Malaysian Grand Prix

First news of the week, Lotus add another driver as equally impressive as Carmen Jorda to their test driver line up : http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/118168

At least he's scored points in GP3. 2.

Raffaele Marciello will be driving for Sauber in FP1 this Friday, making his first official F1 debut. Definitely one of the more interesting junior talents around.

And the TCR International series will make it's debut this weekend as a support series for Formula One with the likes of ex-GP driver Gianni Morbidelli, ex-WTCC drivers Michael Nykjaer, Franz Engstler and Jordi Gene, as well as some other large names with Pepe Oriola. A fairly nice grid of 17 cars so far.

Is Marussia back? if not, the companion race will have more cars than the main event!

I think Manor do plan on racing. They better, only because Bernie may suddenly need more lunch money if they don't.

Yearly "It might rain this weekend" post.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/32023434

Fernando Alonso has confirmed he will be back to race the Malaysian GP this weekend.

So how many cars will actually make the grid this week?!? What's the over/under?!?

PYLrulz wrote:So how many cars will actually make the grid this week?!?  What's the over/under?!?

They'll ask the hot dog van to race so they have over 10.

Ben Atkins wrote:

PYLrulz wrote:So how many cars will actually make the grid this week?!?  What's the over/under?!?

They'll ask the hot dog van to race so they have over 10.

More likely than you may think.

Alta wrote:

Ben Atkins wrote:

PYLrulz wrote:So how many cars will actually make the grid this week?!?  What's the over/under?!?

They'll ask the hot dog van to race so they have over 10.

More likely than you may think.

And probably faster than the Manors/Marussias/Whatever the hell they are called

PYLrulz wrote:And probably faster than the Manors/Marussias/Whatever the hell they are called

They're well within 107% as it is now.

Love him or hate him, Vettel can drive.

navycook75 wrote:Love him or hate him, Vettel can drive.

I was about to say he is fast and keeping the car in great shape.

His move to Ferrari was the right move after all. Hell yeah Vettel!

Good Win Vettel. Hope that's a sign of things to came.

Race started out very good but petered out by the end though. Aight race though.

Vettel is fast, but his strategy was better.

I think we'll see more of that.

Hamilton is going to complain about the teams decision to put him on hards. But knowing Hamilton he would have used the softer tires up so quickly, to the point where he wouldnt be able to fight Vettel at all for the win.

conrail1990 wrote:Hamilton is going to complain about the teams decision to put him on hards. But knowing Hamilton he would have used the softer tires up so quickly, to the point where he wouldnt be able to fight Vettel at all for the win.  

Regardless though, Vettel and his team had a better strategy. And also, this is Vettel's first win since Brazil 2013, and Ferrari's first win since Alomso won for them in Spain 2013.

Max Verstappen also broke the record for youngest driver to score points, at age 17. With the way the license system is, I doubt that'll ever be broken.

navycook75 wrote:Max Verstappen also broke the record for youngest driver to score points, at age 17. With the way the license system is, I doubt that'll ever be broken.

Only two races in, and he and his teammate Carlos Sainz Jr. are already impressing me with their talent.