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The guys that do the telecast are wankers, who listens to the non-sensical prattle they spout anyway.

Ona serious note, hope Kovalainen is okay. He pulverised his car in testing. It looked pretty bad, i'd hate for it to ruin his confidence and allow Fisi to take the helm. I found a good pic for it too

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The times to note are that of Alonso and Kimi. They we apparantly on the same program of; pre-race preperartion and a single long run of a race distance. In the end they we split by only 2.5 tenths of a second! Massa was chasing different setup's all day which would explain why he is so far infront of the other two.

This season might be more exciting than i thought... the end result is still pretty obvious though

Due to some changed circumstances, I have two F1 tickets for sale.

The tickets are for allocated seating in the Senna grandstand with a view of the last two corners and pit entry plus down the main straight. They are full event tickets as well for all 4 days, not just the main race on Sunday.

Thought I would offer these up to SAU'ers first, so if youre interested send me a PM.

Due to some changed circumstances, I have two F1 tickets for sale.

The tickets are for allocated seating in the Senna grandstand with a view of the last two corners and pit entry plus down the main straight. They are full event tickets as well for all 4 days, not just the main race on Sunday.

Thought I would offer these up to SAU'ers first, so if youre interested send me a PM.

TEMPTING...

quoted from planetf1.com

The Winners of Winter Testing

If you hadn't already worked it out, let's give you the result. After the Winter testing officially came to an end on Thursday it was Ferrari who won the off-season World Championship.

Though mostly Ferrari, occasionally McLaren and sometimes Renault and BMW put in the quickest laps, it was the Scuderia who had the best combination of quick lap times and reliability that will make them favourites coming into the new season. The Bahrain test is the most telling of all because once the teams get to Sakhir, nobody is sandbagging or trying to show off to the sponsors. And the performance on the final few days is most pertinent of all.

Felipe Massa can celebrate because on the last two days of the Bahrain test he was quickest of anybody. What's more, he's got the backing of an unlikely figure. McLaren's former team manager, the immensely likeable Jo Ramirez (one of the few people in F1 that nobody has a bad word about) thinks that it is Felipe not Kimi who will be Ferrari's No.1 driver in 2007. Though he has been retired for a while now, Ramirez is still close to the McLaren team and will know all about Kimi Raikkonen's strengths and weaknesses - so it is very surprising to hear him come out on the side of the diminutive Brazilian.

If Ferrari are the winners of the Off-Season World Championship, then who's in second?

Again, an easy one, McLaren seem to have got their reliability act together at long long last. Both Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso have led the timesheets on occasion, putting in long competitive runs.

Though Renault have been up and down at times, they have consolidated this week with a very strong final day for Fisichella and Kovalainen. So the Enstone team get third.

Fourth in the PF1 table comes the enigmatic BMW team. Their winter pace has been good, but their reliability has been dreadful. One day Nick Heidfeld is saying that their reliability woes are over and the next day the car breaks down three times. It's like the McLaren of 2005 and 2006 - fast but fragile.

Honda, having had a great off-season and a poor opening start to the 2006 season, cannot be accused of making the same mistake again. They have had mediocre testing sessions, with a few flashes of the old pace and some lengthy if unspectacular runs. Jenson and Rubens settle into a comfortable fifth.

We say comfortable because everyone bar these five teams have either had reliability/pace issues, little running, or in the case of SuperAguri virtually no running of the car they'd like to race. Williams look to have bounced back a little thanks to their Toyota engine unit, but Toyota and Red Bull have been struggling with seriously defective cars, Spyker and Toro Rosso have hardly appeared on track, though Spyker lapped within a second of Williams at Barcelona thanks to Ferrari power and Scott Speed managed 124 laps on the last day of Bahrain.

1. Ferrari

2. McLaren

3. Renault

4. BMW

5. Honda

6. Williams

7. Red Bull

8. Toyota

9. Toro Rosso

10. Spyker

11. SuperAguri

Im going to have to agree with about..... 100% of that.

Just threw up some hires pics of the Spyker Team testing at Barcelona & Silverstone a couple of weeks ago on my personal webspace. Not sure if they are old news but some nice pics anyway.

You can view them HERE (I have 85 in total these are the best looking pics of those)

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Wow there getting a move on with the track. The back straight still has some of work to do, but the front straight is pretty much readu to rock. The pits look cool with the drivers names up. I can still drive down it every morning until moday i think... its getting very exciting, only one week to go until life has meaning again

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