected them to get some mileage on Nakajima's car at least.
Glock was more impressive than I thought, and everyone else pretty much where I thought they ought to be.

[Dixie Flatline]

Second practice underway. Vettel quickest, followed by Trulli, Kubica, Rosberg, Nakajima, Bourdais, and Glock.

[tux]

The cars sound so much better this year is this because of the lack of tc?