Malaysian F1 Grand Prix 23-24 Mar 2013

Well that never looked likely with P3 being a puzzling session ....  just have to hope for some surprises ......

bookies inplay price are disgrace. must be betting to about 200%

grosjean out

james allen said heavy rain where he was so just had £20 on perez for pole at 100/1

not raining at all ffs

No pics here but sounds like parts of the circuit have rain .....  Qual/Winner Double -  Any Other Combination 7.4 market looking lively ....

theyre lined up in the pits waiting to go out on inters

its raining but the track looks dry

some corners are proper wet. wont get to slicks imo

It's even worse without pictures but thanks

stopped raining. will be last man

My preference is for Massa to win Q but Rosberg will do as well .....  Vettel has come alive

vettel - massa - alonso

Colldogg    Alonso  went 4's ir well beaten but it's all about the final mad dash in Q3

I just need Massa to win tomorrow now from P2 for some profit

Did they all stay on inters

I'm surprised Massa never shorter than 18's in the last flyer even if people were having a saver ...  The first sector was quick enough to threaten  ...

Oh well gl tomorrow .......

Everyone stayed on inters. Vettel, alonso and massa pitted for a fresh set whereas others didnt

I was on massa for oz he looks good for tomorrow imo


Webber thought he had another lap the clown

Cheers Zazu just about to watch Qualy highlights ..... BBC1

Good call regarding Massa for qually and unlucky! Surely Massa is an each way bet to nothing for the race tomorow? Starting P2, hope he gets ahead of Vettel in to turn 1 and then vettel keeps alonso behind him... It's a lot harder for Ferrari to dictate team orders to Alonso's favor then if their is a Red Bull between the two of them!

wont the fact they quallied on inters help the front runners tomorrow if its dry? Surely Vettel with a saver on Massa is the bet.

how can anyone back anyone tomorrow with any confidence?

red bull look very short to me. with insane tyre degradation and almost certain rain showers i wouldn't rule out anyone except massuria, caterham and williams

Colldogg

Cheers but it hasn't earnt me anything ..... yet .    Bound to be a race full of betting carnage .... go steady....  fastest lap always crazy  might have a play ir

[Kimi Raikkonen/b] penalty

[b]Lotus’s Kimi Raikkonen will drop three places on the grid for Sunday’s 2013 Formula 1 Petronas Malaysia Grand Prix after stewards decided he had impeded Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg during qualifying in Kuala Lumpur.

Raikkonen had finished seventh fastest in the rain-hit Sepang session, but will now start the race from tenth, meaning McLaren’s Jenson Button, Force India’s Adrian Sutil and Sergio Perez in the second McLaren all move up a place to seventh, eighth and ninth respectively.

The stewards found that Rosberg, who qualified sixth, had been unnecessarily hindered by Raikkonen between Turns 12 and 15.

Thinking about the race more in depth and looking at the weather forecasts, it does seem like we will have more rain. With rain that immediately puts me off Massa who only seems to be able to drive around interlargos in the wet and nowhere else!

There are so many ifs and buts to be lumping on from a betting point of view. However, if you told me it was going to be a warm dry race then I would be lumping on Raikkonen at 9.2 because he was always in control in the race. From practice in Malaysia it would not surprise me if the race went a very similar way to Melbourne. Ferrari have flattered to deceve a bit this weekend too. It looks certain they both would be a lot lower down the top 10 had it not been for the rain so what will their race pace be like?

I will hold back until in the 30mins before the race and I have a much better idea about what the weather is going to do

Risen at this unearthly time  for one of my fav races
Lottery want Lewis cause I like him reckon nico may win  Perez and webber value bets

GG alonso

Alns

HAMILTON LOL

webber flying like hes on crack

red bull pit

tyres on the mercs still look brand new

what channel is it on please

sky sports f1

Sky

Paul di Resta At least he has some clean air now

406 got it cheers

force india must be averaging 30seconds+ in the pits today


Red Bull & Merc whinging about tyres and theyre 1-4 and flying....

Nico Rosberg to win now ir ........

Lap 25 call ^

What a **** Vettel

Nico Rosberg told he has another stop to make    hopefully a bluff

button

Buttn

Looks like all the top boys are doing 4 stops .......... interesting race .....

* expensive for me as well

not s great gp fan but have had a bet as the nipper had me up at 6. got webber win at 22 /1 stay or lay?

lay!!

Imagine if that was the other way around

Daniel Ricciardo late pit into 3.2 for fastest lap - retired fastest fingers

whoever backed rosberg podium has been fully raped

yep...disgraceful

in race 2 thats ridiculous

hope rosberg has a few words for his team after this

Sergio Perez gets the last fastest lap with some 90's matched

Agree shocking from Brawn It's a race FFS

Somebody backed Massa at 1.01 after Perez had set the fastest

Ouch

Mar 24, 2013 -- 10:46AM, Virgin wrote:

Agree shocking from Brawn  It's a race FFS

this, also find it funny horner telling vettel to calm down, its racing jesus christ

Will have to watch the BBC coverage later ...... Sergio Perez sacrificed a point to pit on the penultimate lap for a shot at the fastest lap the team must have got the 95.00             £6

boom

Was wondering why Perez and not taken his 4th pit. Took the plunge and he pits with no weight. Odds on he would set the fastest lap

Unlucky with Daniel Ricciardo though

hahahah webber SEETHING

At least Hamilton holds his hands up today. Shame Vettel didn't.

agree cuban

Was that a 'team' call from Red Bull as well

Explosive words from Webber

Sounds like it was

Jeez

yeh virgin, webber was told to turn down the engine as first was his then vettel broke the order

Did Webber turn down the engine though? It looked as though he battled as much as possible to stop Vettel getting past him & was outdriven?

horner pretty much confirmed it

GRANTCKING    cheers

Jeez that's a real racer fook the team orders and max the engine .... shame Rosberg played the team game

vettel is the john terry of the grand prix worls,wouldent trust him as far as you could throw him,dirty dog.

Agree shocking from Brawn Angry It's a race FFS ..


i agree, i loved when Webber and vettel was fighting, this is why i watch formula one!

we want race brawn, not these team orders.

i love to see them race,but vettel wouldent have been anywhere near webber but for disobeying orders,if you want it fair,then webber should have been told that vettel could overtake,double crossed basically.

"vettel is the john terry of the grand prix worls,wouldent trust him as far as you could throw him,dirty dog."

webber better keep an eye on his missus then

anyone see vettel rubbing his nose as he said i didnt know we had team orders.  THAT WAS A DISGRACE

very shumie like  .................nuf said...........

my wife was livid, will never support vettel again.

just glad i wasnt on webber @ 1.50 after last stop

What a stupid sport where the teams decide what the finishing positions are!

ive long thought vettel is the best driver in F1 in terms of qually+race. today he's gone up another level - ruthless
I want team mates to race but i understand why webber and team are fuming

sets season up nicely


brawn were just a joke.



qually and race markets were a disaster for me but broke even with no saftey car

i agree, i loved when Webber and vettel was fighting, this is why i watch formula one!Cool

As you can normally rely on nothing happening after the first lap you must have had a lot of disappointments.

Seems like their are a lot of people on here who just don't understand Formula 1 and understand that it is a TEAM sport.

oh sorry Colldogg,I rarely watch F1 nowadays and for sure I won't be bothering in future. When I used to watch it many years ago it was the best driver/car combination that won races, nowadays it's just who they decide wins.

according to the Red Bull bloke they told the drivers to maintain position, what sort of racing is that? The same with Hamilton

The racing was good, knowing that it would have been completely different if Webber had been the one behind is what is a sour, Vettel is a ****

Watching on BBC1 now ... lots of errors

Lewis Hamilton went for a McDonalds Drive through

Force India pit trouble double stacking De Resta poor lad almost had a top team this year

I might have to invest in Sky

For once we actually had a race in the real sense of the word. Like a lot of people I gave up watching F1 many years ago as its now seems like just a display of science and technology. Usually best just to watch the first and last laps and miss out the dreary 90 minute procession in the middle.
A strange event which gives a start to  the best bloke, who then usually skips round the first corner and race over.
Chapeau to Ecclestone who must be a marketing genius to get the media to convince the world that F1 is exciting and glamorous which it ceased to be many years ago.
One of the strange things I find about F1 though is that it's actually very interesting to read about but now desperately boring to watch.
Interesting as well last week that Raikkonen started 7th on the grid and still won, but actually won because after moving up to 4th he stopped less times than the others.

Ignore the hype and promotion and there's not much there. A bit like the Emperor's new clothes. F1 is now in reality a poor relative of other motor sports for excitement.
Speedway also suffers that the first bloke round the corner usually wins but at least the race only lasts about a minute and there's about 15 races to watch on the card.

red bull

12+ secs ahead

it's the car

just seen the race on bbc. what vettel done is tactics from a born winner. CHAMPIONS ARE NOT MADE THEY ARE BORN

Not allowed to overtake youre teammate, have to go slow to save fuel, have to go slow to save tires

Id be livid if i was a driver apart from the meagre consolation of billions of pounds in my bank account

everyone jabbers on about the old days when teammates raced.

the same good old days when mclaren/williams were a second a lap faster than everyone else


agree with the Bhoys. in the heat of the battle vettel was ruthless

It's much more interesting when it's a race rather than a possession.

If I was a racer

I wouldn't be happy with team orders

but as Pleasegivemeanailedontip    points out they do OK either way

I dont understand merc today. Hamilton had to coast, Rosberg should have been allowed past imo

not 100% convinced same would have happened if it was the other way round. big signing new boy on podium on main sponsors home gp

Brawn reckoned that if Rosberg passed, then hamilton would fight back, Rosberg would fight back, both would run out of fuel. He cant win cos we'll never know if he was right

But he was completely wrong

Surely barring injury Vettel's home and hosed in this years championship.

Pleasegivemeanailedontip     24 Mar 13 18:03 
Brawn reckoned that if Rosberg passed, then hamilton would fight back,



surely (a coded version if necessary) of "Lewis you are running low on fuel. Let Rosberg passed" would solve that. Not sure what his last couple of laptimes were but they were sloooow


no moves     24 Mar 13 18:23 
Surely barring injury Vettel's home and hosed in this years championship.

Well Alonso DNFd and Raikkonen lost 30seconds in the wet, damaged his front wing then spent most of the race behind hulkenburg

huge market overreactions after oz and the same again today

has anyone actually missed the fact that this is match fixing? id be seething if i backed rosberg for podium finnish

surely (a coded version if necessary) of "Lewis you are running low on fuel. Let Rosberg passed" would solve that. Not sure what his last couple of laptimes were but they were sloooow

Brawns view seemed to be no danger in front no danger behind why jeopardise a deffo 3rd and 4th when they can coast home. Considering Lewis struggles to drive slower to manage his tires (even though he knows its faster) and Vettel couldnt live with second place and took risks, there is always a possibility of lewis eaking out a bit more then rosberg eaks out a bit more then lewis does then one or both dont finish. Its easier to not allow in-team racing after the last pit stop and stick to that rule however silly it becomes.

Im not defending this though, common sense says to me, let rosberg go and hope one of the front two have a spin or something that gives the team an extra few points. Then tell Lewis he needs to look after his car better.

is lewis really the no' 1 driver at merc in the same way alonso is at ferrari......is it in his contract?

re vettel:  he is quick and ruthless but i think he will live to regret that move, both through the team and webber.

never thought id say this but GO FERRARI

I backed Webber for a podium so I have nothing to complain about but seriously in a team you can't have half the team going by the coach's instructions and half the team not. Imagine the chaos if that happened at Man U or Collingwood?

hehe so when vettel is 1, webber 2, hamilton 3,rosberg 4,alonso 5,massa 6,button 7 and perez 8, the team can say no passsing, and they will all cruise to the end... yea nice race NOT!